Posts from Jebus Cross

Is it still possible to join the tournament?

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In general, on Jebus, it would be good to play with changing colors for each subjective restart. Otherwise, blue has too much of an advantage:
- better castle (at least not worse)
- similar quality spawn point (unlike standard templates, where the blue spawn point is usually worse)
- takes restarts second, which on Jebus is much more critical than on standard templates.

That's what we'll do, the first player in the pair starts as red, and the color changes with each subjective restart.

P.S. I wouldn't say that blue has an advantage; for Jebus, the first day is worth its weight in gold, and often the one who manages to eat and scout first is in the lead.

No problems, but please toss in four coins.

It seems to be addressed to me. Although, my middle name is different.
Shall we meet on Friday, okay?

I know, Petya, that you have a different middle name! I address people by their first name and middle name out of respect for those who, for some reason, deserve it.

Friday evening, okay.

Dirty_Player (random=Castle, random=Rion, Krellion) lose KobRa (random=Rampart, random=Clancy, Tazar) 136 Jebus Cross

We decided to play all-random. We started playing. I rolled Castle. At first, I was happy, but as it turned out, there was nothing to be happy about... The respawn is large, but it's useless. For the first time while playing on Jebus Cross, there wasn't a SINGLE CONSTRUCT at the respawn!!! How can you play like that, especially as Castle :confused: The exit from the town was very long, two days of travel via fast roads... The most frustrating thing happened on 117, when I built a chain to take the angels' external dwelling and sent my last hero toward it, only to find a dead end... For some reason, I was sure there was a passage there... As a result, by 121 I had only 2 angels, which immediately pushed breaking through the ГО until next week. Things weren't all smooth for KobRa either. After losing all but one angel to dendroids, he was left without troops, but Tazar got the explorer class and level 9. Money was decent, which allowed the blues to build as many as two Ramparts in the first week! And even stick a fort in the Castle! :eek:
The second week became a continuation of the first for me. I gathered three hives of 6+6+6 wyverns. I took two angels' external dwellings. There are two Dragon Utopias at the respawn; I prepared to hit 131 in hopes of getting something good. By the end of the second week, the opponent had Tazar at level 18 just from his own respawn, plus a Dragon Utopia with magic books. By the end of the week, Tazar crawled into the desert.
On the third, while Tazar was fattening up in the center, I took two Dragon Utopias (they gave almost the whole alliance, except for the teapot, wings, and wonder-hat), upgraded my archangels, and broke through all ГО. On 135, realizing that Tazar was raging in the center and seeing 47 defense and 15 archangels in the tavern, I decided not to run around the whole map, but to accelerate the obvious end! Thanks for the game, Artyom, it was nice meeting you. Good luck in the semifinals ;)

Vigo (red, Stronghold, Crag Hack, Crag Hack) def Pit (blue, Castle, Valeska, Gretchin) 126
First few turns didn't fight anyone, just no one to fight, wolves not built, roads are fast, money is there. Crag fought his first battles on 114, took a couple of Dwarf Cottages off-road and leveled up Tactics, a useful thing. I see an external dwelling of birds guarded by up to 99 Magogs, will take it. The decisive turn was 117, not only did I level up to fight up to 99 dogs, but also up to 19 Fanatics gave an external dwelling of bears, and the scout hero broke through the Magogs and managed to claim the external dwelling of birds. Bears into castles and two pleasant external dwellings.
On 122 Crag takes an experience Pandora and gets Logistics as his fifth skill. On 123 I take a no-magic box with 3 Angels. Then we saved, finished a couple of days later, loaded back and a streak of bad luck started :( , first I was distracted by the scout hero chasing a pile of gold, and Crag had to go back 4 tiles for the army, then he didn't move for half a turn on 125, which was right before entering the treasury. As a result, Gretchin took my Pandoras - 3 Titans and trees (three trees, in the end he has 35 Wyverns total!).
On 126 I enter the treasury, and there's Gretchin with up to 99 Wyverns, Titans, ARCHANGELS, AND ANGELS. I take the risk and attack.
Crag level 18, 24 23 13 13 (expert Earth, Tactics, Armorer, artifacts for morale and luck, Sphere of Permanence), 6 Angels, 1+1+14 Thunderbirds, 6 Ancient Behemoths, 35 Orc Chiefs (from Pandora) and 26 regular Orcs
Gretchin level 21, 25 5 4 4 (55 mana, expert Earth, Armorer, with Shackles of War, Cape of Silence for all fifth-level spells), 6 Archangels, 6 Angels, 35 Wyverns, 3 Titans

I deployed and deployed, but made a blunder and he struck at the Behemoths, then also hit them with Angels, leaving only 3 of them. But before they died, that part with luck took down 3 Archangels! By the second round, he had one Archangel with 2 health left, 3 Angels, accelerated 35 Wyverns, and Titans. Then, miraculously, I killed the Wyverns, the Archangel, the Angels, and it was 3 Titans against 2 half-dead Angels, 35 Orc Chiefs, and 6 Thunderbirds. Gretchin tried to flee, but the Shackles are strong, and the Titans died quickly.

Phew! Finally took down the monster!
Thanks for the interesting game, Petruccio!

vitalic (red, Conflux, random, Nella) def bRitvo4kA (blue, Barbarian, Gurnisson, Gurnisson) Jebus 143
Roads are slow, there's no tempo, and all the objects are far apart. On the first day, I had 7 heroes; on the second, Ufretin with 6 gnomes revealed an air and water mine, air creatures were built, and I decided not to look for a better one. On the second day, I revealed a fire and earth mine. On the third day, Nella got earth. I explored another earth mine and am barely making progress. And at this leisurely pace, after exploring two air mines, two earth mines, and, most importantly, a psionic mine, Nella is only level 4. On level 121, I bought birds, psionics, and butterflies, upgraded the air creatures, and, without taking 20 water and earth creatures (I didn't want to slow down the hero), I ended up in a maximum nagabank with an upgraded stack. I lost a bird, storm, butterfly, and psionic. But I leveled up and got some money; it's hard without an external market. On level 123, I took Pandora for experience; Nella became level 14, took a minimal utopia, it's unclear if it was worth it or not, because I lost a lot of troops, and I could have gone to the center earlier (with expert earth) through hundreds of king minotaurs and up to 99 vivs. I went to the center on level 126, and on levels 127 and 131, I could have been attacked, but I got lucky. After defending the water book, I jumped to Pandora (I had already learned all the path magic), and there was water again, and I had no mana left; I could have been easily defeated – the opponent had a troop advantage.
The opponent gave me time and only came out on level 134 with up to 19 gray bears, up to 49 thunderbirds, etc. I took two utopias and on level 136, after defeating the castle in the center, I teleported there and attacked; I needed to drive him out of the center.
Nella 17 17 18 26 (expert in attack, tactics, earth, air, all earth magic, water magic, fifth magic, +3 to speed) 6 golden dragons, 8 firebirds, 56 magma elementals, 78 ice elementals (30 from Pandora), 15 psionics, 10 vivs, 25 great elves (I didn't remove the sky thunder helmet, and the explosion damage was reduced by 150).

Gurnisson 35 10 9 11 (advanced tactics, expert in armor, basic earth, +2 speed, golden bow, artifact for ranged attack, diplomat's medal for ransom) 38 orc warlords, 26+1 ogre, 23 vivs, 33 thunderbirds, 3 angels, 13 ancient behemoths.

Bears are evil, especially with an attack of 35; the explosion on them reduced their numbers, and we fought for a long time. I got lucky that two dragons killed the opponent's ballista; it was destroying a dragon per round.
The opponent destroyed everything I had, and I even helped him once; 4 firebirds pierced through his own vivs. Gurnisson bought himself out with thunderbirds, ogres, and some orcs. I had 1 golden dragon, magma elementals, and water elementals left. On level 137, I built angels in the citadel and calmly explored the center; the opponent also didn't sit idly by and broke through to the Inferno earth.
On level 143, Nella 24 22 22 31 captured the capital and got the growth. The opponent took another utopia and, not finding control, surrendered...
Thank you for the game

Vigo (red, Stronghold, Kreg Hack, Kreg Hack) def Pit (blue, Castle, Valeska, Gretchin) 126

Thanks, that was great.

The current situation: Vitalik and Vigo, can you please start playing the semi-final match?

vitalic (red, Conflux, random, Nella) def bRitvo4kA (blue, Stronghold, Gurnisson, Gurnisson), Jebus Cross, 143
- even though I had an advantage in units and stats, the implosion decided the game.
Thanks for the game!

Vik, hey, come online on ICQ.

Vik, hey, come online on ICQ.

I'm still at work. I'll be home late today, so I won't be able to finish the game.

I'm still at work :(. I'll be home late today, so I won't be able to finish the game.

That's a shame, the start was promising((((
Then play the semi-final with Cobra, and there were requests to learn from the save files of the decisive games - if it's not too much trouble for you and Vigo - Vitalik, please upload them when you finish playing..
Good luck, Kostya will lead you further :)

Is tomorrow evening not possible?

No, I can only do it on May 1st or 2nd, but the 7th is not an option, and I couldn't reach Cobra – maybe he's going to Minsk.

As I understand it, Kober isn't going to Minsk. Neither am I. So, if needed, we can postpone it to May 1st or 2nd.