| Uff!.. It was a long game, but it could have been even longer... Well, I'll tell you in order, as I remember... |
Posts from Team Tournament: Spring-2009
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Человек - игрушка Бога. Этому - то и надо следовать. Надо жить играя.
Платон.
Hermit (blue, swamp, Tazar, Tazar) def Mizrael (red, Dungeon, Shakti, Monere) 2sm4d(3) 237
It was all as simple as 2x2, Shakti died on week 1 in a medusa dwelling with 8 per stack; minotaurs were already standing and purchased, good leveling, but on the way to a secondary town there was a medusa dwelling with 4-8... well, how could one not take the risk? 4-6 were blown to splinters, but the 1/3 probability worked against Shakti: 8 in a stack, and on top of that morale and petrification procced for the medusas, and 6 of them remained. End of week result: minotaurs in the castle, 3 external dwellings of troglodytes. The scout with a bow nevertheless took the secondary town; starting from week 2, it was a clean slate, it was good that Monere was there. End of week 2: external dwelling of green dragons in a treasure zone, cats at home. The grassy respawn had many money-generating buildings; Monere started bombing them on week 3 in order to build angels. And then again bad luck: in a max naga bank, the nagas broke loose, morale every round — crawled out of there with 4 minotaurs and 1 dragon, the main stack hopelessly ruined. Fed papa experience all week, even consumed all the chests. End of week result: angels were built, but without a castle.
142 cons-three, shook the hives on the grass all week and at the end of the week broke a level 2 Dragon Utopia: a bag of gold and Admiral's Hat. The treasure zone is not even half cleared, there is another one of roughly equal size, swooped in on another Castle secondary town. The Dragon Utopias dropped complete junk the whole way; stats weren't even close to Tazar's, then later in the contested treasure zone (where Tazar stuck his nose in only toward the end of the game, and even then took only 2 hives and pandora's boxes) a max Dragon Utopia brought 2 books at once and Gladius. There was a plan to catch him there with Shackles of War, arches, and a red orb (the entire treasure zone had already been scouted by me), but the opponent proposed a final battle at the end of the week... Honestly, I didn't feel like grinding for another month with 2 Castles (2 external dwellings of griffins, pokemons, and bows with GB), although my treasure zone wasn't fully devoured yet, and I agreed; I picked up a cape +2 speed for show, busted a Dragon Utopia one last time (armor +1 to all among the useful stuff), waited until Taz bought up all the resources (I still cut his economy pretty significantly :)) and we clashed. Taz is Taz, I clearly lacked meat, and the basiliks immediately started stoning the arches. That's how the clash turned out. Saves are attached (maybe someone will find it interesting).
But the May holidays are coming up, and some people will have a lot of free time, while others will go on vacation or to work on farms, so we need to decide now.
In group 1, everything is clear.
1st place - Order of the Phoenix.
2nd place - Armageddon.
In the second group, "Homo Homini" and "Zavry" both scored 5.5 points. Based on the results of their head-to-head match, "Homo Homini" takes 1st place.
Therefore, here are the semi-finals.
Pair 1: "Order of the Phoenix" (Dubrovin Pavel, vitalic, Vigo) - "Zavry" (Lesgor, Chydozavr, Volland, Kebazavr);
Pair 2: "Homo Homini" (vbn, Alex_R, ewgeniy, Aldegir) - "Armageddon" (LeBron, Wic, Pit for LM, Javdet, Dirty_Player).
Two teams consisting of clan members and two teams consisting mainly of non-clan players have reached the semi-finals, which indicates a roughly equal balance between clan and non-clan players on the forum.
Regarding the unfinished matches. I will definitely add their results to the first post, but they will no longer affect the final results of the top four teams.
At the end of the week, I will post all the game results in the "Online Game Reports" topic, including them in the ranking.
Also, a brief overview of the qualifying rounds in the groups. In the first group, 16 players were registered on the teams, and in the second group, 17. In total, 33 people, which would be enough for 11 teams, and these teams would be made up of very strong players. Just a year ago, it was difficult to gather even 20-25 players of any level. The reports show that the level of play has significantly increased.
Of course, I would like to thank the players of the teams "April Fools", "Forest Healers" (EPU), "Knights of the Apocalypse" and especially, "Hellish Troglodytes".
If even one or two teams with such players join us each year, our forum has a pretty good future ahead.
Running the tournament was quite easy; my duties as a referee were reduced to secretarial work, simply recording the results: the team captains easily agreed with each other about the games, and the players also showed gentlemanly behavior in the games; everything was polite.
In general, my successor in the position of referee for team tournaments will have an easy job in the future.
I am looking forward to the results of the semi-finals. The team that wins two matches is considered the winner in the semi-final.
For example, a situation may occur where one team wins 1-0 and stalls for time. In this case, the captain of the second team can contact the referee in this topic, and the referee will set a deadline for the games; failure to appear will result in a loss. Of course, this will not happen, but it is still better to agree in advance.
If the above is more of my speculation, then the second option is more likely. Let's say the teams exchange victories, and the third, decisive match ends in a draw. Then the team captains can decide for themselves how they want to proceed - replay the match or put one of their best players in an additional match, a kind of LeBron James vs. Kobe Bryant showdown.
If they cannot agree, then the referee's opinion prevails. I will state my choice right away - a showdown between the best players, one on one. This will also increase interest in the tournament and be practical: someone will definitely go on vacation for the May holidays, and there will be a shortage of players in one of the teams.
I think that's all I wanted to say.
vbn - Pit for LM
Aldegir - Dirty_Player
Alex_R - Javdet
If needed, we can change things because we have a terrible crisis with the team composition!!! Everyone has left! :(
2Nagan-4: Did I understand correctly that those who go first play with the red color, or am I wrong? And also, I didn't see the deadlines for the semi-finals. Or are the deadlines open?
on the first day built Manticores in the Stronghold, took my native secondary hero—there were Medusas in the Fort, took the Dwarf Cottage with 20 without an upgraded stack.
on the second day another native secondary hero—all had portals, since I found an external dwelling of Troglodytes. from buildings — Castle and Manticores. on the third day I find an external dwelling of Dragons!!!! but on 141 they give Troglodytes in all portals((( revealed 2 Dragon Utopias. On 211 I buy 4 Dragons from portals, all I could—and I could only get a few, because I had no money at all, I go into the Dragon Utopia—a 2-stack. they give Titan's Plate, Pendant of Swiftness, and Book of Air—good. the next day Valya emerges with a ton of troops 10+ Angels 18 Champions etc... I left, went to the bathroom :) my remnants of 170 Troglodytes, 6 Dragons, 10 Manticores, and 9 Wyverns inspire absolutely nothing good, but the Dragon Utopia, and above it another one is revealed. with the money from the Dragon Utopia I buy all the Medusas and Beholders, that's 36 and 65+ respectively—I hide them in the secondary town—I built a Guild there. the next day I took the Dragon Utopia—Boots giving +15 resistance (+to my Expert Resistance), Helm of Heavenly Thunder, a Club +5 Attack, and a Sword +2 Attack/Def
then I retreat to the secondary town with the Beholders and Medusas—there I build a Whirlpool—240 mana and Dimension Door. I skedaddle from there quickly to the treasure zone. I hid the scout hero in a nook—he wasn't noticed. Valya takes the secondary town, sits there for a day. I meanwhile check the Dragon Utopia—and it's max((( I'm afraid to go in, so I go into the Hive, another one below. I take a couple steps down—and oh miracle!!!! another Dragon Utopia. I go in—a 3-stack. to fix the situation—I first wanted to mass Wyverns and try to hold out. find another path to explosion.
I take the Dragon Utopia—a 3-stack—Speaker's Hat, Sphere of Vulnerability, some junk, and... Book of Earth!!!! Town Portal to the remaining town, double mana. Valya attacks and takes 1650 damage to the Angels, then to the Champions. The opponent retreats and congratulates me on the victory.
Post-mortem showed—that scary red ball was in the max-stack one.
Thanks for the game—haven't had such emotions in a long time!!!
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Человек - игрушка Бога. Этому - то и надо следовать. Надо жить играя.
Платон.
SpiriTT(blue,dungeon,Shakti,Shakti) def Dreamcatcher (red,castle,Valeska,Valeska) 225 2sm4d(3)
Developed well, rich respawn, angels on the second week. At the start of the third week, I took a cons near ГО 20-49 hydras, and already having expert slow, beat the hydras and wanted to rush into the opponent's respawn, but from the other side, a metro of 5-9 magic dragons stopped me, so I didn't go in. I went around, broke into a treasure zone, which turned out to be useless. Meanwhile, the opponent was looting his own treasure zone, where he was rewarded much better. This is already the umpteenth game I've lost because I find nothing useful in treasure zones.
Thank you!
1. Lesgor - Vitalik
2. Vigo - Kebazavr
3. Dubrovin Pall - Chydozavr (Volland).
Aldegir (red Dungeon, Shakti, Gunnar) def Dirty_Player (blue Swamp, Bron, Bron) 2SM4d(3) 136
In brief
Gunnar arrived.. at the respawn there were 2 external dragon dwellings and a Griffin Conservatory on 2.. and nothing else worthwhile.. built 1-6 with a citadel.. on 126 with 2 dragons and 2 angels.. somehow foolishly attacked Bron holed up at home with 27 basilisks and 13 wyverns.. lost everything and on 131 bought 3 dragons (2 external dwellings + teleport)
and received guests at my own castle in the form of 27 basilisks + 7 wyverns + 67 lizardmen and so on... took everything down with shooters on 90 and dragons... surrender followed...
Thanks for a super cool game (it really hit the nerves) =)
Острые копья мы воткнём в небо
Полками затмим горизонты
Знает уже враг не откупиться
От казака ему золотом жёлтым.
Мы выступаем не за трофеев
Ведёт нас вперёд великая вера
Если погибнуть за землю родную
Не побоиться тут каждый быть первым.
Лютая братия будет битва
Сложат былины мудрые деды
А коли останемся в поле навеки
Что-ж, жить нам после - в легендах.
Homo Homini vs Armageddon
Aldegir (red Dungeon, Shaktar, Gunnar) def. Dirty_Player (blue Swamp, Bronze, Bronze) 2SM4d(3) 136
Thank you for the game! Sorry, team, for letting you down. I'm to blame! :smile32:
The report is lost, and I don't feel like restoring it, but I have to...
It's been a while since I had to play with such a terrible setup.
At first, the opponent took all the restarts, and there was an early encounter, but then I had to take them too. When they were all gone, I had to play.
The tavern was a pleasant surprise - Dessa, Orrin, and Charna. The army was decent: 23 archers + 3 barbarian stacks + spearmen. On day 111, Charna gains advanced necromancy in the stone, and Dessa gains logistics. On day 112, Charna kills 40 combat gnomes and prepares to take the crypt. On day 113, I take it (5 vampires), and they give me expert necromancy. Then I take a +3 shield from the golems. On day 114, I realize I'm in trouble - the only road leads to a Garrison, and I have no money. But there are 2 conservatories, a +5 mace, and Charna was given earth magic. For now, I decided not to give up. I'm going off-road through the grass, looking for anything. I gather 100 skeletons and enough money for riders in the Stronghold. But I should have built griffins - there was a stash of them, but I fell for the stable with a free upgrade...
On day 121, Charna heads home, and at the only market, I sell all my resources, buy 5 riders and a couple of archers, and raid a warehouse of medusas for 6, after which I free Nella with expert finances from the prison behind the horde of hellhounds. On day 122, I build a GM - there's no slow, as expected. I take the mace, the minimum conservatory (magic isn't needed there). Dessa goes to a couple of scrolls and the last unverified chapel (I started checking them back on day 1, hoping for the absence of the necessary spell in the GM). On day 123, I take a Hive for 8 wyverns, and Charna foolishly goes into the crypt - I feel bad for the ten skeletons, but after the second conservatory, there's no one to break with - a day would be lost replenishing mana. Dessa delivers the slow from the chapel through Nella. On day 124, I take 2 angels, and on day 127, I kill the Garrison of nagas and plan a visit to the barbarians. But Gurnisson overestimated his strength and bravely died, trying to take a necklace of dragon teeth from fifty medusas...
Thank you for the game.
P.S. Homo Homini vs Armageddon. The score is currently 1-1.
The "Armageddon" team has serious problems with the lineup. Javdet is on a business trip until May 24, and it wasn't possible to play with AlexR on May 1-2, Wicc doesn't play on SoD, and LeBron has computer problems.
The HH team graciously and kindly agreed to replace Javdet with a new player. We will try to find this replacement within a couple of days. We apologize to our opponents.
