Posts from Reports on online games and their confirmations (Summer 2009 season).

Dubrovin Pavel (Red, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) def. Hermit (Blue, Fortress, Tazar, Tazar), 2sm4d(3), 2.4.7. It was a complex and interesting game. As always, I took all the available resources. I started on the surface. In the first week, the wood and ore mines were located behind mountains and were inaccessible; I only reached them in the second week. I only managed to build Watchtowers in the Castle. I also had a Nest of Harpies. In the second week, I defended my resources. I deployed Manticores and Minotaurs, and another Nest of Harpies. In the third week, I accidentally captured 130 Greater Harpies by attacking a treasure chest guarded by 50-99 Golems and Gremlins, but I lost 70 Trogols, a Cons-Tier 2 unit, and two Minimum units. I took my main and secondary Castle, and the Citadel's secondary town. I also captured a Nest of Minotaurs and an empty Pandora's Box guarded by 20-49 Cyclops. In the fourth week, I captured the Titan Shield and 2 or 3 Nests of Devils in the Treasury. I headed to the Utopia-Maximum town, but I had no spare troops. In the fifth week, I captured the Utopia (Helmet of All, Shield of All, Book of Air, and something else insignificant). In the tavern, I saw that my opponent didn't have much mana, so I didn't waste time trying to capture his Red Sphere guarded by 50-99 Ifrits. I retreated home because I wanted to visit Vladimir. But then he came to my Castle. In the tavern, I saw that he had about 20 mana and 20 spellpower, so I thought he would have at most 40 mana. If he had an "Explosion" spell, I would only be hit once. And he wouldn't have more troops than me. I attacked. And I started to panic when I realized he had about 300 mana, and the "Explosion" spell dealt about 2500 damage, meaning it wiped out one stack at a time. He had about 10,000 gold, so I bought him off with 8 Manticores, 2 Devils, 1 Angel, 130 Trogols, and 25 Medusas, leaving Vladimir with 1 Greater Hydra, 15 Bulls, 40 Lizards, and several Crocodiles. I bought my way out in the secondary town and took the Red Sphere. I had to give Vladimir my new growth. Then I needed to somehow force him out of my main town, but I didn't have enough troops. I had to resort to trickery. I positioned my troops so that it looked like I was preparing to attack his main town, but I was within his attack range. Vladimir attacked, but I already had the Red Sphere, and I had a combat advantage. Now Vladimir retreated. We both had very few troops left. For two weeks, I just accumulated troops, and then I attacked him near his Fortress. Vladimir, as it seems to me, made a mistake and surrendered his capital to me. Although, seeing 10-19 Greater Elementals, Wyverns, and Hydras, I wouldn't have attacked the Castle. I got lucky, and Vladimir retreated somewhere. Now I took his growth and started looking for him, capturing all the towns. Vladimir had nothing to do, so he went to his main town to "not disappear." The final battle was "hot," where my: 10 Devils, 16 Scorpions, 28 Core Minotaurs, 1 Angel, 40+ Greater Medusas, 190 Greater Trogols, and 100 Greater Harpies bravely fought against 4 Greater Hydras, 16 Wyverns, 24 Elementals, 15 Bulls, 50 Lizards, and 11 Pitfiends. Thank you, Vladimir, for the interesting game!

Pavel Dubrovin (Red, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) def Hermit (Blue, Fortress, Tazar, Tazar), 2sm4d(3), 2.4.7.

I confirm. The mana trick involved the Titan's Helm and Titan's Plate, the Speaker's Hat, and a Mana Well on the Barbarian respawn. They distracted me in the first battle, where I could use Implosion — by the way, over 2500 damage, and for some reason I didn't even try to evade Pasha's army, even though Shakti's stats were more than twice as high. I attacked Shakti when he positioned himself in front of GO, although I feared the Red Ball, but I feared the Wings or some sort of Fly or Dimension Door even more. And who knows, maybe Shakti also had some magic to kill dragons, and I didn't want to lose my capital. I attacked, and he had the Red Ball. :( I bought peace. Afterwards, realizing I had wasted my Implosions, I turned my attention to the Rampart respawn, with three stacks of Unicorns hidden. With a tiny army, I cleared two Treasuries, but they didn't boost my stats at all. My last hope was a scouted max-level Utopia, so I fled from Shakti. It gave me the Tome of Water, the Tome of Fire, and the Blackball. In the FB, due to the Red Ball, Shakti's massive stats and tactics, combined with the terrain on the battlefield, I lost.

Thank you, Pasha, for a very interesting game.

SEM_56 (red, Rampart, Ivor, Ivor) def ~no1_knows_me~ (blue, Fortress, Tazar, Tazar) 2sm4d(3), 216
We both took restarts, the spawn was good. Dragon Utopia near the castle, picked up elves and centaurs. On 114, at my own risk, I hit 26 mobs of evil and opened a Pandora's Box for 10,000 experience; Ivor immediately hit level 10, expert logistics and advanced earth magic. End of the week, 1-6 in the Citadel..
121-127 took 2 Griffin Conservatories, 2 hives....
131-137 another 2 Griffin Conservatories and 3 hives, the Pandora's Box gave a Rust Dragon..
141-147 took 3 Dragon Utopias, there were 2 more, but 1 was max, and the Wyverns roughed us up a bit..
211-216 captured the opponent's capital, killed a couple of scouts; the opponent used Fly to take my capital, Ivor took another Griffin Conservatory and killed Tazar in my own capital, thanks for the game!!

SEM_56 (red, Rampart, Ivor, Ivor) def ~no1_knows_me~ (blue, Swamp, Tazar, Tazar) 2sm4d(3), 216

there is such a thing

Tazar just couldn't get any luck; first it gave scouting, then they wanted to shove in a catapult, basically all sorts of nonsense kept popping up... I marked two external dwellings as visited and started collecting them (as luck would have it, neither hives nor conservatories), I lost a lot of dragonflies (about 50) in the Dragon Utopia, but the subsequent hellish month of plague simply killed me. With a handful of an army, I went to take the enemy capital and ended up sitting there waiting for Ivor! =)
thx for the game

SEM_56 (red, Stronghold, Gurnisson, Gurnisson) def Monstro_aka_h3 (blue, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) 2sm4d(3), 217
I took all the resources, and the game gave me a great advantage, providing ranged units on every turn, including grand archers, marksmen, and lizardmen. I only managed to reach the secondary town towards the end of the 2nd week, and along the way, I acquired a consultant for an angel. In the 3rd week, I ventured into the most difficult area, hoping to find Pandora, but it turned out to be empty!!!
In the 4th week, I broke into the dungeon, took the opponent's secondary town, and headed towards the treasure, acquiring another consultant for an angel. I took Utopia, and all the creatures were killed, may they rest in peace...
In the middle of the 5th week, I took another Utopia, rushed back home, doubled my mana, and prepared for the Grand Offensive. I defeated the creatures and champions, reached the castle, and there was Valka with a small army. There was no chance, thanks for the game!!!

SEM_56 (red, Stronghold, Gurnisson, Gurnisson) def Monstro_aka_h3 (blue, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) 2sm4d(3), 217

I confirm,
the opponent went for a rush, Valya is roaming the treasure zone very far, Roma's troops aren't great, so I decided to try and fend them off with small forces; Valya is throwing games and buying back at home. As it turned out, the plan was unsuccessful—the assault succeeded, plus the expert ballistae were used and 3 Dragon Utopia were visited to collect artifacts for stats.
ГГ thanks for the game

~no1_knows_me_ (Red, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) def BladeDance (Blue, Tower, Neela, Neela) 2sm4d(3), 224

Played on the 2-minute timer. On the first minute I cleared the external dwellings of Goblins and Marksmen. Captured 2 castles. In my home castle I had Griffins by the end of the week. There were Stables next to home, so I didn't need to upgrade the Griffins.
Week 2: 2 Griffin Conservatories, Naga Bank, Dwarf Cottage, a few crypts, Angels at home in the castle.
Week 3: 3rd Griffin Conservatory, Shield +5, Pandora's Box with 15k experience, experience log, Air magic, visited a Dragon Utopia, only lost about a hundred Pikemen — it gave me the Book of Fire and Shield +4 to all.
Week 4: Dragon Fly Hive with 8 Wyverns, Helm +10 Knowledge, Capitol at home, built Marketplace in secondary towns, upgraded Angels.
Week 5: 2 Griffin Conservatories, Naga Bank, upgraded all troops, bought everything out, and attacked Blue!!!
Broke through the GO of a bunch of Phoenixes and reached Neela in the castle.

Thanks for the game!

P.S. As it turned out, my opponent had quite a poor native respawn...

~no1_knows_me~ (red, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) def BladeDance(blue, Tower, Nelly, Nelly) 2sm4d(3), 224

I confirm!
The opponent was much stronger! No matter how much I tried, it didn't work!:smile53:

Dubrovin Pavel (Blue, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) def. Cheban (Red, Stronghold, Tyraxor, Tyraxor), 2sm4d(3), 1.2.1.

In the first week, he took a secondary Inferno Castle in the underground (everything is blocked there except for the Inferno Castle, even there's no money), he took it with 50 Harpies and a Greying Art for increasing Swordsmen. Then he broke through to the Elven lands off-road, where Ivan was already present, with Cavaliers in the Castle. He took Ivan's Elven secondary castle. Tyraxor with stats 11-3-1-2 attacks Valeska in the Elven secondary castle, where he couldn't place a Citadel due to money problems. He managed to fight off the Wolves and Birds first, but 45 Goblins attacked 25 Archers, halving their numbers, but on the next turn, he starts retreating with the Archers, shooting down the Centaurs, leaving 15 Archers against 45 Goblins. Ivan surrenders.

On 1.2.1, he brings 6 Champions, luckily, a Stable was located on the road to the Elven secondary castle. He sees Loshk with Bigs (3), Birds (4), and 20+ Goblins, even though it's on his native Barbarian land, he still attacks them with 6 Champions and 33 Archers. He lost one Champion in the battle, but killed everyone. Ivan surrenders.

Thanks to Ivan for the game!

Oelm (blue, Necropolis, Galtran, Galtran) def Avern (red, Conflux, random, Fiur, Fiur), 2CMD3, 123

My opponent, being kind, allowed me to start at the top (or maybe he fell for my home secondary town:D). In the tavern, I found Shahti and Galtran, and immediately had 150 skeletons. 113. + 1 angel. 116 + 3 angels. Here, I made a mistake and didn't take the artifact +5 to attack for some reason.(( 117. Lich lair in the castle. 121 - I rush into my opponent's home secondary town with 9 powerful liches, 4 angels, 300+ skeletons, and advanced earth (6-6-4-(40). Two days later, my opponent surrendered without a fight.
Thank you!

Oelm (blue, Necropolis, Galtran, Galtran) def Avern (red, Conflux, Fiur, Fiur), 2cmd3, 123

Confirmed. The hero was chosen randomly. Thank you for the game.

Captain (blue, Swamp, Vistan, Galtran) def Hermit (red, Tower, Solmyr, Solmyr), Panic, 145

Volodya knocked and offered to test a template.
We took what was offered, namely L without underground. We played without restarts.
Both had very large respawns, but for me, mountains blocked both mines, and I had to fight off every pile of ore/wood on the way from crowds of gr. centaurs and gargoyles, which cost me lost units of meat.
Galtran came fourth (with 1 skeleton), I thought I would gather bones, luckily I quickly got expert necromancy and had an artifact with +5% necro. But there were few monsters - only 240 in 2 weeks (from secondary skills and 2 skeleton caches I got about 100 skeletons). So on this template, if you're not on grass, it's tough for necros.
The guard on the neighboring respawn - a crowd of gr. dwarves - killed 1 wight - since I had lost all previous meat - I attacked them with only 12 lizards and 2 wights.
From the starting respawn on this template, the road leads to only one respawn - and from there to three other respawns - but the guards there are tougher - a group of gr. manticores, a crowd of gr. monks, a crowd of ogres - I broke through the ogres into a teleport - and there was a horde of gr. water elementals, I had to hit the manticores. Behind them were a couple of small respawns, on one I got gloves and, to avoid going back, decided to break through another respawn to the swamp - a crowd of gr. manticores - they gave me their magic - skeletons kept skipping turns - I lost almost my entire army - only 2 lizards, 1 wight, and about 180 skeletons remained, but on the swamp there was the first village with a fort and 2 wight dwellings (for 6+8).
And then the opponent showed up - took 2 of my tiny respawns and ran further toward me - I had gloves and expert logistics - I flew past him, took the villages back, and ran to his capital. There I built magic level 5 (I had found a Fly scroll before).
We decided not to continue further.
Thanks for the game!

Captain(blue, Swamp, Vistan, Galtran) def Hermit(red, Tower, Solmyr, Solmyr), Panic, 145
Thanks for the game!

I confirm. I didn't manage to get there in time once and kill the blue scout hero, and he and his Dragon Fly killed all my scout heroes. IMO, at the end of the game I had the advantage both in army and especially in magic, especially after I defeated Galtran with his entire army in the field (Wyverns skipped their turn twice), but he had both a scroll of Fly and gloves, while I didn't even have Logistics, although I had Pathfinding. It was 3 AM, I needed to go to sleep, and overall I decided to surrender because I didn't want to leave the game unfinished. Although, maybe I lack experience and cannot properly evaluate a scroll of Fly, but IMO my position wasn't completely lost even without the scroll.

Thanks to Alexander for the game.

P. S. Where can I find a description of the Panic template? Attached is the save file from the last day before the battle with Galtran. Also, Rion with Stone Skin attacked the fortress with peasants and four Wyverns, and I fought him off (2 Dragon Flies remained).

~no1_knows_me~ (red, Dungeon, Gunnar, Crag Hack) vs Иоанн (blue, Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre) 2sm4d(3) 12

Confirmed.
Writing from memory.
First week. 3 heroes, 9 Elves, 44 Centaurs, 8 Dwarves. I clear out Gnolls and Zombies. I pick up a couple of chests with 1-2k XP each. Can't get past the 50-99 Gargoyles by the first secondary hero. I clean out forests. Reached the tree on day 4.
Second week. I get past the Gargoyles and enter the Stronghold which is held by a single Pikeman. The next day Gunnar approaches. I was amazed how he leveled up to 10-9-...-... in the second week :confused: I saw 33 or 34 Evil Eyes and surrendered, because I didn't hope to withstand that.
Thanks for the game, even though it was short.

Dubrovin Pavel (Blue, Castle, Valiska, Valiska) def Cheban (Red, Stronghold, Tyraxor, Tyraxor), 2sm4d(3), 1.2.1.

confirmed
thanks for the game