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twaryna (Humans, Rutger, red) defeated Leolopus (Humans, Dugald, blue) - Week 4. Rutger was born, ate some chests near the castle, and by day 2, he already had a full army. In a week, he cleared the respawn point and ran to the adjacent area. In the second adjacent area, he went to clear it, with Casper (and Narhez as support). On the second day, he completely cleared the area. The machines stubbornly resisted; on two portals, blue archers and druids attacked. He had to fight a crowd of death knights, where, due to a mistake, he lost a group of water elementals and some fire elementals (he was gathering them from three elementals). He scouted around, took a bow, a couple more artifacts, checked out the utopia, and at the end of the third week, he rushed home, trained a pack of monks, and went to fight the utopia and break through to the third area. On day 1-4-1, simultaneous turns were disabled, and Leo surrendered. The reason was the unfamiliar size of the map for him (huge); he built his army too late and miscalculated his strength. As a result, he surrendered. Thank you for the game!

twaryna (Humans, Rutger, red) defeated Leolopus (Humans, Dugald, blue) - Week 4.
Rudey was born, ate some treasure chests near the Castle and on day 2, he already had a full log. In a week, he cleared the respawn area and ran to an adjacent one. Kasper (and Narhez as support) went to clear the second adjacent area. On the second day, they completely cleared the area. The machines stubbornly didn't give up; at two portals, blue archers and druids were attacking... He had to fight a crowd of Death Knights, where due to carelessness, he lost a group of water elementals and a few fire elementals (he gathered them from three elementals). After that, he scouted around, took back an archer, found a couple more artifacts, checked out the Dragon Utopia, and towards the end of the third week, he rushed home, trained a pack of monks, and went to attack the Dragon Utopia and break through into the treasure zone. On turn 1-4-1, simultaneous actions stopped, and Leo surrendered... The reason was the unfamiliar size of the map for him (huge), he built his log too late, and miscalculated his strength. As a result, he conceded. Thank you for the game!

I confirm this, and you can read my more detailed opinion about the 256x256 size here /topic/6062/, post N72; in short, I am completely disappointed with this size – it’s not a game, but a hassle!
Losing to a strong opponent is no shame; wasting time is what's shameful!

erazial (demons, Deleb, red) defeated KillAndAction (barbarians, Garuna, blue) – Week 5. The opponent surrendered after losing to neutral creatures. Deleb didn't get a ballista by level 18. But there were no battles against the opponent, so it's not critical. Thank you for the game!

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I confirm erazial's report.

From the start, Arghat and Keegan, in the Nurah dungeon, on day 3, I bought Garuna.
At the end of the first week, Garuna received logistics.

I leveled up Arghat to 10 (defending resource piles), Nurah to 8 (exploring everywhere...),
and Garuna to 20, looking for treasure for her. In the end, I got lucky the first time:
I found treasure on the 5th week. And then I lost to 192 Black Warmongers, 65 upgraded Executioners,
and 95 Daughters of Earth (I wanted to capture a summoning tome to sell), attacking with my
105 Kents, 3 level 1 Goblins, and 17 Daughters of Earth
(the other stacks were occupied, and there were no nearby Imps)...

Garuna's skills:
3 racial skills - Memory, Support
3 attack skills - up to Diabolic Strike with Ranged Attack
3 luck skills
3 logistics skills - up to Path of War
2 machine skills - Ballista

Thanks for the game!

Bradiaga (Inga, Dwarf, Blue) defeated WisTrit (Nimus, Demon, Red). The opponent surrendered on neutral ground. Thanks for the game.

Bradiaga (Inga, Dwarf, Blue) defeated WisTrit (Nimus, Demon, Red)
The opponent lost on neutral ground.
Thanks for the game.

I confirm, I miscalculated my strength against the Paladins. I lost everyone in the literal sense due to one wrong move :smile16:

Alex_nv (Humans, Vittorio, Red) defeated immortal (Warlock, Sinithar, Blue) 2_2_2

It was a fun game :) The opponent was significantly ahead of me in stats. At the beginning, I couldn't decide whether to develop Vittorio or Laslo. In the end, Vittorio turned out to be better, reaching level 21 by the time I met the opponent's main hero. I reached the treasure trove slightly earlier than Sinithar, which helped. In the same turn, I noticed armor, a ring of speed, a couple of dwarven boots, a couple of amulets, and a dwarven shield. I thought about taking them and retreating to my castle to break through the enemy's main force (they had Undead) and re-specialize with a mentor there. But seeing Sinithar and the bracers, I slightly changed my plan, as the chain of events was already set. I bought whoever I could and, after taking the bracers, attacked him. I only had 39 magic points, but he hit me hard with cold and especially with Armageddon. From the army, I had ~350 militia, 270 archers, 30 knights, 30 griffins, 6 + 7 (alternate) monks, and 6 Archons. In the end, I had half of the militia and archers left, plus 30 griffins that flew away before Armageddon. But the opponent's main hero was defeated, and the artifacts remained with me :) He didn't drag out the game and surrendered, which I greatly respect him for (he managed to watch the football game). I guess I was just lucky, although I played better than in the first game. I'm trying to improve my strategy ;)

Skills:

Advanced Racial (Prayer, Watchful)
Advanced Mechanics (Machine Gun)
Expert Attack (Ballistics, Offense)
Expert Leadership (Empathy)
Advanced Logistics (Find Path)

Thank you for the game!

Alex_R (blue Mountain Folk Brand, Dwarves) def ElfElite (red Dungeon Iranna) huge 223
Brand, Dwarves, and Kreg joined in the tavern.
Dwarves leveled up nicely - got attack and machines, but saw the template for the first time, and there was almost no randomness :o
Quickly broke through to the adjacent zone, tried other exits there, returned to the starting zone on the second week, and broke through to another portal... and that's when he found a level 1 and 2 stash and noticed a dungeon, but only took spears, although he didn't take the shield stash until the end of the game (-78 shields).
But on the 3rd week, a shield specialist arrived and compensated for their shortage. By this time, the artillery was destroying everything... the only difficult battle in the entire game was probably against 88 unicorns and a little later against 52 rakshasas - but without artillery (forgot to transfer).
On 217, he broke through to the Grand Order on 221, took the red capital on 222, and teleported home.
On 223, the opponent is at my gates - I attack.
The upgrade is shown in the screenshot; I didn't use magic at all.
Dwarves level 25, 18-11-10-10, 5 dragons, 10 Jarls, 20 Priests, about ~60 Berserkers, ~70 Bears, 200+ Spears, 170+ Shields (spears and shields upgraded, the rest are alt-upgraded).
I was afraid of the endgame all game, where Iranna's magic power was already at 27 - but in the end, I defeated everyone in the first round, so the endgame was just a formality.
Thanks for the game and the experience!

Alex_R (blue Fortress Brand, Dwarves) def ElfElite (red Dungeon Iranna) huge 223

Confirmed, the upgrade went poorly because I lost a lot of units on neutral creatures.
And in general, maps with hundreds of portals are not to my taste :smile10:

Alex_nv(Humans, Vittorio, Red) defeated immortal(Warlock, Sinistar, Blue) 2_2_2

Confirmed. By the way, the map was 256x256. He was doing well, but the lack of logistics slowed him down – he only got it around level 18, when he had already fully upgraded 3 bases... At the beginning of the second week, he moved into an adjacent Necropolis zone, simultaneously developing Iranu, and sent her to clear another adjacent zone. The adjacent Sinistar zone was filled with Necropolis creatures; he explored there for a bit, searching for treasures, and at the beginning of the third week, he broke through into a resource zone (as it turned out later). There was an Orcish swamp there too, which wasn't very pleasant. He spent time there until the fourth week, captured sulfur, mercury, and wood mines, collected some treasures, and then fell in battle early in the fourth week while trying to get artifacts. He didn't quite manage to reach level 20 at that point, which would later come back to haunt him... After taking the city, he ran through the adjacent zone into the central area, where he focused solely on capturing portals - looking for treasure locations. Some of the Dragon Utopia treasures were visible from the adjacent zone. He found it on the third portal, somewhere on the 4th or 5th day of the fifth week, and immediately headed towards the Dragon Utopia, picking up Sarah's Ring and Gnome Hat along the way. In the Dragon Utopia, he received a dungeon set. Alex completely tricked me here – he was removing artifacts, so seeing his stats, I thought he hadn't broken into any treasure locations yet, so I relaxed. But in reality, he had a Knight set waiting for him at home, so he was already planning to break through back home within one turn and head towards GO. It seemed like the distance to the sector was not great; he used a spider to scout around but didn't see any red units there... On the first day, he didn't bring all his troops with him and made a mistake – he initially moved his main hero towards the portal he came from, and then sent the spider further ahead to scout. And that's when he stumbled upon the opponent's GO, which was positioned about one move away from my GG, without logistics, and right on the road between us lay handcuffs... But overall, it was clear what he would do next - he brought all his troops and attacked me on the second day. My hero was strong – roughly equal in attack and defense, plus magic, but the advantage in troops was very significant – 13 Hydras, 11 houses remained, plus Furies and Assassins... Almost everything died from Armageddon except for about 100 archers, 150 peasants, and griffons. There was also Iranu, level 15, in the city, but she had too little mana and no artifacts, so I decided not to waste time... Thanks for the game.

ElfElite (Gnomi Karli) defeated SmertiPo (Dungeon. Eruina) in week 6.

Didn't level up very well, took a lot of risks and lost a lot of units. They didn't give me a Logistician, so as a last resort, I had to take machines, but the tactic still worked. I made it to the opponent's zone in week 6 and attacked the city without any mana, but fortune smiled upon me, and the catapult destroyed the gates. Leadership and luck decided the rest. Thanks for the game:smile44:

erazial (red, demons, Deleb) lost to dmitrik (blue, demons, Marbas) – Week 5

There’s a lot of free loot on the map, it’s even a bit unusual; you don’t even need to fight, you can just level up by opening chests :smile42:

Marbas probably arrived fifth and last; after him, there were no more demons left in the tavern. One adjacent zone was snow, where the cockroach with the machines went, and the second zone was sand, where the main hero went. In general, he wandered around, and on the 4th day, he got defeated, took a nearby utopia, and went to the Guardian. He reached the opponent’s castle, where there was no one, and the next day, they fought in the field. The levels were the same, but I had more troops.

Thanks for the game; I think Deleb played well :)

Confirmed. Thank you for the game!

Raykkonen (League of Letos) def. Leolopus (League of Erin), 2nd week of the second month. Good start, Letos with Warlock and Nazir. No resource problems. No major issues with leveling either; I leveled up Keen Mind. There were minor skirmishes in the resource zone with mixed results. At the beginning of the second month, I went through the Gate of the Month to Leo's castle, and the final battle took place in his castle. Leo ended his life with Armageddon. Thanks for the game. Letos, level 24, 11-5-28-24 Skill: Irresistible Skill: Illusion - Attraction - Revelation Skill: Logistics - Scouting - Intelligence Skill: Dark Magic Skill: Sorcery

Raykkonen (Lethos League) def. Leolopus (Erin League), week 2 of the second month.
The start was good, with Lethos, Waisan, and Nazir. There were no problems with resources.
There weren't any major issues with leveling up either; I leveled up Keen Mind. There were minor skirmishes in the resource zone with varying success. At the beginning of the second month, I went through the Global Offensive to Leolopus's Castle and finished him in his Castle. Leolopus ended his life with Armageddon. Thanks for the game.
Lethos, level 24, 11-5-28-24
Skill: Irresistible
Skill: Illusion - Attraction - Revelation
Skill: Logistics - Scouting - Intelligence
Skill: Darkness
Skill: Wizardry

I confirm: (everything that is usually written after this word can be equated to a saying about a bad dancer and his accessories, but still, the start was actually different, and Lethos came to me right from the start, and in the tavern of Erin, which I immediately shared with Rayk here; less than a minute passed, and Rayk disconnected; he has a bad internet connection:D. In general, in the second attempt, I probably made a fatal mistake; I didn't take the rightful Lethos right away, but put out a random hero, and as a result, I got Irbet as the starting hero and Kifru in the tavern. I immediately sent Kifru with the Minotaurs to mine coal and wood; she managed the first one, but not the second:(. On the second day, I bought Erin and made her the main hero, but I ran out of money and was left with two heroes. There was no one on the horizon who could be used as a travel hero, and then began the saga of constantly getting resources and, as a result, a very long castle construction. In general, the outcome in the final was predetermined; thank you to my opponent for the game!