Posts from Best of HeroesWorld

I generally don't understand why you can't upgrade creatures...whether it's sprites, vampires, or phoenixes!? Take a look at the game stats on the Bay (where all this and much more is allowed) on 8mm: no imbalance is observed. As an example, I can cite my game today against the main favorite of the tournament "New Generation", MikeSpb. The randomizer gave a Conflux-Swamp matchup. Mike paid me 1100 to play as blue Swamp, despite the fact that all upgrades are allowed for Conflux. I understand that HeroesWorld has its own path, but I hope that the experience of other sites will be taken into account.

Originally it was planned that way - seven rounds. Actually, five or seven. And to do it - it's simple - the one with the maximum number of wins wins.

And those upgraded fairies on day 111 are just overpowered. With them, you can mindlessly defeat any melee units, and even archers too.

1-2 medium-sized ranged units, like a standard guard post of 50-60 Lizards and Fairies... let's put it mildly... well, you get the idea ;) And even the slow-moving units will get demoralized once or twice and the fate of the Fairies will be sad again ;) Also, the immoral freebies in the form of Zombies or Golems in a sufficiently large quantity are easily killed by almost any Castle, even in the early stages of the first week. Sorry for the off-topic.

We have 5 outstanding games. The following technical results have been set for the draw:
Ta_Kotoraya... * Javdet - we'll leave it at 1/2 point each - Tanya promises to finish the game
Aldegir * A.S. - Aldegir has 0, A.S. has a technical win from the last time
vitalic * Alex_R 0-0
SpiriTT * LeBron 0-1
Wlk777 * Revan 1-0
Until the end of the next round - including July 5th - the players with outstanding games can finish them, and we will change the result if necessary.

I thought we agreed on something different with GSCH :D [just kidding, in case anyone didn't get it]

Why not play a version of the template that we used in the Nostalgia tournament (which combines all 3 Stronghold maps)?

Alex_R (blue Necromancer Galtran, Galtran) def Mizrael (red Dungeon Shakti Shakti) 132 2sm4d
We used almost all restarts (the pair is somewhat unstable). In the last generation, I was born on top for the first time with 2 stacks, but zombies were not built. I took the crypt and spread out with 5 heroes on upgraded skeletons (on 112 I took another crypt and took the Fire Elementals scroll from the wood elves. I went behind the stable deep into the territory, though not without the fact that the only road on the way from the castle was blocked by monks. By 14-115 I had 14000-18000 gold, but I didn't buy additional heroes yet, found one in prison and there were 6 of them. On 116 I take a Naga Bank of 20 with an upgraded stack, lose 94 Skeleton Warriors, but now I have Sulfur for Liches. On 117 I take the external dwelling of Necro Knights, which I was aiming for, and there was also a pile of lumber I was counting on to build the Necro Knight building in the fort; I had only 3 lumber by 117, as the lumber mill was not found, and it was behind the mountains. Well, about 20000+ gold at home, 1-5 in the citadel with skeleton guard and transformer and external dwellings of skeletons and knights. Though instead of the expected 200-250 skeletons, 90 remained. On the second week I broke through near the Medusa dwelling at home and went to kill the monks. On the way I also met a couple of Medusa dwellings and finally the goodies… 2 Griffin Conservatories, a bit further a third. The time limit was tight — I attacked the first Conservatory in the last seconds … without setup, and it with 30 with an upgraded stack.
I lost 3 Liches, 4 Vampires, 5 Harpies, 3 Water Elementals, and the skeletons got pecked.
Next turn I take the Conservatory, a level 1 dwelling, and then next turn a level 2 … and I run to the fork, there's a portal and another path, I run along the path for 2 turns and before reaching the Dungeon town on 127 the red player appears, but I managed to take the Shackles. At home, 1-7 in the Castle + knight upgrade, though the mage guild is only level 2. On 131 I split up to go home, transfer the army and see that I can't reach Shakti, although there is a pack of Angels and a bunch of Troglodytes + level 1s … I don't buy everything, only the main ones, since 600+ Skeleton Warriors already inspire confidence + 11 Dreads + 6 Angels + 3 Bone Dragons and 17 Mighty Liches (on 127 I took their external dwelling and with the buyout of the 2nd and 3rd weeks transferred them to the capital). The opponent also brought the rest of the meat and attacked. (Thank the Chinese, otherwise it would have been a back-and-forth, but now I was calm about the Force Field, even the attack and defense parameters that were almost double didn't scare me, only an Implosion or Meteor Shower could be stressful).
Shakti's 10 Angels, 160 Troglodytes, and the rest of the crew could not storm the castle, and the Shackles made this attempt the only one.
Although special thanks to the opponent for not dragging it out and deciding to storm; we were playing, as always, at night. Thank you for the match!

I confirm.

Javdet (Castle, Valya, Turis) def Captain (Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre) 2sm4d2 135

Didn't like the impoverished sm4d3, spent 2 weeks looking for goodies, but didn't find any, instead ended up in the opponent's lair.
Start without building archers, but in the starting area's anals there are boots and gloves, an expedition of scouts heads there and by 113 I was worried there wouldn't be a restart.
By 113 Turis can already give the opponent a speed advantage - I go traveling, but nothing interesting except money. Ran into a block on a secondary with monks, well I think I won't lose too badly... In the end I outsmarted myself with the auto-formation :smile33: (left the camp in the rear with infantry and while I was messing with the griffins I didn't manage to stop it and the battle started) :( - mourned 10 marks and nearly 30 pokemons.... Got a bit sad, informed the opponent about the mishap - he offered to surrender:D
Scouting the home Griffin Conservatory (which I should have done days earlier) - trog, felt sorry for the scout hero but was afraid to attack, and I should have - 2nd level.
Turis explores land but no Slow, build Mage Guild in 3 towns - pointless, scout heroes sniff around shrines and scrolls, same result.
Spent the entire 2nd week running in the treasure zone, but nothing except a Pandora's Box for 10k exp and 3 trees. Meanwhile the scout hero reveals 2 fat treasure zones, one of them supposedly adjacent to the secondary. Out of desperation I take the offered scouting info to the main hero. I decide to risk it on 131 and attack one of the fat treasure zones, but don't know how to enter it, I get wrecked... eh, later I find out that 10 tiles from Turis near the metro there are 2 level 3 Griffin Conservatories:smile04:
A march into the unknown, in the meantime at level-up I'm offered either Navigation or a wallet:smile18:. An exit from the starting area is found, but not into the treasure zone as I wanted but into the opponent's territory, scouting helped and the blue capital is revealed. After some deliberation I decide to assault and meanwhile the scout hero finds both Land View and Slow, but it's too late...
Full exchange and buyout. Assault:
Turis 12-11-5-7, mass Shield and mass Stone Skin, expert Armorer, and that's about it from the useful stuff... 2 angels, 9 champions, 24 crusaders, 56 marksmen, 24 griffins, around 3 dozen pokemons and 32 Wyverns from 3 hives (definitely lucky with those)
Kyrre 4-12-6-4, mass Slow, 1 dragon, 12 wyverns, 8 elves, 17 dwarves, 32 grand elves, 10 pegasuses and 24 greater dwarves.
Kyrre immediately casts Slow, in response I try to cut through the grand elves with Ice Bolt, but the adjacent unicorns resist, pretty sour:( Another capitulation offer:D
A systematic shootout of my troops and killing of marksmen with Wait begins.
But I managed to catch the opponent on a mistake (maybe I should have not surrounded the grand elves but immediately moved them to a corner) the wyverns cut down the cover and the griffins go into melee with the shooters, and the wyverns smash whatever's meatier, and when the infantry was also let into the pen everything became clear...

Thanks for the game, it was interesting.