Posts from TC3 League. Regular Season.

Volodymyr (red, Rampart-Stronghold) def Rhox (blue, Rampart-Dungeon)
1-0
Thanks for the game!

Played a second game in the evening, before that, I played against Wlk777 with Berserkers. I thought for a long time about what to choose here; it's unlikely to win against Rhox with Sylvan, so I decided to take a risk and choose Berserkers.

The first screenshot shows the setup. The opponent has: +2 speed, offense, armor, water. Tactics +1, +1, mana, +2 health. I have: offense, armor, fire. Mana, spell, boots, tactics.

Dragons burn bears through goldens, then goldens through bears. A battle begins (2nd screenshot).

In the 3rd screenshot, you can see how both packs of the opponent's dragons burn their own knights, although not in large numbers, but in the current situation, it is very important.

4th screenshot. I'm without slows, but I still feel the advantage. In the end, I was left with blinded slows and ogres, received a curse on the ogres, in the next round, bless, a fierce clash, but the ogres held on.

Thanks for the battle!

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Neoandy (blue, Dungeon, Rampart) def Volodymyr (red, Stronghold, Inferno)

I used Berserkers again. :)
But here, in the first round, I made a huge mistake, after which I should have probably just given up. I focused on the forward-positioned troops (they were really hurting in the game against Rhox) with bears (killing half of them, under the effect of Thirst), birds, and efreets, thereby leaving my pits vulnerable to being shot through by ballistas, and cutting off their and the ogres' retreat. Just stupid.

Thanks for the battle!

P.S. A request to players: please write at least a brief description of the matches and take screenshots. It will be much more interesting.

Andres (Ramp Necropolis) def. Disander (Tower Inferno), TE, TK3 According to the matchup chart, I thought Olya had the advantage. I didn't try to predict whether Olya would choose the archer or infantry build. I was very worried about the Titans. I took offense, defense, and earth for the Papal Shield, and if Olya chose the archer build, at least after slowing down the liches, they would all fire at once. Olya surprised me by actually choosing the archer build, but she didn't take Expert Tactics. I happily attacked the Titans with Goldens and Bones in the first round. They were next to a supply cart. -3 Titans and the 4th died in its last breath. Mass slow, pegasus into mages - 20 mages, horses and necromancers wait, liches attack in a group from pits, minotaurs and goats in the center. Olya mass cures and attacks the Goldens with pegasus. 7 Goldens and 28 pegasus remained. Necromancers attack Nagas - 7 Nagas and -2 necromancers in return. Unicorns arrive, vampires fly in. In the second round, mass slow again, and all my units move first. I finish off the Titans with Goldens and Bones (all 10 are still alive), 5 Titans remain (the 5th has 1 HP :), pegasus take revenge on the Nagas, a few pegasus remain, and I finish them off with necromancers and unicorns. Liches attack ifrits, vampires attack ifrits, and Goldens attack in return, so 11 remain (yes, everything dies without armor). Olya mass cures again, but it was already GG, of course. Also, at the beginning of the 3rd round, Olya has low morale on Devils and Ifrits, and despite the low morale on Goldens, I have it at the beginning of the 4th round, and she concedes. 1-0. Thanks for the game, Olya!

Wlk777 def Van 2-0
Confirmed, thank you for the game.

Forrest (Dungeon, Barbarian) def Andres (Castle, Stronghold) Took: Berserk, Offense, Defense, Fire. Andres has Water, Offense, +2 Speed. He waited with Archons, I had Berserk in 4 stacks. The tent and ballista died, as well as some birds, bears, monks, and horses. Then I flew in and took out the dragons, bears, and birds without a response. Andres raised 3 bears and attacked the Castle. I wanted to use Berserk in 4 stacks, but the Archons resisted and gave him a chance. But the papal cats, which constantly paralyzed, brought everything back. In the end, 12,000 HP survived. The 7 Archons caught in sleep didn't move and didn't attack anyone else. Thanks for the game, Andres! You played very well.

Volodymyr (Rampart, Dungeon) def CaMiKaDzE (Dungeon, Fortress), SoD, TC3[/B]

It was a tough battle, but I got lucky :)
Thanks for the game!

Forrest (dungeon, barbarian) def Andres (castle, stronghold)

He took: berserk off defense, fire. Andres took: water off defense +2 speed

He waited for Archangel, I berserked in 4 stacks. The tent and ballista died, as well as some of the birds, bears, monks, and horses. Then he flew in and cleared out the bears and birds with dragons without a response. Andres raised 3 bears and attacked the Chaos Dragon. I wanted to berserk in 4 stacks, but the Archangels resisted and gave him a chance. But the papal cats, which constantly paralyzed everything, brought everything back. In the end, 12,000 HP survived. The 7 Archangels caught in sleep never moved and didn't attack anyone else.

That's exactly what happened. Forrest is a great warrior and calculated everything and executed it at the highest level. 2 devastating berserkers in rounds 1 and 2 decided the game. The expert earth gave me a chance, but I didn't predict the berserk and took water with forgetfulness in case of archers, especially since we already had such a setup a few days ago for fun.

Thank you for the game, Tolyan! My victories are yet to come :)

Forrest (Rampart, Barbarian) def Andres (Castle, Inferno)

I took the water off-defense +2. Andres also took the water.

I thought about playing defensively, but I decided to go with wood and ogres. Since I had a +5000 HP advantage from the start.
Andres couldn't handle it and sent his dogs and horses against the ogres. But I had a blessing and 3 stacks of units, including bears, which gave me a significant advantage and marked the beginning of the end.
Then there was a battle in the center, but my meat advantage gave me a sense of control. My horses didn't give up easily.
In the end, there was an attempt to fly and move the focus away from the wood and ogres (a very clever and smart attempt), but I still had a meat advantage.
In the end, we won :)

Thanks for the game, friend, I was just luckier!

Forrest (Rampart, Barbarian) def. Andres (Castle, Inferno)

He took the water resource for +2 defense. Andres also took the water.

I thought about playing defensively, but I decided to go on the offensive with wood and ogres. Since I had a starting advantage of +5000 experience points.)))
Andres couldn't handle it and attacked with dogs and cavalry against my ogres. But I had Blessing and 3 stacks of units, including bears, which gave me a significant advantage and marked the beginning of the end.
Then there was a battle in the center, but my resource advantage gave me a feeling of superiority. My cavalry didn't give him any breathing room.
In the end, there was an attempt to use flying units, moving them away from the wood and ogres (a very clever and smart attempt), but I still had enough units to win.)
In the end, we won! :)

Thanks for the game, friend, I was just luckier!

Yes, I can confirm that the score is 2-0 in favor of Tolyan. I don't know about luck; I don't believe in it. If it exists, then it favors the stronger players, which the games showed. Also, I don't know of any opponent in the tournament who is stronger than Tolyan, so I don't consider losing to such a worthy opponent a disaster.
Thanks for the games. The second game, by the way, although it was 95% predetermined from the start (due to random map generation), was full of tactical maneuvers on both sides. I think it was a great game!

Rhox (Rampart, Swamp) def Aldegir (Rampart, Dungeon)

Rhox (Rampart, Swamp) def Aldegir (Castle, Dungeon)

2-0

If I'm not mistaken, my opponent had the first and second battles on Tier 3 creatures. Played pretty well for the first time.
We lost the first battle, and the second was random. I got lucky with the Swamp.

The battles were quick, without any special tactics; the Gorgons managed to perform well.

Thanks for the game!

I apologize, please remove me from the tournament due to technical issues.

Andres (Dungeon, Strong) defeated KobRa RR (Castle, Strong), TC3, TE. I was satisfied with the outcome; my purchase, although not complete (as I decided not to take archers), was still more comprehensive than my opponent's. The Dark Champions provide immunity and the threat of taking away the opponent's casting ability. I took Water, considering the damage spread (I was dreamily imagining scenarios with bears and minotaurs under Thirst and Bless). There was a mistake on my part. I stayed in the castle until the 7th day to buy an extra cat, and then, accidentally, didn't buy armor on the first try and was forced not to exchange one of the cheap artifacts to have time to attack on the 117th day. I didn't take the basic tactic, which gave my opponent a certain advantage: in addition to a favorable arrangement, troops like bears, champions, and birds occupied the best striking positions, keeping my entire army under fire, except for the Dark Champions. There was earth on that side, but neither the opponent nor I cast spells until the very end, not knowing the opponent's cards. Exchange in the 1st round: Cyclops took out 3 birds, bears under Thirst took out another 17, and a ballista took out 1 (a total of 19 remained). His bears under Thirst took out 16 of mine (and minus one bear in retaliation, while my 10th bear was at 70 HP). His champions took out 11 of my Cyclops. And the birds took out another 2 of my birds (22 remained). The opponent was forced to cast a spell. A logical Blindness spell followed on the bears - the dangerous stack under Thirst remains inactive and under the fire of the Crusaders. I, in response, cast Blindness on the archers, and, anticipating, I will say that all 4 incomplete rounds that the battle lasted, they never moved. Then I sacrifice the birds, removing the retaliation from the bears - 8 bears remained, and 9 birds for me, and the Dark Champions take out the bears to 6, and at the beginning of the 2nd round to 3. 10 Dark Champions are standing. Before their attack, there was my dubious cast - Mass Cure, after which Mass Slow followed, and the cats and bears remained in the opponent's camp under attack. The bears were cut down by horses, Crusaders, and griffins to 4. The cats, with Retaliation, reduced the number of the opponent's bears to 1 and paralyzed them... In general, I would also like to note that the cats also paralyzed the Crusaders in the 4th round, after which the surrender followed. No less significant was the fact that, having brought all my slow troops closer (I passed the resistance on 9 birds), in the 4th turn with the cats, I cast Mass Cure, the birds, before that, removed the retaliation from the champions, the cats (17) hit the Crusaders - 11 (49 remained) and paralyzed them. Minotaurs hit the champions without retaliation - 11 (4 remained). Ogres hit 67 griffons (38 remained). Thank you for the game!

Andres (Dungeon, Stronghold) def KobRa RR (Castle, Stronghold), TC3, TE

Thanks for the game!

Congratulations, the opponent did everything right, except for the mass cure in the beginning of the second round, which gave me at least some chance. I played very poorly, taking mass air, and I couldn't decide to make it after the drake move... and so on.
(thinking out loud) To play successfully here, you need to have home-prepared builds for each faction and run through all possible battle scenarios in advance; otherwise, you simply can't win based on class alone, as before, because the overall level has improved. Honestly, I don't want to spend so much time on it, so I offer all future opponents a full random selection in advance! Sorry, but otherwise, I will simply be forced to think for an hour :smile52:
PS. I stopped playing the fixed version at the time because it required literally obsessing over every move in detail. (which is absolutely against my creative nature)

Please sign me up, I want to learn! :) Erdem 200532442