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

SpiriTT(blue,conflux,random,Ciel) def Gomunguls(red,Barb,Dessa,Dessa) 2sm4d(3),144
Got conflux. Ciel arrived—took a risk playing as a mage, didn't take rests. Birds on the first turn stayed in the fort, castle secondary was colored. On the second, killed 93 golems and then the elf secondary was colored. Then went to the edge of the treasure zone, took boots of speed and necklace+3 to all. At the start of the 4th finished GM5—explosion. Taking dragon utopia—2k. Got КЗ and КВ =). DD alternating ГО and ГГ—Dessa caught with 1 angel.
Thanks for the game.
P.S. One master said: "Rotate worthily!" I urge my opponent to listen to this.

Confirmed.

Thanks for the game!!!

Forrest (blue, Castle, Valeska, Tazar) def LeBron (Necro, Galtran) 1-3-1, Jebus Cross

I was very glad to receive the offer to play from Dmitry, because at 8:00 AM there was no one to play with, and here comes an offer from a strong player right away.
We agreed on TE without experience on Jebus Cross.

We restarted one layout and began.
Right away I check the overview. There are several promising boxes—a couple of trees, boots, and stables. But there are no "cans" (resource caches) or external dwellings (only crusaders). Still, I decide to play. On 1-1-2, thieves show an angel for Galtran, and it's hinted that he is not alone) But we have our own answer to Chamberlain—Tazar arrived. We quickly eat up the chests with him. Visit the stables. And on 1-1-3 he takes Pandora for 10K exp (for 33 gold golems). Before this, 45 halberdiers were taken behind the mummies (by Tazar) and 60 cops behind upgraded goats (by Valey). In total, by 1-1-3 Tazar has expert log on stables and is preparing to take boots. The respawn is kind of small. I'm looking for external dwellings off-road with own "lochs" (low-tier units). And thank god, Valya sees an angel external dwelling behind the upgraded goats.
Tazar takes boots. The purse is passed to Valya, who takes a +5 club and enters an external dwelling with 9-2 parameters. There's no morale in the first one, but there is later; in the end, I lost almost all cops, but on the angel. Tazar doesn't have money to buy a second angel (We have to tread water for a while until the "lochs" took two trees and money for angels on 1-1-7). In the end, angels with Stronghold.
And Tazar is sitting with expert earth in the secondary town 15 cm from Dragon Utopia and minimum caches. Through the market, I buy everything on 1-2-1 and bring it to Tazar; he enters a level 2 utopia with 6 angels and 16 geese + some centaurs.
With parameters 12-14 he takes it easily (minus 4 geese)
There is a blue cap and a book of fire. Seems super, but I have 2-2 magic parameters.
I split up, build stables, and head to ГО—Azurik.
On 1-2-2 the "lochs" take the Naga Bank; I take max credit, buy everything with upgraded crusaders. I kill Azurik and go full speed into the treasury.
I take armor (lots of gr nag), max tree, To All 6 (11 Black Dragons) and a devil external dwelling, moving as deep as possible )expert passfight. I don't lose anyone in these fights.
Then I take Inferno in the treasury to replenish mana. I see Gladius and decide to run after him. There is a 4-4 chest and a tree nearby. I take all of it.
On 1-2-5 I jump TP and DD. I take the book of earth, earth buffs, and utopia (they gave me what I already had). Tazar is already strong: 29-39-14-15.
On 1-2-7 I take another utopia, finish building all houses, a bit in Inferno, and TP to the center of Inferno to replenish and attack Galtran's respawn the next day.
But on 1-3-1 Galtran comes out, takes ГО, and attacks with small parameters. I am anti-magic with 6 archers. There are also 38 geese, 17 crusaders, 44 marksmen, and a devil. Impl into the geese follows, then capitulation. Thanks for the game!

Forrest (blue, Castle, Valessa, Tazar) def LeBron (Necropolis, Galthran) 1-3-1, Jebus Cross

that's how it was
on turn 1-1-2 I took a level 2 Griffin Conservatory, a Pandora's Box with all the water, but due to lack of literacy only 4 levels without Dimension Door, a Dragon Utopia was lit up, external dwellings of Black Dragons and Birds. The plan was to place Birds on turn 1 and take the external dwellings — on turn 1-2-1 take the Dragon Utopia, upgrade the Birds and go for a showdown with the Archangels in the center, but an error in the chain and everything is covered by a copper basin:D
I placed the Birds but didn't recolor the external dwellings, on turn 1-2-1 I sped up before the Guardian Object and realized that further up the Guardian Object there is a block of Gold Dragons guarding two level 4 artifacts and a Dragon Fly Hive, meaning there's a huge bunch of them there. I wanted to surrender but two Dragon Utopias still gave me hope. I took them on turn 2 but found nothing useful inside.
On turn 1-3-1 I killed the Guardian Object, flew over the block, but even if I had caught Tazar on the speed-up (Shackles of War were there by the way) there was no chance of victory. Tazar in Tactics Expert on Jebus Cross is a bomb
Thank you for the game!

Before I forget, please include these reports from "Novichok" in the August ranking: HeadHunter (Red, Swamp, Tazar, Tazar) def DENCHELSEA (Blue, Barbarian, Dessa, Dessa) 2SM4d(3), 1.3.3, 1/2 final (08/01/09) Erdem (Blue, Tower, Nella, Dessa) def Van (Red, Barbarian, Gurnisson, Gurnisson) 2SM4d(3), 1.4.4, 1/2 final (08/02/09) Van (Red, Fortress, Tazar, Tazar) def DENCHELSEA (Blue, Dungeon, Shahti, Shahti) 2SM4d(3), 1.3.1, for third place (08/07/09) Erdem (Blue, Tower, Nella, Nella) def HeadHunter (Red, Stronghold, Dessa, Dessa), 2sm4d(3), 2.2.2, final (08/09/09)

Wlk777 (red, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) def Redwhait (blue, Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre) 2smd4(3) 211
The game turned out interesting for me — when my opponent had no more restarts, the drops were decent. Boots of Speed appeared, but a stupid tavern blocked the path to them, and I had to fetch them from behind the mountains, which I only managed in week two. There was a competition between Tazar and Thorgrim for main heroes, but Valeska won, getting Logistics and Earth Magic. First week: cavalry in the Citadel, second hero Conflux, an external dwelling with cavalry revealed behind a horde of yellow flies. In the second week, I took that dwelling — Valeska already had Tactics — grabbed the Boots, a Dragon Fly Hive at level 6, artifacts +4 to Attack and Speed. At the end of the week, I stumbled upon another external cavalry dwelling guarded by 15 Liches and took it. By the third week, I had 18 cavalry; I took Dragon Fly Hives for min and max, a Shield +6, and 2 Dragon Utopias (level 2 and 3). The most interesting part was that all this was not in the treasure zone but on a neighboring respawn. The Dragon Utopias had little of use — a Sword +5 All and Titan's Armor, and of course the Admiral's Hat, how could it be otherwise ))), an Orb of Water that turned out somewhat useful since Ice Bolt was the best spell I found. On the 4th week, I broke the GO, took the opponent's capital (as it turned out, nearly catching the enemy's scout hero with almost half the army), caught up with Kyrre on day 146 — I had 28 cavalry, 3 Angels (honestly built and bought), 50+ Marksmen, 12 Wyverns, 18 Pegasi, 17 Griffins; stats for Attack and Defense were slightly worse, but Ice Bolt was nearly 700 — my opponent had 8 Angels, 10+ Azure Dragons, 20 Grand Elves, 13 Wizards, 3 Green Dragons. After killing my 3 Angels and almost all the Marksmen while losing his Wizards and Green Dragons, the opponent surrendered, but alas, I took his last castle with scout heroes and my main hero. Thanks for the game.

SEM_56 (blue, Tower, Thorosor, Thorosor) def Kash (red, Inferno, Pyra, Pyra) 2smd4(3) 147
I took all the rests, and it gave me a full load of resources; if only I could have executed it on time. But as it was, I played poorly and terribly...
I took 7 consecutive turns!!! Starting from turn 133 to 144, I killed 16 angels, and went into a home-based, snowy treasure, near my secondary town. I caught Pyra in the middle of a rush with 14 efreets, and Victor bought himself out with 11...
Further information for Dirty Player: with the help of 307 helmets, 3 master genies, and a +3 luck and morale amulet, I defeated a player with 53 vivas in the second round, using bless, prayer, and thirst, plus luck kicked in, and I defeated 20 vivas. We decided not to continue, as the 16 angels would have decided everything. Thanks for the game, Victor; I would have liked to play Tower against Inferno, but now I'm red....:)

SEM_56 (blue, Tower, Torres, Torres) def Kash (red, Inferno, Pyre, Pyre) 2smd4(3) 147

It happened.
Maybe for the first or second time I managed to play as Inferno somewhat decently, so I'll describe it a bit. Unfortunately, couldn't really demonify, all the devour and all demons died in battles

Spawned at bottom, didn't take rests
Notable from first week: 2 secondary heroes on d1-1-3
d1-1-2 - native for 73 captains, don't know how I killed it, can't repeat. Also had 10 gogs sitting on the secondary
d1-1-3 - dungeon for 63 upgraded harpies, only 11 gogs and a dog for speed reached it
d1-1-7 - lvl 6, almost entire bottom scouted, 6 hives, a single Griffin Conservatory, 5 exits upward
d1-2-3 - Pyre 6-6-4-4, with mass slow without losses at the Conservatory (d1-2-3, because I was expertising earth and collecting money, since it was placed very poorly)
d1-2-4 - first hive (all mini-premi, only 1 maxi)
d1-3-2 - 29 wyverns, exits checked, all money in the area taken, and above a necro secondary, Pyre crashed about 5 times, hopping across the map. All exits lead into snow with no road, I start to worry. No one has pathfinding, although most heroes are almost lvl 3-5. Not a single hero with a gremlin out of about 15-16 throughout the entire game
d1-4-3 - scouted the top with air and earth and sorties, opponent's native secondary, I see at least 5 Conservatories, 2 unclaimed external giant dwellings. Angel died to gr. medusas
Tavern was showing until d1-4-5 that I have more troops (53 wyverns, 15 pit fiends, 14 efreet, 25 evil eyes and miscellaneous), nothing to do - I crawl upward
d1-4-6 I stand at the metro at the speed bump, behind it - a library and a couple days of no-road travel to the capital. Roma attacks without angels and wyverns, with them he wouldn't have made it. Actually, even 16 angels didn't scare me. Damn, I had to speed up at the worst possible time...

Thanks for the game

As for blue Inferno - hardly, although if you add a couple more rests - maybe... :)

Lanser (Red, Rampart, Kirr, Kirr) def. Bashmet (Blue, Dungeon, Gunnar, Gunnar) 2smd4(3), 144
Thank you for the game.

Lanser (Red, Rampart, Kirr, Kirr) def. Bashmet (Blue, Dungeon, Gunnar, Gunnar) 2smd4(3), 144
Thank you for the game.

I confirm my loss to Lanser.

Lanser (Red, Stronghold, Dessa, Dessa) def Van (Blue, Swamp, Tarzan, Tarzan) 2smd4(3), 114
Thank you for the game.

Lanser (Red, Stronghold, Dessa, Dessa) def Van (Blue, Swamp, Tarzan, Tarzan) 2smd4(3), 114
It was
Thank you for the game.

Wlk777(red, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) def Redwhait(blue, Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre) 2smd4(3) 211
Thank you for the game.

The match turned out interesting but a bit strange, with enormous luck on the opponent's side. Valeska was given everything on a silver platter: Log, Earth, Tactics, Attack, Defense, 2 expert Haste — the second one I have no idea how the opponent found in a corner of the spawn :smile32: , two Dragon Utopias spawned for his secondary hero, while in my treasure zone I got only 1, and that one was behind a Keymaster's tent :( It turned out that my mistake at the start of the third week with 8 Angels and other power was that I should have hit the GO horde of Manticores, but I went into the treasure zone where I lost a too valuable week, and then in another treasure zone 1 mini Dragon Utopia no longer saved me. When the opponent attacked, I had no destructive magic spell except an Inferno scroll.
Thank you for the game.

Alex_R (Fortress, Vistan, Tazar) def Van (Castle, Valeska) 131 2sm4d(3) SOD
117, with two Vixens and one Gorgon, after buying everything, didn't build a Castle home...
1-6 in the Citadel. Secondary Tower.
126, defended against blue Conflux and on 127 took the capital, but had to build a Castle and defend... almost wiped out, with 14 Gorgons left against 14 Storms and 4 Vixens.
131, final battle.
Thanks for the game!

Alex_R (Fortress, Vistan, Tazar) def Van (Castle, Valeska) 131 2sm4d(3) SOD
He got lucky, you owe me a rematch))). Thanks for the game.

Wlk777 (red, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) def Pradromalo (blue, Barbarian, Gurnisson, Gurnisson) 2smd4(3) 145
My opponent gave me a red Dungeon on the Cherk map; I played casually and didn't even bother searching for treasures, but I still managed to win. Thanks for the game.