Posts from Favorites into Battle - 2

Piterius (red, Conflux, Labeta, Moner) def Hermit (blue, Fortress, Tazar, Tazar), 8mm6, TE_light, 223

I chose all the rests plus one more by the block; in the end, I got a poor respawn without a single cache, but with two utopias. The start was very difficult — air structures weren't built, the heroes came with pixies, 3 air elementals, 5 water elementals and 20 pikes:o , basically you can't fight much with that. The undead from the prisoner on 112 helped a bit to break through, but upon exiting the respawn, the morale wolves zeroed the pixies and things got really bad. I brought up the built air and water elementals, took the Inferno computer only on 121, built up to pits with a thousand, psychics in the citadel at home, spotted three more passes and 2 pit caches.
On the second [week] I take the Dungeon village and the dragon cache near it, a hive with 6 wyverns nearby. I find another Tower village, a hive next to it. The two remaining passes are guarded by 20-49 Cyclops Kings and 20-49 gr. liches respectively. Definitely one of them leads to Tazar; in the end, I chose the more convenient path to run and ran into him, but that was on the third. As for the results of the second, I recover some money and put birds in the Castle, spot a utopia and a conservatory in the snows, but I don't aim for them because it's way too far. And there are actually no other conservatories! I didn't take a single one until the end of the game!
There was another significant trouble for me — there was no fighter, mainly mages were leveling up, while Lak, Cult, and Fyur were either in chains or sitting out in castles as number nine. Mainly Labeta, Ciel, and Brissa were leveling. Labeta was preferable with exp earth, air, and sorcery, so at the start of the third I break through the liches with her, and she runs on three CD and 6 wyverns for scouting, spotting a fork. And right there she is met by Taz with 7 angels (single digits). I escaped without paying the buyout, but traded my units for 2 angels. Taz targeted me. I dump all resources to zero and throw the army at the last pass — through the cyclops. On the edge were zero-level Cult without a book and Ciel. Decided that I need to level a fighter. I smash 30 cyclops, 50-99 air elementals, a hive with 8 wyverns, 10-19 manticores near the utopia on the pass and ... I hit a tower-village! Then I hit 10-19 scorpicorns:( And here I really wanted to surrender because in the army there was 1 bird left, 7 psychics and 20 blue and white shooters each, I spotted a bunch of utopias, but there's no way to take them! There was also a lift, but from the overview it was clearly visible that the road through the sand to the computers in the swamp and snow was expensive... Tazar turned back at this time, and I recover the prisoner Moner with exp attack and log — where have you been all this time, handsome!!! A couple of battles and he already has wisdom and earth. In general, the plan further is simple — level Monu and manage to eat all the utopias before the blues arrive.
I gather my strength only on 211, break 5 utopias, have fire and air books, put giants at the computer and take their 2 caches, since there's not much meat — spotted 3 hives, and start cutting demons.
221 I take the sixth utopia, 222 — I aim for two more, but I see movement of the Tower from the overview — Tazar on a fly has been hanging around the rocks for the second day, there's a purse nearby — doesn't seem thick. I jump there, drive Taz away — pity, my tactics turned out to be weaker. I reach the purse, kill 6 angels out of 10, a buyout follows. Didn't have enough moves to jump home — I see bracers nearby. And here I realize that if Taz wasn't hit by Bronkh in the tavern, now the whole purse will arrive and tear me to pieces with the bracers:eek: I had 11 birds, 18 psychics, 10 wyverns, 30+ gr. earth elementals, single-digit fires, the steel purse was fighting on another front
That's exactly what happened, Taz attacks with bracers, but the purse didn't impress, apparently there wasn't enough money to pay the buyout and then buy everything. In the end, 75 mana was enough for me to finish off almost everyone with storm and blast and even resurrect the birds once:smile16:

Thanks for the game! Thanks for the map!
Special thanks for TE_light, hope you liked it! :)

Group H (2sm4d(3))

Decontaminator (red, Rampart, Kir, Kir) def Psyche_7 (blue, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) 2cm4d(3), 127

Alessandro (blue, Conflux, random, Labeta) def Kluka (red, Dungeon, Shakhti) 134, 2sm4d(3)

PReDS (red, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) def. Dirty_Player (blue, Inferno, Nimues, Kirr), Jebus, 136.

Forrest (Blue, Rampart, Kyrre) def loi (Necro, Tante), SoD, 2sm4d(3), 1-2-5

We used all restarts. And finally red Necro is first from the bottom)
Umn has no elves but 60 Centaurs. I upgrade them. Roads are brown. Not ice :) block on one road with lots of King Minions - annoying. also archers on the road. further I ran past YT gr Lizardmen. I beat off a little LV. I break through those Lizardmen normally. they cast slow on my lizards.
There it's easier - stables. In the end on 1-1-4 Kyrre expert Log on stables. That's something already. No caches. There is a Griffin Conservatory. the noob learns Arrow and checks with Pegasi. -strong. I break through to the swamp. through gr wolves. 36 Centaurs and a Lizard with mixed remain. Some money. I take the castle. I bring horses, take the crypt with Vampires. I build flies. The noobs scatter here but there are no passages to the treasury nearby. I build horses with the castle.
8 heroes. I run to the stable. On 1-2-1 the noobs find some 8 money. but I don't go into the Gnome mine (on grass) I bring the mixed on the next day. I take the 20. I advance Earth. I visit +1+1 SP ZN. I split back home. I replenish mana. Then I hit the psychos for the box and +1 speed - 50 Centaurs gave - good. I became expert Earth, Slow is in a scroll. I take the 3rd Conservatory, losing a few Centaurs. Then +2+2 cloak. And I bring to life the plan to school resurrect. I build a tower. on 1-2-5 I take another 3-3 fangs.
And I am ready the next day to advance to learn Wisdom from upgraded Alamar with Resurrection. and I hope for good spells at home. (that happened - Town Portal and Meteor) And immediately the plan is to run to the Necro. the road to him on grass is visible.
But it was not meant to be - on his 1-2-6 the Necros surrendered! GG
Thank you, Valery, for the game! It was dangerous! I'm afraid of Necros.

P.S: I only didn't understand one thing. Having Crag Hack at level 111 plus a Logistics hero, why didn't you make him the main one? :eek:

...the main stack of eyes, their specialty is Craig's to the lamp [of oblivion], but in SoD you can't, like in TE, choose for yourself between ranged or melee attack.

And in TE_light you CAN!:)

I still signed up under the assumption that opponents would play SoD, so unless the opponent themselves prefers TE, like Forrest, I play on SoD. Besides, I need to brush up on it before the trip to Michurinsk. Fortunately, a smka is expected there, so I can run it on 4 min. Here, on the other hand, the first 10 days on 6 min were barely enough. On 117, when I took the dwarf dwelling with Marik, the external dwelling of nagas, dismissed the low-tier units to buy more heroes in order to transfer the meat to the miner, who took the medusa dwelling through a split, colored the external dwelling of eyes, and sped up on the angel, I was already making buildings on the count of 10, 9, 8, 7, ....

I can't imagine how one could play Jebus effectively on SoD within 6 minutes, let alone 4. You can just play as best as you can, but playing at full capacity is unlikely.

I can't imagine how one can play Jebus Cross effectively on Sod at 6 minutes, let alone 4. You can just play it as it goes, but not to its full potential.

Well, at least the time in battles counts :). With that same demon horde, there were 2 moats across the entire field, the eyes were positioned roughly in the middle of the top row and picked off the extra meat, while the harpies chased them around the bottom one, luring the thinned stacks under the trogs — this mess lasted maybe 15 minutes. In TE, 2-3 such battles and you’ll be in time trouble, no hotkeys for turn transfer will help :)
P.S. While I was writing, Dirty already chimed in).