Posts from Kyiv qualifier GO!!!

So the battles are underway. A few guys, including myself (humble), are leveling our heroes normally. Forest is already ay-ya-ya-yay!!!
From the notable event, I hit 113 with 72 lizards with a graded stack, minimal losses. Then at 123 I took a Pandora’s Box for 10k experience, leveled up Earth Magic, heading to the Griffin Conservatory, about to take it now"""

P.S. Besha passed out at the table on 113, Captain’s victory)))

Besha passed out at the table on turn 113, Captain won!

Was he really that drunk when he showed up? :eek: Or was he just tired from the trip?

Say hello to everyone and don't forget about the photos (you can also send interesting screenshots).

P.S. Besha passed out at the table on turn 113, Captain won!

))) history has a way of repeating itself)) xD No wonder Matrosov was planning to visit Besha after Michurinsk)) XD

So, the first two matches ended:
I'm sitting next to Rebellious and watching almost every move. I made a slight mistake, didn't check the Hive and went in there with Nagas and a few Gargoyles. They immediately started tearing the Naga apart, and judging by his expression, Rebellious understood that the match was coming to an end. I can only say one thing, and it's positive: Rebellious played skillfully and thoughtfully; there was a lot to see, and I was very glad about that...

The second match between the players: Forrest (blue, Rampart, Kirrh) vs. Kepten (red, Castle, Valeska) – let's go!!!

Besha-nashevshe :)- I'm rooting for him.

Forrest (red, Swamp, Tazar) -def Rebellious (blue, Tower, Nella) 2sm4d(3) 1-2-3
Gave up the center. Choice of secondary units: Elves, Mages, Magogs, or Orcs, Chieftains. Killed the Chieftains and the fodder. Found some money there. Pushed a scout to Tazar. Then gave offense and earth magic, and tactics.
Built Hydras with a castle and took a hidden air unit. On 1-2-1, Tazar goes into maximum melee on the grass, with a Graveyard, and defeats two Hydras. (Several morale losses for full stacks in a row). Then I take Nagabanks as a minimum. And in the treasury, I see a book of air magic and a +5 club. But Andrey goes into maximum melee in the forest - he gets defeated - and surrenders.

Aldegir (Red, Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre) def Armagedda (Red, Castle, Valeska, Galthran) 131
At first, the red player took 2 rests.. then it was my turn.. Then we decided to take a rest for the slow players.. and one rest due to a misclick by the red player..

We started.. Respawn: 2 Hives + 1 Consulate (2 Angels) (on the opponent's respawn, passage guards to secondary towns were 20-49 Evil Eyes.. on which he lost everything except 18 Archers.. I refused the block rest offer.. since it was a passage guard, not an artifact or anything else.. and it was possible to break through)
1st week 1-6 in the Castle + Necro secondary town
2nd week secondary town Castle + 2 Hives with 4 each and +2 Angels + Mace +5 total Kyrre level 13 with expert Earth Magic and Mass Slow + Tactics + Armor
11-10-4-5
On 131 we buy growth and break through ГО 16 Magic Psykers + 64 Physical Psykers :)
We lose 2 Horses and run to the red player's main Castle.. we attack and kill the growth.. followed by a surrender..
Tired and didn't sleep all night :( going to sleep now

Javdet (red, Castle, Valezgo, Gunnar) def Lider1 (blue, Swamp, Taz, Taz) 143 sm3

I took 113, got 4 archers, a 2nd Rion, but because of Gunnar decided to play. The archers were almost immediately gone, and I had to scrounge with whatever I had, but I had 4 Griffin Conservatories and 3 Dragon Fly Hives glowing. Just nothing to hit them with. At level 11, scouting/morale. I chose scouting and didn't regret it.. 10 angels, 31 viva, and the blue cap, at 137 I flew over to visit and caught Taz in the middle of a power-up. I chopped him up, they ran around a bit more, and then surrender.

Thanks for the game.

The first round is over; we went to have lunch at "Puzataya Khata" (the food was rubbery)...
On the way out of the cafeteria, I ran into Rebelliosa, and we headed to the club. Since I lost to Kostyan, I had to play against the Leader, who lost to Javded. But a friend from Kharkiv decided to postpone our match until Sunday because we were a bit down, we fought well, but didn't win; we'll continue tomorrow...
In less than an hour, we're heading to a pub to watch the Ukraine-England football match!!!
So, we'll be battling again tomorrow...

It was incredibly interesting to sit opposite my opponent and watch how they move and what emotions and expressions they have on their faces with each turn. I learned a lot of interesting and useful things. In one match, I managed to get 72 lizards against 113, with the following troops: 4 dragonflies, 25 greater lizards, 36 gnolls, and 38 gremlins. I had 22 lizards left; I thought I would gain a good momentum, but it turned out that I had nothing to build on...

See you all tomorrow; I might post a couple of photos later today!!!

Forrest (Blue, Rampart, Kyrre) -def Capitan (Humans, Valeska) 2sm4d(3) 1-2-4

We started without restarts. I thought about taking RE on 1-1-3, but the found boots and the external dwelling of elves convinced me otherwise).
There was little gold. Same on the picked Snow. As a result, after two markets, the horses were at the Citadel. I buy the grand elves, pick up the boots and shield +3 with Lochs, Kyrre has 2-2 sword. And I take a box and a scroll on 1-2-3 for 40 greydwarf. There were 35 greydwarf. I got Earth. ETA is Con 3-4, but I decide not to risk it and instead level up Earth. I head to the Treasury, breaking the tovver along the way.
I get a moan, run into the Treasury — there's a teleport there. I dive in — Valeska is sitting there in Conflux. I attack. Kyrre: 4-12-3-1, 32 grand elves, 5 horses, Silver Pegasus, 35 war dwarves, dwarf, dwarf. Valeska: 5-6-1-3, 44 Marksmen, 5 horses, 4 ReGnoles, and 29 Pikemen. But I have +1 speed) Blast on the grand elves takes down 15 Marksmen. Marksmen, together with the Archers, take down 10. No morale.)) On the second turn, morale hit. But it was no longer as dangerous. In the end, Kyrre won because the dwarves and horses piled onto the horses. Thanks for the game, Sanek!

KostyaN (red, Tower, Nella, Nella) def Sem56 (blue, Swamp, Vistan, Vistan), 141, 2m4d(3).

We picked all the rests and it gave out a decent amount. Even though practically neither of us had any one-day caches.

Week 1: cleared 30+ earth dwellings, finishing them off with gremlins manually, took a second necro; there was absolutely no money - I almost didn't venture into the crypts on dirt... Around 111 I think I got a +4 shield behind some white dwarves, and 2 cons are immediately visible near the home; luckily on 112 I built up the guild and Nella replenished her mana by 30 there - it helped quite a bit (had haste, slow, arrow:smile12: ). In the end, nagas at the market :D on 117, also luckily shifted the loot bag to the opposite edge of the respawn on 117 for the loser so he could recoup his gold, but he spotted a grem cache there too, though he didn't have time to take it:( , although he got a 3rd con as well...:rolleyes:

Week 2 - a week of stupidity, only took 1 minimal from the cons, also some wood behind gr. harpies on 6, scouted a treasure zone with GB and wings, the Dragon Utopia, and took 2 more secondaries with one-hitters. At home, I only added the citadel with a couple of upgrades.

Week 3: cons 2+3, there was a sudden temptation to break the ГО near the last con (20+ devils) - I had mass haste, but prudence won:) , headed towards the Dragon Utopia, where I freed Craig level 10 with expert logistics:eek: , but for some reason didn't want to switch characters... In the box I took 70 dead ones, upgraded them immediately - 90+ in total, and into the utopia for 3 CDs. There we spotted 6 nagas, 60+ zombies and 2 angels and they gave:smile18: :smile18: :smile18: - 2 pairs of boots (levitation and resistance), a fire book and a medallion for morale/luck:confused: ... Entered another treasure zone, didn't go to the 1st one because Vistan was already operating there, and after that utopia I had nothing to oppose him with, immediately found 8+4 ducks and then rushed back to the capital, as Roma flew over the ГО and almost reached the castle, the chain worked fine - I made it in time:) . In the castle he practically did nothing to me, despite the fact that I messed up by not buying an ammunition wagon and that neither morale, nor luck, nor resistance were working for me throughout the fight...

Thanks for an interesting game!

At 8:41, I was at the station, met Armageddon, then we went to the train car and found Beshu :) and after half an hour we met Forrest and went to the club. We drew lots, and it turned out we were playing against Neo. People played 2 games, had lunch, and we were just hanging out. We finished last, and immediately went to watch the football game. I'll describe it in more detail later. 1. Met Armageddon and Beshu :) 2. Sem_56, Neoendi, Armageddon 3. Me, Forrest

Report on the first day of the meeting in Kyiv

We started gathering at 9:30 AM near the club, the last player arrived at the beginning of 10.
We chipped in 65 UAH each for 2 days of internet and computer gaming ($8) – that's 300 hours total.
We spent 97 hours on the first day (due to the football match).

Neoandy, as the high master, drew slips of paper with names :)
Round 1.
The following pairs were drawn (the first named won):
1. Captain vs besha
2. Forrest vs rebellious
3. Crag Hack vs Piterius
4. Aldegir vs Armagedda
5. Koстя-Н vs Sem_56
6. Javdet vs Lider
7. Volodymyr vs Neoandy

Gameplay started at 10:35 AM. The last pair, Volodymyr-Neo, finished right at kickoff (6:30 PM). Supreme master Gorbik dropped by, took photos of everyone, left a prize for the winner, and departed for his very important business. Good luck to him!

Interesting highlights:
1. Shared insights on when Pikemen appear in the mercenary camp and when you can even find an Archangel ;)
2. Besha found where in Kyiv they sell vodka with beer, so he conceded on turn 114 and fell asleep. I honestly asked to skip his turns :) – by turn 125 I was already in his castle.
3. I had a lot of free time, so I peeked at the players. Lider was playing the strongest – he quickly built Hydras, easily took the Griffin Conservatory on turn 3, took out serious armies at the brink of defeat – risky play. Neo had two external dwellings of Minotaurs near his castle. But a single stack of Troglodytes showed up and he had absolutely no money, so he only took the external dwellings on week 2. Forrest took down a max Dwarf dwelling with 3 Hydras; on the first round, a large enemy stack with morale dealt 120 damage to a Hydra, but he survived with one Hydra. Then an external dwelling of Air Elementals saved him. Sem got Angel Wings, in principle victory was in the bag, but he went after the castle for some reason (more precisely, it's clear why – he didn't want to drag out the time), and he got killed from the castle.
4. Sat next to Forrest. I got a Swamp and Tazar, and so did he. They gave us nearly identical skill trees – i.e., either Scouting or Navigation, then Advanced Scouting or Water Magic, etc. We had twin overlords :)
5. It was cool that there was a football match that day – we all went to the bar as a group – 14 people. Had a good time over beer, and Ukraine beat England!

Round 2
Forrest vs Captain
Rebellious vs besha

The rest only started their matches; we'll continue tomorrow. For Round 2, we decided that instead of waiting for everyone, we'd play as soon as 2 pairs finish – swap opponents and go.

About my own game. Besha decided to play full random, he offered me any faction. I got Inferno 3 times – he countered that 2 times with Conf :) – we took all the rest; in the last game, I got secondary Snow on turn 112, he conceded on turn 114 on Pegasi.
My second game was against Forrest – pleasant to play, fast, and clean. By turn 124, he showed up with 32 Grand Elves and 35 Grand Dwarves (there was a Pandora's Box for them). Got lucky – an external dwelling of Elves, and also Kiryu's Boots.

Tomorrow we decided to start at 9:00 AM.
They promised to upload photos, our camera holders :)

From left to right: Sem_56, Neoandy, Armagedda, Piterius, Javdet, Werky, Captain, Volodymyr, Forrest, Rebellius, in the background Crag Hack, Aldegir.

Aldegir (Red, Stronghold, Gunnarsson, Gunnarsson) def Creg Hack (Blue, Tower, Neela, Neela) 142
1st week 1-6! (didn't have enough money for bears, and a cyclops external dwelling was visible on the secondary mine) in the fort + external dwelling of rocs + orcs and goblins
2nd week native secondary mine + cyclops external dwelling
3rd week +6 angels + 8 wyverns .. tactics + expert earth + expert air
141 broke through ГО 29 green dragons
142 captured the opponent's main town with unclaimed growth
143 opponent conceded
Thanks for the game!

Added after 3 hours 30 minutes
Aldegir (Blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) def Forrest (Red, Castle, Valeska, Galthran) 116
Took all the rest and 1 on the way until 115 (Not in the portal rules but we agreed)
111- Shakti has 2 stacks and 1 with the scout hero.. 4 heroes.. Revealed and checked the Griffin Conservatory for 3-4 angels + utopia and shield +3+3 for up to 10 unicorns
112- 3 paths - 1 to ГО 1 up guarded by up to 100 dwarves and 1 in the underground to the secondary mine path.. where we noticed the edge of an external dwelling and apparently an external dwelling - an eye.. meaning the secondary mine is native.. decided to go there..
113- Shakti took the native secondary mine.. gave him earth magic and logistics.. found 2 Troglodyte external dwellings and another Griffin Conservatory and utopia
114- bought a scout hero on the secondary mine.. transferred troops to him to break through just above the castle resources and money and the scout hero reveals a Griffin Conservatory there.. breaks through the guard but not enough moves to check.. And then had to decide whether Shakti should run further or take a risk and rush the Griffin Conservatory.. what if it is minimum... rushed and it turned out to be minimum :)
115- 120 Troglodytes and chaff took +1 angel.. losses several eyes.. then decided to use the scout hero to check what was above and noticed red Galthran with his entire army descending into the metro... Decided to block Galthran's exit.... A concession followed...
Thanks to the generator and opponent for the game!