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twaryna (Haven) - Saruman665

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KillAndAction (Mountain People) - SylarOff.

Smerti_Po(демоны) - Saruman665

FLASH_RUS (Red - Dungeon - Letos) won against immortal (Blue - Inferno - Marbas) 2-1-3
I don't deserve the credit, my opponent gave up, thanks for the game.

I apologize in advance for using a different account; I lost the password for "Lady Revan" and had to create a new profile.

Lady Revan (Blue, Haven, Dugald) defeated Xodyn (Red, Haven, Vittorio) on the 2nd month, 3rd week, 1st day.
I had to sacrifice my favorite race.
I chose Dugald from the start, and I decided to develop him. I had relatively good luck with leveling up; the only downside was that the random number generator stubbornly didn't want to give me logistics, so I had to take defense instead. I reached level 20, as usual, and went to the town for artifacts. Then I went to the portal and ended up in the opponent's zone. There, I saw the King's Shield of the Dwarves and decided to get it using the Astral Gate. It turned out to be a treasure. There, I reached level 27, collected many relics, went down, and then, unexpectedly, the opponent attacked me. He had about 130 archers and a level 1 unit. I tried to play in such a way that the opponent wouldn't have time to escape with his hero to the town. I got lucky, and I won!:eek: I was, of course, in shock.
Xodyn, thank you very much for the game (which finally took place:D)! To be honest, I didn't expect to win against such a strong player. But there's no merit on my part; I just got lucky!
Dugald, level 27, 29-31-8-13
Vittorio, level 28, 25-22-14-7

Here's the replay of the battle:

FLASH_RUS (Red - Dungeon - Lethos) defeated immortal (Blue - Inferno - Marbas) 2-1-3

Confirmed. Something’s off again, I’m having a streak of bad luck: the starting zone is huge, it takes 3 full turns along the road with a log to the 1st adjacent zone, and 4 to the 2nd... I reached the far one by the end of the first week, because in the near one the guard turned out to be red archers. I first leveled up defense to BDG, got carried away with the second base and took machines. Then I grabbed some bases — log, darkness, attack with tactics. In the end, the machines gave me nothing, I just ruined my progression with them :( Experience was slow without education, I was farming in the resource zone at the beginning of the 3rd and 4th week, but still only managed to reach level 18 and didn’t have time to get darkness to expert. Leveling 19 and 20 there was problematic, so I crashed into town for whatever spells I could and headed to the center through the near adjacent zone. The journey took 4 days. In the adjacent 1st zone the center was guarded by archmages, I tried to break through the second portal. At the entrance, 20 archdevils and 100 centaurs went down without issue, but at the exit there was a "gift": almost 200 yellow archmages, and they even moved before the cerberi. In the end, they killed all the devils :(. The next battle for the artifact shop — 20 archangels and 10 griffins. The archangels got morale on the first turn and I couldn’t block in time — they took out 150 out of 200 jumpers. With such losses, there was nothing to do against Lethos — especially since he was "steamrolling" already — SP almost 30 and attack-defense like mine... Thanks for the game

Lady Revan (Blue, Haven, Dugald) defeated Xodyn (Red, Haven, Vittorio) 2nd month, 3rd week, 1st day
Well, I had to sacrifice my favorite race.
From the start, I chose Dugald, and I decided to develop him. The upgrades were relatively good; the only downside was that the random generator stubbornly didn't want to give me Logistics, so I had to take Defense. I reached level 20, as usual, and went to the town for spells. Then I went to the portal and ended up in the opponent's zone. There, I saw the King's Shield of the Dwarves and decided to get it using the Astral Gate. It turned out to be a treasure. There, I reached level 27, collected many relics, went down, and then, unexpectedly, the opponent attacked me. He had about 130 archers and a level 1 creature. I tried to play in such a way that the opponent wouldn't have time to run his hero to the town. I got lucky, and I won! :eek: I was, of course, in shock.
Xodyn, thank you very much for the game (which finally took place:D)! Honestly, I didn't expect to win against such a strong player. But there's no merit on my part; I just got lucky!
Dugald, level 27, 29-31-8-13
Vittorio, level 28, 25-22-14-7

Here's the replay of the battle:

I confirm. All the chances were there for a victory; during the entire game, I probably lost about 20 peasants and 20 archers, I was building on time, I had a lot of money, I was training troops, and the upgrades were what I wanted. And I had to make such a stupid mistake... I went with 130 archers and lost them all at once. I didn't get anything useful out of the game; I attacked and didn't have time to run away.

Thank you, Lady, for the game, which, due to scheduling conflicts and many other things, finally took place.:D

Hero_of_heroes (Лига теней)- SylarOff

ekzekutor (red, Hafiz, Mages) defeated denden (blue, Anven, Elves) 2.2.6
The game went well, although without a log, but the defense was given immediately. In weeks 4 and 5, I cleared the center and treasury, collected artifacts, and gathered resources for the mini-town. 5 Titans and 350 Gremlochs with bows destroyed everything. In the end of week 5, I jumped home, made some artifacts, and went to the Grand Order. I cleared it a bit, watched how the opponent was breaking through their path. Then I took some boosters and attacked. The Titans and Gremlochs, under the artifacts, fired first, destroying the archers and almost all the dragons. The Djinns killed the fairies, so my enhanced Arm didn't need to be used much. Thanks for the game.

Alex_R (red Magic of Jalib) defeated Barma21 (blue Magic of Narhiz) 232
I was choosing between Jalib, Nyurka, and Nazir. I took the lucky traveler and trophies for fun, thinking I would get a lot of money and maybe something else for battles and just for running around... but no, they gave me only about 500 gold even for 10,000 experience battles... so I leveled up poorly.

But I waited for my opponent near my capital and attacked with manacles... I was afraid because the opponent's stats were slightly higher, and I didn't have mass magic, I was hoping for Jalib's specialty, and in the end, my own Rakshasas reflected the vampirism on his gremlins (((... I was afraid to use berserk and mind control, but I managed to defeat everyone in a little over 3 rounds, and I still had a lot of my army left.
You can watch the final:

I confirm Alex's report – everything was fine with me. The logic with the Path of Light and the entire Fireball spell dealing over 1k damage, and the ring with 20 initiative – but the lack of defense decided everything; they couldn't withstand my attacks. I don't understand how Alex avoided losses without machines and light, and how he gained so many levels without logic and without a golem. I don't understand.

I confirm Alex's report - everything was fine with me - the logic with the Path of Light and all the Fireballs was more than 1k - a ring with 20 initiative - but the lack of defense decided everything - they couldn't withstand my attacks(( I don't understand how Alex avoided losses without machines and light, and how he gained so many levels without logic and without golems. I don't understand.

In the first one, on super-strong difficulty, I didn't venture into it until the end of the first week or the beginning of the second. On one of the adjacent maps, I found an Ice Golem in a shrine, and I was given an Ice Amulet at the start. There were losses - but mostly harpies and occasionally gremlins. Then, closer to the 4th week, I found regeneration, and a couple of days later, I reached level 20 and rushed home through the portal, aiming for expert-level dark magic, but I only had vampirism at level 5, and there was no dark magic at all at level 4. In the second month, in one of the first magic treasure chests, I got the Subjugate skill. Before that, I was already fighting serious monsters - I somehow managed to take the hits from two upgraded Rakshasas that I bought in the mercenary camp. My own 6 Rakshasas were not yet upgraded... but then, with Subjugate, it became easier - but not simpler, as I never used it... especially the battles against a horde of undead were stressful... 200 Vampire Princes + support were taking down Rakshasas in the first round, thanks to luck and early moves by the mages and gremlins, I managed to reduce them to 140, but they killed only one and a half or two Rakshasas, after which I cast regeneration for one turn and waited or attacked, hoping the regeneration would work a couple of times... and it's strange - but there were many such battles, and I often got lucky that the mages and gremlins had good morale and luck and managed to kill units - and sometimes not, and for example, 50 or 100 vampires, having access to both gremlins and mages, somehow beat the Rakshasas - which was easier to restore and harder to lose... that's the paradox. ... in the final, on the last turn, I visited the library, gained a level, and took the Tree of Knowledge, i.e., I went from level 26 to 28 and teleported to the castle, having received Berserk a turn or two before that. Also, in the mercenary camp, I was given Rakshasas again, but I didn't have time to bring them, and my 24 against your 18 looked very good, especially because of the miniatures with 78% magic resistance, 27% initiative, and +2 speed, they hit hard in the first round, and there was hope for victory - which I managed to realize... by trampling on your corpses, and in general, looking at the replay of the final, it is clear that my units moved at a more suitable moment and boosted the morale of more important stacks, even though I had less morale than you. It's not a fact that I would win so easily or win at all if I replayed it.

Alex_NV (Mages, Ora+ Nazir) defeated dwp (Dwarves, Karli and KO) week 6

Don't really feel like describing it, botched the ending badly.
+ made a lot of small mistakes
like using Inga poorly (didn't have all the runes). and never found Haste on the map, missed about 10 towers and it wasn't at home.
should have taken Eagle Eye right away, of course, but I didn't think
Haste would be so hard to find.

lost some troops, but overall the Mage was far behind and I should have killed him in his town without delay.
anyway, thanks Alex for the game.
a persistent fellow, I envy your persistence and will learn from it
:)

PS So, to outline ........
Day 14 level 18
Day 21 level 22
Start of week 4, easily break through the GO and run to the treasure zone
Don't make it in time on week 5, the Mages jump out into the GO and head straight for the castle.
Had to retreat, the Mages fall back through the GO
I go to the castle, then I hesitated for one damn day, got scared I guess, and the next day Alex brought in money, apparently upgraded everyone
And I still had to attack anyway, fool.

PPS. Should have finished off the second GO on week 4 and killed the Mage on 211. His castle was right next to the GO exit there
I didn't want to run into the far exit, as usually happens to me, so I didn't push through.

alex_nv (red, Academy, Nazir + Ora) defeated dwp (blue, Fortress, Karli) 2-2-4

I wrote "defeated", but it would be more accurate to say dwp "didn't win" :) From the start, Nazir, Narkhiz, and necro came. Well, I thought I'd break through with Nazir for now, and then buy Ora or Nuru later. And that's how it happened — on the 2nd [week] I got Ora with a single [stat], but after Hafiz with a full loadout. Hafiz's arrival was pleasing, because I lost a lot of gremlins while breaking through the adjacent zone (there were almost a hundred upgraded ghouls). Nazir cleared the adjacent zone well — enough for a castle with giants. At the start of the 3rd [week], Nazir with chaos broke into the resource zone, and Ora with light and giants under regeneration went into the second adjacent zone. And then I slowed down terribly :( In the guild, I was counting on Resurrection, but it wasn't there. Apart from Armageddon, there was nothing worthwhile at levels 4 and 5. In short, I realized I was falling behind strategically, especially after the simultaneous [turns] ended on the 4th week (as it turned out, the opponent had broken through the GO on his side). But I didn't know that, since I hadn't entered the mini centers yet. I thought I'd catch the dwarf off guard — capture his castle. I had practically nothing to lose: I was behind in levels the whole game, dug in in four starting zones, and had no decent artifacts. On the 5th [week], I broke through the GO with Nazir using "Golemageddon" and saw that the dwarf had already cleared everything :eek: I thought it was all over and, having nothing better to do, went into the mini center. Near the exit was the "Unicorn Bow". And then the dwarf headed for my castle. I barely managed to prepare for the defense thanks to the opponent's slowness. And just as I was ready — he attacked. And then I contributed my 25% to my victory, because the opponent had already contributed 75% to his own defeat. Although he could have fled, he chose not to drag out the game. Many thanks for that! Good luck in the future!

ekzekutor (red, Hafiz, Mages) defeated denden (blue, Anven, Elves) 2.2.6
The game went well, although without a log, but the defense was given immediately. In weeks 4 and 5, I cleared the center and treasury, collected artifacts, and gathered resources for the mini-town. 5 Titans and 350 Gremlochs with bows destroyed everything. In the end, in week 5, I jumped home, made some artifacts, and went to the Grand Order. I cleared it a bit, watched how the opponent was breaking through his path. Then I took some boosters and attacked. The Titans and Gremlochs, under the artifacts, fired first, destroying the archers and almost all the dragons. The Djinn killed the fairies, so my enhanced armor wasn't really needed. Thanks for the game.

confirmed