Posts from Balance-2009

Closed auctions are not popular these days. Open auctions are in vogue – players raise bids using an auction-style system until someone gives up.

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I call it Volodymyr-style auctions, since he is the author and developer of this wonderful idea. I advise others to do the same (name it that way).

FAVorite (blue, Rampart, Kyrre) def Van (red, Castle, Valeska), Balance, 133
Spent all our restorations.. on week one conflux in the Citadel, native town captured, and the elven external dwelling. Bought the tome. On week two, lots of Pandora's Boxes.. off-road .. 2 more towns.. scouted the treasure zone and the path to it... Expert Earth. On week 3, started gathering troops... but a surrender message arrived...
thanks for the game

FAVorite (blue, Rampart, Kirr) def Van (red, Castle, Valeska), Balance, 133
It was a good game, thanks.

bRitvo4kA (red, Inferno, Pir, Vokial) def Avern (blue, Castle, Valeska, Sandro), Balance, 142

The starting artifact gave 5% Necromancy, and then Vokial decided to switch to Necromancer.
- In the final, we exchanged lightning spells; mine was slightly more powerful. We killed each other's angels, and I had more units.

Thanks for the game!

bRitvo4kA (red, Inferno, Peer, Vocal) def Avern (blue, Castle, Valiska, Sandro), Balance, 142

I played very poorly, so I went to practice against the computer.
Thank you for the game.

We just played to a draw against NumOne. The match was interesting, and it would be worth describing it and the reasons for the draw, but it would take too long. Also, the generation was buggy. If the organizers don't mind, we would like to have the result of the second match count as two.

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I don't have much time for games right now, but there are many tournaments:eek::eek::eek:

KobRa(Castle, red, Valeska, Gelare) def RetroFM (Rampart, blue, Kyrre, Kyrre) @ 134

Built monki in the Stronghold + dwel. them. On 121 started taking Dragon Fly Hives, broke through to the center via 24 Nagas, captured all towns, built income to 12000. And then the opponent suddenly surrenders, having a bunch of troops.. Although I didn't have anything decisive.
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KobRa(Castle, red, Valeska, Gelare) def RetroFM (Rampart, blue, Kyrre, Kyrre) @ 134

Built a Monk in the Stronghold + their Dwellings. At 121 I started taking Dragon Fly Hives, broke through to the center via 24 Nagas, collected all towns, built income to 12000. And then the opponent suddenly surrenders, having a bunch of troops.. Although I had nothing decisive.
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thanks for the game ...

Thank you for the game...

Right, I forgot:)) Thank you. I never object to surrendering at 5 am :D

numOne (blue, swamp, Wystan, Tazar) draw Hermit (red, inferno, Pyr, Pyr), balance, 226

The game turned out to be Epic, with three full-fledged battles and endless skirmishes between scout heroes, so I’ll write a bit about it. :)
The spawn was generally not bad - an external dwelling of cows, 3 crypts, but the problem was that the treasure zone turned out to be not on the road, but actually on the very edge of the respawn, beyond the mountains. Moreover, I found out about this on turn 121 when the enemy’s scout hero showed up at my base from the unexplored side of the supposed treasure zone.:smile32: (as it turned out, the map was generated a bit crookedly, this passage shouldn’t have existed). Without thinking long, I head over to visit, picking up a 2/2 sword along the way, Tazar with stats 4 8 2 2, no spell book, with 50 lizardmen, 13 cows, 4 ducks. By this time Vova had 2 native secondary skills, but Pyr was nowhere to be seen. I captured one town, Tazar runs along the road to the enemy’s capital, but on his turn Pyr attacks with stats 9 9 3 3, mass slow, 50 gogs, 17 demons, 7 pit fiends, 4 efreet, and 60 imps. In this battle, I was, as they say, thoroughly beaten, so I retreat, having saved all the bulls, ducks, and 20 lizardmen. I don’t even think about getting upset - there’s still a passage through a portal and 2 naga banks, and then I can confidently head into the sand (I have expert pathfinding), even though it’s a bit far away. Ignissa with attack 7 stays to guard the captured enemy town, having bought 2 psychic elementals from the mercenary camp :) - she held out for about a week, but then they eventually drove her out of there.
At the start of the third week, I first clear the max, then the min naga banks, painted another inferno town via teleport, and bought a spell book there. I upgrade the bulls and head to the treasure zone. I break through the guards (Green Dragons), finally get the log, light it up with a nearby lookout tower, and see that the enemy is already operating there in full force. The only consolation was that he was apparently moving slowly through the sand, and I’d manage to snatch something. In the end, from the sand I only grab 2 boxes (one with 60 skeleton warriors, the other with the entire 2nd level), but after breaking through from the other side to the necro castle on the rocks, I saw a lot of tasty stuff and went my own way, leaving the enemy to clean up the treasure zone (which, by the way, turned out to be quite poor).
In short, by turn 221 I have 6 towns and a town portal, the enemy has 4 towns and destructive magic with earth elemental summon. I’m looking for a fight, and on turn 225, under the walls of the enemy capital, Pyr attacks me:
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Vova douses me with rain and lightning, and I, after thinning out the enemy’s troops a bit, use teleport (which helped incredibly, since the battlefield was very crooked) to send my main bull stack straight into the thick of it. After a fierce battle, I’m left with 20 bulls, a couple of lizardmen, and gnolls, while the enemy is left with summoned elementals. With a clear conscience, I retreat, thinking that Pyr should die after this, but she ends up in the tavern with nothing :confused:.
The next turn, I hole up in a dungeon town near the enemy capital, planning to wait 2 more days and buy bulls (from the capital, portals in the dungeon, and the rebuilt native town), everything else, and attack again. Both of us replenished mana, and I didn’t account for the fact that Pyr, who had been bought back, could reach me, but as it turned out, she could with boots and gloves.
My army: 20 greater bulls, 3 regular ones, a pair of lizardmen, a pair of gnolls, and a greater wyvern.
Enemy army: 2 devils, 30 imps, and 3 greater demons.
On the very first turn, I cast death wave, which wipes out everything except 2 devils. Vova summons elementals, I finish off the devils, I get doused with rain, and then both of us disconnect! :smile21:
In theory, both heroes should have died, so we decided to end in a draw and agreed that the second game would be decisive.

Thanks for the game, it was very interesting!

If the organizers don't mind, we would like the result of the second game to count as two.

I don't mind.

...I can honestly say that I paid to let her go, thinking that Peer should die afterward, but she ends up in the tavern with nothing :confused:. ....

I clarified this point with Horn back when I was new to the online game, after I found myself in a similar situation. The 3DO players acted quite fairly: if you want to leave your opponent without a hero, you have to lose your own; if you let the elementals destroy your troops, both Taz and Peer would disappear (that's what happened to us with the Town Guard in the group stage of the qualifiers); if someone escapes or pays to leave, both heroes end up in the tavern, and the one with the elementals is left with nothing.

numOne (blue, swamp, Wistan, Tazar) draw Hermit (red, Inferno, Peer, Peer), balance, 226

That's how it was. The map was generated with a bugged passage, and therefore the first battle happened very early. The respawn points were very poor, even for the balance... luckily, I managed to upgrade the land to an expert level. At the very last moment, I managed to replenish my mana and get 20 gnomes with a group, and that's how I managed to repel Tazar's attack, especially since I thought that the Beastmaster wouldn't have a spellbook on his second Fortress. Next, I took the Conservatory and went to the Treasury, breaking through a horde of Monarch Wyverns... They offered a pathfinding option, but I didn't take it, so the movement speed in the sands was very slow. The passage to the main Treasury was guarded by a crowd of Crusaders, and with the experience-based slowdown, I managed to kill them in one go. The Treasury turned out to be very poor: three minimum Nagabanks and several Hives with 24 Wyverns in total, plus I took one Cyclops. I was attacked once by a large group of Snipers, but they didn't get scared, and I lost about 30 Magogs. In general, in terms of money, the respawn points were even richer than the Treasury. With difficulty, I organized a chain, because Tazar was not far away, but luckily he didn't follow me to the Treasury. I went home, took a Nagabank, Rider's Gloves, doubled my mana in the Dungeon, built a GM5 and a GM4, and was going to go to my opponent, but he came to me. He had a monstrous stack of 56 Cows, probably with a speed boost from a spellbook and expert tactics. And for Tazar, they were probably very difficult to kill:eek: And I wouldn't have had any chances if it hadn't been for luck! I attacked with a Mage to check Tazar's parameters and resources, hit with magic, and the Mage died. Then I attacked with another Mage standing on the other side, and I see that the terrain is such that, despite Tazar's Ballista tactic and my 5th stack, the Cows cannot pass to the large left half of the field. I attacked with Peer from that side (I didn't have enough money for Devils, but maybe that was even good). With teleportation, the Cows did finish me off, but I summoned Elementals and still had a lot of mana left. I consciously took this step because I remembered a case when an opponent attacked Galtran in a castle and bought him off when I had Elementals left, and Galtran was sitting in the tavern the next day. Maybe the same thing will happen now. And so it is, Tazar bought himself out, and Peer is sitting in the tavern without anything. With the money from the surrender, I bought two Devils and boosted them. There wasn't enough time to take the secondary town. On the next turn, I bought what I could and attacked Tazar. A stalemate occurred in the battle. George offered a draw. The situation was as follows: if both heroes die, that's it, because in terms of economy and kingdom power, the opponent had a big advantage, and my only hope was in Peer's magic... Knowing that he had Wave of Death, it was risky to try to leave only a couple of Cows, although it probably would have worked. Still, the opponent had a lot of secondary towns, a huge income, two full-fledged cities, and I had complete poverty and zero resources, I probably only have enough money to buy Peer and hire one Demon :D, so I decided to agree to a draw. Thank you for the game!

FAVorite (red, Castle, Valeska, Tazar) def Van (blue, Rampart, Kirr) Balance, 113

The opponent used all their rerolls... and in this hand, they were probably upset by the lack of Elves for Kirr :) ... thanks for the game.

FAVorite (red, Castle, Valeska, Tazar) def Van (blue, Rampart, Kirr) Balance, 113
It was a good game, thanks. I'm shocked by my own performance.