Posts from Streams (including Mikogo, TeamViewer, etc.) - technical aspects.

I also watched the game, starting somewhere around 125. Of course, everyone sees the game from their own perspective, and I naturally see it from mine.

So, let me say that your opponent is a quite good player!!! A good player's level is visible in the details. I especially liked the following moment, which perhaps no one paid attention to.

The foreigner ran up to hit 102 Pit Lords with upgraded harpies (you didn't hit them with Tazar, but holed up in the castle to replenish mana)!!!! I.e., the guy would have had around 50 harpies by 131, and he would have used them to kill the 102 Pits. It doesn't matter whether through Slow, Blind, or Berserk - the point is that he is capable of winning that battle with the forces he has, and without losing development tempo. Because Black Dragons appeared for him 2 days later.

As for clearing the respawn - I won't say anything, because I believe he cleared it quite decently. What's the point of taking external dwellings if there's no money to buy? Even with captured Utopias, there's still a gold deficit. Moreover, his income was higher, and he had more castles.

I don't claim to be the absolute truth, but this is my independent view. I personally don't know the foreigner and don't know him at all.

A fairly good player will clear crypts and dwarf dwellings within a day or two's travel from the capital - that provides money for buying out from stashes, and will try depending on the guards to take Dragon Fly Hives on the 1st week. The fact that the manticores and cats are not painted can be attributed to the summoning portal, but not taking 2 drakes, which is 4 potential black ones per week, can only be explained by low skill. Yes, also the air knight is untouched.

By the way, what skill explains climbing into the Dragon Utopia with non-upgraded bulls?

A fairly good player will clear crypts and dwarven treasuries within a day or two's march from the capital — that's where the money for buying from the Dragon Utopias comes from, and they will certainly try to take Dragon Fly Hives depending on the guards in the 1st week. The fact that manticores and wyverns are not painted can be attributed to the Summon Portal, but not taking 2 dragons, and this is 4 potential black dragons per week, can only be explained by low skill. Yes, also the Book of Air is untouched.

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Question — with what did he take the second Dragon Utopia? With native troops + 6 dragons? The parameters are terrible! I don't believe he could have taken even a minimal one at all!

3) Okay, he didn't take the other non-dragon dwellings on the map, but besides that one he did take, there were 2(!) more that were left untouched.

The player's nickname is vbmf - he is number 145 in the ranking table.

3) Why weren't the air book and dragon external dwellings taken?