Posts from Reports on online games and their confirmations (Winter 2009-10 season).

AYMAN (blue, swamp, Tazar, Tazar) def Erdem (red, Stronghold, Gurni, Gurni) 2sm4d(3) 127

First game playing as Barbarian. I took both respawns, opponent took 1.
Week 4 (Paradise): Respawn on screen, exits from respawn: to the south a demon pit, to the east a harpy horde, nothing except piles of gold, a Dragon Fly Hive, a pillar, and 2 external dwellings of critters. No way out without the critters. With the help of Tyraxor's 21 wolf riders, 3 rocs, 30+ goblins, ballista, I clear the first critter external dwelling on 113, planning to take the second on 114, I have a plan: creatures in the Citadel and 8 creatures on 121! :cool: But opponent takes the respawn on 113. :(
Week 5 (Hell): I come down from the heavens to earth: not a single pile of gold, one road to the south blocked by 20+ hell-hounds behind a library, the second leads west into the swamp. I decide to check if I can bypass the hell-hounds, on 113 I see a passage to the southeast through wasteland onto grass past a zombie horde. Nothing to do on the native respawn, I thought there's usually more gold on the grass, I fought through, got onto the highway, captured Conflux, next to it an external dwelling of air elementals. Started clearing the grass, but there was everything except money, the tempo was lost. No money for splitting, and going back home is 3 days. I wanted to surrender, but thought maybe I could still do something, find money somewhere, but I didn't make it. In short, I restarted! Thanks for the game! ) P.S. I need to learn how to play as Barbarian, there's something about this town!!

Looser (blue, Rampart, Kirr, Kirr) def Айвенго (red, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) 2sm4d(3) 141 On the first map, there's a Castle with a hidden archers' lair and horses in the castle's town. On the second map, there's a minimal amount of resources on the ground, secondary resources, and a level 2 dwelling on the home territory. I found a Utopia on my respawn point. On the third map, I didn't go into the Utopia because I didn't have enough money to buy wood and gnomes. I decided to go through an adjacent respawn point. I took a secondary Castle there, a level 3 resource, and the path leads to the enemy. I decided to attack with the troops I had. I barely defeated Valeska in the castle. Thanks for the game.

SEM_56 (red, Castle, Valessa, Valessa) def Smoke_mk (blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) 2sm4d(3), 135
Thanks, Romych.
If it weren't for that accursed conservatory, maybe we'd have played FB as well. Damn, 159 Troglodytes and can't take the conservatory, wtf).
I smoked through the entire first week; on the second, I bought a necro hero and frantically started raising skeletons. There was hope for a fat treasure zone, but it didn't pan out; I popped out onto Barbarian land, took a Dragon Fly Hive for 4, for 49 horses, after that the desire to continue faded.
Thanks for the game.

Looser (blue, Rampart, Kirr, Kirr) def Айвенго (red, Castle, Waleska, Waleska) 2sm4d(3) 141

It was. Thank you for the game!

Wlk777 (red, Barb, Gurney, Inteus) def Quell (blue, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) 2smd4(3) 223
After the restarts, Gurney came without a ballista, development was poor, the bears didn't stand on the first, on the second there were 2 mini Griffin Conservatories, on the third Valeska came through the adjacent zone, I chased her to the castle, lost many battles (still no ballista), but in the end, greater income and growth secured my victory, although in one of the battles Gurney died. Thanks for the game.

Wlk777(red, Barb, Gurni, Inteus) def Quell(blue, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) 2smd4(3) 223
After resets, Gurni came without a ballista, development was poor, the bears didn't stand on the first [zone], on the second [zone] 2 mini Griffin Conservatories, on the third [zone] Valeska came through an adjacent zone, I chased her to the castle, lost many battles (there was still no ballista), but in the end the greater income and growth secured me the victory, although in one of the battles Gurni died. Thanks for the game.

what can I say ) great game. 3 or 4 battles. with the loss of the main hero of the opponent, but as mentioned above, MONEY decided everything )

Today, there was a misunderstanding during the game with Valera, so I won't be posting it. But in order to post at least something, I decided to dig through the saves and uncover our 1st game, which had never been posted:) .

KostyaN(blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Tamika) draw loi(red, Ramp, Ivor, Ivor), 2sm4d(3), 211.

After all the restarts, I got Lorelei and a crappy Dungeon:( . Out of frustration, I switched to Tamika with 1 skeleton. I came up to the surface, took a human secondary hero with a Griffin Conservatory and a Hive (for 50 snipers:smile18: ) on his respawn. I had no upgraded dwellings beyond Medusas for the entire game:) (although their external dwelling was the most decent one:rolleyes: + I found 2 Troglodytes). As for gold — just 1 Dwarf Cottage, minimum, and that's it. I only managed to level Expert Necromancy closer to the end of the 2nd week:smile18: , which meant there was simply no tempo. But by the end of the 3rd week, with no aggression from Valera, after a Griffin Conservatory-3 and a Hive-8, I ventured into an interesting treasure zone, primarily interesting for the Boots of Speed +15% to Necromancy:D , whose insane guard — 100+ energy elementals — wiped out all my Troglodytes. After that, there was another Tree of Knowledge +8 and a couple of chests for experience (in the last slot, I finally got Earth Magic, but they forgot to give me Log:mad: ). As for magic — 2 spells: Haste and Dispel:smile40: . When Ivor came to my secondary hero with a pretty decent army, I thought it was GG, but no — he made one careless mistake: he attacked my secondary hero, which had a scout hero dug in, forgetting to remove his grand units — and the defenders halved them:smile10: . Then he took the so-called "capital" and rushed into the same treasure zone where Tamika was operating. It got really scary, but I came up with a cunning plan to swiftly recapture my native Dungeon: I positioned myself near the second unbreached entrance to that treasure zone, next to the teleport — from the surface back underground to home, but in such a way that I couldn't be seen (the precision was "a step to the right, a step to the left":cool: ) — this allowed me to safely build up speed and, with the last move at 147, retake my capital, which completely broke my opponent's spirit — I had also built up my army (half a thousand skeletons alone plus a bunch of archers), and I was planning to gouching toward the 2nd secondary hero (which, as revealed later, had access to treasure zones with 3-4 of the most valuable Utopias). In short, due to the unclear struggle and sluggishness from the lack of Log and movement artifacts on both sides, we decided to agree to a draw;) .

P.S. The funniest part of the game was that in the 2nd week, having taken a risk with a Scholar on my main hero, I got Leadership. A Necro with Leadership — that's a tough guy:) :smile17: .

Thanks for the game, it was a great run!

Kaliostr (red, Castle, Valessa, Moner) def RiMpel2 (blue, Rampart, Kyrr, Kyrr) 2smd4(3) 225

In the first week, I built 1, 2, 4 and the cavalry in the stronghold, took a crypt for 5 rags, and captured a Necro secondary hero on day 5. I noticed 3 Griffin Conservatories and 1 Hive. In the second week, I took 2 Medusa nurseries (8 each), a Dwarf nursery (20), and on the last day took a Griffin Conservatory for 2 Angels and built units 1-7 in the Castle. In the 3rd week, I took the max Hive, then the max Conservatory, then I took a Naga Bank and decided to replenish mana at the well. Just then, Kyrr breaks through the road past a horde of Medusas with 3 Angels, 30 Grand Elves, 15 Grand Unicorns, and 15 Grand Pegasi. I restored mana, brought a brigade from the Castle, and ended up gathering: 9 Angels, 9 Grand Cavaliers, about 50 Grand Archers, 8 Wyverns, and about 50 Pikemen. In the battle, I lost 2-3 Angels, and RiMpel2, having lost all the Elves, 1 Angel, and all the Pegasi, bought himself off and fled. I decided to take two more Conservatories, and then go looking for the opponent. In the 4th week, I took another two Conservatories, upgraded the Angels to Archangels in the home town, and went off-road to find a passage to the blue player. In the 4th week, the blue player captures a Dungeon secondary hero, but a couple of days later Moner reached that secondary hero with the entire army, built a Mage Guild and a Mana Vortex there, and on day 5 went through a portal which turned out to be the Treasury. Then Kyrr captures the secondary hero and stays there; on the next turn, Moner falls slightly short of reaching the secondary hero, and Kyrr escapes successfully. Moreover, Kyrr was hopping around near the castle and in the castle so cheerfully that I was convinced he had cast Town Portal to his home castle, but instead he ran toward my castle =). On turn 216, Kyrr captures my home town, but fortunately everything there had been bought out. I methodically march toward the blue player's starting town, hoping to get Expert Earth, which had only recently been granted. In the end, for the remaining days, Kyrr hung around my home castle while I, having broken through 2 ГО, methodically advanced to recapture my home castle. The final battle:
Moner with 73 Grand Archers, 21 Zealots, 17 Champions, 13 Archangels, and 19 Royal Griffins.
Kyrr with 37 Dendroid Soldiers, 6 Wyverns, 28 War Unicorns, 4 Champions, and a few Zealots and Grand Archers.

Thanks for the game!!

Kaliostr(red, Castle, Valeska, Monere) def RiMpel2(blue, Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre) 2smd4(3) 225

It happened.

On the first external dwelling of horses, everything seemed fine, I placed them in the Citadel, but for some reason I didn't decide on a rush 121 :confused: In the end, on the third turn against 9 angels, I couldn't do anything, killed 5 angels, bought back with 6 out of 15 unicorns and 1 angel. After that I had to avoid battles, running away all the time :D Kyrre had neither Air nor Earth nor Attack :( The last skill given was Wisdom, and I didn't have time to learn Phantom before FF, with it my chances would have been greater.
Thanks for the game, it was fun to run around ;)

Wlk777 (red, Swamp, Wystan, Gunnar) def злой_романтик (blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Crag Hack) 2smd4(3) 127
Interesting distribution: I got Gunni + boots and gloves not far from the capital, while my opponent got an external dwelling of cats and his native secondary—a Dungeon. I, in principle, wasn't too bothered either, with external dwellings of flies and lizards, and 4 Griffin Conservatories at the respawn =). By the second month, I only managed to take 2 mini conservatories and a Dragon Fly Hive on day 8 (lost 3 ducks there due to moral guard). I was planning to take 2 more conservatories deeper in the respawn (already have advanced scouting), but then Crag popped out with 2 stacks of 5-9 cats (turned out to be 5 and 6). With his wild speed, I caught up to him and beat him fairly easily. Thanks for the game.

Wlk777 (red, swamp, Vistan, Gunnar) def zloy_romantik (blue, Dungeon, Shakti, CragHack) 2smd4(3) 127
Confirmed.

KostyaN (blue, Castle, Sylvia, Gurney) played against Wlk777 (red Inferno, Xyron, ?), 2 creatures, 4 dwellings (3), 116, rules "2010". Basically, IMO, he overplayed on the black dragon and will either end up with a swamp or with humans:rolleyes: ... There's not much to write about - the situation is slightly above average, a 7 out of 10. Gurney managed to level up to 6-7, gaining Ranged Attack and Tactics. On turn 117, he was planning to take the boots from 10-19 yellow wasps with 2 champions, but it wasn't meant to be... Thanks for the attempt! P.S. We decided to start a mirror match so that I could also feel what it's like to be in the shoes of the infamous "red Inferno":)

KostyaN (blue, Castle, Sylvia, Gurney) type def Wlk777 (red Inferno, Xyron, ?), 2sm4d(3), 116, rules "2010".

It happened. I took all the resists but stayed underground the whole time; in the last ГО generation on no-road, which is almost deadly for Inferno from the start, there was nothing good at respawn except an external dwelling of efreets, where the moral inhabitants buried my feeble hopes. Perhaps after the return match I'll give up on the reverse sweep. Thanks for the game.

Alex_R (red, Tower, Anya, Turis) def Smoke_mk (blue, Barbarian, Gurnison) 144 2sm4d(3) SoD
Started off well, a Pandora's Box with 5000 gold for 80 Hoplites, and immediately 6 heroes at level 111 + 8 thousand in reserve. Broke through the Pits to the grass.
Level 112 secondary of Elves near the capital, a Pandora's Box, and a Griffin Conservatory beyond the Storms... no caches. I didn't take the rest - everything was going well with building 1,2,3,5 in the Rampart Citadel and 1,2,3,4,6 in the Tower Citadel. But the hero levels poorly - Torosar got 6 level-ups - but Mysticism, Tactics, Water magic were very concerning...
From money buildings, I cleared one Crypt and a mini Medusa zone. Lit up a prison of Minotaur Kings with Lotsoi.
On the second, I took Medusas with 8, upgraded, and rushed the Minotaur Kings - 28 of them were broken into 4 stacks. I beat them with the loss of 3 Golems and a single Centaur, there Turis got 15000 XP - Expert Leadership, Tactics, Estate, basic Pathfinding and Archery - I decided to level her.
The rest of the second week I ran her through the stat boosters and broke through 2 treasure zones into one, and on the 3rd week I took a Pandora's Box with 10000 gold, a gold-producing Pandora's Box with 5000 XP, a Black Market, and cleared 2 Dragon Fly Hives - but I didn't risk taking them - since I had three stacks of shooters and only 5 basic Nagas.
At the end of the 3rd week, I was defeated and ran to take the Conservatories of my home - Turis cleared the 3rd and snatched another secondary, already having Advanced Air Magic and Expert Wisdom. I decided to hit the Citadel - Torosar took the second Griffin Conservatory behind a horde of Storms, and he also took a Pandora's Box for all Air Magic, but unfortunately he didn't have Wisdom :( I transfer the army and hit the Citadel with 130 Minotaur Kings.
I lost three Grand Elves and 1 Genie, got Expert Air Magic, ran 3 tiles short of the blue capital. He buys back, I send 13 Nagas for upgrade via conveyor and bring in another 100+ Centaur Captains.
Gurnison fell in the capital...
thanks for the game

Alex_R (red, Tower, Anya, Turis) def Smoke_mk (blue, Barbarian, Gurnisson) 144 2sm4d(3) SoD
Confirmed.