Posts from 2010

Odds on winning the tournament (at the request of the organizer):

AlexTheGreat 4.5
Pit for LM 5.50
KobRa_RR 6.00
LeBron 7.50
Wicc 9.50
Any other (not specifically) 10.00

Easy money, sir :)

I'm betting 100 rubles on "any other". Do you accept?

Will there be a sweepstakes?

Everyone, of course, knows who is hiding behind the mask of Madame Laughter, but it would probably be worth mentioning the player's nickname under which he registered on this forum.

Odds for winning the tournament (at the request of the organizer):

AlexTheGreat 4.5
Pit for LM 5.50
KobRa_RR 6.00
LeBron 7.50
Wicc 9.50
Any other (not specifically) 10.00

I'm just curious, on average, how many games has Forrest analyzed for these leaders? Or are the odds based on success and reputation? I'm asking only because I'd like to understand how Forrest prioritizes, no offense intended!

I'm just curious, on average, how many games did Forrest analyze for these leaders? Or are the rankings based on success and reputation? I'm asking only because I'd like to understand how Forrest prioritizes, no offense intended!

There's a suggestion that it's not so much the games themselves that are analyzed, but rather the attitude towards tournaments. Like, who is more likely to win, and who is less likely. Plus, a small adjustment is made based on skill.

KillerVampire (Red, Fortress, Tiva, Dragon) def Loi (Blue, Castle, Sonya, Gundula) 2sm4d(3) 126
We chose all rests, and at the start of 111 it gave me a Dragon with three stacks of Gnolls - I decided to take him into the folders... Up top, on 112, I took the NATIVE secondary skill; on the first, I took 1 Gnoll hovel, Lizardmen, and Gorgons - in the castle there were 1,2,3,5,6 and in the citadel 1,2,3,4, as the subsequent turns showed - I needed about 40 percent of the total army :). My opponent got dealt much worse than me, and on top of that he made a mistake in choosing his path, went where he shouldn't have gone, even though on the first he could have safely taken his native somewhere near the end, but I still think Loi would have been doomed anyway... had I bought the whole army...
Thank you for the game.. Good luck in future battles, because I need your victories like Water in the desert!!!

KillerVampire (red, Fortress, Tiva, Dragon) def Loi (blue, Castle, Sonia, Gundula) 2sm4d(3) 126

It happened. I lost twice on the first map, as if someone was pushing me, unnecessary showboating, for some reason I think that in the tournament I should somehow demonstrate an insane pace... Ironically, right after the loss, I see 2 runs on the grass, although it's off-road. In short, it's my own fault, I could have easily won even against such a strong opponent... I'll work on myself. Thanks for the game, opponent did a great job - played confidently.

Redwhait (red, Stronghold, Yog, Grindan) def Mizrael (blue, Castle, Edric, Tyraxor) 8mm6 217

That was a game. Sorry for not posting the report for a long time, but writing just a couple of lines of confirmation for such a game feels wrong in my opinion, and I had neither the time nor the mood for more. So, Stronghold went up against Castle, which I was quite happy about: Stronghold on 8mm6 without a good starting hero risks not clearing their own computer opponent, and Castle is Castle anywhere, its starting hero isn't as critical (by the way, if we're talking about a weak start for Castle, then in my opinion with Rion, you can't really heal pokemons much with the tent;), I've just seen someone give Chris to the opponent :eek:). We re-restarted a bit, and off we went. On day 1, five heroes, Marusya showed up — I decided to level her, but Tyrax is sitting in the tavern... At the external dwelling, there's an archers' external dwelling, a Griffin Conservatory and a couple of crypts — pretty decent. When I broke the crypt with Tyrax and got Logistics at level up, it became clear that Marusya would be twiddling her thumbs :). On day 5, I went down into the underground (supposedly towards the Inferno neighbor), but I didn't check the guard strength — clearly not the passage to the computer opponent (a stack of Diamond Golems, a horde of Harpies on their own territory), and when I broke through, I ran into Hydras guarding the red orb (seems like a freebie, but you can't use it anyway). Week result: Cavalry in the Stronghold, the old man wasted a ton of time in a dead-end corridor. 121 — a scout finally revealed the passage to Inferno with the view spell, and only on 125 I captured it, and even then a hero from the prison helped — Dessa, level 5. On 132, the last green hero was killed by Tyraxor, while the opponent didn't touch their own computer opponent but instead sailed past into other lands; the computer opponent turned out to be Conflux and built Birds in week 1 without any qualms, because they always have tons of money :D. Only on 134 I broke the Griffin Conservatory (regretted not checking earlier, the minimum guard), Air Magic was already Expert long ago, but no Haste anywhere :cool:. Slowly building the Mage Guild in Inferno — level 4 gives Water Walk! (this is in Inferno) and Fire Shield. Out of frustration, I even sent the old man to a Shrine under Inferno, for luck, but Haste wasn't there — it wasn't anywhere on the 2 respawns, although I had already collected enough scrolls for a small library :) On day 7, another Angel :cool:. Tyraxor went into the deserts, which turned out to be decent — a couple of Pandora's Boxes with 10-15k experience each, and now Earth Magic is Expert, Wisdom and Armorer appeared. In Inferno, level 5 gave Fly... Immediately a cunning plan formed to use Dessa to take the Conflux's bird growth and capital. Thanks to building the Mage Guild, Tyraxor with 3 Angels, 10 Cavalry and pokemons on a fat stack breaks a mini-Dragon Utopia (the Resurrection scroll didn't even let me drain all the pokemons), and by the end of the week I finally built Angels at home. On day 7, Dessa flies over the mountains, kills a weakling with a lot of troops from the computer opponent, and sits one day's march from the castle at a Water Wheel. The computer opponent didn't take the defense, and Dessa calmly captures the Conflux; here I made a mistake (misclick) that cost me the game — Tyraxor splits into the Conflux to repel the computer opponent's attack... and ends up back home!! How I missed, I don't understand myself :cool:. The computer opponent didn't attack, but that's not even the point — I had little money anyway, and an extra split by the old man in the Conflux (where Haste was needed, by the way) prevented me from buying a scout to send through the portal (and leaving the castle undefended was absolutely impossible — the computer opponent already had 6-9 Birds with backup) and securing the approaches to the Conflux (this is still the opponent's computer opponent, and they are clearly nearby). In the end, that's exactly what happened — after I finally killed Labetha, Tyraxor got Expert Wisdom, giving access to Fly and effectively the entire map (with Logistics and Air Magic), and on the same day, Grindan from the portal attacked Tyraxor in the castle. Grindan didn't have control, and in Hota with Fly, 2! good heroes can overpower even a double-build ;). That's how one wrong move can cost you the game; of course, I could have tried to recover with Dessa by collecting the map using Fly, but that would have dragged the game on for months, until either Grindan dug up control, or Dessa fattened up to obscene levels and caught Grindan in a Cursed Ground fight or at the castle. There's nothing new or interesting in that, and I have experience of this kind left over from Chaos maps (Scorp and Erik remember ;)), so I decided to surrender. Thanks for the game, it really brought back the old days :).

Hi everyone, I've changed my ICQ number; the new one is 589156325. Sorry for any inconvenience.

KobRa (blue, Castle, Valeska, Wystan) def but4er (red, Stronghold, Tyraxor, Tyraxor) on 8MM6 @ 141
Thank you for the game!

Loi(red,castle,Edrik,Dessa)def redwhait(blue,strong,Oris,Klavius) 2sm4d(3) 115
We chose rests, and the opponent gets kicked out during their turn; we load the auto-save, and they lose. Both players received decent starting bonuses; in my opinion, the opponent might have, like in the first game of the tournament, pushed the pace too hard...
Thanks for the game.

Loi(red,castle,Edrik,Dessa)def redwhait(blue,strong,Oris,Klavius) 2sm4d(3) 115
We chose rests, and the opponent gets kicked out during their turn; we load the auto-save, and they lose. Both players received decent loot; in my opinion, the opponent may have, like in the first game of the tournament, pushed the pace too hard...
Thanks for the game.

It happened; I won with a minimal advantage thanks to 2 ogre ambushes.
Then, I attacked 20-49 magma elementals; I defeated 46 of them there. A level 10 hero, Dermir, with a log and passfight, was present. When attempting to pass the turn, it crashes, and the auto-save doesn't work. On a repeat attempt to defeat the elementals, they kill me. Well, thanks for the time....

FireToSky (blue, Dungeon, Lorelei, Labetha) def Loi (red, Rampart, Ufretin, Kyrre), 2sm4d(3),132
We took a couple of rests + about 10-15 because Ufretin usually dropped trained - WHAT A MAN!
111 - Labetha appears, without thinking twice I make her the "dad"! 27 Harpies! One ГО road, slow roads,
112 - Harpy upgrade, I scout the metro exit, lots of gold lying around, scouting Griffin Conservatory 2-4
114 - external dwelling of Evil Eyes, Dwarf dwelling for 15 - on morale they tormented 1 Medusa
116 - I emerge into the open, from the fairy lantern I realize that Labetha has come home :)
117 - external Conflux dwelling, a couple of medium Crypts
End of the week: in the capital 1,2,3,4,6 in the Citadel (never found Minoes of emeralds), external dwelling built Air Elementals with Expert Earth Magic + Slow
Labetha with Expert Earth and Wisdom
121 - upgrade 12 Air Elementals, I claim Boots of Speed behind 14 Archers, minor Crypt, 8 heroes
122 - 60 Zealots each, I scout 2 Griffin Conservatories (!) - off we go!
123 - Kyrre appears on the horizon with an incomplete army without any Elves or Dendroid Soldiers,
unsurely peeks into the metro and turns his horse tail-first towards me, and face-first into the darkness :), not too afraid of an attack,
I take the Griffin Conservatory for 2, external Air Elemental dwelling, setting up a chain just in case
124 - another Griffin Conservatory for 1, Labetha gets Expert Water, in the Conflux there's Expert Earth Magic with Ice Bolt (!) and Lightning Bolt, almost max Crypt, 2 red horses on the horizon now
125 - I break through with Labetha to the capital for the 3rd Griffin Conservatory, kill Loi's homeless hero
126 - I lose tempo, the Griffin Conservatory is still standing, I hire Minoes, scout the path to the opponent
127 - I lose my saboteur, Griffin Conservatory for 2, I break through with Labetha into the Conflux and stand on the fairy dwellings (in case the swift Kyrre bursts in), waiting for troop reinforcements
131 - Kyrre, not shy, attacks Labetha, I fend him off with Ice Bolt (170 dmg!) - 11 Elves and I flee
I buy everything out, exchange all resources, buy back Labetha, only had enough money left for 12 Air Elementals from external dwellings + their upgrade
I attack:
Labetha lvl 10 4-1-6-7 Expert Water, Earth, Wisdom, Advanced Archery vs Kyrre lvl 9 6-12-1-5 Expert Archery, Logistics, Armorer,
Armies are small, 2-week old: 5 Angels, 23 Air Elementals, 6 Master Genies, 28 Evil Eyes, 16 Harpy Hags, +40 Troglodytes vs 5 Angels, 5 Unicorns, 11 Gold Dragons, 15+1+1 Pegasi, about 80 Centaurs
I cast mass Slow, shoot with bows and Ice Bolt for 170, the opponent was less lucky, so I won without much trouble
132 - news of surrender
Thanks for the game!

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FireToSky (blue, Jungle, Verdish, Corbac) def redwhait (red, Fortress, Oris, Gunnisson), 2sm4d(3), 127
Corbac appears, the Lizardmen are not built and there are none anywhere, so initially the striking force was 15 Serpent Flies, 40 Gnolls, and Gremlins with a bunch of Gargoyles from Fafner
111 - Arena +2 defense, near the city a Library behind a mob of Minoes
113 - Stables, I take Boots of Speed + Logistics behind 10-19 Storm Elementals, external Necropolis dwelling
115 - I barely break through into the metro - external Necropolis dwelling, Corbushka gets Earth Magic (a real treasure!)
116 - here the opponent started writing about fear of a rest at the meeting, and I was happy (my power was small), but it turned out I also had to attack him))) there it is, not knowing the rules! Oh well -
on the next turn we lose the homeless hero, we play on!
End of the week: 1-6 in the Citadel, Corbik has Expert Logistics
122-123 - a couple of Zealot dwellings, Crypt, Dwarf dwelling, still no Expert Earth Magic
124 - I get Expert Earth Magic on 50-99 Dendroid Soldiers + Necklace of Lightning Immunity, I break through the Minoes - Library +2 all
125 - building Elite Earth Magic + Ice Bolt, thankfully Corbusha is already 7-12-6-5, such a defensive mage!
126 - Naga Bank for 3, the gold earned is enough for a Hydra Pond, a minor Dwarf dwelling, I stand on the speed booster at the terrain border with 90% probability of entering the opponent's Rampart secondary
127 - I burst in, really spoil the opponent's mood by taking the max Hive right from under his nose and killing dad Gunnar, who left 29 Gold Dragons with the homeless hero
Thanks for the game!
P.S. At the opponent's request, I uploaded the saves, at that time I didn't have Shadow of Death, so we played on TE-light without TE settings

To all my friends!!! I'm switching from work to studies, and therefore starting on **Monday and every day after that from 5:30 PM Moscow time**, I will be available to play!!!

Looser (red, Castle, Sonya, Turis) def RomarioGrom (blue, Necropolis, Nimbus, Tant) 2sm4d(3) 222

On the first map, a complete mess with wood, the cavalry failed, archers everywhere and I couldn't break through :(
On the second, I broke through the guard to the grass, sent a scout hero there and he cleaned out all the enemy's secondary heroes :) Turis with Ignissa took the Necropolis secondary heroes and slightly improved the wood and gold income. I built the cavalry with the Castle. I took two external dwellings of pokemons, 1 of archers and 1 of swordsmen.
On the third, Turis confidently, after the stables with cavalry, hits for almost 90 gr. of rays for the prison, frees Ivor level 10 and they go together along the road to the Tower. There's a passage to the underground treasure zone and three Griffin Conservatories (1+2+2), I build angels at home.
I spent the fourth week rebuilding the economy and gathering resources for archangels. Didn't gather enough :( - the breakthrough of the Mage Guild (for over a hundred wizards) was postponed.
On the fifth, I take the minimal Dragon Utopia :( (sword +12/-3, boots of speed and gold), a couple more manipulations with taking Pandora's boxes, I level up earth magic, build the Mage Guild and get Teleport in it, already calmer :) - finally I upgrade angels.
And only on the 6th week, I beat over 150 wizards and 36 devils and break through to the enemy. Tant was waiting in the castle, archangels rule!
Thanks for the game.