Posts from 2010

Mizrael(Dungeon, Lorelei, Lorelei) def Loi(red, Rampart, Ufretin, Ivor) balance 127

Started without restarts, Lore came with 3 stacks and began slowly breaking through. On day 2, a native village, plus harpies there — already 34, fat. Ran into ГО on the road, meaning all other routes are off-road... Headed to the nearest one (a lot of mummies and dwarves), on day 6 broke through both guards, Conflux appeared. Week result: three castles, minotaurs being built in the citadel, no caches. On 123, finally delivered the harpies for upgrade at home, captured the Griffin Conservatory, and there was a mini — killed it immediately, harpies under bless are nasty. 124 — Necropolis, Lore stays there on an angel. At the neighboring respawn, a gathering of reds; after replenishing mana in the well, I break through a horde of air elementals and scare off red scout heroes, should have taken the village right away — a mage on pixies is bought from there and kills my scout hero. 126 — I take the village and place a mage there with 10 medusas in 2 stacks (to shred butterflies if they come), Lore marches along the road but not there — runs into an unopened portal. 127 — Ivor with Ufretin tackle the guard of the Griffin Conservatory right under Lore, but don't attack the Conservatory itself... I didn't wait for the fresh growth delivery but attacked immediately — first knocked out Ivor on pegasuses, and then reached the dwarf with the powerwell. Thanks for the game.

Javdet (blue, Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre) def Piterius (red, Dungeon, Shackty, Shackty) 8mm6 212

We played in several sessions, I don't remember everything.. I got 1500 for Ramp, no caches, but the respawn is big, on 116 I killed a necro AI, free stuff there - a Citadel without vamps.
Shakhtyor had a very sour setup and towards the end of the game I managed to break the chains and catch him with shackles.

Thanks for the game.

Javdet (blue, Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre) def Piterius (red, Dungeon, Shackty, Shackty) 8mm6 212

We played in several sessions, I don't remember everything.. I got 1500 for Rampart, no treasure chests, but the respawn is big, on 116 I killed the Necro computer, there was a freebie there - a Citadel without Vampires.
Shakhtyor had a very sour draw and by the end of the game I managed to break the chains and catch him with fetters.

Thanks for the game.

Nah, I myself ended up surrounded, and while trying to break out, I exposed the chain. When it was broken, I hoped to crash into Kyrre for 45k, but he had bracers:eek: The fight was unequal, the mass slay, mana, and stats of the wood elves were superior.

Thanks to you too!

Wic (blue, Stronghold, Gird, Jabarkas) def Wowa (red, Necropolis, Straker, Silvia + Galthran) @ Nostalgia, 2.2.4

....On 2.2.4, Silvia messed up again – she took a town and settled in it. I don't know why she's so optimistic...

in that game, the time simply ran out, which he had spent at the beginning on loooong battles with vampires.

mom (and only she had DD, Gosha, after eating the water box, didn't get any DD at all – so they stopped paying attention to him in favor of Silvia, and yes, Gosha also had a Moner, while Silvia, in general, emerged from the dungeon as an explorer closer to the end of the 3rd week))))) she was supposed to run into an empty Stronghold town – but he took a hive, and it's impossible to fly out of it diagonally, but only sideways and upwards, he was short by half a step.
therefore, he had to teleport somewhere randomly without fire – he settled in a dungeon town, thinking that maybe he could lure a sucker with an army and artifacts, but, after buying a reinforcement and changing the troops with a click, he didn't have time to raise them back :(

however, not much could have been saved in terms of the distribution – he saw the layout through scouting from the very first moves, but there were no restarts – unfortunately!...
I have arrow blocks everywhere – even on rough terrain, I wasted a week with 2 loans, went to the left steppe, and there I somehow raised some money to 1-5 in the citadel.
on the 2nd, I got the last upgrade for the vampires (another bug – they fixed their growth), and it started... but not for long: 2 consecutive paralyzes from the Scorpicor – and precisely at the moment when a single unit was supposed to fall from the counterattack and fresh feline units were supposed to fly in, it buried the hope for the battle, and the next paralyze and dad, either 9th or even 14th level!!
but then the same cats inflicted as many as 6 (SIX!!!) paralyzes in a row on Gosha – I'm not lying at all, and at the end of the battle – the vampires didn't have time to retreat and there were 14 of them left out of 19.
therefore, the GO at the beginning of the 3rd didn't fall, the roadside and village mermaids were not given out, and, going closer to the end of the week to the center, he found nothing there.

but still, he ate a couple of mermaids, but it was, in my opinion, impossible to find a counter to the super stack and parameters, especially when you're still thinking about how not to mess up ;)

however, he got more than enough experience from the long games on TE-full... well, the necropolis isn't a good starting point for Gosha (it came to me on the 2nd week, and I started leveling up from the 3rd) – it's a very unstable castle – it's difficult to manage without support – a stable layout and careful play will beat him.

thank you to the opponent for the game and the experience – what I knew about TE theoretically was demonstrated in practice, I will use it :) )))

Mizrael(Dungeon, Lorelei, Lorelei) def Loi(red, Rampart, Ufretin, Ivor) balance 127

That happened. I didn't account for Lorelei's scouting, I revealed myself while rushing towards the throne console, decided to take it first, and figured I could always take the second throne near the Rampart later... but Lorelei saw everything and reached my troops near the scout.
Thanks for the game.

Gomunguls (Blue, Castle, Turis, Turis) def Deriel_Linch (Red, Tower, Josephine, Tazar) 2SM4d (3 )1.3.2

Confirmed.
Before the game, realizing that playing Pikdrama with this pick would be quite difficult (I drafted pretty well for myself, of course), I decide to offer my opponent a normal hero and in return get the chance to start with +30-40 Gremlins) and off we go.
For normal survival on this snow respawn, I had enough with 4 heroes, but Tazar came as the 5th, thereby crippling the economy. On day 115, I pick a green secondary to continue exploring, but I run into a guard of 50+ Magogs and realize that breaking through it with a hundred Gremlins and 7 Mages is either impossible or would result in massive losses. I turn back. The tempo is over. I'm 90 gold short for a Naga + Tazar level 4-5)
On day 121, I break through a portal into Gomunguls' unclaimed adjacent zone and, overall, I level up Tazar quite well there. I got Earth magic. I find a level 3 Griffin Conservatory. I plan to even the situation on day 131 by taking the Griffin Conservatory, but around day 125, Turis runs by with 3 Angels and leftovers, takes my saving Griffin Conservatory, and heads toward the capital. Realizing there's no way out of this, I write gg.
Thanks for the game.

Still, it's very interesting: confused:
Question for the organizers - why do players in the team groups play with the option to choose a starting hero? And what about the tournament rules?
And what's wrong with the Shades of Darkness players? :D This is not right!!

It's still very interesting: confused:
Question to the organizers - why are players in TE groups allowed to choose starting heroes? What about the tournament rules?
And what's wrong with the SoD players? :D This is not right!!

Wic (blue, Fortress, Gird, Jabarkas) def Wowa (red, Necropolis, Straker, Silvia + Galthran) @ Nostalgia, 2.2.4

Do you really think that Yura chose Gird as the starting hero for the Barbarian in TE, and Wowa decided to intimidate him with hordes of 40-hit zombies and started with Straker for the Necropolis? :p
Wowa and I started: I played as Olema for Inferno, and he played as Ufretin for Rampart. We discussed Gird for Barbarian against Daremyth for Tower - all within the rules.
Maybe some pairs agree not to spoil the fun and give each other decent heroes - but who's going to stop them?;)

Indeed, I looked at the previous posts...
I apologize, I was in a hurry....
It turns out that the Shades of Darkness players often agree on choosing decent
starting heroes :smile33:

if Tazar is in the Haven faction, then all the charm of the tournament disappears immediately.

I don't like this principle of choosing the starting hero for the opponent. It's better to have a random hero. Because the resulting selection is quite skewed, and many castles are excluded. That is, you can try it once, but overall it's a rather dull practice. However, the option of choosing the opponent's castle is quite playable - it doesn't distort the balance of the castles, but it does add strategic depth to the selection.

if Tazar is chosen, all the charm of the tournament immediately disappears =(

The rules seem to state that the opponent chooses the starting hero, not the main character. And how does Tazar as the main character ruin the tournament? - Sometimes, just because of a Tazar being chosen, you start playing with a completely terrible setup, which you would definitely restart in other cases.

Well, that’s what I meant by the hero’s starting point. I just didn’t express it clearly.

I agree with the previous posters. Reports like "Valeska vs. Kirr" ruin the tournament. Aren't there enough seasons? :confused:

PReDS(red, Inferno, Olema, Tazar) def wowa(blue, Rampart, Ufretin, Tyraxor/Gunnar), Nostalgia, 146.
Gave away the faction for 1200, bought the color for 800. Respawn - total censored:D . But 4th hero - Tazar, only because of him I didn't restart. On 111 I contest +1 to all with a horde of gr. zombies. Also at respawn Cloak of Darkness - no other valuable objects. GO - horde of enchanters:mad: , there are 2 paths to the computers. On 113 I run into an empty Barbarian fort, there is a Dragon Utopia here, but no Dragon Fly Hives or cans in sight yet, only an Ogre external dwelling in the intermediate zone. The other two computers are Ramparts. One path has snowdrifts, the path to the Barbarian has sand, behind the Barbarian's respawn there is a treasure zone on snowdrifts (through it there is also a passage to the last computer). Somehow I placed Efreeti in the castle, at the Barbarian's I only built a market. On the second week I took +1 speed for 100+ Hobbits at the Barbarian's respawn, sped up at the stable and ran to the treasure zone, there immediately behind the guard at the passage +2 speed from a demon lottery. After that Tazar dominated with 6 Efreeti at 12 speed. What comforted me was that Tazar leveled perfectly: Navigation, Earth Magic, Pathfinding, Scouting, Logistics, Offense - at the end of the game they even gave Water Magic in the last slot, which stayed at Basic. In short, I farmed in my area for 3 weeks, took both Ramparts, their respawns are total censored: both with lots of gold, one has 2 Pegasus external dwellings and a Dragon external dwelling, the other has an Elf external dwelling and a Pixie external dwelling. I contested a shield +3 Attack/Defense, gathered 24 ducks, took 2 Dragon Utopias with +5 to all, +4 Attack/Defense, Helm of the Fifth, Tome of Air Magic. On 141 I dash towards Wowa's Rampart through a hill right in front of the gates and run out of moves - I can't take a direct step on the fast roads to enter the empty castle((. Wowa took the growth. Then we maneuvered a bit. I gathered chaff, Wowa gathered stats. In the end, it was decided by my active use of Inferno Gates, whose new functionality Wowa, fortunately for me, had forgotten about. I attacked Gunnar with the Bracers, and although he had higher stats, especially magical ones - thanks to my first move with +2 speed (I took off the Pendant in favor of +3 Luck/Morale), Anti-Magic goes on a stack of 50 Wyverns, after which neither Elixir nor Summon helps Gunnar.
Thanks for the game.