Posts from 2010

AlexTheGreat (blue, rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre) def RedWhait (red, Fortress, Bron, Bron) 8MM6. Chaos. 147.

1st game we played as a shake, didn't work out, decided to play it beautifully, with 2500 gold, zero resources, like in the good old days. Start wasn't great. Up top, marcs block half the respawn, the wood mine, and the road to the neighbor computer. Just Genova and an elf dwelling, but I don't see any gold yet at all. Opponent has Dabl of Swamp. But I somehow found a bit of gold and wood, bought the elf dwellings. Took the central snow village on 114. There, further down the road, a block - wood behind a horde of Gremlin orcs. Found an external dwelling of Psychos, stables nearby, a prison behind a horde of Golems, an Air Hut, and a Dwarf Cottage. I run there. On 117, I take the elf dwelling, Psycho dwelling, build Dwarves 1235 in the fort. On 121, I kill 80 Golems with Gremlins, free the prison, there's Adgit with Expert Archery and Advanced Logistics. He runs towards the passage down through the wasteland next to the Dwarf Cottage. Genova on a Centaur at this time finds Boots in a cart on Strong. Kyrre with Advanced Logistics, having killed the Golems at the stables, heads towards the Air Hut and Dwarf Cottage. On 122, we take the Dwarf Cottage, Jedite in the underground with the Boots. On 123, I give the Boots back, she breaks into Rampart, buys a book. The chain is ready with 32 Elves in Rampart and Kyrre is ready to run down the path. Adgit discovers a Necro computer, a neighbor, he has 4 Psychos, 30 Trogs, 20 Cents, 4 Evil Eyes. 124. He runs to the Necro, Mom with 25 Dwarves, 6 Dendroids, and 32 Grands runs through the marcs towards the corner village. I also find on the respawn, where the marcs were blocking, - stables, a Griffin Conservatory, and in the corner of the respawn, a Hive and a Cyclops pen. On 125, I take the Necro, Kyrre takes a Naga Bank level 2. As a result, on 127 Kyrre is at the stables near the Griffin Conservatory, even though it's a level 1, but we need to kill the Hive behind the horde of Evil Eyes. At home, Unicorns in the castle.
131. I take the Conservatory, Hive, break through with Mom in the Necro, there are 2 Hives in the ass. The chain is ready, the scout hero runs to the Hives to help Mom with picking up the Grands and speeding up. I reveal another Conservatory in the sands. 132. I take the Hive behind the Liches level 8. 133. I take the Hive level 12 behind Scorpions, Naga Bank level 4, break through to the Hive in the snow near the central village, the Conservatory in the desert was taken by Adgit. 134. I transfer 24 Wyverns, 32 Grands, 3 Angels, 6 War Unicorns, 15 Silver Pegasi. I take the Hive, further down the road a Library, I pop into the Well, stats 11-14-8-7, artifacts only a Wrist +4 attack. )) Next, I could run to the swamps, Reddi's Dabl, but there's a passage 2 tiles from the road to the Fat Camp, I take the Hive and go there. As a result, by 136 I arrive at the intermediate zone between respawns, after 2 Libraries and another 2 Hives, with stats 15-19-13-11, 1+49 Wyverns, Mass Haste, Expert Offense, Armor. I come out on top on 137, there's an Observatory, next to it a Teleport behind a horde of Marcs, for some reason not broken through.. Well, I go there, there's another central village, the road down to the Utopias. Mom goes there with 3 Angels and 50 Wyverns, the rest of the force to the village. As a result, on 141, 72 Grands, 10 War Unicorns, 50 Silver Dwarves, 16 Dendroids, 25 Silver Pegasi, 60 Cents arrive there. Mom runs towards one set of computers and exits to the Treasury, the rest of the force to the other computers and exits to the Treasury. As a result, by 147 I find a lot of Utopias, build at home and in the Tavern construct the 5th mage guild. Home gives nothing, in the Tavern on the 4th Town Portal, on the 5th Dimension Door. Kyrre's stats - 30-38-28-28. So the poor thing remained without a shield. )) Bron ran to his death with Implosion on 2500. Didn't find gold to ransom, against both Expert Scry, Dimension Door and Town Portal decided not to fight.. ) Thanks for the match!

AlexTheGreat (blue, Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre) def RedWhait (red, Fortress, Bron, Bron) 8MM6. Chaos. 147.

We played the first game as a skirmish, but it didn't work out, so we decided to play it beautifully, starting with 2500 gold and zero resources, just like in the good old days.

I watched Alex's game – it was a very beautiful game. The gameplay was simply amazing!
And this was on Chaos difficulty... Thank you for the stream.

AlexTheGreat (blue, rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre) def RedWhait (red, Fortress, Bron, Bron) 8MM6. Chaos. 147.

Thanks for the match!

We started the 1st one on sm-ka but there the 1st normal setup was fine but then opponent restarted, then 3 setups of the profanity variety :o, but Alex did what hardly anyone else would have done, respect to him for that.
We started on Chaos.
Scratched things out a bit awkwardly but that's okay...
From the start 7 native cottages, native mine and slow roads, on unlucky MM6 gold was scarce, but the log obtained on day 3 made me think I should play.
On the first I took the native mine, there were Wyverns in the citadel, at home found nothing, a bunch of Gnoll caches on the 2nd respawns, 5 pieces.
On the second I struggled with absolutely no idea what, but somehow leveled up a bit for a Griffin Conservatory + Pathfinding was given on the 3rd, fully bought out from 2 castles and checking the first Conservatory 3/4 didn't go in, on the same day I look at the second one, a 2 already better, took it right away, next day I take the max and break through 50 diamonds so I don't have to go around, grab the left artifact for the quest and split up on respawn while the noobs upgraded the lizards and gnolls.
I take a Pandora's Box for 70 gr serpents on 35 gr lizards and a sword +4, then a mini Dragon Fly Hive and into the underground for a Dragon Utopia.
In the underground along the way I break through 80 energy units for a grave and a left artifact, and I only broke through for the XP, I ran away myself while a noob finds a hat for level 5 magic in the grave :eek: though not much use from it, no air school anyway. I take the 2nd Dragon Utopia, there are sandals + 2 all and Titan's plate armor + an earth orb given.
Then a necklace + 1 to haste and I jump into Inferno for a pendant +3 might/knowledge, it turned out it belonged to the orange AI + there I beat for boots and there's practically nothing left to do, Kyrre already has everything he sees. I headed for the star pickets, but they already ate a Griffin Conservatory and a couple of Dragon Utopia + also gave Town Portal and Dimension Door in the guild and I decided not to continue since there were no chances left against Kyrre with stats over 30 when I didn't even reach 20.
Thanks for the game and the experience.

P.S. too bad the tournament doesn't have a lower bracket, otherwise such a draw immediately knocked me out of the game :(

We started playing. Galthran arrived. I'm leveling up Gosh. I captured several towns. On the third turn, I thought I had reached the treasury, but it seemed strange, and finally, I saw the passage to the sandy treasury. I approached it and, by observing the area, determined that two opponent heroes were approaching my town – apparently, a scout with an army and the main hero on the offensive. I split my forces and moved into that town, transferring the army. I went and saw Krellion with a wolf and Jabarkas with elementals and angels. In the last square, I reached him and killed him. Thank you for the game.

Hermit(blue, castle, Rion, Galthran) def bRitvo4kA(red, stronghold, Oris, Jabarkas) balance 132

We caught him off guard, he had a weak castle, didn't have much money for a bribe, and then in the 3rd round, he activated mass haste and didn't let me escape. Congratulations on the victory and thank you for the game. Goshan is undoubtedly strong on balance, especially with the vampire cloak :smile20:

To Logisti k :
I returned from a business trip.
Ready to play at any time and any day.....

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OUTLAW(red,Swamp,Tiva,Nella) def Logisti k(blue,Castle,Rion,Turis), 2SM4d(3),1-3-2
Roads are fast, leveled up both my secondary heroes, one of whom is native.
Ran around with 7 heroes, but never could decide on a main, since I didn't dig up any decent ones in the tavern. By the end of the week, home had 1-6 with a citadel, secondary had Wyverns in a fort. On week 2, I buy Nella in the tavern and level her up; a Pandora's box gave 10k gold. Scouts cleared out Dwarf Cottages (20+30), brought back a Shield +3, and Nell dives into a Griffin Conservatory (3) — the Harpies turned out to be overly moral — she emerged with 30+ lizards, 3 Wyverns, and 3 Angels. On the surface, scouts also picked up another Angel from a mini-conservatory. Then a bank (2), +1 all, a Hive (12), I advance into the treasure zone on the rocks, where a Dragon Utopia is revealed. At home — Hydras finished with a Castle, in the secondary — 1-4, 6 with a citadel. Nella is leveling up great — Defense and Offense at Expert. On day 131, scouts on the secondary broke through a Hive (8), Nella cast a view spell which revealed the entrance to the treasure zone on the rocks, where there is another Dragon Utopia and 2 Hives along the way. On day 132, Nella, after breaking through the guard of the first Hive, camps near 4 Angels, 3 Hydras, and 25 Ducks with backup. Planned to bring in growth, shake down a couple of Hives, and collect both Dragon Utopias, but on their turn, Blue capitulates.
Thank you for the game!!

[/U]OUTLAW(red, Swamp, Tiva, Nella) def Logisti k(blue, Castle, Rion, Turis), 2SM4d(3),1-3-2
Roads are fast, I upgraded both of my secondary heroes, one of which is native.
I ran 7 heroes, but couldn't decide on the main one, since I didn't find any decent ones in the tavern. By the end of the week, home was 1-6 with a citadel, in the secondary — Wyverns in a fort. On week 2, I buy Nella in the tavern and level her up; Pandora's box gave 10k gold. Scouts cleared Dwarf Cottages (20+30), brought a Shield +3, and Nella goes into the Griffin Conservatory(3) — vultures turned out to be too moral — came out with 30+ lizards, 3 Wyverns, and 3 angels. On the surface, scouts got another little angel from a mini-conservatory. Next, bank(2), +1 all, hive(12), I advance into the treasure zone on the rocks, where a Dragon Utopia is revealed. At home — hydras built with a castle, in the secondary — 1-4,6 with a citadel. Nella levels up excellently — Defense and Offense at Expert. On day 1 month 3 week 1, scouts in the secondary broke through a hive(8), Nella reveals a scouting view which spotted the entrance to the treasure zone on the rocks, where there's another Dragon Utopia and 2 hives along the way. On day 1 month 3 week 2, Nella, having broken through the guard of the first hive, camps near 4 angels, 3 hydras, and 25 ducks with backup. A supply delivery is planned, a couple of hives to shake down, and to claim both Dragon Utopias, but on their turn the blue player capitulates.
Thanks for the game!!

tight on money on the first — put cavalry in the castle, but only bought 3 heroes; near the native Dragon Fly Hive and 2 three-tier Conservatories with something desirable — but you have to know how to take them
Thanks for the game!

13.03.2010 Pit for LM (blue, Rampart, Ufrethin, Ivor) def Looser (red, Castle, Rion, Lakussa), 2sm4d(3), 131.
We took all the restarts. The distribution was decent, although my opponent probably got a slightly better start.
111 - near the Castle, a stable, some money, 3 elves and Ivor in the main town. 112 - a group of elves, a crypt. 113 - broke through to the swamp, there's a conservatory by the road. 114 - a secondary town, a crypt, repelled an ambush of centaurs. Further down the road, another conservatory on the swamp. Not bad, Ivor's territory is already well-developed. 115 - I eliminate the last centaurs, breaking through to the second swamp. There's a +10 to ranged attack. Found a cloak of speed. Received a slow spell in a scroll! 116 - I return the army to repel a couple of resource locations and an ambush of pegasi. 117 - unicorns and a Castle.
121 - I rush home, buy a book, and build a maximum-sized dwarven warehouse. 122 - I take it, gloves, and only 1 angel... 123 - +3 angels, that's good. But I make a big mistake and don't enter the swamp to replenish mana... 124 - cloak of speed, dwarven warehouse with a capacity of 10, Ivor skips an entire turn in the Castle. 125 - I go on the attack through the secondary town. Lakussa, although she has good stats, doesn't seem to have many troops. Along the way, I also repelled a charm for morale/luck. 126 - +4 vipers at the opponent's secondary town, a +2+2 sword there as well, I lost 3 unicorns due to greed while guarding, luckily there was no morale. 127 - I settle in the secondary town (Dungeon with a town hall), losing 1 angel, I send the hero to the opponent, and he sees from the watchtower as many as 3 uncaptured nests standing by the road...
131 - Lakussa and her companions take all the nests. There's nothing to do - I attack:
Ivor (7, 10, 2, 3 (60)), expert in attack, ranged attack, earth magic, and sorcery, +2 speed and +3 morale/luck, 4 vipers, 7 unicorns, 29 pegasi, 3 angels, 96 centaurs, 15 dendroids, and 41 high elves; Lakussa (17, 10, 5, 9 (85)), expert in tactics, defense, attack, fire magic, logistics, wisdom, advanced earth magic, +1 speed, +1 luck, 24 vipers, 18 royal griffins, 3 angels, 3 champions, 1 core griffin, 18 undead, and 19 pikemen.
Massive slow, which couldn't be removed, did its job, and Ivor easily won. At the end of the battle, the elves with double strike and morale took out all the angels in one round :smile10:
Thank you for the game.

I apologize to my opponent for not being available at the agreed-upon time. I couldn't even send a warning because the internet went down, and I only managed to fix the problem at midnight.

I apologize to my opponent for not being available at the agreed-upon time. I couldn't even warn him because the internet went down, and I didn't fix the problem until midnight.

It's okay, things happen.

4 days left – only half of the games have been played, or rather 7 out of 16, but Forrest and Alessandro have already heard that the competition has begun.

Satyr (red, Rampart, Malcolm, Mephala-Shakti) lose Sil (blue, Castle, Sanya, Fiona) 8mm6 124 VT

Agreed to play with 1 re on 111 and by block. I immediately take my restart, then the exit from the castle is blocked by a horde of orcs. Last generation: near the stable house, Mephala arrives immediately, there's a consulate nearby, not far is the Dragon Utopia - veriguts. Only no wood. With the 6th hero I bought Shakti - I'm leveling him up together with Mephala. Broke through the passage, see a four-way intersection: from it is the exit to the home computer and 2 entrances to the metro, there we see a consulate, prison, a box behind a horde of crosses, we're living :).
On 113 I rushed to the computer, didn't have enough cells to run into an empty castle, nearby stands Dragon with 20-49 gnolls, 9 lizards and 2 vivas. Without thinking long, I attack - there 49 rank 7 gnolls (for those who don't know - 3-5 damage and 7th speed) showed me who is who :smile08:, brutal. I take auto (thanks), break through the passage to the center with a miner, take a village there, see a hive. Mephala gets a bit closer to the teleport so as to run in on the second try. Shakti returns the power, Mephala runs at full speed toward the swamp... and there that bastard is holed up in the castle and even bought 8 flies :(. We flee from the bot with heels flashing :D, but managed to spot another consulate. In short, on 117 I managed to run into the swamp, put a citadel there and fend off an enraged Dragon (the gnolls somehow became rank 6, probably meant 16th :D), houses 1-6 in the castle.
On 121 with max credit I buy out buddies, elves, horses and clensi, who immediately takes a penny. On 122 I pay back the loan, 123 Mephala takes another penny :(. On his turn Sil carries away a block of 20+ monarchs for Pandora, takes my village and wipes out two of my scouts with his on an angel. There are 3 angels, 1 viva, 6 champs and swamp army. A bug appeared when he attacked my scout, while I have a picture showing that he is moving. A third party had to load the save and kill my scout. The same glitch happened when the bot wanted to take back its castle. On 124 Mephala kills a horde of royal griffins for +2 speed, the army on the way having chased off a scout goes straight to Shakti, who carries away 50+ swords for the prison and consulate. She is mini again :mad:. I kill another 16 psychos for a necklace +3/+3. Next turn I'm ready to take a resin keychain, Pandora behind the crosses and with Mephala the hive in the swamp. But Sil decided once more to thin out my losers and again the same glitch, damn. No desire left to "play" like this and I decide to give the victory to Sil, thinking he would have killed me sooner or later anyway, plus I got auto. Pity, the distribution was good, could have competed more, but it wasn't meant to be.
Thanks for the game!

PReDS (blue, Swamp, Teeva, Wystan) def Psyche_7 (red, Castle, Erion, Kyrre), 8mm6, 143, TE-light.

After one reset, the opponent started on 113. In the tavern, Wystan with 2 stacks and an external dwelling of lizards near the castle. So there's the main hero, leveled well: Offense, Logistics, Earth. Crawled along the road for a very long time and eventually reached a dead-end village, empty there. Smashing through another direction with scout-mages, lost 1 Wyvern out of two on 26 Horde Thieves — they had way too much morale. Also painted an external dwelling of Basilisks. On 116, Tazar pops up in the tavern — couldn't have come earlier, the bastard:mad: . Built 1-6 without cows in the castle and a thousand with a market at home, economy in the village. On 121, buy a Dragon in the tavern, who with trade from 2 markets buys some stuff and takes the Medusa Nest for 3K, Wystan in the village stocks up on a book, but no gold for splitting:( . Money buildings too — 1 Dwarf Cottage in the adjacent zone between me and the comp, and that one is behind a keymaster. Wystan crawls back for a long time. Meanwhile, the Dragon takes a sword +2/2 and heads towards the comp, but there's some kind of maze there, so without ever reaching it, he turns back to return the army to Wystan. He dives into the underground, immediately sees a Dragon Utopia behind a horde of Orc Warriors blocking the road, a tree with a scroll behind a lot of Fanatics, a Pandora's Box with 5-9 Firebirds straight on the road (but can be bypassed, unlike the orcs), a shield +3. Also, a Necropolis village is discovered. On 127, with an army of the second week, I attack the Firebirds with Wystan, hoping for 5 of them and 10K gold to cram in Hydras — those 9 with upgraded ones mauled me good, the Pandora gives 15K experience, I'm left without Hydras for the second week, but the main hero gets all skills except Logistics upgraded to Expert. On 131, with the next week's growth, I attack the Fanatics — almost 40, but I guessed where to place the single Imps — bearable, +6 Wyverns, then the Orcs, here I guessed wrong with the Imps. We skip the Dragon Utopia, because the troops are still too weak. Further along the road, a Ring +1 Speed, another tree for 8 Wyverns behind a half-stack of Gold Golems, minimum and maximum, a Griffin Conservatory with one (the only Angel all game). Found a Naga Bank! Take a Naga set of three with a scout hero, everything to Wystan, he dives into a teleporter, sees a well:smile23: , runs into it, because with Expert Earth, Word of Power, Shield, Stone Skin, he only has 3 mana and sees Kyrre on few Angels. I attack, there's either 1 or 2 — buyback in Tactics. The red scout hero on single upgraded Griffins chased mine away. Time is 136, near the village another Dragon Utopia is found behind Grizzly Bears, the first one was checked — double, so Wystan turns 180 degrees, chases the opponent's scout hero away on the Angel. While Wystan runs to the Dragon Utopia, the main army is given to Tazik, who earns a little gold and, with Expert Learning, Armor, Water Magic, is promoted from scout to sub-hero. On 141, we take the Dragon Utopia, gives +4 All Stats, +12 Knowledge, Gauntlets (took the Utopia with lizards, because there weren't many Gnolls, they barely scratched me). Right there, splitting in the village and from there on a Fly to the second one — I stop just before the Bears. 142 — Pandora's Box for 5K experience, the Utopia is again a double with Titan's Plate, Sandals +2 All Stats, Boots!, instead of Gnolls I took Skeletons, fortunately had Leadership, again splitting in the village and from there on Flies, Gauntlets, and Boots towards the reds, because Kyrre came out again with all the main army and cleared the guard of the treasure zone. Tazik, with the leftover meat, takes the Naga set, clears a couple more neutrals, gets Logistics. Kyrre kills my scout hero on a upgraded Fly in the underground — so he also found something for speed, and having already run a fair distance, turns back towards the treasure zone — seems my launched scouts found something tasty. I get the turn — Kyrre on few Angels not far from the teleporter in my direction. I figure — unclear, but it seems he should make it, the army returns to Wystan and he, at full speed on upgraded Flies with Expert Logistics, Gauntlets, Boots on medium roads, reaches Kyrre on the last tile, after which comes the surrender.

Thanks for the game.

03/14/2010 Gomunguls (Blue, Tower, Pikeadram, Gurnisson) def. Van (Red, Inferno, Aiden, Kalh) balance, 1.1.4

On 1.1.4, the opponent conceded, and that's how it ended! Thanks for the game!!!

PReDS (blue, swamp, Tiva, Vistan) def Psyche_7(red, castle, Rion, Kirry), 8mm6, 143, TE-light.

Well, well. That's what happens when you play as a main SM.
I was rushing toward the Dragon Utopia and the 2 nearby hives, but I didn't make it. I was constantly spotting the blue movements with Air View, but I didn't expect such acceleration at all.
Thanks for the game.