Posts from Team Tournament Reports (Spring 2010)

Round 2. "3 bears" def "WHITCHES"
FireToSky (red, Swamp, Tazar, Tazar) def AYMAN (blue, Rampart, Kirry, Kirry), 146, 8мм6а

It happened.

I lingered a bit too long at the respawn (clearing two cons, a hive, the greens' nyka, and then the library on the way out). After that, I didn't find anything useful, although I did grab boots and gloves of speed; no Dragon Utopia. I spotted one con far away. As for Ivan, he was dealt a very good hand, and he played his layout skillfully (he managed to take three Dragon Utopias on the swamp quite well :smile01: )

Thanks for the game !!!!!!!!!!!

Round 5 "3 Bears" - "Homo Homini"
Van (Blue, Dungeon, Mines, Mines) def Wik777 (Red, Stronghold, Garrison, Garrison) panic 132
On the map it looked like 8mm6a, but the opponent chose panic; on the map I was given Dungeon, rich respawn, broke through to the second town with chains and cleared my own respawn - 3 external dwellings of troglodytes and one eye, at the end of the second turn moved to the center and broke through to the opponent's second town, small panic template))), then FB and victory.
Thanks for the game.

Round 5 "3 Bears" - "Homo Homini"
Van (Blue, Dungeon, Pit, Pit) def Wik777 (Red, Stronghold, Gurnisson, Gurnisson) panic 132

Yes. The distribution was simply outrageous. External dwellings of bears and birds, but barely any money — on my respawn there was one Dwarf Cottage for 5000 and that’s it. I almost fully cleared my respawn, there was like 1 treasure chest left in the far corner. But it wasn’t enough for absolutely anything, not even for a municipality. And on the neighboring respawns that I managed to take, the money situation was also crap. As a result, 8 bears instead of 12 and 10 birds instead of 20+, the other tiers are missing completely, not even built. At least some 20 or so orcs could have been used to sit in defense, but nearly 50 Evil Eyes forced me to go on the offensive... And there was no one to attack with, and they didn’t allow Mass Haste... thanks for the game.

Round 2: «3 Demolished Towers» vs «KNIGHTS OF THE APOCALYPSE»:

wowa (Castle, Valya) def Hermit (Swamp, Taz) 137@8mm6a, medium roads

the bastard rmg added fuel to the fire by cutting the opponent off from their own computer: the blue player's path to the green player went through my adjacent zone
but this played a cruel trick on Valya: having incorrectly determined where the opponent was, she left it to rampage just at the moment when Taz decided to pop out of the respawn, the mana pool was sitting right there on a silver platter :(

however, the captured green Conflux decided the outcome later: the computer kindly built a city hall, and the daily income was 5K plus change against 500 (or 850, there was a treasury apparently) for the opponent
as a result, after losing 4 FF, on the 5th I drove Taz away, and there wasn't a 6th: the opponent simply had no army left :)

the game gave a pre-built 2nd level, immediately Valya rushes from the respawn into the elevator; downstairs, a block of lousy mummies behind the archers' external dwelling :) the chain doesn't have time to upgrade them, so I spend half a day on a pillar and +1 to defense, but even with the bonus, the mummies went down with a creak – the terrain didn't let them spread out much, and the underground bonus wasn't great either
upstairs are ogre mages, then a fork, a necropolis village in the swamp, and meanwhile in the underground near the external dwelling, a mage from the brown Dungeon appears – but it's too late to turn back, we're already on the grass and on turn 117, with the last move, we take the green Conflux, where not even the Air Elementals are built, but the computer set the income to 2K))))) back home, there are horses and griffins in the Citadel
at the week's turn, trouble: after the attack and the computer's death, Valya splits :(
I had to re-move the opponent; just in case, I move Valya out of the garrison – all's fine, but the computer doesn't attack, forcing Valya to run after it instead of splitting at home; well, there's no real point in splitting further anyway
while Valya heads to the center, the respawn gets cleared, and on turn 124, the armies merge – just enough for a couple of battles, one of which is killing a cheeky brown mage)))))) then comes the rampage, resulting in both the main hero and the lout with the remains of the mana in the tavern (even though I couldn't kill anything properly, it's a bit more pleasant to buy off with basic diplomacy, and it's good that Valya didn't get wiped, though if needed, there was Alkin 6th level with expert Air magic)))

well, then – maneuvers considering the advantage in economy and growth
I buy back at home and stand in the teleport – if Taz comes to me, I'll kill everything that shoots or flies, and he won't take the castle; then I'll re-sack the mana ;)
but he jumps there as a lout, runs away; the blue boss himself turns away to clear the underground
Valya, meanwhile, brazenly heads to his home, baiting another exchange – why he didn't attack, I don't know, maybe he couldn't reach in time, despite the log
in short, on turn 131, we take his castle (with a hydra external dwelling nearby)
the economy allowed buying everything there, but we simply didn't have enough resources for the Castle – after the ill-fated rampage, I had to trade hard
I put Valya at the gate with the Castle's mana pool and flies; in the swamp Citadel, there's a Conflux mage with a swamp army))
on turn 132, Taz arrives, having gathered a few ducks and an artifact for spell power in the underground
Valya didn't have to buy off – first, there wasn't enough gold, even after trading, and then the basilisks stoned the horses, the flies were killed by mighty shooters, and the Pokémon could be taken apart or also stoned – I just run away
then a long fight for the castle, but the shooters decided it even before the walls were smashed :)

but the victory was pyrrhic: Valya buys back at home with the new growth; at the Conflux, herring are being sacked from 2 external dwellings; Taz has nowhere to get an army except from tavern heroes and the hydra external dwelling
then we fought once more: Valya blocked the path, Taz attacks with a couple of hydras, the remains of basilisks after the assault + from Bron and junk from a hero from the ramp: although the hydras were killed with terrible effort, and the shooters were mighty, when the last hydra had less than half HP left, the armored hero runs away (maybe he wanted to buy off, but the cannon didn't let him)

next turn, 30+ shooting herring from the Conflux arrive; by the familiar route, Valya runs into the blue territories – there's absolutely nothing to meet them with; the opponent surrenders

thanks to him for the game – it turned out exciting and instructive; we'll be counting on generator bugs))))

Round 2: «3 сорванные башни» vs «РЫЦАРИ АПОКАЛИПСИСА»:

wowa (Castle, Valya) def Hermit (Swamp, Taz)

That's how it was. The respawn was very poor. Strongest blockers. Due to a map bug, there were no castles except the native one :( On the bright side - an external dwelling of hydras, behind the horde of golems - I took it on the second turn and spent a very long time there because the lizardmen ran out of arrows, and there were still 40 stone golems left in two stacks. Good thing I brought a ballista with me, but without artillery skill it dealt 2-5 damage... yeah, it took a long time to kill them.... Then I took the external dwelling of hydras and that allowed me to put up some resistance. When Clavius entered the teleporter and saw Valeska with a large number of archers, he decided not to attack... Because I wasn't sure the road led exactly to the opponent's castle and not to the Conflux. I took the Tunic of Cyclops and the Beehives; if I had Slow, I would have tried to take the Tron Conservatory too, because Tazar was an expert in Earth Magic with 20 mana and 6 spell power, but there was no Slow anywhere :( Meanwhile, I lost track of Valeska and she went to my respawn and headed towards my capital. Because I was playing as the blue color, the opponent fully bought out all the growth, and also killed all my lizardmen and 5 wyverns when I was recapturing the town back. I lost the last FB because I had almost no army left. And I even fled instead of buying back in :( But that wouldn't have helped anymore.

Thanks for the game.

Round 9.
"WHITCHES" - "Vampires" 0:1

Kash (blue, Castle, Valeska, Tazar) def RomarioGrom (red, Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre), Mini-Nostalgia, 137

I took the first restart, oddly enough, because of the Straker. There was no one better, and I didn't feel like necromancing. The second time, the computers were blocked. And then another technical restart due to a block on purple, although Monya was already burning in boots with armor and a hundred pokemons, it was a bit of a shame. We started with Tazar, whom I successfully hid, and there were no re-restarts.

111 External dwelling of pokemons, we broke through to snow, we run to the underground to the necros
112 Killed the necros
113 Running, shield +3
114 Running along the lava, there we see a Dragon Utopia behind a pillar and 2 external dwellings of gogs. Aislin is the eighth, runs to the snow for reconnaissance and eats chests along the way
115 We killed the Pir, made a mistake with the direction, so we lose the loh
116 Finished off the demons. Aislin found 2 Griffin Conservatories on the snow from her lookout post. 1 Griffin Conservatory is within a turn from the necro's second town, but inconveniently off to the side
117 Tazar with basic tactics and earth magic on his own respawn in front of a Pandora's Box, at home horses in the castle, in Inferno pits are built in the fort by the computer. Money is decent

121 In the Pandora's Box, behind a horde of pegasi, 10k exp, a freebie. We become expert in logistics and tactics, run to the snow Griffin Conservatories
122 Advanced earth magic, running
123 The nearby Griffin Conservatory is for 3-4, I decided to start with the second one, because the goal is the home Dragon Utopia on 127 and we need to conserve as much as possible. The second one is a two-weeker, great, +2 angels
124 Scratched a bit of exp for mass slow and another +3 angels. Aislin took the cape +2 speed from the archmagi, Taz on angels descends into the treasure zone and kills 28 Dragon Fly Hive unicorns for the cap +4+4
125 There, from 70 blue monks, we take the necklace +3 to all stats and from the liches the library, disband back home
126 Running to the Dragon Utopia

127 The max-level Dragon Utopia falls fairly well, I over-protected the angels and horses, could have pulled out another 30-40 pokemons. It gave a shield/teapot +10 to all stats and junk

131 Guardian Object fairy dragons, I really don't want to fight them, but want to fly over them, so we run to the treasure zone towards the necros to look for the KV. From there, by the way, it's more convenient to fly to the center. The loh sent on reconnaissance finds a Dragon Utopia there
132 Dragon Utopia - three-weeker, armor + cap to go with it, behind them we captured a Dragon Fly Hive and we night-stop in a dungeon village
133 Captured 2 more Dragon Fly Hives, now 20 Wyverns, and in the corner we took the KV. The lohs just finished building the tower, there's nothing there except anti-magic, and I didn't even study that, which I regretted in the final fight
134 We get closer to the center, Aislin picks up another angel in a necro Griffin Conservatory
135 We fly through the entire treasure zone without turning. Only at the exit we pick up bracers and stop before the Guardian Object - cyclops

136 On his turn, Kyrre flies over the top (Tazar was flying in the underground) and takes an empty castle. I estimate if there's enough movement to jump back home, and there is enough.
We kill the cyclops, above are my favorite sultans, we fly over them, Dimension Door and attack Kyrre in the castle.

Final fight #1
The first spell cast at me is berserker, thank goodness it's basic, minus an angel and 2 horses, I start regretting not having anti-magic. A couple of minutes choosing a spell and finally a chain lightning for 1300 into the storm elementals. I position so as to avoid losses from berserker. A small armageddon flies for about 1150, 12 Wyverns survived, my magic resistance didn't work once, the red's survived had a half-dead horse and wyverns. Thought for about 3 minutes, I think)) Mass slow, killed the bird with wyverns, and a chain lightning into the far corner. Magic resistance on the wyverns again! I retreat with 8 wyverns.

137 The reds killed my loh, couldn't deliver anything, and I have absolutely nothing in my castle, only hired 8 crusaders. I take a bit of meat in Inferno, jump over, and finish off Kyrre in my own castle with a range shot.

Thanks to Roma for the game, glad to see significant progress. I really liked that "he found his trump cards and went to kill", well done. GG

Round 4.
"Nebuchadnezzar" - "Жарим" 1:0

mals (red, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) def Piterius (blue Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre), 8mm6a, 127

Week 1 day 123456 in Citadel. Dwarf Cottage for 15, Crypt. Secondary Inferno.
Week 2 day 3 minicons, 3 more revealed, on day 127 with the entire army Gretchin breaks into zone 19 with 4 1 1 1 where he runs away from Shakti 7 4 4 4. Not enough gold to buy him off. Thanks for the game.

Round 9.
"WHITCHES" - "Вампиры" 0:1

Kash (blue, Castle, Valeska, Tazar) def RomarioGrom (red, Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre), Mini-Nostalgia, 137

That's right... on 112, on the way to Flax, I pick up Perches and buy all the Air Elementals from 2 external dwellings. 2 days later I finished him off and decided to go into the treasure zone, but the passage was blocked by 20+ Master Genies. Rogue's home was in a Citadel + their external dwelling 2nd. A couple of days I cleared Flax's territory and through the nagashnikov(2) went to the Genies, and I find a Dragon Utopia (checking a Level 2 one). Cleared the treasure zone — 2 Dragon Fly Hives (6+6). For 100+ Sprites in a Pandora's Box they give 35 Fire Elementals (just right for the Dragon Utopia: ) ), another couple for 10k gold and experience. There wasn't enough time the whole game, which is why buildings and turns were skipped. The Birds didn't pop:smile39: 132 — I enter the Dragon Utopia, they give Wings, thanks to which a day later I break another 2 mini Dragon Utopias (1st — Book of Fire, 2nd — Sphere of Fire:cool: ). The next turn, Birds popped, but Taz popped up a couple of times and scared me not half-jokingly:eek: on 136 I spend the night in the enemy's capital, where the 1st Firebolt was (they were surprised by my 12 Wyverns — after the 1st Chain they had 8 left, then Armageddon over 1000 and a Chain over 1400 hit them, but they didn't care, although there was absolutely no resistance:confused: ) I decided to wait for the growth in the Castle and covered myself with the Cloak of Undeath, but it wasn't meant to be...

Thanks for the interesting and dynamic game!!!

(I was surprised that after my 12 Chain Lightnings, only 8 of them remained. Then Armageddon with 1000+ damage and another Chain Lightning with 1400+ hit them, and they didn't even flinch, even though they had no resistance at all:confused:)

Chain Lightning with 1300 damage, I think. The first time, the 4th hit took out 4 of them (the second Chain Lightning took out 4 of my units in the same way, but I had no other choice).
They resisted both times because they were standing next to unique units – this is a unique unit ability. Although 2 resistances in a row is a bit much, but it's my fault – they should have taken the first Chain Lightning, not the Storms.

Javdet (blue, Castle, Valya, Shakhter) def SEM56 (red, snow, Nila, Nila) Jebus 135

The map generator provided a challenge – my opponent had a clear path covering half the map. I was quite nervous because of a blockade that cut off half of my starting area (there was a funny moment when I didn't have enough gold to buy an angel with a dwelling). As a result, I only managed to reach level 124, but it turned out to be enough with a good margin.

Thank you for the game.

Javdet (blue, Castle, Valya, Shakhter) def SEM56 (red, snow, Nila, Nila) Jebus 135
Thank you for the game.

Ugh, you should be penalized for such a build order))
Special thanks to Romych for the feedback; I'm removing the Tower from the list of viable castles, thanks for your time.

Round 4.
"Nebuchadnezzar" - "Zharym" 1:0

mals (red, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) def Piterius (blue Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre), 8mm6а, 127

Week 1 Day 123456 at Citadel. Dwarf Cottage for 15, Crypt. Secondary hero Inferno.
Week 2 Day 3 mini Griffins Conservatories, 3 more revealed, on 127 with the entire army Gretchin 4 1 1 1 bursts into zone 19 where it runs from Shakti 7 4 4 4. No money for a ransom. Thanks for the game.

It was like that. On the first turn after the replay, a haze set in, ran to where I hadn't planned to go with the save, broke through with the Loathstack with all my might via Teleport, and was met there. Papa was standing near the Dragon Fly Hive and two Conservatories, and a chain for another Conservatory was set up after...

"Fried Eaters" VS "RP ZENIT". Round 1

Vigo (red, Tower, Nella) def. KobRa_RR (blue, Swamp, Tazar) 2SM4d(3) 134

111 total, 4 heroes, but two of them are focused on generating income, and the income is already over 475 coins (350+125).
112, 5 heroes, broke through to the secondary Inferno, a hidden stash of demons is visible.
113, Nella 5 2 3 2, took the land, 91 stronghold + the hidden demons are in the ranks – let's play.

By the end of the week, the nagas are in the citadel, demons + their hidden stash on the Inferno land.

In the second week, Nella got a log and the boots were taken away from behind the magog. We run to the treasury (but without mana, I forgot to visit the well on the way :( ), I visit the library, take the earth sphere from the 7 gray bears, and rush back home.
On 131, Nella 17 8 8 13 with slow breaks through 21 gray bears, the morale-boosting bastards turned out to be ((, but the main thing is that the GO is taken and the swamp growth is in my hands, they gave the ranged attack skill. I spent a couple of days in the opponent's capital, he doesn't come, I teleport to Inferno and to the basement, there's Pandora all over the land, handcuffs, and a stronghold on the fifth level for the crystal dragons. Now Nella is mobile, the opponent takes his capital on the angels and rushes to mine. There isn't much money to buy troops, I leave the treasury and go home, and with the handcuffs, I cut down a couple of angels, the opponent congratulated me on the victory!!!
Thank you for the game.

"Fried Eaters" VS "RP ZENIT". Round 1

Generator (bots, entire map, gauntlets, helmet, everything nearby) def KobRa_RR (1 construct in the corner of the map) 2SMizврат(3) 134

Thank you for the game.

5th round, 06.04.2010
"Kontaktnye nuby" - "Vampiry" 1:0

BA/IEHOK (red, Tower, Eine, Mephala) def Alessandro (blue, Castle, Valeska, Valeska), 2sm4d(3), 142

117: secondary Barbarian, 7 heroes. Mephala arrived late and by the end of the week was only level 3. Naga dwelling in the home Castle, a thousand in the secondary. Broke into the snowy treasure zone.
127: via wasteland took the native secondary, built it up to Naga dwelling in the Citadel. Took a minimal Griffin Conservatory and a Dragon Fly Hive for 4 Wyvern, home Castle. Mephala enters the snowy treasure zone. Opponent also has a double, so there will be a lot of archers….
131: Hive for 6 Wyvern, Pandora's Box for 100+ Ogres with 25 Swordsmen.
132: Hive for 6 Wyvern, Pandora's Box for experience.
133: Pandora's Box for 20+ Manticores with 30 Monks.
134: I go into a Tier 3 Dragon Utopia, level 14, but there isn't a single artifact, in the army 16 Wyvern, 12 Nagas, I took Swordsmen, Golems and Gargoyles. The dragons start to really bite the Nagas... Parameters are lacking, they bite hard… I get wiped out to zero in the Utopia. Only the shooters I didn't take with me remain. I finish off 3 Gold Dragons with a scout hero and shooters, they gave [Shield of the] +4 All Dwarven, [Helm of the] -2+10 Seer, a book of Fire and Arrows. By this point 2 more Utopias and 2 Hives are revealed, a Library, but Mephala is bought back in the home Castle and urgently rebuilds a chain through the Barbarian secondary to move an army to her.
Blue Vala is pushing with Green Dragons and the rest of the army bypassing the GO onto the snow.
136: ran through the underground treasure zone, there's only [+2] Defense and a Dragon Fly Hive for 12 Wyvern, nothing else tasty is visible. Just a Pandora's Box for 10-19 Angels… no one to go in with…
137: Vala takes the main Taver and pushes onto the Barbarian secondary. Lucky that the teleport from the Barbarian secondary to the treasure zone where Mephala is running is close to the Barbarian Castle…
141: I attack Valeska. Took Monks and Barbarians to sacrifice. Anti-Magic on the Monks and Armageddon... Halved the opponent's army  Then retreated with the remnants to replenish mana.
142: Vala attacks with reinforcements. Blocked 200+ Marksmen with the rest of the meat consisting of 8 Wyvern, 5 Nagas, 36 Mages, an Angel; mana 360, a bolt for 210, and shot them all to hell.
Thanks for the interesting game!!