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After the first round.

Day two – everyone is eager to jump into battle.

It seems the situation with the same-place distribution is finally clearing up: last night I surrendered in a late-game session to rebellious because of sleepiness and the impossibility of breaking the Dragon Utopia by the middle of week 3 :). The funniest part is that I won against Javdet on a terrible layout where you could probably win only 1 time out of 100, but I lost twice on almost perfect layouts—what nonsense :D. I'll describe it briefly.

Neoandy (red, Swamp, Tazik, Tazishche) def KostyaN (blue, Humans, Valka, Gundulishko), 2sm4d3, 14-something, TE-light, 400+400 (with pauses in battles - almost unlimited :) ).

The distribution was very generous, but somewhere on week 1 I made a major mistake—I didn't buy the 5th hero, maybe even at the expense of a build day; as a result, I ran out of money, although with that same freebie extra hero I could have collected things properly. In the end, horses were in the citadel, and it was just laughable how I took back the horse external dwelling—but didn't enter, because there was no money to buy them out, and I ran around with only 4 heroes until 121 :smile18: .

On week 2, I immediately took +2 horses, found an archer external dwelling as well, and started building something like chains, but again I lacked money, and the main hero wasn't leveling (and then I snapped after missing a speed boost once and out of grief took a scholar who gave me Magic—and for another week that's exactly what leveled along with Wisdom instead of Earth :mad: ). I had no parameters—so I only entered the Griffin Conservatory troop with grej. on week 3, with oil. There were 4, then another 3. But that was the end of it—I had to leave, and my Gundula parameters were something like 4-5 :D :D :D , against Taz's defense of nearly 40 :rolleyes: ...

Thanks for the game (if I had played a week faster, I might have been able to fight :) ) .

rebellious (red, Dungeon, Miner) def KostyaN (blue, Rampart, Kir), 2sm4d3, 133 I think, SoD.

I generally love playing at night if I have the chance, but the trouble is—if this thing drags on, then just hold on :D , until 3-4 it's fine, but 5 and beyond—better not to :o ... Not being able to connect chains over 5-6 cells and not leaving the respawn until week 3 is one illustration of such a game :smile40: .

I wanted to surrender immediately because of Ufretin, Kir having no elves, and Verdish with 12 gnolls :( . But the overview—there was an external dwelling for kents, elves, a stable, and—I forgot what it's called—that stationary thing for +2 to everything :smile32: . By the end of the week, money appeared; I took the max crypt for 4 kents and 1 gnoll and scouted a bunch of tasty spots.

On week 2, despite all the wealth of the respawn, there wasn't much money left; I took gnome-mill15, medusa-den6, tree6, shield6, that same +2 to everything behind the pack of horses with champions, a wooden external dwelling, then another gnome-mill20 and Griffin Conservatory with loshki.

At the start of week 3, day 2, I wasted two turns because of crooked chains and the main hero skipped either a third of her moves or even more (and she was leveling perfectly—armor, tactics, earth). The Miner on week 2 showed 20 mints and for 150 troglodytes—basically, he could easily break Dragon Utopias on week 3 with just his native troops, while I once again had nothing due to my noobishness (though I had 1 native one), so I decided to surrender :o .

Thanks for the game; it's even interesting what would have happened; I'll probably check in hotseat who had what chances :) .

Added after 3 hours 11 minutes
It's a pity, just checked in single player on 136 and the minimum for the sentinel shield and resist cloak on the secondary respawn fell quite easily with almost no attrition and effectively an attacking stack of 23 gr. oaks, plus a few 8-unit ones; they left there with 1 angel (defense was just 17 :) ) and this was without the shield in the book, it was in the column—with it, it would be even easier... We just agreed not to delay, and I already wanted to sleep :( :( :( . And for the Miner, all those loot boxes are only in the treasure zone :D , although there's a double with a mint external dwelling...

rebellious (red, Dungeon, Miner) vs KostyaN (blue, Rampart, Kyrre), 2sm4d3, 133 I think, SoD.

But I had a light tower nearby — I immediately spotted the external Minotaur dwelling on my secondary, although behind a pack of Archmagi, and a conservatory — which turned out to be just a simple single :smile01: I took an Angel on the second day. Before that, using a Fly scroll, I killed Golems and hordes of Zombies, leveled up nicely. I broke through to the swamp past a crowd of Grand Elves, didn't take the external Wyvern dwelling there — didn't see it, even though it was near the exit (and I probably wouldn't have taken it anyway). Then I saw another conservatory at my base — a Trog one. In general, on the first week I built the Stronghold with Minotaurs and a Portal, plus I took my native secondary with an external dwelling.
On the second week, I broke through the guards into my underground treasure zone and the rocky one, but had no one to send to the surface. And I saw the blue player glance into another passage. I sent my Miner into that area, took a Pandora's Box behind a horde of Iron Golems for 10k experience and a Naga Bank level 4 with a Fireball scroll (that's exactly the spot where you said I saw something) behind a horde of Pixies.
Next, I wanted to take the Shield +3+3 and a couple of Pandora's Boxes in the treasure zone, but you beat me to it with your news. Most likely, after taking the Pandora's Box for 15k gold, I would have headed your way. In my main town I had 20 Queen Medusae, and nothing had been bought from my secondary — Troglodytes, Harpies, Eyes, and also about 20 Dragon Flies.

Added after 3 hours 11 minutes
It's a shame, I just checked in single player on 136, and the minimum requirements for the Sentinel's Shield and the Cloak of Resistance on the secondary's respawn fell easily, almost without losses, and essentially with a main stack of 23 Oak Gremlins, plus a few level 8 uniques, they and the 1 Angel came out of there (the defense was just 17:) ) and this was without the Shield in the spellbook; it was in the column — with it it would have been even easier...

You'll probably be even more upset if you remember that on your respawn there was a minimum Dragon Utopia with a Fire Elemental :eek: ;)
Anyway, who knows how it all would have ended...
Thanks for the game!

finishing the matches

Round 3
rebellious (red, Dungeon, Шахтёр) def КостяN (blue, Rampart, Кирь), 2sm4d3, 133, SOD
Markon (red, Castle, Валеска) def Neo (blue, Dungeon, Шакти), 2sm4d3, 147, LIGHT

Round 2
Javdet (blue, Castle, Валеска) def Volland (red, Barbarian, Крэг), 8mm6, LIGHT

the last game of the third round, Medium vs Volland, will no longer affect the standings of the top three, so the final result is as follows:

Nick - points (games) - Buchholz
1. Markon - 3(3)
2. Neo - 2(3) - 5
3. Piterius - 2(3) - 5
4. rebellious - 1(3) - 4
5. КостяN - 1(3) - 4
6. Medium - 1(2) - 3
7. Javdet - 1(3) - 3
8. Volland - 0(2) - 3

Thank you all for participating. I think the tournament was a success. I hope everyone enjoyed it, and we will meet again in the future, both in this group and with new participants.