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I highly doubt that Vika will win a series of 5 games on the same map; it's roughly equivalent to flipping a coin 5 times in a row, even if the expected probability isn't always 50% :D

By the way, Vic, judging by your posts, if you play on the Chaos Map, then on the 2nd week, you always take one end of the chain in the opponent's capital and the other in the treasure with scouts. I want to see this, as well as your incredible skill.

It would be clearer if you asked for game saves. I strained my memory and remembered everything I played on the Chaos Map in the last couple of years:

vs Dubrovin (3 games) from the Tasting (Light)
vs Pit, vs Dirty, vs Invisible, vs Javdet from the 2nd TE tournament from Sticky (Full)
vs Samurai from the winter cup (Full)
vs Napalm from the season (Full)

In total, 9 games, the statistics are 7.5 - 1.5. On such a short distance, there were some lucky breaks, ideally it should have been something like 6-3, but for the imbalanced Chaos Map, this is a very good result.

I only destroyed 1 Utopia (I didn't have time for it), although I had enough power for it in more than half of the cases.

I challenge you, and if you accept it, I suggest a series of 3-5 games on the Chaos Map.

Do I look like an idiot?

What a memory! xDDD

That happened. Regarding this phrase, I’ll say that you have to be an idiot to be confident in victory when you’re besieging an opponent’s Castle with 35/35 attack/defense against your 14/20. You just didn’t look at what was in the Castle; you almost spent the entire turn looking at his Castle, and it seemed like there wasn’t much going on there, but before that, there were only a few units there. I would have thought 10 times before attacking, especially with only half of the possible mana.

Maybe it just seemed to me that you were overconfident, but I thought so based on your hints about 33 cows already in the second week, plus in the fourth week, when you threatened to shoot them, you replied that “there won’t be enough arrows, believe me.” As for the situation, I wouldn’t have attacked either. And with Lizards in your pocket – it really was your technical mistake.

I’ll say frankly that it’s unpleasant to hear after the game that my opponent is lecturing me about how I didn’t play correctly, “fussing around with the cows” – I had 44 gold and cows at the beginning of the third week, and I just didn’t move a couple of squares to the Turis that came to my territory; otherwise, the game would have ended around turn 132. You shouldn’t brag too much about quickly “devouring” the map, having an extra 1400 MP compared to me and receiving a blue helmet in the very first Utopia. What can you do if I got about +20 to the total parameters with 8 relics in the Utopias, and it took 3-4 days to get to each Utopia with my speed. Thank you for the game.

You’re taking it too close to heart. It’s not bragging at all, but constructive criticism. Maybe it wasn’t worth bringing it up on the forum; we could have discussed it all in the game beforehand, not afterward.

Done!

numOne (blue, Castle, Valeska, Kyrre) def Pit for LM (red, Tower, Solmyr, Solmyr), panic, 132

Archers are built and Kyrre is in the tavern — excellent. I save up money for cavalry in the castle, painted necromancer, crushed 2 crypts, Dwarf Cottage on 15, moving toward the 2 Naga Banks at my home respawn, Kyrre with Armor and Air, cavalry are built and there's money left to buy.
The second week was productive. I crushed a Naga Bank on 4, didn't enter the second one (Masques or Pre-Maxes with Grottos), break back home, buy a spell book and after the stables head off to crush the Grottos Gog on the secondary Rampart, scout heroes along the way kill 2 Medusa Storages (4+10), at home the cavalry and swords are upgraded. On the Rampart secondary I scout, capture 2 Griffin Conservatories (1+2), paint Conflux and on 127 camp at Petr's necromancer, he was delayed at his respawn and ended up cut off.
On 131 I bring up troops, including Grottos Griffins and Fanatics. Solmyr arrives, the enemy scout hero reclaims the necromancer, I pass, the scout hero paints the necromancer, Kyrre is revived and with full force through Mass Haste attacks Solmyr. Surrender followed.

Thanks for the game!

numOne (blue, Castle, Valeska, Kirr) def Pit for LM (red, Tower, Solmyr, Solmyr), panic, 132

The experiment with playing as a mage ended in complete failure. The opponent immediately takes both restarts; I have enough gold on day 113, a stash of Djinns, and Gargoyles built, so it's okay, I'm playing. Day 114 - the first problem, a secondary unit of Silver Pegasi or Fanatics. Okay, I bring up Djinns and Golems, break through the Pegasi, losing some Golems and Gremlins. After that, the gold ran out, and there was no more until the end of the game. I built 1-5 in the Citadel. On the second week, I was unlucky. All the money banks turned out to be minimal and not very well located. As a result, there was only enough gold to buy the second-week growth, build 2 Town Halls, and a Naga. In general, everything was so bad that I couldn't meet Kairn at the end of the second week as planned... On day 131, I finally finished building GM4, but there was nothing to buy even a small growth unit with. Naturally, after a massive speed-up, Solmyr was immediately killed... Thank you for the game.

Dear participants! There are approximately 2 weeks left until the end of the Tournament. We kindly ask those who have outstanding matches to indicate when they are available to play. After the Tournament, if there are no responses from those with outstanding matches in this thread, technical defeats will be awarded to those who have not responded when calculating the final results, provided that the opponent is ready to play the match. As of today, the following matches have not been played: Round 6: LeBron vs Mizrael (both have 0 points); Round 7: Aldegir vs LeBron (both have 0 points); Mizrael vs Medium_HP (Medium_HP is awarded the victory); Round 8: Mizrael vs Aldegir (both have 0 points);

LeBron (blue, Fortress, Broghild, Broghild) def Medium (red, Necropolis, Galthran, Galthran) 8mm6a 137

Played Tuesday, with all the bells and whistles. Gorgeous respawn, 3 gnoll niches, but upon exit there's a block of 16 groups of birds, we hit for 112
The path splits into a lift and an entrance to the desert; I decide to rush the lift
There I head toward the computer and he meets me with 2 swords, smashing half my army :(
Starting from 121, very slowly we eat up hives and 2 cons; Pandora gives 15 lords who beautifully take a max con
Total: 30 vivs, 6 angels, 120 gnolls, 40 lizzies, 15 crocodiles in the middle of the second week; should head to utopias, but none are visible yet
I plug hydras into the second [week] for some reason, Brogh runs for 4 days in the desert and then Goshan appears on the horizon; a village is seen in the distance, I decide to spend the night there and split up to meet the undead, but through the edge of the spyglass I spot a Dragon Utopia tower. Gosha's stats are 4-17-10-8 against my 3-9-5-4; I decide to take the utopia and sacrifice my own native swamp
The utopias were level two, gave a sphere of fire, sword +12, and shield +4all
I'm short by some millimeters for a split back home
In the middle of the week Goshan finally takes my castle, but then my 2nd front comes into play in the form of Clancy and an experienced moshny from dungeon who, after winning a couple of battles splendidly, takes the central village and cuts off Gosha's path home. Left alone in an empty swamp, he somewhat reminded me of Napoleon in burnt Moscow
Meanwhile Brogh finishes pumping masslow and takes another 2 relics
Out of desperation, Goshan tries to make contact; Brogh doesn't hesitate to respond in kind
Final battle
Goshan 4 17 10 152 350+ skels (12hp!) 1+1+1 angel, 6 black knights and 19 groups of vamps - masslow, blight
Brogh 21-10-11-80 46 ducks (105 hp), 6 angels, 51 lizzie (rank 9), 141 gnoll (2 swords), 19 vasyas and 14 groups of vamps (7)
Exchange masslow, Lukari hammer away in a straight line thanks to the ballista, vivs hammer skels for 1300+, skels respond with 300 ГГ

Thanks for the intense game!

LeBron (blue, Fortess, Broghild, Broghild) def Medium (red, Necropolis, Galthran, Galthran) 8mm6a 137

The treasure zone was poor, I took both central villages at 114; by 123 I was ready to take the Dragon Utopia, but there were none in the center, I only found a double one near my corner village, which I took at 124—it gave me only stats, and not even great ones. The roadless treasure zone is also empty, nothing for speed. I decided that this way I wouldn't outpace Bronkh and plodded toward him; seems it was in vain.
Thanks for the game.

03.06.2010 Pit for LM (blue, Fortress, Wistan, Wistan) lose to Aldegir (red, Castle, Waleska, Waleska), Balance, 121. Didn't work out, I lost... 02.06.2010 Pit for LM (red, Stronghold, Kreg, Kreg) def Mizrael (blue, Tower, Ain, Gunnar), Panic, 121. My opponent lost here... Thank you for the games.

Wlk777(blue, swamp, Alkin) def LeBron(red, Rampart, Mephala) 2smd4(3) 115
I took both restarts, opponent 111; in the last generation the respawn is small and without external dwellings, only 1 hive behind 49 storms. Broke through to the grass—there's a Rampart with an external dwelling of wood, also a Dragon Utopia spotted nearby and 2 cans. I was already considering whether to set Roland as the main (he had already grabbed defense)—then the opponent surrendered. Thanks for the game.

Wlk777 (blue, Swamp, Alkin) def LeBron (red, Rampart, Mephala) 2smd4(3) 115
The error in unit placement in the max Dwarf Cottage on the grass turned out to be fatal
Got wiped in the offline, lost 4 Centaurs and Dwarves

At the request of Wlk777:

06.06.2010, Wlk777 (Red, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) def Mizrael (Blue, Conflux, Kalt, Kalt), WT, рanic, 134

Managed to do some decent skirmishing; after all the rests, the layout clearly favored me — an external dwelling of Minotaurs right in front of the Castle for just up to 49 dwarves, and deeper in the respawn area there was a Griffin Conservatory but guarded by Grand Elves. It was very unpleasant that getting out of the respawn took about 5 days almost without leaving the road (by the way, medium roads were set) and with a charge on Grand Harpies. Not enough gold, since all the free heroes are in a chain to the capital and you can't really kill anything with scouts. At the end of the week, I saved two crypts (max and pre-max) — resulting in Minotaurs in the Fort with a portal and buyback. On the second week, I took that Griffin Conservatory (much to my regret, it was mini; 19 Minotaurs would have easily torn apart even a max one), and started clearing guards for secondary towns (already have Mass Slow, Mass Shield, and Mass Stone Skin) — the first dungeon village had a portal and a whirlpool... The roads to the secondary towns were long again, 8-10 heroes are catastrophically insufficient for chains, and the task is to scout the borders to prevent a surprise attack... I scouted almost everything except one area where the opponent was... But I managed to launch a surprise attack on day 132 against Kalt with 3 angels; a buyout, excellent — there's gold for a full purchase; I bring the remaining troops to the Miner — on day 134 I reach Kalt with an unimpressive force — and 32 Grand Minotaurs are unrivaled, especially with Mass Stone Skin and Mass Fire. Interestingly, the Miner without learning had more experience on day 132 than Kalt =).

Thanks for the game.

Wlk777 (Red, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) def Mizrael (Blue, Conflux, Kalt, Kalt), WT, рanic, 134

It happened, didn't yield any XP or meat :) With the external dwelling of butterflies and building the psychos in the Stronghold, I broke the level-two Griffin Conservatory at the start of the second week, then pushed through hundreds of archers on angels, and beyond that it was empty - the only things of note were a 10k XP box and a mini-Griffin Conservatory. Didn't manage to level up Earth magic in time even for FF across the entire second floor from another Pandora's box, with oil the final would have been more interesting, but as it was, a swarm of minotaurs + oil with Shakti decided it. Thanks for the game.

Pit for LM (Red, Stronghold, Crag, Crag) def Mizrael (Blue, Tower, Aine, Gunnar), Panic, 121

That was a thing, just got back from a trip, loads of tournament backlog, and sat down to play without any mindset - ended up not trading for enough resources on 121 to buy more nagas, and with 1 naga and a hundred gremlins on dirt, there's no way to handle a max-level Dwarf Cottage without a cart :)