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15.10.07 GoD(red, Rampart, Mephala, Alkin) def злой_романтик(red, Dungeon, Beholder, Beholder) 2smd4(3) 221

I sold the castle for 1400 and bought a color for 400 - netting a profit of a thousand =)

I took all my respawns, my opponent had 112 left.

The spawn was good) although I found the GO immediately and it was clear that blue had spawned at the top, I decided to stay - near the castle there was a hut of elves and a Griffin Conservatory.

I first decided to take the crypt with my scout hero Alky - I ran into a horde of thieves for a Naga Bank, and they were also guarding 2 more piles of resources and a stone for experience, so there were almost 90 of them. Considering the elves weren't upgraded - I lost almost all the Centaurs, but since Ufretin was in the tavern - the dwarves were a good damage stack and also went for the singles =)))
When taking the crypt, Alka got Tactics and unexpectedly went for the papa stacks.

On week 1, I found 2 respawns on the grass - I cleared both, took a native secondary hero and scouted the Castle's secondary with a scout hero.
I built 1-6 in the castle and elves in the secondary town.

On week 2, I got max Dwarves and also killed some meat for experience and gold.
I split my army to go home - took a Naga Bank on 3, bought troops, and on 127 took the level 3 Griffin Conservatory.

On week 3, I went to the Castle's respawn - collected some gold there with scout heroes, Alka took a Naga Bank on 4 and a chest with 10k gold behind a horde of Griffins/Pegasi, then took a stack of Horses.

I went into the treasure on the mud - there were 2 more stacks of Horses and 1 of Angels.

On week 4, I collected 50 upgrade tokens and took 2 Dragon Utopias - a Grail, Boots +2 to All, Cape of Velocity, Hat 5x, Golden Bow, Sword of Justice, and Cloak of Reckoning

On 211, the Beholder cleared the GO and took my capital

Alka finished clearing the treasure and split his army into the native secondary - nearby there was another treasure on the grass, where a Dragon Utopia and a Hive were visible - I took them and attacked the Beholder in my capital

BEHOLDER 13 15 11 8
20 Medusas, 19 Eyes, 31 Manticores, 17 upgrade tokens, 2 Red Dragons, 1 Black Dragon, 26 Harpies

ALKA 24 34 24 20
193 Centaurs, 82 Dwarves, 61 upgrade tokens, 21 Pegasi, 20 Unicorns, 146 Grand Elves, 6 Angels

After one volley from the elves with the Golden Bow at the Manticores, I was congratulated on the victory)

THANKS FOR THE GAME!!!

15.10.07 GoD(red, Rampart, Mephala, Alkin) def zloy_romantik(red, Dungeon, Miner, Miner) 2smd4(3) 221
Yeah...That happened...I couldn't find a single Dragon Utopia or any conserve, not even in the 2 treasuries, and the miner barely produced any trees :D the generator has been giving me some "interesting" maps lately... In the end, no chance in FB (haven't seen that many grands in a long time :smile12: )
Thx for the game

Updated in the first post up to this point; progress is slow.

19.07.2010 Wlk777 (red, Rampart, Mephala, Mephala) def. GoD (blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) 2smd4(3) 127
The generator wasn't kind to the opponent; he took all the rests and even 1 additional one, but he didn't get a good hand... In the last generation, I had a decent hand, and on the second turn, I cleared the cons, but they were all small, only one was worth 2... The opponent snatched another one from under my nose; he wanted to catch up and punish me, but he attacked himself... Mephala had a few more troops + better stats + level 13 and 100 mana... No chance for the miner. Thanks for the game.

07/19/2010 Wlk777 (red, Rampart, Mephala, Mephala) def GoD (blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) 2smd4(3) 127
The generator wasn't kind to my opponent; he took all the rests and even got one extra, but he never got a good draw... In the last generation, I had a mediocre draw, and in the second, I cleared out the cons, but they were all small, with only one being a 2... My opponent snatched another one from under my nose; I wanted to catch up and punish him, but he attacked first... Mephala has slightly more troops + better stats + level 13 and 100 mana. There was no chance for the Dungeon player. Thanks for the game.

Confirmed. The generator wasn't kind to me, just like it hasn't been lately in games with Dungeon. In the Warlord Tournament, Dungeon was completely nerfed, in my opinion - 85-97 troglodytes on average - not very strong. And without having level 4 or higher dwellings, it's very difficult - the troglodytes still die on strong stacks, and there's nothing to replace them with.

That's what happened in the game... nothing good ever came up... I took all the rests, and even asked Valentin for one - thanks to him for that.

But in the last generation, there wasn't a single dwelling!!!:smile32:

I took a second Inferno.
At home, 1-5 in the Citadel, there's nothing to level up - Dungeon.
On the second week, I cleared out a stack of liches for a chest worth 10k experience.
Then, I got a 2-level dwelling.

Then, I went to the Metro - at the top, there were stones, a small dwelling, and a Hive level 6.

Mephala arrives - I decide to attack, and that was a mistake - I miscalculated my strength.

I could have run away and gone to the Treasury with an Inferno respawn.

But it's my own fault.

THANKS FOR THE GAME!!!

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07/11/2010 RomarioGrom (blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) def God (red, Rampart, Mephala, Mephala) 2sm4d(3) 126
I sold the Rampart with its color for 2000 and started, on 112, I got a 1-level dwelling and a small gnome, a secondary Necropolis, on 116, 11 psionicists for a dragon dwelling and a portal, 1-5 in the Fortress, 2nd week, I leveled up and went to visit, taking a lair (8) along the way, I caught a piece of an army and took a chest worth 10k experience for 14 ifrits, and on 126, I stormed the castle and won...
Thank you for a good game!!!

Confirmed. I messed up the trading, and the generator didn't want to favor me.

The respawn wasn't great - around 117, I found a dwelling of dryads, and then on 19 storms, I lost 5 grand dragons for their dwelling, but the worst thing is - I didn't manage to take it.

And in the second week, the Dungeon player crushed me - a dragon dwelling and a small dwelling - that's evil in the 2nd week, considering that my army was being broken down piece by piece.

I took a 2-level dwelling without magic, 5 united and 14 grand dragons.

But there were too few troops, and Mephala killed me in the castle.

THANKS FOR THE GAME!!!

I think we can start the semi-final with wowa now =). I'm available on weekdays after 7 PM Moscow time, or all day on weekends. P.S. - The second semi-final pair is RomarioGrom vs. the winner of Loi-Ayman. The funniest thing would be if they draw, then Valery will fall into the trap of his own inattention to the rules =).

25.07.2010. Wlk777(red, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) def wowa(blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) 2smd4(3) 135
Semifinal (since regardless of the outcome of the remaining group games, I take second place and wowa takes first). There were many restarts; we agreed on a technical restart in case of a roadless GO. In the last generation, that happened, but we noticed it too late. Nothing special on my end — no conflux, only an external dwelling of Crusaders, terrible skills for Valeska even with immediate Learning. But I managed to catch my opponent off guard twice — the first time in the adjacent zone, the second time in the treasure zone (scout hero with power) — easy wins in both fights. Resulted in a surrender. Thanks for the game.

25.07.2010. Wlk777(red, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) def wowa(blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) 2smd4(3) 135

that's how it was :)
apparently not a single good generation... although it was relative -- the opponent had 3 secondaries, I had one, but there was a level-2 Griffin Conservatory in front of the Castle, yet very few Troglodytes in the Guard, while the Miner was leveling up for that Cons -- he ran along rough terrain to another Dungeon! And who knew that the opponent would take exactly that road out of three? Otherwise the level-2 Conservatory would have been taken easily (with the external dwelling of Troglodytes and their summon) and Valya would have been finished by 117 even with a noob build

and in the reported game there was nothing either (no Conservatories, no external dwellings except for 3 Troglodyte ones -- just compensation for their scarcity)) from money buildings only a mini-Dwarf Cottage, the elevator blocks the Lizard horde, and the Miner's Tactics stubbornly wouldn't advance :( So I attacked them with basic Tactics -- and essentially crawling into the treasure zone with only Troglodytes, through which the generator laid a road -- and there I got crushed!
after that it was very hard to turn the game around, but I imagined what Valya was doing and tried to conquer another treasure zone, the Miner's stats were pleasing compared to Valya's -- but who knew that the treasure zone Valya had fled to stretches across the whole map like a snot and is shared with the Miner's! :eek:
as a result we didn't intercept them in the rush, but killed almost everything that could fight, except for the single Angel from the single Conservatory, alas -- no proper SMAC came out, and I couldn't handle deciphering the bugginess in such heat :cool:

thanks to the opponent for the game, I wish him a beautiful finale :)

AUUUUU!!!! =). Where is my opponent for the final? Organizers, are you even awake? You'll freeze! =)

Where is my opponent for the final?

With AYMAN, we decided to nominate me for the semi-final match against Roma (RomarioGrom), because Valentin was really waiting for it. :)
Update
In the semi-final at the beginning of the week, Roma forfeited, didn't want to take any units - I'm in the final. (I won't post a report - I wrote this for context, so to speak ;))

Well, this interesting and educational tournament has now become history. Huge thanks to the organizers and all participants. Now, the actual report on the final:
18.08.2010.
Wlk777(red, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) defLoi(blue, Rampart, Ivor, Ivor) 2smd4(3) 212
A chocolate draw for me. Spawned at the top, opponent had no restarts. Immediately in front of the castle - stables and an external dwelling of Manticores for 10-19 simple uniques and a major artifact (necklace +3\3 to knowledge/spell power). Several money heroes. On ICQ I bet I'd take that external dwelling on the first turn =). 111 - upgrade of Harpies, speed boost for everyone. 112-116 - external dwelling of Cats for 33 gr. Orcs (regarding the controversy of upgrading Harpies on 111), secondary Conflux, broken guard of the underground passage, there's an Inferno respawn there. 117 - killing 14 uniques with the loss of 1 Cat, almost all Troglodytes (there were few of them), 9 Evil Eyes, and a handful of Harpies. 1-6 in the fort with a portal (Cats). 121-122 pointless running around, 123 wanted to take the Griffin Conservatory throne but chickened out, not enough money to buy out everyone, took a minor Gnomium, gathered resources, bought out almost everyone, took the Griffin Conservatory on 124 - it was max-level, lost 5 Cats and 7 Manticores but survived. 125 - another Griffin Conservatory 3 (-1 Cat), 127 - on the edge of the treasure zone, a native external dwelling of Cats and Manticores =). On the third day I scour my native treasure zone but it's almost empty - besides the external dwelling of reds, not even a single hive, and generally little useful stuff; scout heroes take Inferno and reveal with their view a more lucrative treasure zone - on the edge a Dragon Utopia and a couple of hives - rush there, in the capital I build Mage Guild 4 (Resurrect, with rebuilding Town Portal, Fire Magic is available), in the Dragon Utopias a Book of Water magic and some stat boosts, full control and a solid economy by 137, pointless running around on the 4th, capture of the enemy capital, on 212 the finale where Ivor had no chance. Thanks for the game.

Wlk777(red, dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) def Loi(blue, Rampart, Ivor, Ivor) 2smd4(3) 212

That's what happened. I chose restarts, got a poor respawn, hid the Centaurs, saw a path through the wasteland to the grass, Conflux — decided to reroll based on the encounter — but the respawn turned out to be skewed and the path was somewhere in the corner of the map. Then I consumed three Griffin Conservatories, including with scouts, losing a ton of troops — as a result, on the third week I took the Utopia 3 with only 9 Angels and minimal overeating, came out with only 6 Angels, but the game gave me the Water Book for Expert Water Magic, immediately went into the grass treasure zone, there was Utopia 1 there — expecting guests any day now. The guests arrived on the fourth week — I moved the troops out and went through a Snow secondary zone into a Swamp treasure zone — unfortunately, it turned out to be quite poor, the calculation for a bunch of Trees to somehow even out the fodder failed. I tried to steal my growth, and there they attacked — with equal parameters, a significant advantage in magic and fodder buried Ivor in the lair :)
Thanks for the game and congratulations to Valentin on a well-deserved victory!

Big respect to him for winning the tournament, which he deserved like no one else!

The tournament may be small, but it was interesting to try something new. Valentine, congratulations on your victory:smile54: