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Elimination Chamber: Round 2
24.07.2010 Kluka (red, Conflux, Monere, Monere) def Piterius (blue, Necropolis, Vidomina, Tamika) Anarchy (12) 141 SoD Unlim
Started without restarts.
Each got 3 castles.
111. Monere takes a pandora for 5K experience with 70 zombies, resulting in expert offense and logistics, basic earth. But then a stack of 30 faeries gets morale and wipes out my 15 :(
112. Captured one village. Nearby is a prison with a level 1 hero behind gremlins. I was afraid to take the faeries (and rightly so, it was a big stack). Should have hired the gnolls, didn't think of it, lost 3 air elementals. Found a passage to my 2nd castle through two 6K-guarded passages (earth elementals and a portal with hogs+golems). Near the third castle, I found an external dwelling of pixies and air elementals (behind magogs).
113. The armies of the two castles merged. Monere broke through the elementals (losses - swamp dweller), hogs (losses - prison dweller and 1 air elemental) and golems; from the other side, Deemer broke through a crowd of gogs for an obelisk. Nearby were boots guarded by 50+ gargoyles, decided it was too early. Monere took tactics instead of expert earth (no spellbook yet).
114. The outlines of the next village are visible. Scrying shows it's exactly under a blue-colored ore mine. But judging by the template, there should be another zone before the village adjacent to blue. Scouting revealed one portal with its guard cleared, probably near my 3rd castle.
115. Monere takes the second village and sits there to replenish mana. On the other road, there's a 3000 guard, leading to one of the opponent's secondary castles.
116. Marking time. Monere expertised tactics without getting expert earth, meaning no expert scrying :( Uland broke through the 3000 guard, then got distracted by a chest, - there was a pendant of the gravedigger :( On blue's turn, Vidomina came there on a centaur and ran into a crowd of goblins guarding a Griffin Conservatory. Earlier she showed zero skills, so she's clearly not the opponent's main hero.
117. I coveted a pile of gold, and was 1 tile short of capturing one of the Necropolises. In the third castle, I build the Mage Guild, and Sanya with 10 faeries breaks through the goblins, visits a well, and kills Vidomina. Blue's Wei kills Sanya, but she managed to destroy 3 vampires.
121. I take the Necropolis. In the tavern are Luna and Vidomina :) Vidomina on her army wipes out liches and orcs, Luna with 86 pixies attacks and accepts the enemy's surrender. After that, there's no money to transport the army. Monere breaks through to the next respawn (medusa-magog elevator), but there's a block of a huge stack of pegasuses guarding a pandora. Turnaround. Finally, expert earth!!!
122. Maxiuley! Losses: 2 water elementals, 3 air elementals, 8 fire elementals. Chain lightning scroll.
123. Finally picked up the boots (even then lost 4 air elementals)
124. Armageddon scroll! Though only 180 damage for now :(
125. Built birds, but was tempted by a chest and didn't bring them to Monere. Result: lost 1 firebird and 1 phoenix. Took an external dwelling of phoenixes, got a cap +4 and a cloak +2 to speed. Was 1 tile short of a Conflux (with a fort).
126. Marking time, captured a level 6 hive (guard - 49 griffins - formed a single stack. -1 wyvern).
Found an elevator to the central treasure zone. Monere sits replenishing mana; forgot to drop the army in the garrison :( Luna, instead of taking 20 pixies from the external dwelling, went towards the opponent with 7 faeries.
127. Again marking time. Luna opened scouting and destroyed 1 of the opponent's scouts; Galtran blocks her path to the village.
131. Scout took a gold mine. Burned 9 of my own fire elementals :( the pandora gave 20 huge griffins, a cloak +2+2
132. Took 20K experience, air spellbook, plate armor +12-3, +1 to speed (on top of existing +2)
Deemer duplicated in the last captured town (also a Conflux). So couldn't use one of the towns. The position wasn't key, so we decided not to interrupt the game.
Tamika takes a Griffin Conservatory on my respawn. Blue's Galtran destroys Luna at the cost of his 3 wyverns.
133. Using flight, the scout took the red orb. Stupidly lost two firebirds to 60 monks :( Monere takes pandoras for the entire 5th level and for 15K experience.
Blue's Roland appears in the central treasure zone from the other side.
134. Pandora with all air elementals. Using a cartographer, I reveal the entire top floor of the map. Scout -1 enemy scout. I'm about to disband to replenish mana and attack Roland, but notice that the central village has no tavern and lvl 1 Mage Guild. I disband to a location from which I can disband into the central village next turn.
Tamika with skeletons enters a zone adjacent to my first starting castle.
Galtran avenges Terek for the scout.
135. Roland moves right through the treasure zone, so the plan changes. The army, using the freed Ignham and the air spellbook, is transferred to the second starting castle; Monere disbands there and thins Roland's army with Armageddon. Roland surrenders.
136. I blundered, wasted a day marking time. Only took the sphere of fire. Surrendered the first starting castle to the opponent. The opponent took my first castle, having an army of huge vampires and 355 skeletons.
137. Dimension Door - well - 2 Dimension Doors - attack Tamika - Armageddon - Tamika surrenders with 85 skeletons.
141. 4 Dimension Doors, destroy Tamika and drive off Roland.
Surrender follows.
Thanks for the game!