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Fixed my computer and I'm ready to play in the tournament now!

09/27/2010 SEM_56 (red, Swamp, Vistan, Vistan) def Legionerdv (blue, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) 2sm4d(3) 145
Didn't play well, the pace was slow, but thanks to the opponent's mistakes, the victory came easily. Thanks for the game...

09/27/2010 SEM_56 (red, Swamp, Vistan, Vistan) def Legionerdv (blue, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) 2sm4d(3) 145
Didn't play well, the pace was slow, but thanks to the opponent's mistakes, the victory came easily, thanks for the game...

confirming, thanks for the game.

Group L

27.09.2010 AYMAN (blue, Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre) def theShevanesian (red, Fortress, Tazar, Tazar) 2sm4d(3), 215

It was a tough game.

We played again in a couple of sessions. Respawn is poor, no external dwellings. In the first one, I barely squeezed in uniques, took a secondary hero from Fortress, there was 1000 gold.

In the second, secondary heroes from Barbarian and Conflux. Had to beat a prison guard of nearly 100 ancient Earth Elementals (they ate all my Centaurs). Around day 125, I barely couldn't reach Kyrre towards Tazar and a scout hero with decent power near Conflux.

In the third, I broke money objects and bought everything fully + Wyverns from the Fortress. Have the Necromancer's sword, and the Skull Helmet at the respawn. In the middle of the third, I only just entered the treasure zone. Took the gold mine and ran into a horde of ancient Wyverns guarding a Dragon Utopia and the Titan's sword. Nothing to do but fight.

At the start of the fourth, I brought everything I could and attacked the Wyverns. Around 80 of them and those pests with Manticores wiped out all my stack (Centaur, 50+ Dwarves, 20 Dendroid Soldiers). After that, no idea how to take the Dragon Utopias ))). Took a Hive with 8 wyverns. And fell into thought. Kyrre leveled up terribly, as luck would have it. In the end, I decide. Brought a stack from the Fortress and took the first Dragon Utopia 2 squares, there was the Book of Water and junk. Then I take the Dragon Utopia 3rd square with whatever I had (there, they release all 11 uniques) and got the Wings. Blue Cap and Helm of Knowledge). In the end, I'm left with Hydras and Wyverns and a single Pegasus. But I have a plan to take the capital from Dima on day 147. But Dima recalled Tazar home on day 147, as if sensing trouble ))) had to run back home and set green units.

On day 211, fully bought and successfully swapping a quest for 12 ancient Efreeti, I take the Fortress capital with the Wings and buy in with the leftovers (Wyverns, Bulls, etc.). Meanwhile, the scout hero revealed the Necromancer's Shield (aha, third component), then I took Rampart, bought a few things there, and head towards where the red chain was going. Then I take an external dwelling of green units and spot Tazar with the lookout. And the scout hero picks up the Necromancer's Frame (the Armor is there, just need to assemble it all). But I decided not to drag it out and attack Tazar. After overestimating a bit, I had to flee in the end, since I had no Mass Magic and the Armageddon hit weakly. Plus Tazar had a decent army. Bought back with Kyrre, took the Frame from the scout hero, and wait for the remaining components. Cahl, meanwhile, takes the Shield on a Barbarian respawn, and Sorsha on her own respawn gets the Helm. Finally!!!!!.

On day 215, Tazar takes two Hives in the Barbarian treasure zone and positions dangerously for a speed boost. Bogh is nearby with a strong army. I pass all components through chains, assemble the Armor of the Damned, gather the remnants of my army, and catch Tazar, killing him. And then I get Bogh as well.

Thanks Dima for an interesting game!!!!!!!!

Group L

27.09.2010 AYMAN (blue, Rampart, Kyrr, Kyrr) def theShevanesian (red, Fortress, Tazar, Tazar) 2sm4d(3), 215

Yes, the game turned out to be sad. But interesting, and its outcome was decided by two moments)

On the first week I built 123456 in the castle, took several crypts, an external dwelling of Wasps and three external dwellings of Gnolls (had to run around a fair bit), secondary hero. On the second week - two Dragon Fly Hives - mini and pre-mini. I went cross-country to the second secondary hero - and then bam - my opponent captures it and almost reaches Tazar. Namely on that day I wanted to break the guard of the treasure zone and send a scout there (who on the very first day would have revealed two Dragon Utopias:((( ) There it is, the first insignificant moment. But I have to leave this area, while the elves on Tactics have nothing to oppose. True, there was a bunch of unrecruited troops, but there was little gold, and of the serious gold-producing buildings — only a mini-Naga Bank) So on the third week I went into another treasure zone, and ran around for two weeks, but found nothing valuable except a club +6 and a necklace for spell power and knowledge. All the Dragon Fly Hives I encountered were mini and pre-mini, resulting in Kyrr having one and a half times more army than Tazar at the time of the attack. Unlucky. And in the only serious battle, I lacked damage by 31 HP, Kyrr had one unit left and Kyrr fled. A near miss — the second moment.

In short, if I had gone into the other treasure zone, it would have been blessed. So, I need to scout better. Thanks for the game!

The leaderboards have been updated as of September 26th.
Completed games:
09/22/2010 Neverminder (Red, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) def FireToSky (Blue, Inferno, Marius, Marius) Mini-nostalgia 123 +++
09/23/2010 Kluka (Blue, Rampart, Kirr, Kirr) def Neverminder (Red, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) Mini-nostalgia 114 +++
09/24/2010 Javdet (Red, Rampart, Kirr, Kirr) def Erdem (Blue, Swamp, Taz, Taz) 2sm4d(3) 136 +++
09/24/2010 Hermit (Blue, Inferno, Pirra, Marius) def Erdem (Red, Swamp, Vistan, Vistan) 8mm6a 227 +++
09/25/2010 RomarioGrom (Blue, Flax, random, Fiur, Gunnar) def Hermit (Red, Inferno, Pirr, Pirr) Balance 137 +++

Statistics as of September 26th.
Total games played - 47.
Red won 20 games, and Blue won 27 games.

Templates.
2sm4d(3) - 22 (47%)
jebus cross - 9 (19%)
8mm6/8mm6a - 7 (15%)
Mini-nostalgia - 4 (8%)
balance - 5 (11%)

Castles.
The tournament features 6 Swamps, 6 Ramparts, 5 Confluxes, 5 Castles, 4 Dungeons, 4 Barbarians, 4 Infernos, 3 Necropolises, and 3 Towers.
Thanks to Scorpa, Keb and Gomulguls, Dungeon is unbeatable:
Dungeon +10-3
Conflux +5-3
Rampart +8-7
Castle +7-6
Inferno +5-5
Necropolis +2-3
Tower +3-5
Fortress +5-9
Stronghold +1-6

28.09.2010 OUTLAW(blue,Rampart,Ivor,Ivor) def numOne(red,Strong,Crag Hack,Crag Hack), 2SM4d(3), 1-4-3
I've already forgotten about rests. Here we start on slow roads; only 11 pointed-ears managed to gather with one building, but the layout of secondary towns is 3 x 1 in my favor. I ran around quite productively on the first week, took the Swamp as a secondary town, placed 1-3,6(+lizard external dwelling) there with 1k income; at home 1-6 with a castle, Ivor level 6 with fertile land. On the other 2 secondaries, they are blocked: medusa group on the teleport, and fanatics and ifrits blocked the road to the second one. Checked the consa(2-4) at the native respawn; there is another consa in the swamps. ГО - necromancer dragons or royal minotaurs. With fast roads, such a ГО would have fallen by the end of the 2nd week. On the second week, I decided not to rush. There are stables; Ivor quickly leveled up pathfinding to expert. Took consa(2), hive(8), painted my native secondary and the Tower. By the end of the week, I'm preparing to move Ivor into the Swamp for the 2nd consa and dive into the basement for the treasure room. On the 3rd week, Coronius arrives at the tavern, who had appeared with the opponent on the first week. He has a full set of units levels 1-3, but whenever there was an attempt to buy him, the game crashed; we loaded a few times, but again his purchase led to a crash. No idea what kind of nonsense that is? Maybe someone knows? Because of the elves, he was being stingy))). Took consa(4) and go to the treasure room, where there's Dragon Utopia(1) with +6 all, a couple or three hives, library. Along the way, I built up my native secondary to horses + elf external dwelling. Ivor already has expert logistics; only boots and gloves are missing. At the beginning of the 4th week, I take a shield+12 from the devils, eat a box for all air, and since there are no tasty objects left, I head to the Tower to replenish mana, from where I planned to DD to the metro the next day for the next treasure room. I level up Ivor on a royal gargoyle. Next move, the chain brings power with an incomplete new growth (double is an expensive pleasure), Ivor DDs to the metro, descends and there in 4 moves Crag is with several angels. I attack; there's +1 speed and tactics. They cast explosion on me, removing 50+ grand from 75; I cast mass slow and in 2 rounds kill 4 angels, not letting Crag escape.... A scout with the rest of the power was waiting nearby for a beatdown.... Surrender....
Thanks for the game!!

28.09.2010 OUTLAW (blue, Rampart, Ivor, Ivor) def numOne (red, Stronghold, Crag Hack, Crag Hack), 2SM4d(3), 1-4-3

Confirmed.
I had to pick all the restarts due to a lack of decent rolls, but ended up with something even worse — 1 long road down to the underground — group of zombies and a group of orcs below — I didn't push on the first turn, exits onto snow with no road. Gave Crag leadership and a ballista, ferried the ballista from Alrash — at least I could fight somehow. Cleared a mini Dwarf Cottage, revealed 2 Griffin Conservatories and 1 Hive on the respawn. Built Bigs in the fort, sleep before descending into the underground.
On turn 2 I go down, there are almost immediately 2 exits into treasure zones, cleared the dungeon, took some resources, nothing else interesting, return the troops to the home respawn to the scout hero who revealed an external dwelling of birds in the depths. Cleared the external dwelling, built a town, Crag with Earth.
On 131 the scout hero takes a 2-stack conservatory, Crag takes another 3-stack, a Hive on 8, shield 3/3, I split in the underground, go into a treasure zone. Immediately at the entrance I hit a Dragon Utopia — 3-stack — gave КЗ, КО, wings, and right then offered Fire — well, how could I refuse. :) Finally got Log. Then I decided not to go deeper into that treasure zone, since looking at the terrain showed that the second entrance was most likely from the opponent's home respawn — high chance of meeting.
In short, I ran around, bogged down bears, mastered Fire and Log, cleaned up a few more birds, and in principle I had a decent chance of winning, even with such an unlucky draw, if they hadn't caught me at the worst possible moment during the rush. By the way, I was already fully building up the dungeon, planning to go Black with Armageddon... but it wasn't meant to be.
I need to get myself together, or I might not even make it out of the group))

Thanks for the game!

I can play sometime this afternoon. Anyone interested?

29.09.2010 OUTLAW(red,Rampart,Kirya,Kirya) def zloy_romantik(blue,Necropolis,Izra,Izra), 2SM4d(3), 1-3-7
Start on slow roads, which more than justified starting as Kirya; necropolis in the basement, which is very good, and everyone got 2 secondaries. There is an external dwelling of horses, stables. Spent the first week clearly and usefully))). Took Castle secondary, houses 1-6 with a castle, there are 2 conservers, 2 hives. Painted the unicorn external dwelling. On 117 Kirya 7lvl with expert logistics and pathfinding; for the last 2 days she ran on a ser.pegasus. On 121 start with 3+++ to moves :cool: to stables; I've already forgotten when Kirya ran this fast in-game during the 1st week. The opponent has double....On the second, conserver(1) :mad: , cleaning up with chains what I didn't manage on the first; Kirya breaks max gold bank, no books and losing a fair amount of horses on moral legs(((. Then hive(8). Then second conserver and again mini :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: Planned to put angels in secondary, but stinginess at the end of the 1st and start of the 2nd week didn't allow me to get ahead with buildings even in the fort, although there was 30+K gold by the end of the second. Putting dragons at home. In castle, horses with stronghold. On the third, Kirya ate a box with 30 griffins, visited stables and galloped to take the last secondary Tower; there the overview showed treasure on lava, Dragon Utopia towers are visible, starting for them. There I managed to eat Pandora's box for experience—experted resist, have mass slow. 2 more utopias spotted, but the eater got stuck in the snows, waiting for delivery, doing scouting myself. The next day, spending the night before the utopia on the opponent's path, I see how Izra breaks through the utopia guard of 20-49 fanatics and dies inside the utopia itself, which turned out to be a max one. An attack on Kirya would not have brought success either, since Izra has absolutely no combat skills, little mana and no mass spells....
Thanks for the game!!

From today until Tuesday, I can play in the evenings (approximately from 6-7 PM Moscow time). It’s best to arrange things in advance on the forum.

09/29/2010 OUTLAW (red, Rampart, Kirr, Kirr) def zloy_romantik (blue, Necropolis, Izra, Izra), 2SM4d (3), 1-3-7
Confirmed. Thanks for the game.

02.10.2010 Erdem (Blue, Swamp, Tazar, Tazar) def RomarioGrom (Red, Conflux, Moner, Luna), 2sm4d(3), 121

I took all the rest, Roma didn't take them, it generated average roads, Tazar and Alcanraft with 2 stacks. On week 1 I ran pretty well, fought for money, robbed a chordal Dwarf Cottage, scouted 2 Griffin Conservatories and a Dragon Fly Hive by the road behind the obsidians, painted with a ransom for 3 external dwellings of hounds, 1 of gorgons, and 1 of wyverns (there was also a Basilisk dwelling, but behind a pack of Robin Hoods). Financial situation hinting at stability: visible are several Medusa dwellings, a Dwarf Cottage, and a Naga bank. On day 117 I took a dungeon secondary with portal build, Tazar lvl 5 with logistics, pathfinding, air, among artifacts a ring +1 hp. At home 1-6 in the Citadel. On day 121 I was about to take the Dragon Fly Hive with the Medusa dwellings, but Roma surrenders in the max Dwarf Cottage and concedes. =( Thanks for the game and time! =)

02.10.2010 Erdem (Blue, Swamp, Tazar, Tazar) def RomarioGrom (Red, Conflux, Monere, Luna), 2sm4d(3), 121

everything correct, I blew the chocolate) on the 1st day 1-7 in the fort + external dwellings of air and water with Luna recruited with 2 birds and 2 psychics, she spends the night at the Dwarf Cottage, Monya from the first day with a first aid tent:D didn't make it a couple of moves to Castle to buy out another 10k, and 2 Griffin Conservatories are compactly located near the entrance to the adjacent secondary, everything foreshadowed an excellent assault on the 2nd day, but without getting meat and without checking the Dwarf Cottage, I went in there, with maxed Haste it should have been normal, but 2 morale procs in the 1st round decided it all(
Thanks for the game!

Due to unforeseen circumstances, I am forced to withdraw from the tournament.

Good luck and have fun to everyone!