Posts from Frenzy Attack II - LH International League tournament - template 2sm4d(3).

The opponent decided to play as Dungeon, and I chose Fortress. After his respawn, the initial distribution was interesting: both secondaries had ranged units – lizardmen and archers. However, on his respawn, there were 4 conservatories (2 directly on the path, and two not very far in the swamp, although one is quite far away) and a Hive. I checked the first conservatory – it was minimal, but we'll play anyway... The result of the first week was Hydras in the Fortress without Cows. In the second week, I started exploring the swamp, naturally, after the first conservatory, already with Angels. Tazar had no Logistics or Pathfinding, and Logistics was never given to him. He quickly learned Earth Magic, but he didn't get Slow. I won't tell you about the difficult moments I experienced in all these conservatories; I lost many troops and even one Hydra, but by the end of the second week, I had 8 Angels, and I built a Stronghold in the capital. The Global Order was many Chaos Hydras, and they were located in the swamp, but I didn't have Slow... I decided to go to the underground secondary. I captured Inferno underground... in the third week. I saw Utopia in the treasury, then another one, learned Slow and increased my spell power in Inferno, took Utopia, Hive, then another Utopia. I have a Cloak of Negation, a Book of Fire, a Sword and Shield of Titan, and it seems that Tazar is ahead of Shakti in terms of parameters. I quickly move to the capital, replenish mana, break the Global Order, and almost reach the opponent's capital. Shakti moves there, and I attack him in the city, and at first, I regretted attacking. According to the parameters, Shakti is only slightly behind Tazar, and in terms of troops, if he is behind, it's not by much. He is also in the castle and has two ranged units: Medusas and Spectres, against one of my stacks of lizards shooting over the wall, and he also has one more Angel. Then I noticed that Shakti has very little mana and nothing massive against my expert Slow. Only basic dispel. I even regretted attacking with the Cloak of Negation; after all, the Book of Fire, almost one and a half hundred spell points, 25% resistance... His troops were dealing more damage to mine, but I started hitting them with Lightning, and the opponent, seeing that I have a lot of mana, still brought out his Angels and Troglodytes from behind the walls, and I quickly killed them (Tazar, after all). Well, and then my Wyverns flew over the wall and killed his Medusas and Spectres; it's good that there was no Petrification, and the lizards and the remaining Gnol and Basilisks killed the Minotaurs.

Thank you for the game.

    I took two restarts, and the opponent started first. Despite starting underground, the map distribution was reasonably good. I also managed to get to the grass area, where there were dungeons. I took a near-maxed dungeon and didn't have enough troops left to take another dungeon that was nearby, but I didn't want to leave it. I took a gamble, and it turned out to be a maxed dungeon :( I lost. But still, at turn 121, I had an expert-level earth and a total of 8 rounds of slow, and I went to a scouted conservatory 2 near the castle. However, I went there with such a meager army: only 12 magogs, 4 efreets, 9 demons, and unupgraded imps for distraction. The griffons started to boost their morale and immediately killed all the imps :(, and then the rest of the troops :( :( :( Yes, I could have played better...

    Thank you for the game.