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and what if you're up against a Necromancer, or the enemy has artifacts that reduce defense? Because you can reduce it quite a bit, and you'll end up with a negative value.

Does Wingael's ability affect him as well? oO

Let me tell you a secret: yes, it does. This is because the hero's initiative and his starting position depend on the initiative of the troops under his command. Therefore, there is a 90% chance that Wingael will go first. And that is enough to implement the tactic I described.

Damn! I'm such a loser! I couldn't even secure my rightful last place in the tournament! :( Imaris def WisTrit I'm leaving now, I'll write a recap when I get back. It was an interesting game.)

Well done, Imaris! Congratulations!

Why couldn't he? Everything is still ahead!

The game was long, and partially interesting. In short:
For the first four weeks, I was struggling with some nonsense, I emerged from the underground, wandered around, fought on locations, and captured cities. By the third week, I visited Imarisik's territory, and, to my dismay, he was located in the farthest point of the map. Imarisik immediately attacked me, singing military hymns and making "olololo" sounds; in one turn, my hero was defeated and lost 80% of his army (I already wrote about this). And then... SUDDENLY, one of the flea-ridden fur-bearers lost his internet connection, and we loaded the autosave. Of course, the little wolf started to panic, "OH, I DIDN'T REACH IT" "OH, I DON'T WANT TO" "X(". In the end, he attacked the next turn, defeated my army due to initiative, and ran away (not like the first time). Following the trail left by Imarisik's damp trousers, I reached his city, having previously delivered the main character's army. It turned out that the wolf had three times more troops there than I thought, and there was also a siege of the castle. I ran away. Imarisik had some of his army remaining.
I bought a hero in the nearest dungeon, very close to the Wolf, and divided the hunters into small units. This risky move almost succeeded, but at the end of the battle, I clicked in the wrong place and cast the damn earthquake instead of raising a corpse. That's how it happened.

Vistrit, don't make excuses, the player did well, and he'll learn to play even better and beat everyone. By the way, please write down the faction and main hero for each player, because it's not very informative as it is.

I’m not making excuses; I just described the situation as it is. I lost, and that’s that; it happens.

At first, I took two restarts, I don't remember why (maybe I didn't like the races). The first time (before the restarts), by the way, each of the Stronghold Elves had a victory). I didn't take Vis as a restart, so I defeated the Dark Elves with the High Elves. I played with the hero Talannar, Vis was Iranne. I initially wanted to level up in the same way as in the game with Arca (i.e., take a Stronghold), but that's difficult, ideally, the Stronghold would be at level 25. I finished the game on the second try. And as I built the guild, I noticed that there was poor Light magic and good Chaos magic. I abandoned the basics of Light and switched to Chaos. I bought Sar-Issa's robe +6 to spell power, and before the battle with Vis, I upgraded the druids to blue, which also give a bonus. But that was the second battle, because we had met earlier on the map. Vis quickly captured a hundred cities all over the map, and as soon as I emerged on the surface and captured one, Vis appeared out of nowhere. I attacked him, killed the dragons, and ran away. I surrendered, or rather, I saved the druids, because I really needed them. Because it was hot there. After a while, Vis came to my city. But I was no longer that newbie with forty druids, which made up the main army; I bought 11 dragons and a lot of other things in the city. Vis also got stronger, of course, but his armies were much weaker than mine. But he cast spells fiercely, which is the main danger of the Dark Elves. I did destroy his catapult after its first shot, but soon I came out of the walls myself, because he showered me with spells. In short, I left him with one witch, and he left me with the ents (there were many left), unicorns, and all the druids. I immediately went to the city that I had owned for a short time. And there, to my surprise, Iranne was sitting with a squad of archers. There were ten elves there. But Vis wisely killed me while all the elves were invisible; he showered me with his house spell. He also summoned a phoenix, which caused a lot of trouble. And I somehow managed to break through the castle walls and went there with ents and unicorns to find the sneaky invisibles. I also cast spells with the hero. Oh, it's a pity that I didn't have a meteor shower spell; I would have quickly defeated them all. But I only had a wall of fire and stone spikes. While I was killing them all, Vis and the phoenix ate my horde of druids (fortunately, I had divided it before the battle; I foolishly hoped that they would go first and defeat the archers one by one). In the end, I completely messed up; Vis had one archer left, who had even revealed himself (came out of invisibility). And I somehow messed up and forgot about him. As a result, instead of killing him with the hero, I put up a wall of fire, and the phoenix ate my fifteen unicorns. I survived with 16 wild ents. But I killed the hero and took a lot of artifacts. Then I went to invade his other castles, and after a while, Vis got tired of it and surrendered. P.S., to Vis's post. I said that yes, I would attack, and I did attack. I just didn't click on the right chest (well, damn, we had a very long break after that, I even forgot how I got to you then). Well, I attacked on the next turn, what's the big deal? And about the fact that I clicked on the wrong one, there's really no excuse; you wouldn't have destroyed 16 ents with a phoenix and an enhanced earth shock.

Vis somehow quickly captured a hundred cities across the map, and as soon as I emerged on the surface and captured one, Vis suddenly appeared out of nowhere. I attacked him, killed the dragons, and ran away. He surrendered, or rather, I saved the druids because I really needed them. Because it was hot there.

Oh, lol, is that some kind of tactical move? Like a sudden internet outage? :cool:

And about you clicking in the wrong place, there's no excuse for that. You wouldn't have taken down 16 ents with a phoenix and an enhanced earth shock.

That phoenix that killed 15 unicorns with one hit couldn't handle 16 ents? And considering that as the hero, you could only kill one ranger per turn, I would have been raising the others one by one. Plus, I have magic, so I move more often. The fact that you didn't notice is your mistake, yes. The earthquake was also my mistake, but I'm not saying it's not my fault, I just messed up. Nival is to blame, those jerks, I'll find them in real life and beat them up.

P.S. I'm not completely crazy to use earth shock on ents while they're wearing cloaks

NIVAL IS TO BLAME, YOU MORONS. I'LL FIND YOU IN REAL LIFE AND BEAT YOU UP.

Yes, they made a bad game.

I don't understand much about playing as the Dark Elves, but I know that the basis of their strategy is hit-and-run. If anything, instead of wasting the army, you could attack with just the Rangers, slowly eliminating the Druids and other dangerous units. And only when you're confident, attack with the entire army. Here, you shouldn't blame the game, but yourself.

Isn't rushing the foundation of their strategy? O_o Not waiting until the enemy has, say, 11 dragons, but attacking when they don't even have any dragons yet. Especially against Sylvan. But as Vistrit wrote, they were in different corners of the map, so it's fair play :)

Lords, am I saying that the game is to blame, and I'm a genius? I made a risky move, and it didn't work out. And I was so close, I just missed, that's the point. Hit-and-run is a very unstable tactic, and what if the wolf has shackles?
Although I like Dungeon, partly because the gameplay revolves around risky moves, I still haven't learned how to play it well. And I haven't learned how to play well in general.

Isn't rush the foundation of their strategy?

Not necessarily always a rush, although it's the most reliable.

but I never learned how to play her well. And I never learned how to play well in general.

LOL! NOOB!

Isn't rushing the foundation of their strategy?
But as WisTrit wrote, they were in different corners of the map, so it wasn't a rush.

See, you answered your own question. And rushing is unlikely; I associate it more with undead or heroes like Kaspar, Hafiz, and Daleb.Although, on smaller maps, something might come of it.

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Hit-and-run is a very unstable tactic; what if the wolf has shackles?

It's easily checked with a scout.