Posts from "Newcomer-2011. Summer"

Comrade Alexey-omsk, I haven't been able to reach you on ICQ for two weeks now. I saw you in Hamachi, I wrote there, but you're not responding either. Maybe you can answer here when we can play?

Yeah, I can't get in touch with him either...

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Group B is on fire... 1 game a month=)

Group B is on fire... 1 game per month =)

Actually, it's already 3, as far as I know.

P.S. What will happen to the results of the matches that were played by those who withdrew?

By default, all unplayed matches will be assigned a score of zero for both players. Those who have already played 1+ matches and withdraw from the tournament will not be replaced.If a player has not played 50% of the games, they will be disqualified from the tournament, and all results will be annulled. If they have played 50% or more, all remaining players will be awarded victories.

If a player hasn't played 50% of the games, they are disqualified from the tournament, and all their results are annulled. If they have played 50% or more, all remaining players are awarded victories.

But what about those who played against them and won?

30.07.11 Tomash(Red, Castle, Waleska, Waleska) def ariputra (Blue, Temnica, shakti, shakti) 2sm4d(3) 127

спс за игру!

Tomash (red, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) def Ariputra (blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) 2sm4d(3) 127

We selected all restarts, among which there was a wildly sweet layout with a native adjacent zone behind light guards and an external dwelling of archers and angels... but had to play with what there was.

Valeska brought only 11 archers; the first 2 days I mostly just scouted, fought off the scouting, saw ГО, and part of the opponent's respawn with a stable and a descent into the metro. Found the archer external dwelling, upgraded it, got a stack of 30, cleared a crypt, went to check the Griffin Conservatory and Dwarf Cottage, Griffin Conservatory 100+, Dwarf Cottage small, turned out to be 15, took it. Lots of money; foolishly invested a thousand, and immediately realized that either horses or the Citadel, something would have to be sacrificed... scouted the descent into the metro on my own respawn, and a passage along the road to the swamp, lost a day moving Valeska, but managed to clear both in time, I think. On the other side of the metro 50+ Magogs, decided not to mess with them, went into the swamp, reached the castle on day 161, built a Wyvern, in the home castle horses without the Citadel. According to the tavern, the opponent hadn't taken the adjacent zone yet; I feel a tempo advantage, and the growth of archers and horses+Wyverns suggests rushing through the metro, which judging by everything should be a common adjacent zone.
The last day of the week I spent scouting the swamp, clearing a chain of treasure chests and a +2 SP artifact; this allowed buying both Wyverns and horses on day 121, but due to greed the chain didn't work out, so the Magogs were cleared on day 122, also managing to find another Griffin Conservatory 100+ behind Grand Elves; I wasted 1 horse on them due to morale, and scouted another one in the swamp. Valeska only entered the underground on day 123, but reached the castle the very next turn, bought a spell book, started scouting, and then I see activity on the opponent's respawn, and Shakti is going into the metro... In the tavern I see he has already taken the adjacent zone, and the tempo advantage is no longer so obvious, especially if fighting in the underground with expert tactics and Troglodytes with speed 7... I think it's worth leaving the dungeon, returning to the main, taking at least 2 Griffin Conservatories on day 131, and then attacking; at the same time, I scouted in the swamp that the Griffin Conservatory is also 100+, so a stack of 9-12 angels by day 131 becomes more and more tempting, and the prospect of fighting Shakti in the underground becomes more and more unpleasant.
Before I could think all this through, the opponent emerges from the darkness and stops 1 square away from Valeska. He has 10-19 Evil Eyes and Medusas, 5-9 Minotaurs, and a measly 50-99 Troglodytes; I have 50 archers, 6 Swordsmen, 54 Pikemen, 3 horses, 4 Wyverns. I couldn't decide what to do for a long time; after all, if they block my shooters... To start with, I ran into the castle; there, behind the walls, the victory of my 50 archers is obvious. I built a Vortex, 80 mana is already something. The opponent apparently thought completely differently, decided he had no chance and, standing in front of the castle, wrote for me to attack and end the unsuccessful game for him; the respawn seemed poor in money... Well, I felt my advantage, especially the potential one in the form of 3 Griffin Conservatories 100+, and didn't want a trade-off, but seeing that the opponent had exposed himself like that, I also built a Mighty Gorgon in the dungeon, got Bolt and Lightning; Valeska with SP 4, 80 mana and expert Water Magic could cast on day 130 for 6 mana - I decided I could attack.
There was no battle as such; having the same speed as the Troglodytes and Minotaurs, my archers, because I was attacking, moved first, and the opponent set up on tactics for a direct arrow shot, resulting in immediately losing a stack of Troglodytes, 130 damage from a Bolt to the Minotaurs, and Ariputra surrendered.

Thanks for the game; I don't know if I assessed our strengths correctly, but the ending seemed to me like it could have been tense if Shakti had managed to attack Valeska before she had Bolt, only with the Arrow spell at 70, and having the advantage of first strike due to the hero's attack. Then, most likely, there would have been a trade-off, maybe in my favor, but definitely with the loss of the archer stack, and without archers I wouldn't have taken the Griffin Conservatories; taking the castle from the dungeon with just horses and Pikemen is almost impossible. In short, we could have kept fighting, probably.
Regardless, thanks for an excellent game; I got a ton of adrenaline

What did those who played with him and won do wrong?

And what did those who didn't have a chance to play against him do wrong?

CryptoNight (red, Rampart, Mephala, Mephala) def AG(blue, Castle, Valeska, Turis ) 2sm4d(3) 214
I really enjoyed the game—I pulled through from an unreal *opp))):smile19: But let's take it step by step—the start was simply phenomenal—there was a lot of money at the respawn and an external market, and as a result, uniques in the Castle)
I lost one unique to 45 ogres with a GR stack(((((But he remained the only one lost)) on 122 I broke through to the second dungeon and hung out there)
By the beginning of the 3rd week, I saw that the opp had broken through to my main via the second, I split up and chased him—but he never accepted battle((( after that, I split into the dungeon again and started clearing the first treasure zone (if you can call it that)—except for 4 hives with 28 wyverns—there was nothing there((( then near the Castle I took one more max hive and rushed to the 2nd treasure zone—it wasn't much there either—2-3 hives and one max Dragon Utopia (which gave an admiral's hat and a bag of money))) and shield +12-3 and a cap +4+4 Also, it turned out there were 2 bibls +2 to everything which I also ate))
After that, with decent stats and no battle magic, I went to the opp where I saw 26 horses and 11 angels on the same spot—I attacked (forgetting to put on shackles) and he ran away after losing half his horses and a couple of angels) Then I attacked the Castle with Turis—who failed to defend it)))
thx for the game)))
P.S. I played 5 games—the same as heroin)) I take it I don't need to play anymore?

CryptoNight (red, Rampart, Mephala, Mephala) def AG(blue, Castle, Valeska, Tyrus) 2sm4d(3) 214

it was, thanks for the game...
The start of the game turned out to be very drawn out — three restarts on each side, a technical restart in the middle due to water and a shipyard appearing out of nowhere near the opponent's castle, and at the end an eighth restart, this time mine — the only road was blocked by a horde of unicorns that blocked not only the path to the opponent, but also the path to a secondary, so I gladly used the right to a restart due to a block — because the heroes and the immediate surroundings of the castle were quite dismal.
So, we started playing for the last time, now definitively...
From the start, Tyrus appeared in the tavern, and I decided to level him — after all, horses are much more interesting than bows, and the starting tactics is a useful thing.
I conjured 23 archers and ran along the road towards the secondary... on the third day I broke through the path to the secondary from a pack of wood (16-17 pieces, I don't remember exactly), losing a few gremlins there, after which the next day I reached the secondary and, after taking out a couple of pegasi and dwarves with elves, captured it. At the same time, I built the guild and taught Tyrus various wisdoms — fortunately, the guild had both Haste and Slow. By the end of the first week, I built horses in the castle, since the stable was in the screen from the castle with a direct path and no guard... As a result of scouting, I also found two Griffin Conservatories and two Dragon Utopias, one of the Conservatories was poorly guarded but was uncertain (2-4), but the other was guarded by a horde of mighty gorgons, so I decided not to go there for now, and to break into the main castle and go the other way for the second secondary... There I found a path to the opponent, another Conservatory (this time a single one, which I took immediately) and a medusa hut right past the path.
Since I almost had no money by that time, and the only money-producing buildings besides the Dragon Utopias were one crypt and an imp dwelling, and I needed to pick up troops and somehow open the Conservatories/Dragon Utopias — I decided to break through to the medusas, scout them out, and run back — for the remaining Conservatories and Dragon Utopias. Then the opponent came running, but after looking with a scout hero at his army I decided I couldn't handle him yet, so I continued my plan and broke into the secondary. With the next growth, I took out the gorgon without problems and scouted a level-two Conservatory, then took a walk up for a third Conservatory, which turned out to be a level-three. I immediately checked the Dragon Utopia that was nearby — it turned out to be the maximum, which seemed like an impossible task; fortunately, I had time to run down to the second Dragon Utopia, which turned out to be the minimum and gave itself up without trouble... At the start of the fourth week, I finally built the Portal of Glory, took the maximum Dragon Utopia, and went into the treasure zone for the remaining Dragon Utopias and wyverns. There I also discovered an external dwelling of horses and angels, which I captured by the end of the month. Along the way, in Pandora's Boxes, I conjured another 20 mighty swords and 10 horses... after which I flew to the cyclops at the opponent's secondary and jumped into the castle. At this point I already had all the magic — three books except fire, and fire obtained from a Pandora's Box. In the castle, I built an upgraded Portal of Glory to upgrade at least some of the angels and guarantee first strike (I even had to sell dragon scale armor for the portal itself; upgrading all of them at once was out of the question). However, I made a mega-fail by sending all the angels and horses along with the scout hero to the stables and not buying a hero to bring them back to the castle... Just at that moment, the opponent decided to go on the attack, which turned out to be very timely on his part — the horses and angels went to the tavern almost in full force, and Tyrus with the meat ended up under siege. There were also several smaller fails in the battle, which caused me to lose :(

P.S. A question, what about Heroin? Will there be someone in his place, or are we left with a "trimmed" group? If not — then I've already played all my games.

It’s a pity they excluded the heroine. Let’s play against someone from group “E” tomorrow, or tonight. It would be interesting to see, for example, how the right to participate in the tournament is defended against the organizer. I think it would only be beneficial, and it would be fair.

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If anyone would like to see the organizer play against the heroine, let me know.

It's a shame that the heroine was excluded; let's play against someone else in group "E" tomorrow, or tonight. It would be interesting to see, for example, how the right to defend her participation in the tournament against the game organizer would play out. I think it would only be beneficial, and it would be fair.

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If anyone would like to see the organizer play against the heroine, let me know.

I apologize in advance for the off-topic post.
I assume the Organizer is already busy. And one game doesn't seem very objective. I suggest Sir Heroin play against someone else first (me, for example; I play about as well as the Organizer), which would be even fairer. I'm ready to play tomorrow morning.

Hey, fellow players from group "E", let's play a game tomorrow, or tonight.

Why bother posting if you're not going to play? Right after your post, I offered to play (waited for 3 hours), but you went offline without even responding:smile51:

P.S. And this isn't the first time a question about playing has been ignored. At least sometimes answer in ICQ.

Amiloo (blue, Inferno, Marius, Marius) def Snalce (red, Dungeon, Gunnar, Gunnar) 2sm4d(3) 212
On the first, he took the external dwelling of efreets and placed them in the citadel, then hung around on the main for an entire week, but it didn't fix the gold crisis. On the 3rd, he went to look for the treasure zone, found 2 whole ones. Collected a couple of Dragon Fly Hives, on the 4th he took a minimal Dragon Utopia, bought out the remaining units, demon-summoned a hundred demons, and came to his opponent. Took the castle with almost no guards, and that was the end of it.

Why bother posting if you weren't planning on playing? Right after your post, I suggested a game (waited for 3 hours), but you went offline without even replying:smile51:

P.S. And this isn't the first time a question about playing has been ignored. At least sometimes answer in ICQ.

:smile51: It just turned out that now, we are all people and everyone has their own things to do. And there's no need to generalize; each individual case is unique.

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KiNB Maybe we can play now?

marader-kisa (red, Stronghold, Garrison) def AlexLion (blue, Swamp, Westan) 147
In the first battle at the Stronghold, 123457
126, the first encounter, Westan flees the battlefield.
In the third battle, Cyclops in the Castle.
141, we defeat 153 Golden Golems guarding the Book of Earth, and immediately rush to the opponent.
Thanks for the game!