Posts from “Who is stronger?” – Evil versus Good: reports and summaries.

SylarOff (Orcs, Krag) lost to Vip.rus (Mages, Jarlib), Spider, week 5
Krag practically didn't put up any resistance. Apparently, the opponent is still learning. I wish him success in this difficult endeavor. In the game, I defeated the Guardian of Order on Chaos and Machines and went to the opponent's base.

Will's Letos dungeon, defeated Igrok, Humans, Laslo, end of the 2nd month, M3
No restarts, generated level 2, level 1, and a guard post for levels 4-5-6. Developed slowly - received a log around the 2nd month. At the end of the first month, met Laslo. Letos attacked, but for some reason didn't run into the well that was near Laslo. In the battle, he had enough mana to kill 80 archers, but he lost furies and several witches and retreated. Laslo turned out to have machines and a celestial shield. Then he traveled with witches, furies, and assassins, broke through to the treasure room where he saw the Skull of Markal and attacked a hundred dark knights, which turned out to be almost 200. He simply didn't have enough mana and was defeated. He had to spend a week replaying and on the second attempt, he finally killed them (a mana ring bought in the castle helped). At the same time, he was leveling up Kaspar, who also managed to lose 15 hydras. Then Kaspar ran to inflict hit damage with skilled chaos, but it turned out that Laslo had gauntlets. At the end of the 2nd month, Laslo, who was clearing the second treasure room, lost archons and incas, and Letos chased him towards the human castle. They met in the field. The humans still had a ton of troops, but they didn't have light, which decided the outcome. 60 paladins were taking out almost everything with one hit, but they were charmed and then chaos finished them off. Thanks for the game.

Y11 (Sylvan, Dungeon) defeated sir_moz (Haven + all mages, Mages) - 2-1-3 spider.

Bolivar (Dwarves, Erling) won against Kontr (Demons, Jeza), M3, end of the 2nd month, 2nd turn. What can I say, the plan was to drag it out as long as possible. The light faction was nerfed too much in the tournament rules. Oh well, I chose it myself. In the end, the demon arrived on the 4th week and I encountered him in an adjacent zone. The demon had levels 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 troops, all upgraded. They were annoying, but there weren't many of them – about 60, he must have lost some in previous battles. The rest were almost at their maximum. The dwarf had levels 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7, with only the elders upgraded. Also at maximum strength. In terms of tavern units, the demon was stronger, but there was nothing to be done, so I attacked. As a result, the demon fled with 1 Javelin Thrower, 1 Imp, and 1 Succubus. I was left with about 17 Elders, fifty Pikemen, and 20 Warriors. Things started to look better. However, to wage these cockroach wars, I had to buy a lot of junk and give it to the necessary heroes; they leveled up a bit – otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to defeat the demon's upgraded cockroaches. Also, my pace was slower – the demon, with the Path of War skill, continued to clear paths, while I didn't risk running along the path he had cleared towards his castle – I decided that I would only waste time. I leveled up to level 20, took a teleport in the city, and started wandering around. Eventually, I came to the demon's city from the other side, hoping to disrupt his pace. It worked – Jeza was forced to teleport back to her city. I didn't fight Jeza – it was impossible in terms of strength at that moment. I teleported home, realized where the treasure was, and went there. The demon, in turn, also went to the treasure, but to the second one. I entered the treasure, and saw that it was the one from which I had returned the demon when I came to his city – the Tree of Knowledge was unguarded. But there were still interesting artifacts – the Staff of the Underworld and the Tome of Chaos – in the city, there was only Earth Shock, and there was nowhere to learn Armageddon. I spent 14 Yggdrasil on these two artifacts. Well, then Jeza came to my city. I teleported home (although with the demon's Death Stride, it wasn't a great option for me, but at least it gave me an extra stack of Warriors). My opponent let me perform the ritual, so Erling's magic skill was around 40. In the city battle, I decided to eliminate the Temptresses at once, so I wouldn't have to worry about them anymore. The rest of the troops looked for fire resistance runes to cast Armageddon, and half of the stacks found such a rune. And then the connection was lost. We decided to finish the game later, but Kontr wrote that he wouldn't be able to finish it in the near future, and he conceded, as he estimated his chances at 10%. I almost forgot – Inga arrived in the middle of the game, leveled up to around level 16, and learned everything except Resurrection. Thank you for the game. It was interesting and educational for me. P.S. I actually thought the demon had a much better chance. Although Erling had skillful magic with Frost Nova, and he could eliminate a stack of demons in 1-2 casts, Death Stride is still a powerful ability. Plus, I got the Elder skill, but Jeza couldn't use it – apparently, if a summoned stack also uses a rune in the tournament rules, it skips its turn. Probably a bug.

valery (Hell, Jez) lost to Smerti_Po (Mage, Hafa) on Sun, week 3.

The opponent forfeited, considering the situation hopeless.

Thanks for the game.