Posts from Reports of online games and their confirmations (Winter season 2011-12).

20.12.2011 Juristis (blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Pire) def Dimast (red, Castle, Turis, Turis) Jebus 135
Started without restarts, slow roads, I decided to play, Dima did too. 3 stacks with Shakti, near the castle a hive behind the wood, not far from the Griffin Conservatory, there is Pire with a ballista.
111 - I take mini pickups, checked the conservatory, level two.
112 - I didn't separate the single units and lost 15 troglodytes and a wyvern on a gold mine. Found a couple of external troglodyte dwellings and an external manticore dwelling for 10-19 gr nagas. Taking nothing yet.
113 - I take a pandora's box for 22 gr dwarves, hoping for all level 1 (book with Shakti already present). They give even better - 80 troglodytes. I get wrecked. Found a second external manticore dwelling, Pire is heading towards it. Found a magic cape, wonderful, since haste is there, but only 1 spell point.
114 - Pire takes the external dwelling, I place a portal, Shakti breaks the conservatory. Scouted the Dragon Utopia - 100+ mages, and right behind them 20+ giants. Unpleasant.
115 - Shakti finds another external manticore dwelling, takes it immediately. Before that, killed a manticora on demons, with morale. Pire breaks 3 crypts, they give air. Scout reveals part of the center, right behind the Dragon Utopia 2 pandora's boxes for hydras, and a chalice for a horde of wood. Nice.
116 - Shakti gets destroyed and goes for the 3rd external manticore dwelling behind nagas. Near the secondary swamp, 3 hives and boots are discovered.
117 - Shakti hits nagas, loses some single units, then takes the external dwelling. Home levels 1-4,6 in fort with portal. Chain takes the secondary swamp, Pire goes there gets killed and takes 2 hives and a battle axe +2, they give offense, I risk it and take it.
121 - Pire takes the boots, a pandora's box for all level 2, the third pickup near the swamp and a medusa dwelling. Level 9, air advanced, offense expert. Shakti takes the berserkers' dwelling, also level 9, with wisdom and logistics. Scouted a speed cape near the home Dragon Utopia.
122 - preparation. Scorpicore upgrade.
123 - Pire breaks the dwarven dwelling, needs a level, discovered 5th pickup behind snipers, places himself next to it. Shakti takes the cape for 70 vampires with a griffin conservatory (buffed wyvern), and checks the Dragon Utopia - small one.
124 - Shakti takes the Dragon Utopia without magic, minimal losses, they give the diplomat's hat. Ate both angels and about 40 troglodytes. Pire takes the pickup, upgrades air on a chest, speed boost before the Dragon Utopia, we monitor the opponent with air scout. Thought he was already in the center. I have Pire 10-6-5-4, 21 scorpicores, 31 wyverns, 170 troglodytes.
125 - I hit mages with mass haste, scorpicores are beauties, they get morale immediately. I lose 2 wyverns and some troglodytes. Fly over the giants, take the central outpost and immediately hit hydras, 14 with a griffin conservatory. Pandora's boxes for 15k gold and 5k experience, have wisdom and armor. Then hit the wood and take the chalice.
126 - I take max hive and center swamp, replenish mana.
127 - I hit diamond golems for a pandora's box, they gave 15 minotaurs. Immediately a Dragon Utopia and a shield +4 to everything behind nagas, we take them. In the Dragon Utopia, sandals and titan's plate armor. Stats 17-14-20-10 without the chalice. Home castle, in 2 swamps wyverns.
131 - Reinforcements transport, I kill about 30 giants with a griffin conservatory, opening a passage for heroes. I hit necro dragons for a prison and a pandora's box, in the prison Aenain level 5, he takes the pandora's box, and there's all earth magic, so desired for Pire. It was a shame, and I didn't build the Mage Guild, not replenishing mana.
132 - Aenain kills a horde of minotaurs, takes max naga bank, they give water and armor, being stingy with earth. Pire sits in the swamp and upgrades wyverns.
Then I went to the opponent, on 135 Force Battle.
Pire 17-15-21-11, expert logistics, artillery, air, attack, wisdom, earth and armor. 34 scorpicores, 9 gr minotaurs, 49 gr wyverns, 18 minotaurs, 52 troglodytes.
Turis - 17-9-3-4, 6 angels, 10 wyverns, 6 cavalry, 47 crusaders, 100+ marksmen and halberdiers, 12 monks.
Mass haste after the wait and Dima comes out. Not lucky with the layout there, only external dwellings of archers and knights, also 1 Griffin Conservatory, and a couple of pickups. Plus he didn't get haste anywhere, with expert air. Thanks for the game.

12/21/2011 SolncevKoT (red, random, Rampart, Gem, Dessa) def Soroka (blue, random, Castle, Cuthbert, Orin) 2SM4d(3) 132
Nice, but not enough, as this is only the third victory.

12/21/2011 dom2 (blue, random, Castle, Sorceress, Tazar) def SolncevKoT (red, random, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) 2SM4d(3) 137

19.12.2011 Juristis (red, Inferno, Marius, Luna/Tazar) def Hitch (blue, Stronghold, Gretchin, Dessa) 2sm4d(3) 131
I finally decided to play Inferno for the first time. The first roll made me happy: 2 native heroes, an external dwelling of imps, lots of gold, but I lost to the "dregs on grass" while trying to get to the adjacent zone. Inferno army showed its fragility; afterwards, I was more cautious. Then there were 2 more, again decent rolls: the first with a double-build, Crag Hack, Clavius, an external dwelling of imps; the second with external dwellings of demons and devils. But my opponent restarted.
The game. I spawned at the top (just like the 3 previous times). Two native heroes come in: Tazar, then Luna, some gold is found, artifacts are scattered around. And then a crisis with ore hits; mines are cut off by mountains; as a result, I had to build a market, and the efreet cost as much as 116. Took an external dwelling of gogs, Luna on 116 finally advances Fire Magic, I break through 2 adjacent zones, Tazar on a pegasus jumps into an empty Conflux (was quite lucky this game, all things considered). At the corner of the spawn, a Griffin Conservatory is scouted. End of the first week: efreet in the Citadel, gold ran out, resources are scarce, and it's not very clear where to get more. Tazar is level 4 with Offense and Air, Luna is level 5.
121 — Luna gets expert Fire Magic, finds a Shield +4 in a skeleton and rushes home for mana. Tazar recovers some gold, a scout hero checks the Griffin Conservatory, it's a tier 2.
122 — Luna picks up Cloak 2-2, heads to the Griffin Conservatory. Tazar stays put; not a single (!) income structure has been found; what to do is completely unclear; there is an idea to break through the GO at the end of the week, but it's quite an adventurous one.
124 — Pit Fiend upgrade, Luna takes the Griffin Conservatory, still no gold.
125 — Found a Griffin Conservatory not far from the Conflux; Luna kills a horde of ogre magi and rushes there, dropping by upgrade shrines as well.
127 — The Griffin Conservatory, unfortunately, is a tier 1. Tazar takes on a max Medusa stack, but I let the Medusas block the imp corpse pile; result: lost imps and some gogs, and got 0 demons. Well, at least I built a Castle. Marius finds a Griffin Conservatory on the barbarian spawn, again in a corner, with a beehive nearby, but no chain to the Stronghold. Same turn, Dessa arrives with 40 goblins, 8 birds, and 3 bears, kills my scout hero, takes Shield +3 and Kneepads 1-1.
131 — Luna fights into the Conflux, builds a Town Gate (GM2), have both Lightning Bolt and Blind; Tazar recovers a couple of treasure chests, gets Tactics. In Inferno, I buy 7 efreet with all my gold, hoping to defend with a Castle if Dessa charges in.
Here, the opponent probably should have split back home and sent the army back along the chain. But he did the opposite: brought reinforcements, killed Champions for Sword 2-2, and attacked Luna.
Final battle — Dessa: 8-7-4-4 (no mana), 4 bears, 13 birds; the rest apparently lost on the Champions. Luna: 1-6-10-9 (60 mana), 3 Angels, 2 Efreet, 3 Pit Fiends, 14 Demons, 10 Gogs. In the final battle, only 2 fairies were lost to remove retaliation; there was no ransom, as I understand; Blind + Lightning Bolt did their job. Thanks for the game.
P.S. By the way, thanks for the 2 auto-wins due to a miss-click.

20.12.2011 dom2 (red, Barbarian, Kreg, Kreg) def Hitch (blue, Fortress, Waleska, Waleska) jebus 132

In the treasure game, Waleska captured the town near me – a Tower. She didn't manage to get far before I caught up, mass haste, and win. I got lucky here; there were double units and a lot of troops. Thanks for the game.

Yes, that's exactly what happened. I relaxed, confident in my superiority, because I had seen his skills and didn't expect him to literally double them within a week, using Utopia and diplomacy to take over 100+ ruins.

But you're playing by the seasonal rules, right? If so, what diplomacy are you talking about? :eek: You're not playing anarchy... Before posting games, at least familiarize yourself with the seasonal rules – everything is described in detail there.
P.S. 311 on a Small Map – guys, what were you doing for 2 months? :D