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

01/05/2012 Kluka (red, Inferno, Marius, Marius) def LegionerDV (blue, Tower, Ain, Kirr) 2sm4d(3) 133

3 successfully generated cons 2+2+2 allowed him to reach the treasury by the end of the second turn.
On turn 132, Kirr ran along the road from my spawn point to a secondary resource, passing through the opponent's spawn point (!). After breaking into another secondary resource, Marius (with experience logo and boots) reaches his capital with the last tile and kills Kirr.

Thanks for the game!

03.01.12 Psyche_7(blue,Castle,Valeska,Kyrre) def AYMAN (blue,Fortress,Wystan,Galthran), 2sm4d(3), 212

On the first week Kyrre and Isra arrive. I decide to focus mainly on Kyrre, since there isn't much gold and the respawn itself isn't very convenient. With great difficulty I break through Earth Magic on (native) secondary. There's enough gold on the secondary respawn, but building up the secondary is quite costly. As a result, at the end of the first week I have cavalry in the home citadel and swordsmen in the secondary. Captured 2 external pikeman dwellings and 1 swordsman dwelling are pleasing (there will be something to go into the home Dragon Utopia with). I see 2 Griffin Conservatories on the respawn (one level 2). In addition, I send Isra on a multi-day raid (to take the dwarf dwelling and collect skeletons along the way). I find a sword +3 and a spell power artifact near the dwarf dwelling, and decide to linger.

On the second week Kyrre goes down into the underground treasure zone, but there's nothing interesting there yet besides a mini-Hive and a gold mine (I'll return for the Dragon Utopia and Pandora's Boxes later). I break back home. Towards the end of the second week, Isra takes the level 2 Griffin Conservatory, and I transfer the army to Kyrre to take the Naga Bank and Medusa Dwellings (to level up Earth Magic).

The third week started with a level 3 Griffin Conservatory, then the home Dragon Utopia (I gave away pikemen and one angel foolishly). They gave a red orb and 2 knowledge helms :(. I break through to the underground towards another secondary (Necropolis, already taken by blue), leave Isra there to capture it, and Kyrre breaks closer to the second Dragon Utopia (the accumulated 130+ skeletons went to waste as I was eating). There they gave something more interesting - a sword +5 all. In the Pandora's Boxes - experience. Then came some unclear wandering in search of fast treasure zones. But none were found. As a result, towards the end of the month I reached the opponent through another secondary Castle, not particularly fearing offensive magic. Plus I tracked the opponent's movements using Air Magic View.

Around turn 146 I sit in the opponent's empty castle, simultaneously breaking through the GO from the other side. Unfortunately, there's nothing to buy in the swamp. Galthran didn't like this and didn't hesitate to appear a turn's distance from his castle. I check - 5 mana. Tempting, but despite my 160 mana, from offensive magic I only have Lightning Bolt for 200. I sit on the well next to the castle, since I only have 2 Archangels and 6 regular angels. Galthran, obviously confident in his victory (40 Wights, 400+ skeletons, 6 angels), doesn't attack but sits in the swamp to restore mana (I kindly built the guild there a turn earlier). Nothing to do - I retreat, and I don't even make it to the castle; I have to expose Kyrre on Archangels and spend money on surrender (risking running into Shackles of War or that one of the blue heroes reaches my main). But none of that happened and I safely holed up in the castle with a red orb and faith in 10 Archangels, 100+ Crossbowmen, and Expert Artillery. Fortunately, the opponent is satisfied with killing half my heroes and attacks anyway (even without upgrading the Wights).

The finale.
The opponent has 26-12, +3 speed, nearly 500 bones, 44 Wights, 70 Greater Lizards, and reinforcements. I have 13-13, +2 speed, 10 Archangels, 43 Greater Swordsmen, 110 Crossbowmen, and company.
Galthran has no Ballistics, so we're alive for now. Plus Anti-Morale triggers twice on Dragon Flies, preventing them from reaching my shooters. There's a shootout for a couple of rounds - I hit the Wights, the opponent hits the Crossbowmen. Galthran's +3 speed forces me to immediately block my shooters with everything possible. In the 3rd round, the opponent can't hold back and hits my Swordsmen with Wights (18 survive), I in response pile on with everything after removing retaliation - and there goes the main Wight stack (15 remain). Then the Angels got hit (1 left). And the walls are still intact. Unfortunately, due to a disconnect, we couldn't finish the game and decided to submit it for judgment.
IMHO: 10 Archangels kill the ballista and then everything else (+ the Crossbowmen also shoot, and there's something to protect them with), and the towers will deal with the skeletons.

Thanks for the game and patience! Sorry for the ruined finale (probably due to my internet).

06.01.12 AYMAN (blue, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) def Pyre (Red, Stronghold, Dessa, Dessa), 2sm4d(3), 142

Overall, I realized that for all 10 years I've been playing Heroes with friends, I've been playing wrong :D

Thanks for the game, it was very instructive)

01/05/2012 Kilgor (red, random, Castle, Rion, Sorcha) def Dogbas (blue, random, Stronghold, Gurnisson, Gundula) 2SM4d(3) 127.
Here, I played a game. We played Small Map without restarts, 160%, random castles.

04.01.2012 CryptoNight (red, Inf, Marusya, Marusya) def Kaccuan(Castle, Katya, Kyrre) Balance 133
Week 1 - didn't go very well (to put it mildly) - stupidly lost 1 Efreet, 3 days until secondary skills via fast roads. Have an external dwelling of Gogs (taken back) and a barely leveled Marusya:( Clearing the respawn with chains and at 117 Shakti is standing before the adjacent zone's guard - 20-49 pegasi.
Week 2 - breaking through to the adjacent zone - swamp:( On the block their guard of turms-snipers - lose another 1 Efreet:mad: and at 100 gr of fairies lose yet another 1 deep in the respawn:eek: In short, horror)))) But pits are already coming, and I'm slowly starting to demon. At 124 I break through to the first central town - there's snow everywhere, and the road is expensive, hitting the town:mad: Starting to smell like a loss - but I'm hoping for demoning) At 127 after a split I take the second adjacent zone, at this point the army consists of 67 Gogs, 32 Horned Demons and 2 Efreets:D
Week 3 - then I start demoning intensely. Break through 2 blocks of Orcs and gr Ogres - lose only the necessary number of Gogs and break through the Ducks with a gr stack. At 132 I sit in the second Necropolis town, having 50+ Demons and waiting for reinforcements) Reinforcements arrive, I regroup the remnants and get a stack of 71 Demons, which breaks first the Efreets without the gr stack, and then the horde (about 75 Fanatics) - by that time I already had Mass Haste, and I sit in the Rampart castle - there are 24 Dwarf Cottages and a pack of Centaurs visible) But then the opponent attacks, and perishes from a stack of Demons (71 units), Mass Hastes, 3 Efreets and 7 Pits.
Thanks for the game:smile20:

06.01.2012 Dogbas (blue, random, Fortress, Stig, Stig) draw Kilgor (red, random, Tower, Astral, Riza) 2SM4d(3), 115
No restarts. Found 2 external lizard dwellings, but lost to thieves while breaking through to the necro secondary, and the next turn the red's gold golems got mowed down too. Draw.

06.01.2012 Dogbas (blue, random, Dungeon, Arlach, Gunnar) def Kilgor (red, random, Castle, Sir Mullich, Crag Hack) 2SM4d(3), 127

05.01.2012 Browser(blue, Dungeon, ShakhTy) def ariputra(red, Conflux, Ignissa, Aenain) 2sm4d(3) 142

We started playing at 12 at night or so, at 2 AM we only just re-rolled — I don't know if the SMK started generating weirdly or something else — but the point is that there were only 5 tech res, and they were objective ones — for the last time we decided if it doesn't start now then forget it — anyway, it dealt out something playable — we started
There was no respawn at all — from the castle there was guard right away into the secondary a bit further — the exit from the underground and also the secondary — at 114 I took both — in the underground an Inferno treasure zone, a Griffin Conservatory 4 — a sword +6 — above a necro treasure zone — a Dwarf Cottage and about 8-9 crypts — there were no hideouts — and at 116 in the nook behind the castle I found Troglodytes))))

I realized that I should put guards in the castle, with trade everything fell into place — just as the miner ran upstairs to pick up all the money — there was no GO as such — monks weren't gr, something like 10-19 I think — anyway, with rakes at 117 we meet — I run to the opponent to scout his main, he comes to my secondary — I see there 2 Conservatories — I go there. I take 1, he takes the 2nd — I have 1, he has 3. At 131, having bought everything out, I split up for a 4th Conservatory and a sword — I return at 135 and stand near the "GO" — he is at my secondary in the treasure zone looking (portal) — I get on the speed boost and at 136 I stand near his castle — he doesn't see it ) 160+ Troglodytes, 5 Angels, 15 guards.

At 137 I take the castle, build a castle there — I take 4 birds and run to the opponent — 200+ Troglodytes, 21 gr Mentos, 5 Angels. The power-up is simply fabulous — offense defense tactics, log and earth, all experience. Stats above 3 norm stacks of strikers — and 4 birds just in case ) He has 8 birds, 3 Angels, 15 Wyverns and 32 Air Elementals — stats are lower and what's the point at 7 AM in the FB I just walked forward without much thought, basically my head wasn't working anymore, he both shot with arrows and hit with something, 2 out of 3 stacks got through even under grease and GG basically.

07.01.2012 SolncevKoT(Red, Swamp, Tazar, Tazar) def theShevanesian(Blue, Dungeon, Shakhti, Shakhti) Jebus Cross 114