Posts from "Новичок-2012. Winter"

Group A
15.01.2012 Tomash (red, Dungeon, Troglodyte, Troglodyte) def JustObserver (blue, Rampart, Kyrre, Crag Hack) 2SM4d(3) 211

started without restarts, immediately the troglodytes gave 2 stacks, on the surface, next to the castle a stable is visible, I run the roach through the stable - the corner of the minotaur external dwelling immediately appeared - we play.

only 110 troglodytes total, one road to the GO, the other to the LoTS eye, I roam the respawn, took the minotaur external dwelling, clear chests, spider huts, gems in a chain, troglodytes melt away, breaking through to the eye on the first is less and less appealing.... never decided to. on 121 with 20 minotaurs I clear 2 naga banks, then the dwarf cottage, enter the metro to the necro adjacency, another dwarf cottage, break into the main, go along the road to hit the eye, see a 100+ Griffin Conservatory, take a secondary Castle, a lot of gold, start building up with an eye towards angels, on the main castle and manticores.

on 131 I take the 3rd Griffin Conservatory, see a passage to the treasure zone, start clearing it. Basically the treasure zone is good, library, angel external dwelling, sword +6 and shield +4 all, cloak of +2 speed, troglodyte expertized earth magic back when breaking the Griffin Conservatory, under mass slow everything is broken without issue.

though out of 6 Dragon Fly Hives I pulled only 36 wyverns, but a couple of pandoras for exp and troglodyte has expert practically everything, there's room for 1 last skill.

meanwhile on the main Mage Guild 5 with implosion, on the secondary literally due to a lack of 1000 gold the angels didn't get built, though if they had, there would be nothing to buy them with...

on 143 I take the last Dragon Fly Hive, break myself doubling mana, stand at the start of the GO (gold dragons), had to feed them fifty of the remaining troglodytes, army of 6 angels, 43 greater minotaurs, 36 wyrms, 38 evil eyes, 26 greater medusas and a ballista (expert + attack 25)

found one quest artifact, gave it to Inaina, got 20k exp, expert air, wisdom, magic, intelligence, a great roach with implosion of 500.... but it wasn't needed....

on the opponent's respawn right along the road I see boots, take them, exactly by 147 I take the main. in the visible part of the treasure zone there is enemy movement, the hero disappears, apparently Town Portal, I run at full speed to the opponent's last unexplored secondary, find Crag Hack there, attack with the roach to feel him out and throw a few shots, didn't really throw many, but at least understood what I'd be dealing with, serious stats, first of all attack power, and fairly little meat

on his turn Crag attacks, I have first strike on angels, what really decided things was that he had under-leveled tactics, that allowed my minotaurs and wyverns to fly in the first round after mass slow, essentially deciding the outcome of the battle. though Crag bounced back with an explosion of 1800, shaving off my minotaurs, angels and wyverns, but he himself lost everything except 25-30 grand elves, he buys himself out, and attacks again, splitting the grand elves and a little bit of swamp meat into 7 stacks, deciding to force me to buy myself out, since I only had 2 stacks of shooters left + 1 wyvern, and in exchanging explosions the deciding factor is the number of stacks....

but I also had an ace up my sleeve, though I could have run away due to tactics - I didn't, calmly calculated the HP of my stacks, it turned out that the evil eyes had a full 30 HP more than 580, and that's exactly how much my Armageddon hit for :cool:

resulting in the defeat of Crag Hack, gg wp

a very entertaining game, especially the ending, :smile14:

Scorpiona it seems my post from page 25 wasn't taken into account...

A_I_D, Messiah, Pyre, Necrotal, Dimast, Snooppy :smile20: :smile13: :smile13: :smile13:
If everyone else connects, we'll finish the tournament by the end of the month at this rate:smile44: :smile12:
If anyone has connection problems, let us know right away! Don't put it off until the last weeks...

Scorpiona, you forgot to give me 0 points for avstrolopitek.

Scorpiona, my post from page 25 wasn't taken into account...

Okay, I'll fix it next time:smile01:

So what? My opponent in the tournament also left without saying "gg" and didn't write anything. I'm not writing a victory report... My opponent still has time until February 20 to respond and finish the game... I just think that it's bad manners to award yourself a win without the opponent's consent, even if everything is within the rules...

In my opinion, you should have written "gg" instead of just waiting for 2 weeks while your opponent's nerves give out...

Okay, one more time. The opponent lost their main hero and all artifacts, and then left the game. If they want to finish the game, no problem. And, in my opinion, the confirmation means that they agree with the result. And calling someone a "BMer" without having played against them seems a bit strange, don't you think? I, for example, always gave automatic wins, including in tournaments.

Where should we continue the game? Both of us are in a bad position, I have a hero and two mages from the Tower coming, and you have one secondary hero with 500 troops. I have 3 castles with 1000 troops each, and a lot of unbought creatures. Your archer has 100 attack? Mine had 70, and I didn't even level her up much. I don't see any arguments here. If you wanted to quit, you should have said so. I explained why I don't want to save, and continuing the game implied agreement with me.

16.01.2012 SolncevKoT (Red, Tower, Nila, Nila) d-neez (Blue, Barbarian, Tyraxor, Tyraxor) 2sm4d (3) 142
113 captured a Rampart, 114 + 2 Mage dwellings
In the end, he got a level 5 magic artifact but didn't use it.
There were Wings nearby, but he didn't take them. The opponent attacked him and lost.
Thanks for the good game.

Group A
15.01.2012 Tomash (red, Necromancer, Clavius, Clavius) def A_I_D (blue, Rampart, Ivor, Ivor) 2SM4d(3) 134

Started without restarts, had septiena and mines with 2 stacks, on 111 135 skeletons, found a lookout immediately, Griffin Conservatory behind lotsoa of archers, external dwelling of vampires, a couple of stat booster upgrades for attack and knowledge (would have preferred 1 experience crystal :rolleyes: ). The fifth or sixth hero was a wise woman, and she even leveled up excellently, got Earth, not a single junk skill, but Clavius also got Armorer, Tactics, decided that leveling him was more reliable. Took the vampires, built them too, on 114 broke through the lotsoa of ice spirits to the secondary, on 115 reached it — native necro secondary! I manage to build vampires there too, burn the lookout, see 2 external dwellings of skeletons and another Griffin Conservatory. At that point money runs out, I scatter roach heroes around the respawn, but besides a couple of treasure chests nothing smells of money, I barely manage to build a citadel in both towns, but on 121 I have exactly 1350 gold, Clavius is loitering around the Griffin Conservatory, mastering expert Necromancy, on 122 I finally bring all the vampires, 29 of them, and 230 skeletons, the Griffin Conservatory turns out to be a 2-stack, I lose 1 vampire. On that same secondary there is another Griffin Conservatory, a 1-stack, on the way to the portal from the main I take an artifact +2 attack for 20+ snipers behind it, apparently a quest one, but I can't find the hut for it.
On 124 I break through the portal and another 2-stack Griffin Conservatory, the portal leads to snow, I don't feel like going there, but nearby on my main there's an exit upwards, I go there, come out on grass, rejoice, hope to reach the opponent on the 2nd week, but when I got on the road, I went the wrong way, came to a Conflux secondary, already colored by the opponent. I take it, it's already 131, I'm having growth problems, the hope of finding money failed, everything on the grass is already picked up, no nagabanks in sight, I bought a hero for roach warfare, and that's all I could afford. Going at the opponent without growth with 5 angels 28 vampires and 350 skeletons is somehow risky, I don't know what army he has, nor what magic, I see some guard, go at it, passage to the treasure zone, nearby a Dragon Fly Hive for 38 gr vampires — almost lost an angel on them, but got lucky, 8 ducks, right at the entrance to the treasure zone behind the unicorns a ring +1 HP, I take it, and a Dragon Utopia, it turned out to be a minimal one, no special drain, so -18 vampires, it gave money which I have nowhere to spend, since after I left the opponent cut the chain, shackles and red orb, among anything useful — a cloak +10% Necromancy and a medal for +1 morale.

Ivor went after me into the treasure zone, stopped 1 turn away from Clavius, but didn't attack. On my turn I break the nearby guard of 100+ cerberi for the Necromancy, +40 skeletons, and attack, my angels move first, out of 38 grans only 3 remain, the opponent casts Oil, tries to cut down the angels, but since the dragons waited, the angels were surrounded by his troops, so without burning his own, he couldn't have struck, 2 of my angels survived, Haste on the skeletons, and in 2 rounds it was all over.

Good game, seemed like a chocolate layout, septiena, external dwelling of vampires, native secondary, 3 Griffin Conservatories, but the money bottleneck almost ruined everything, since I couldn't properly fight with roaches, nor bring in growth....
Overall there was suspense, since the opponent managed to build dragons, which evened the score on 7th level creatures, and if he had attacked himself, positioning correctly and getting first turn for his angels, Oil — closing off the elves, and he could well have shot down the skeletons, Ivor has expert Attack and Archery, with an attack parameter of 12 :eek:

thanks for the game ;)