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

09.01.2011 R55Max (red, swamp, Tazar, Tazar) def Sevan_80 (blue, dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) 8hm8, 116.

Gnomes 20, recovered gold well, hydras were placed in the citadel, heading towards the Griffin Conservatory mine, a surrender followed for some reason, at first I thought the generator was messing around, but when I looked there everything was even better than what I had (huge respawn), external dwellings of trogs, uniques (already taken), dragons not far behind the ogres, beehives with easy guards.

09.01.2011 R55Max (blue, stronghold, Crag, Crag) def Sevan_80 (red, inferno, Ignatius, Ignatius) 8hm8, 116

Same thing. Seva chose restarts, I didn't take them, quite a balanced random map generation for both. Wrong development for red, surrender.

10.01.2011 R55Max (blue, random, Necro, Clavius, Clavius) def Sevan_80 (red, random, stronghold, Gretchin, Tyraxor) 8mm6, 146, 200% without computers

Clavius with 1 stack, no zombies, in the tavern a lich with 4 zombies and someone else with 1 stack. I play anyway. Not much gold. On 3rd took the external dwelling of wisps, Rampart and swamp are taken. Didn't take 2nd autoresolve.

10.01.2011 R55Max (blue, random, Rampart, Torgrim, Kira) def Sevan_80 (red, tower, Rissa, Fafner) balance, 125, 200% M-U 4 min

Successfully captured the opponent's empty castle, Kira got crushed and collected the loot (not all, but it was more than enough to hold the reds' table in the citadel)

Thanks for the games!

01/09/2012 theShevanesian (blue, Rampart, Kirr, Kirr) def SolncevKoT (red, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) 2sm4d(3) 113

The opponent didn't have a good game. Thanks for the match!

10.01.2012 Juristis (blue, Conflux, random, Aenain, Galthran) def Fellshut (red, Inferno, Octavia, Lacus) 2SM4d(3) 127.
Neither of us had any reserves left, so we played with what was given. Air magic is not built, roads are average, and there's Ciele. On day 111, Galthran appears as the fourth hero, can be used for necromancy. Also, there is a tent. Directly above the town, a beehive with 50+ water elementals. In the crypt, they give a Necklace of Swiftness.
On day 112, Galthran is already expert necromancy, Ciele clears a pack of harpies along the road. The road is inconvenient, going around the castle through the mountains. Then slowly clearing the respawn, Galthran gets Earth Magic at level 4, Logistics at level 5. Gundula, who arrives, also picks up Earth Magic from a pillar, excellent. A marsh secondary hero is hired through wasteland, we keep moving forward.
On day 116, I make a risky move, build the psychics and hire them plus a hero to transport the necro army. Only 2 crypts for a total of 3500 gold, but a dwarf dwelling is visible, and 2 medusa dwellings for the second week.
Day 117 — dwarf dwelling with 15 units, taken easily with a hundred skeletons. I decline Tactics to level up the bases faster. Birds are built and hired, Gundula gets a Shield +3 and expert Attack. A passage to the underground is scouted through harpies near the road, as well as a GO to the underground, 5-9 rust dragons. An external fairy dwelling is taken, didn't bother with the one on the second week.
Day 121 — Aenain picks up expert Air Magic and leaves the chain for a shrine with Air Magic scouting. Galthran takes a medusa dwelling with 6 units. Skeletons count 150. In the tavern, Tant with 30 skeletons, pleasant.
Day 122 — a medusa dwelling with 8 units and a Giant's Strength is taken, Galthran, after passing the stables, positions himself before the harpies leading underground. After scouting Air Magic, it's decided to go there; the opponent is spotted in the marsh, the bottom area is clear. Gundula clears a warrior's tomb, but it's just a Badge of Courage.
Day 123 — Gundula takes a beehive with 6 water elementals, Tant is hired, Vistan loses 30 skeletons against 40 pegasi with Giant's Strength. Galthran enters the underground and immediately reveals a scouting structure, a Griffin Conservatory, and an external manticore dwelling right at the entrance. Also seen is a secondary dungeon, an exit into the underground treasure zone, and a passage to the opponent. The Conservatory has 3-4 units with Giant's Strength.
Day 124 — Galthran fights ice elementals, mastering Earth Magic (not in vain did I decline Tactics), then takes the Conservatory with Oil; turns out to be three units, morale causes a psychic to be lost. It's decided to go to the opponent since he's not seen at home.
Day 125 — Ciele takes a medusa dwelling with 6 units and Giant's Strength, but beforehand foolishly kills 5 air elementals with a spell. Galthran speeds up with a bird before the passage to the underground lava zone. Verdish with fairies and 6 shots' worth of mana positions in front of him, just in case. The town has a Citadel.
Day 126 — I upgrade and bring the magma elementals. Galthran and Verdish break through; the necromancer, with expert Logistics, stables, and maximum speed, reaches the opponent's main town. There's various rabble in the Castle, I capture the town, sit to replenish mana, and learn Haste. Pits are not upgraded, which is reassuring.
Day 127 — Caitlin with gogs briefly appears in a teleport, I kill her, jump to the other side where Lacus is with the main army. I attack; there are 14 wyverns (2 external dwellings + beehive and marsh) and 5 efreet. The opponent surrenders, the player has no mass magic. I have 4 birds, 3 angels, 15 air and water elementals, 10 magma elementals, 323 skeletons, 3 psychics. I didn't take the water elementals to avoid ruining morale.
Thanks for the game, it turned out interesting.

15.01.2011. Juristis (blue, Necropolis, Galthran, Galthran) def Scorpiona (red, Dungeon, Shakti, Clavius) Jebus 126.
First of all, thank you for the extra restart when no regular ones were left.

126 - Scorp flies out and attacks:
Clavius's stats - 17-17-27- 200+. Army - 220 skeletons, 4 angels, 20 wyverns, 25 each of evil eyes and greater medusas.
Galthran 14-14-8-17 (mana), 750 skeletons, 2 angels, 35 wyverns, 1+34 greater wolves, 15 greater cyclopes, 15 greater ogres. No tactics there, angels' speed 13, mine 14, not for nothing did I run for the necklace.
I spend a long time deploying on tactics, cast mass haste, immediately kill her angels with angels, wolves, cyclopes, and wyverns, losing 1 of mine. I shouldn't have shot with the cyclopes, the wyverns would have finished them off anyway. Skeletons kill all wyverns, ogres block the shooters.
Her turn - explosion for 2.1k on skeletons, -350 units, everyone hits them through removing retaliation, leaving 200+, and in stone. Scorp still has all skeletons, all medusas, 17 evil eyes, and a singleton.
Round 2 - pondered the action for a long time. Decided to remove the singleton with an angel, remove the eyes with wolves+ogres, kill the skeletons with cyclopes and ducks, and blind the medusas. The angel succeeds, wolves remove 12 eyes, cyclopes kill about 50 skeletons. But here the wyverns messed up, 2 skeletons survive. Thought again. I look in the spellbook, no fireball mana, but a meteor shower for 325 is just right. I cast it immediately on 3 stacks: my skeletons, the 2 surviving enemy skeletons, and the medusas. Ogres finish off the evil eyes, and the awakened 150 skeletons finish off 15 medusas.
There was no anti-morale the entire fight, despite -2. Thanks for the game, really enjoyed FB.

15.01.2011 AYMAN (red, Stronghold, Crag Hack, Crag Hack) def R55Max (blue, Fortress, Tazar, Tazar) Jebus Cross, 134

The spawn was decent. On the first week, with Crag, I ran around the stat boosters, took two external dwellings of birds, a secondary Tower, and with Crag took a Pandora's Box for the curatives worth 30 wolves. End of the week, Crag at the stable, getting ready to break the hives. Scouting was done well, had 2 Griffin Conservatories, about 5-6 hives, bears at home in the castle, took a couple of external wolf and orc dwellings)).

On the second week, I collected the hives and Griffin Conservatories, with Crag I fought off the Book of Earth, and took an external bear dwelling near the village, and Crag went in and doubled his mana there. On the respawn there was one Dragon Utopia of my own, but I didn't take it because I was in a hurry to get to the center. Crag breaks through a block of bone dragons to the center on 126 and stops near the center; the scout heroes meanwhile finish collecting one hive and one Griffin Conservatory. In the end, Crag has 5 angels, 30 griffin birds, 4 bears, 34 ducks, 70+ wolf griffins, and meat, breaks through the griffin Wyverns and enters the center. There he takes a hive + 6 Wyverns, a Pandora's Box for experience behind a hundred monks, then a helmet + 6 all; three hives are revealed, behind one of them is a Sentinel's Shield.

On 131, I bring up the bears and birds, take the hive and the Sentinel's Shield, see an Inferno village and wings glowing, take the wings, and stop near the Nagas for a Pandora's Box.

On 132, I take the Pandora's Box (12 griffin Efreets), one more hive; with the scout hero I take the Inferno, with Crag I portal through the castles and back to the Inferno. Meanwhile, with the scout hero, I decide to take two hives on the side — one of them I took extremely poorly for 120+ griffin Behemoths + Book of Fire; my stupidity and morale cost me 10 ducks and one Efreet.

On 133, the scout hero scouted the road upward; there the blues were revealed, along with a Pandora's Box with a necklace + 3 all behind red dragons. Crag has Pathfinding, Logistics, and Wings; I reach them, break through the reds, take the necklace — no movement left for the Pandora's Box. Meanwhile, Tazar takes two Pandora's Boxes for griffin Behemoths, gets beaten up, and the chain pulls him back.

On 134, a scout runs further, revealing a scout hero with power, after which Crag catches up to him, and it's gg. Because in power and stats, Crag strongly outclassed Tazar. Andrei entered the center too late due to a bad respawn.

Thank you, Andrei, for an interesting game!!!!

16.01.2011 Tootsie Pie (blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) def R55Max (red, Fortress, Tazar, Tazar) 8xm8 147
On the first week, I broke through almost to the red player's ring, left with 60 Troglodytes and level 1-4 in the fort + an external dwelling of Efreets. Maybe I should have preserved the army, but I wanted to find at least some gold. On the second week, I took 3 hives (all mini), returned for a missed Naga Bank (mini) and for magic (Oil) — -4 days((. End of the week — 70 Troglodytes, 12 Wyverns, and 6 Efreets. On the third week, I take a Djinn Lamp for 100+ Genies, encounter the reds. They seem to have millions of gold, a stack of Wyverns and Hydras in the castle((. Then an undiscovered native boat brings joyful news — the Implosion spell — and sinks). I don't dare attack 100+ Archmages for a Dragon Fly Hive and a Sword +12-3 (later I checked — 145 of them, but losses would have been trivial: 30 Troglodytes and 1 Manticore, and the hive was nearly max-level), instead I take a risk (the enemy, apparently, took a Utopia), and run not to the hives left at home, Pandora's Boxes, and the artifact +3 all, but to the Cyclops dwelling on the respawn boat + collecting resources, + on the last day I manage to grab the missing crystals from under Tazar's nose. He attacks: Tazar 21 18 5 7(58) (Expert Resistance (never triggered), Wisdom (Taz, apparently, was preparing for a powerful finale from the first levels), Expert Earth, Expert Archery, Expert Air, КЗ, Shackles of War, 5 Hydras, 18 Greater Basilisks + 8 Wyverns, 7 Necromancy Horsemen, 50 Greater Serpent Flies) — Shakti 17 18 17 15(250) (Expert Earth, Armorer, Leadership (+4-1, never proc'ed;)), Artillery, 4 Manticores, 8 Efreets, 12 Wyverns, 120 Troglodytes, and 50 Gogs from a chest). First turn, Anti-Magic on the Greater Basilisks and Wyverns (to my dismay, but it turned out for the best)) and Implosion on the Hydras, they all fly toward me. Round 2 — Implosion on the Troglodytes — Implosion on the Necromancy Horsemen, and so on. In the end, half the Wyverns, the Efreets, and all the Gogs remained. As it turned out, if Tazar had started with Mass Haste, victory would have been much more complicated, and with Resistance it would hang by a thread — my fear of the swarm of Archmages could have cost me dearly.. but it worked out. Thanks for the game)

01/17/2012 KiNB (red, Rampart, Ivor, Ivor) def Browser (blue, Stronghold, Gurnisson, Gurnisson) 2sm4d(3), 116

We agreed on a total of 112, which I immediately took (ruining a good setup for my opponent), then the opponent took 2x111 and several tech units. I don't know about Steph, but for me, out of all the generations, only once did I get something more or less playable. In the end, we played with what we had.
Slow roads, little money, 4 heroes
112 broke through a pack of vasas on the snow
113-116 took a couple of crypts, visited the arena, and gathered enough money for units in the castle.
116, the opponent sent a message GG. Although he had a hidden stash of bears (which he would have taken no earlier than the third turn), overall, he was less lucky with the distribution.
Thanks for the game!

16.01.2012 Hitch (blue, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) def dom2 (red, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) Jebus, 137