Posts from "Новичок-2012. Winter"

By the way, a shifted Guard Outpost doesn't mean it doesn't need to be cleared.

But what does a shifted Guard Outpost have to do with it? In both the game against Warden and the game against you, the Guard Outpost was located on a dirt road, meaning the road passed through a shared secondary resource tile. And yes, a shifted Guard Outpost definitely needs to be cleared, but why go there if there's no road leading to it? ))

Oh, I see. I just misunderstood.

Group D 24.01.12
Scooter72 (Red, Necropolis, Clavius, Tamika) def Demon13 (Blue, Tower, Solmyr, Solmyr) 2SM4d(3) 215

I don't remember if we took any restarts; we played for a long time, having started at the very beginning of the tournament... The respawn was good — two crypts nearby, an external dwelling of liches behind golems, a Dragon Utopia close by, in short, it was playable :) ...

111 - broke one crypt, gathered the minimal resources, collected the chests, bought 4 heroes...

112 - broke the second crypt, found a second Dragon Utopia nearby, found a Griffin Conservatory with maximum resources and another crypt behind upgraded zombies, bought one more hero...

113 - found a dwarf cottage along the road, behind the castle off-road burned down another crypt, ran to break it in a chain... at the same time started looking for sulfur... There was a market not far from the road, I breathed a sigh of relief — if need be, I could trade sulfur at a normal price :rolleyes:

114 - decided to switch my main from Clavius to Tamika with Black Knight specialty as there were horses visible in the castle on the horizon, no resource problems... ;) Broke the last max crypt, came out of it with normal losses, which was a bit disappointing... :(

115,116,117 - development, building chains, gathering, construction :) Found two external skeleton dwellings behind the castle off-road, impossible to reach in the first week... Two more zombie dwellings, one near the road...

121 - bought out 6 horses, all skeletons... Broke the dwarf cottage guarding 15 wood... Bought Nagash...

122 - broke a block of unupgraded knights guarding a grass secondary town... Found another max Griffin Conservatory... Broke a block of thieves guarding the entrance to the underground... Lost one horse to moral issues :( Didn't go into the underground; there were angry upgraded elves at the bottom... :)

123 - burned down a castle on the grass secondary and a Dragon Fly Hive nearby guarded by 50-99 golems...

124 - captured the castle, wanted to break the 50-99 golems guarding the Dragon Fly Hive, but hesitated, thinking it was better not to... Built a municipality on the main...

125 - didn't find anything tasty nearby anymore, checked the physical magic mirror, calculated the golem situation, and went back to take them down :) Took down the golems almost without losses, captured 6 Dragon Flies in the hive... One of the scout heroes with liches reached a distant external skeleton dwelling...

126 - Built Dragon(s) in the Castle... Burned down the second max Griffin Conservatory... Turned the main back from the secondary...

127 - on the secondary, with a scout hero found 2 crypts and an external archer dwelling, checked the financial situation, everything seemed good... :) Built an archer building on the secondary... Broke an external lich dwelling guarded by golems with scout heroes...

131 - headed the main towards the second secondary on the snow...

132 - bought out all the horses, passed them to the main via chain. Took the Helm of Chaos guarded by 20-49 upgraded lizards...

133 - unexpectedly, Demon popped out of the underground with Solmyr, stats 2.2.10.10 against my 6.3.5.7 ... In a panic, I bought everything I could and attacked with 22 liches, 5 horses, 200 skeletons, and about 20 zombies against 7 upgraded Nagas, about 100 Gremlins, and a few Gargoyles... I was very afraid of Chain Lightning; I thought maybe the opponent had built the Mage Guild, and with his spell power 10 and knowledge 10, that promised nothing good... :( In the end, I mauled Demon's troops, and he bought himself off :) Thank God there was no Chain Lightning :p ... My troops were also mauled, but luckily not too badly; mainly only the Dragons fell...

134 - bought the remaining troops in the castle, elated by the success, I turn into the underground where the opponent came from... I see an unoccupied Dungeon... And a Dragon Fly Hive guarded by unupgraded Ogres...

135 - I take the Dungeon, build a guild there... Enter with the main to learn magic... See Solmyr with troops not far away... Take the Dragon Fly Hive guarded by Ogres...

136 - Solmyr attacks, unfortunately now with Chain Lightning... I finally learned some magic; now besides Magic Arrow I have something else in reserve :D For example, Slayer with Expert Earth :) ! I have 22 liches, 5 horses, 10 Dragon Flies, 200 skeletons, 50 zombies, 16 Vampires against 2 Nagas, 84 Gremlins, a few Gargoyles and 1 Mage... We mauled each other's troops, Demon bought himself off again... Having managed to fire Chain Lightning once... I have almost no liches left... The troops are a bit mauled but combat-ready...

137 - having studied Demon's play a bit, I decide not to go to his castle. Such a player does not forgive mistakes; you need to play more carefully against him... Besides, there's almost nothing to take the castle with; the troops are all slow movers, no archers... No good magic either... Nearby, I level up the main at the War Academy, take the Naga Bank...

141 - I buy 42 upgraded Marksmen and about 50 Pikemen as an extra in the secondary... Send a scout hero to clear the secondary territory... With the main, double my mana in the Dungeon, scout the underground territory...

142 - illuminate the underground with a lantern... Find a Dragon Utopia. Build chains, buy troops in the castle...

143 - With a scout hero with Marksmen, take a crypt. With the main, split, buy out on the secondary in the Castle, go to crush Conservatories... By that time, Tactics is upgraded to Expert... I realize the key to success is Angels, which are faster than Gargoyles with Expert Tactics and Expert Slayer... ;)

144 - take the second crypt with a scout hero. With the main, take the first Griffin Conservatory... It gives 3 Angels. Run to the second Conservatory, which is close to the first...

145 - take the second Conservatory, a low-level one... Aim for the third Conservatory near the castle...

146 - split, buy out in the Necro castle. In the castle, buy Mage Guild 2 for the main... Run to the third Conservatory... Demon is licking his wounds all this time :)

147 - break the third Conservatory and nearby break a Dragon Utopia guarded by 10-19 upgraded Dragon Flies... A low-level Dragon Utopia, gives various useless crap... Only pleasing are the ring for +1 to troop speed and the gloves :) See Solmyr in the underground, running on unupgraded Gargoyles alone...

211 - Solmyr runs to my empty Dungeon... Buy out all the troops from the Dungeon and attack him with a scout hero... kill a few Gargoyles... With the main, I decide not to poke out from the Veil of Darkness, wait until Solmyr gets closer and attack him with 7 Angels spread one per stack...

212 - Solmyr takes the Dungeon... and runs to my Necro castle along the road to the surface. I run into the Dungeon with another scout hero with a small number of skeletons and one Ghost per stack...

213 - Solmyr runs to the surface... I start making stupid mistakes and instead of placing one Angel per stack in every hex, I take a few Dragon Flies with me and one stack of horses. The remaining stacks are one Angel each, with 4 in one stack... :) I attack Solmyr and, anticipating victory, start mindlessly picking off Gargoyles, hoping to kill them all... In the end, because of my overconfidence, I didn't reach the last Gargoyle, which greatly amused the viewers on the stream... :D Demon was streaming the game :) Solmyr fired off Meteor Shower, killing 2 of my Angels, and escaped :(

214 - Tired of this stalemate, I went for Demon's main through the underground with the Dungeon...

215 - Demon captured the Dungeon with a scout hero... Bought Solmyr there and attacked again with the remnants of his troops... I moved all my troops forward thanks to Expert Tactics... cast Expert Slayer and started methodically cutting down the opponent's troops... This time Demon wrote GG and left...

Thank you for the game!!! And big respect for such resilience and persistence in the game :)

Group D, 01/24/12
Scooter72 (Red, Necropolis, Clavius, Tamika) def Demon13 (Blue, Tower, Solmyr, Solmyr) 2SM4d(3) 215

I confirm, although last time I got too carried away by attacking Tamika with an expert tactic. I think I should have waited in the castle for the opponent, as a couple of spells could have decided the outcome. By that time, I had also learned the explosion spell, in any case, I deserved it for my careless play.

Group H 26.01.12
Wladysha (Red, Barbarian, Gurnisson, Marius) def Vinceras (Blue, Swamp, Vistan, Vistan) 2SM4d(3) 141
started using 1 restart each, the distribution was so-so; on the first [turn] I placed hippogrifs in the Castle
127 upgraded them
131 took 3 angels
133 another 4
134 took Dragon Utopia, a hat with +6 to all dropped,
136 I take the opponent's castle
137 I take his secondary town
141 moving troops
141 on my turn he attacks me and writes гг
the opponent also had a decent distribution: native secondary town + wyvern external dwelling

Group H 26.01.12
Wladysha (Red, Barbarian, Gurnisson, Marius) def Vinceras (Blue, Swamp, Vistan, Vistan) 2SM4d(3) 141
started using 1 restart each, the distribution was so-so; on the first turn he placed hippogriffs in the Castle
127 upgraded them
131 took 3 angels
133 another 4
134 took Dragon Utopia, a hat with +6 to all dropped,
136 I take opponent's castle
137 I take his secondary town
141 moving troops
141 on my turn he attacks me and writes гг
the opponent also had a good distribution: native secondary town + wyvern external dwelling

Yes, the distribution was excellent and money was fine; the opponent certainly got lucky with Dragon Utopia, I couldn't do anything against such stats.
Thanks for the game.

Group A
26.01.12. iSeeDeadPpl (Red, Castle, Valeska, Ciele) draw Vatya (Blue, Rampart, Ivor, Ivor) 2SM4d(3) 147

After all the restarts, the spawn gave: fast roads, plenty of crypts, 2 naga banks, a dwarf dwelling, an external Griffin dwelling. I start clearing crypts (6 taken in the first week total) and on the second day I shamefully lose my army at the dwarf dwelling. I write this to my opponent. It's hard for him to accept such a situation—he wants to play. We agree that I'll play for a draw.

In the first week, under the Castle, I built 1-4. I started leveling Ciele—she immediately picked up Air and Armor. We met our opponent near a shifted GO. On the second week, after upgrading and buying all the griffins, I headed to the grass secondary town. It turned out to be Conflux. Quickly taking the pre-maximum skeleton transformer and the medusa dwelling (8), I returned to the main to clear the naga banks. At this time, my opponent emerged from a teleport a day and a half's travel from my castle. He ran around, scared me with 35 Grand Elves, and went back on his way. Stat-wise, approximate equality. Only my shooter hits for 150.

I took both naga banks without major losses, built Angels, and headed to the swamp secondary town. I got the View Air spell. The opponent, apparently, went into the treasure zone. In the swamp, I cleared a prison with a level 1 Inferno hero, and immediately stumbled upon 2 strong Griffin Conservatories. My shooter hits 150, I have Blessing, so I went for it. The first turned out to be a double, the second a triple. I returned to the main and miscalculated something while taking the bottleneck castle. As a result, Ciele was idle in the main for 2 days.

On the fourth week, I exchanged all resources, bought everything, and went into the teleport towards my opponent. Along the way, I picked up the Arena and a +3/+3 shield. I took the enemy Castle without a fight, immediately bought Luna, and supplied her with the tier 1 units to kill the scouts. I scouted the opponent's main town. I built stables, and Ciele, sped up by Angels, reached the main in one day. There were even some unbuilt things left. I bought four Unicorns, and again Ciele reached the opponent's last town in a day—a Castle. Inside sits Alagar at level 20 (3-7-5-9) with 96 Marksmen and some other meat. Ice Bolts for 180 take out two out of ten Angels. But my army is, of course, bigger.

I chased the scouts for another two days or so, and my opponent surrendered. He never managed to escape the sand treasure zone: he broke his own chain himself while chasing one of my scouts at the moment I started my expansion beyond the teleport. And as a result, he had no way to return his main army to his main town.

Thanks for the game.

Group C
01/26/12 SeniorPomidor (Red, Stronghold, Gurney, Gurney) def aka.Ward3n (Blue, Tower, Aine, Aine) 2SM4d(3) 116

After all the restarts, the map turned out to be quite good. There are wolves, many chests, a Mullich, but a small respawn point.

I quickly make my way to the secondary Stronghold and grab the +4 shield. Along the way, I found a +4 chain in a cart. Overall, I got lucky. However, as it turned out, I didn't have much money. I went into the dungeon with 3 birds, 17 goblins, and 17 kentaur, and it was maxed out. I lost a bird. But in general, the situation was playable, as I saw my opponent and planned to rush on the second week, as my stats were already 10-6. But my opponent was in a bad situation and decided not to continue playing.

Thanks for the game!

Group A
26.01.12. iSeeDeadPpl (Red, Castle, Valeska, Ciele) draw Vatya (Blue, Rampart, Ivor, Ivor) 2SM4d(3) 147

After all the restarts, the map gave: fast roads, lots of creeps, 2 naga banks, a Dwarf Cottage, an external dwelling of griffins. I start clearing creeps (6 total in the first week) and on the second day I shamefully lose my army in the Dwarf Cottage. I write this to my opponent. He finds it hard to accept this outcome — he wants to play. We agree that I will play for a draw.

In the first week, I placed dwellings 1-4 under Castle. I started leveling Ciele — she immediately got Air Magic and Armorer. We met the opponent near the shifted ГО. In the second week, after upgrading and buying all the griffins, I headed to the grass secondary. It turned out to be a Conflux. Quickly taking the pre-max Crypt and the Medusa Hive (8), I returned to my main to clear the naga banks. Meanwhile, the opponent came out of a teleport half a day's march from my castle. He ran around, scared me with 35 Grand Elves, and went on his way. Stat-wise, approximate equality. Except my Marksman hits for 150.

I took both naga banks without major losses, built Angels, and headed to the swamp secondary. I got a View of Air spell. The opponent apparently went into the treasure zone. In the swamp, I freed a prison with a level 1 Inferno hero, and immediately stumbled upon 2 trogs and a Griffin Conservatory. My Marksman hits for 150, I have Bless, so I went in. The first was a double, the second a triple. I returned to my main and miscalculated something when taking the swamp castle. As a result, Ciele sat idle in the main for 2 days.

On the fourth day, I traded all resources, bought everything, and went through the teleport to the opponent. Along the way, I took the Arena and a +3/+3 Shield. I immediately took the Castle without a fight, bought Luna right away, gave her some tier 1 units to destroy Dragon Fly Hives. My scouts revealed the opponent's main. I built Stables, and Ciele, boosted by Angels, reached the main in one day. There was even some stuff left unbought there. I bought four unicorns, and again Ciele reaches the opponent's last town in one day — a Castle. There sits Alagar, level 20 (3-7-5-9) with 96 marksmen and some other troops. His Ice Bolts for 180 kill two out of 10 Angels. But my army is, of course, bigger.

I chased his scout heroes for another two days or so, and the opponent surrendered. He couldn't get out of the sand treasure zone: he broke his own chain himself, chasing one of my scout heroes at the moment I started my expansion through the teleport. And as a result, he had no way to return his main army to his main.

Thanks for the game.

I confirm.

The start was impressive: a double in the tavern, all max stats, and Ivor with 2 stacks. Total of 28!!! grand elves, 112 of them, and 2 grass secondary towns. Then I hear about the wipe :( and I had just gotten going, so I offered my opponent an autodraw.

Day 121, I took both Castle secondaries (regretted playing Rampart :) ) and an external dwelling of horses at one of them. I would have built horses at both, but there was a bottleneck with wood; both secondaries were fully scouted, and only 1 wood pile was in sight. I decided to go for a rush, but there was no surprise: my opponent scouted my main hero with a scout hero and detected Shackles of War, so naturally he would hole up in his castle. I went into the treasure zone in the sand. The treasure zone was ideal — 3 Dragon Utopias (1 max, 2 pre-max, didn't check the third), lots of Dragon Fly Hives, КЗ, a Cape of Velocity, a Conservatory, and more, but while I was crawling through the sand, my opponent came with a scout hero. I had to pull a scout hero out of my chain to eliminate his, and the next day Ciele shows up with all her power. The chain was broken, I couldn't restore it in time, and I was deep in the sand. Ivor, as luck would have it, got neither Knowledge nor Earth Magic... КЗ was useless. In the end, I was cut off from my main. I freed Alagar from a prison, thinking I would at least cripple Ciele in the castle, but my opponent reached my main while I was regrouping; I sat in a secondary, and the opponent attacked. 10 Angels + a Mass Haste caster + a Marksman quickly tore through all my meat... And I was stuck in the sand and didn't cripple the opponent, just tickled him. In the end, out of desperation, I went into a pre-max Dragon Utopia and lost my army there...

An interesting situation is developing in Group A:rolleyes:
JustObserver (3) and Vatya (3.5) have already played their games in the group, but the remaining games among players Browser, Tomash, and iSeeDeadPpl will determine who advances to the playoffs...;)
Leks and A_I_D, don't give up! Fight until the very last game; the outcome of the entire group depends on your games! Gain valuable experience from these tournaments:smile14:
Group B is more active; with 2-3 games left, the playoffs are within reach! :rolleyes:
Group C is a bit behind due to the inactivity of two players; KaccuaH, let's remember this tournament!:smile13:
Group D: The_Bloody_fighter is confidently in the lead; the other players, don't fall behind!:smile42:
In Group E, Snooppy is leading, but there are still tough battles ahead with marader-kisa and kalababa. And Messiah (4) has already shown a good result, and it's still unclear who will advance from the group:smile26:
Groups F and G:smile30:
H:smile02: :Pyre, well done, you've played all your games! Necrotal showed a good result (4):smile01: crzq, Wladysha, VanjaM, you need to play the remaining games, and it will become clear who will advance to the playoffs:smile02: Vinceras, fazka, you must finish the remaining games; the fate of the entire group depends on you!!!

Group C
26.01.12 SeniorPomidor (Red, Stronghold, Gurni, Gurni) def aka.Ward3n (Blue, Tower, Ain, Ain) 2SM4d(3) 116

After all the restarts, the spawn was decent. Wolves are standing, lots of chests, Müllich, but a small respawn.

I quickly break through to the secondary Rampart, grab the shield for +4. Along the way, I found a flail for +4 in a cart. In short, I lucked out completely. Money, however, turned out to be scarce. I went into the crypt with 3 birds, 17 goblins, and 17 Centaurs, and it turned out to be max. Lost one bird. But the situation was still playable, as I had sight on the opponent and wanted to rush on the second week, luckily my stats were already 10-6. However, my opponent was in a really bad spot and decided not to continue.

Thanks for the game!

Confirmed! Thanks for the game.
2 restarts were due to a block, i.e., forced.
The layout was complete garbage. Nothing in the area. Lost a lot of meat to mummies :smile18:. The only native building in the area was Mages, and who guarded them? Ghosts, but ghost dragons. The Dragon Fly Hive was guarded by Medusas, which I couldn't break through either. Seeing Gurni with stats 10-6 against my 3-1, I decided not to torture my opponent.
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Group C is a bit behind the others due to the inactivity of two players, KaccuaH, remember the little tournament!
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In defense, I can say that I spoke with Kasian, he has an exam session right now, only one exam left.

Group H 01/28/12. crzq (Red, Swamp, Vistan, Vistan) def Wladysha (Blue, Castle, Waleska, Waleska) 2SM4d(3) 113. We restarted the game, and I got a huge respawn area - covering 1/3 of the map. I took 2 gnoll huts and 1 lizard hut, and I was heading to take another Valkyrie hut. I picked up +4 attack and +4 knowledge artifacts for free from the guardians, and Vistan got the Earth skill. But the opponent rage-quit in the maximum-sized Necropolis on turn 113. Of course, I was streaming. Thanks for the game.

Scorpiona, does it make a difference from which location you leave the group?

Scorpiona, is there a difference depending on which position you leave the group from?

If you mean leaving from 1st or 2nd place, then no, there isn't.
Two people who took first and second place in the group leave the group (8 groups = 16 people), and everyone goes to the upper bracket of the Playoffs.

So, 1st and 2nd place go to the upper bracket of the playoffs, and 3rd place goes to the lower bracket of the playoffs?