Posts from Турниры HeroesWorld Cup & World Cup - 2012

01/25/2012 Lider1 (red, Castle, Valeska, Mephala) def R55Max (blue, Rampart, Ivor, Vokial) 8MM6a 214

In the first game, I completely wiped out all of his pikemen and placed a knight in the fort with griffins. I scouted the throne room outpost near my respawn point.

In the second game, angels were in the castle. I took the wood resource on turn 6 from the brown player, while Gurney lost a knight. Then there was constant back-and-forth movement.

In the third game, I take the outpost, break through the block with archmages, and head towards the village with clues, but they are located on sand tiles. At this moment, the opponent appears. I assemble a stack of 5 trees and 28 sprites. No Dragon Utopia is to be seen.

In the fourth game, I take the capitol from the yellow player, visit the blue player to reveal part of the map, run around half the map, but no Dragon Utopia anywhere. There's nowhere else to go except to either attack the opponent or go to my own village; I decide to go there. Meanwhile, I try to build the Mage Guild in the rampart. Already despairing, on turn 145, I summon the Dragon Utopia!! +6 gold, and then another one with a captain’s hat. But at least I got some money.

On the second month, I upgrade the archmages, learn Meteor Shower with antimagic, get the golden bow, and catch the main hero running with 3000 movement points. Ransom. I dive into the monolith, and it contains quite a treasure. Attack - GG

It's frustrating to lose like that.

Besides, we played for 11 hours.

Thank you for the game.

Award for the save game:

01/22/2011 Fidesxfx (blue, Fortress, Wistan, Wistan) def OUTLAW (red, Tower, Nila, Tazar) 8xm8, 212

In the matches OUTLAW vs Fidesxfx and RomarioGrom vs bRitvo4kA, the players must provide a result today, otherwise I will.

We don't match up with Britvo4kA; I took the auto-pick to avoid dragging those losses onto me.
Good luck in the future!

Hello! Unfortunately, due to real-life circumstances, I won't be able to continue with the selection process. The reason is rather depressing and unpleasant, but I can't do anything about it. I'm withdrawing from all tournaments... Thank you for the opportunity to participate!

Well, half of the tournament has actually passed. Out of 19 participants, three have withdrawn. Unfortunately, two of them were seeded players from the top half of the bracket, which significantly weakened it. OUTLAW, I'm very sorry, I wish you all the best in dealing with reality and returning to the game as soon as possible. Currently, 8 players are continuing in the tournament. Gomunguls vs Fidesxfx and GoD vs Mizrael have scheduled their matches for today. I hope that the other two pairs in the losers' bracket have also agreed on their matches. The third round ends on January 29th.

27.01.2012 Gomunguls(Blue,Dungeon,Shakti,Shakti)def Fidesxfx(Red,Castle,Valeska,Valeska)8xm8a,1.2.3
First, my opponent took his restarts, then I took mine... a lucky draw. GG came with 1 stack, Gunnar was in the tavern.. On the first day, I scouted the external dwelling of Troglodytes... I checked the guards, saw a Spirit of Despair deep in my spawn area and immediately went for it at the end of the week.. At the start of the second week, I got another Scout to the Logistics skill and smashed nearly 30 gold Golems for a Pandora's Box... the next turn, my opponent surrenders...
Thanks for the game!!!

27.01.2012 Gomunguls(Blue,Dungeon,Shakti,Shakti)def Fidesxfx(Red,Castle,Valeska,Valeska)8xm8a,1.2.3

The generators had their own opinions about the game))).
There were also successful generations, but the final one was something else...... a handout.
The respawn is micro tiny, with an observation tower on it, 2 mines and a crypt, and an arena. I broke into the metro, and immediately ran into 10+ upgraded minotaurs and 5+ cyclopes. (I checked later, there were also 10+ Behemoths standing behind them). In short, while breaking through to the ore mine past 20+ dragon flies, I saw a passage to the swamp, and hope appeared. But alas, nothing there either, an external dwelling of crossbowmen but behind 50+ upgraded harpies. I broke into the metro there, killed about 60 golems, captured the black market, then another block of 50+ golems, but with artifact resources and so on, I assumed there were close to 100 of them, not enough shots. I finished the first week with 1,2,4 in the fort. No gold, and no way to get any either. There was hope to capture the Dragon Fly Hive and take it if it was minimal, and then try to do something else, but alas, the Dragon Fly Hive wasn't minimal, and I couldn't take it with 8 swordsmen, basic pikemen, and crossbowmen.
Good luck further in the tournament.

GoD (Red, Stronghold, Stronghold, Gundula, Gundula) def. Mizrael (Blue, Dungeon, Miner, Krag) Jebus Cross 135

Thank you for the game!

GoD (Red, Citadel, Strong, Strong) def Mizrael (Blue, Dungeon, Miner, Crag) Jebus Cross 135

Thanks for the game!

You're welcome. The game wasn't great; I fell for the quick rush of Minotaurs and ended up cutting off half the map with a group of Liches. Thanks to the mini-con and the Scout, I quickly dealt with them using tactics. There were a lot of good heroes, and then Crag showed up at the end, immediately grabbing Air and Log. A few minor things hindered the normal process, and in the end, I lost (I would have had to play perfectly to win: two rushes and a Behemoth haven in the center). The whole game was recorded on Crazy's stream, and many people saw it, so I think a few comments instead of a report will do :) The first mistake happened with the village when a fast-moving Deis with a sack went to take it, but there was a Gargoyle, and he couldn't reach it. As a result, the chain didn't work out, and a day was lost. The second snag happened in the Naga bank when I didn't position myself correctly, and the Nagas entered the mines. And the main mistake: after getting 8 bears from Pandora, I should have gone to the second rush of Behemoths on the road; it was clear that Strong would take them and cut off the chain, but the Pandoras lured me in, and I paid the price. However, even that didn't save me; the native Utopia had garbage, and there was nothing to fight the mass of bears with.

I will update the table after the match between Psyche_7 and Lider1 is posted.

Gomunguls vs GoD – the match will take place after February 5th; Vitaly warned about his departure.

The winner (Psyche_7 vs Lider1) will face Fidesxfx.
The winner (CryptoNight vs bRitvo4kA) will play against Mizrael.

01/28/12 Psyche_7(blue,Rampart,Ivor,Mephala) def Lider1(red,Castle,Valeska,Lacus), 2sm4d(3), 125

What can I say... had a good skirmish, guessed right on the restarts, got lucky with the layout...

But in more detail:

Start with 6 elves from 2 heroes, but there's a Crobak with 6 snakes, roads are fast. Immediately break through to a secondary town (which turned out to be Conflux) through iron golems (sacrificed 3 dwarves). Didn't feel like fighting storms yet. Use the moon to reveal my own area: GO - Sultans off-road, a passage to another grass secondary town through a horde of greater lizards. Found a lot of treasure chests at the secondary respawn + the secondary itself is unguarded. Ivor checked the conservatory for a pack of greater basilisks - 3-4 with Mephala, having nothing better to do, broke through the zombie horde (passage to an underground treasure zone), and then a horde of thieves. Only saw a prison, and this treasure zone remained unexplored until the end of the game. Week result: at home, horses in the castle and an external dwelling of centaurs cleared, 1000 in the secondary town. Towards the end of the week, took a rather risky position with Mephala on the offensive (a general secondary town, theoretically could have been reached) while the army took a crypt, but it all worked out.
Another secondary town also turned out to be Conflux ). BUT. Here there are also stables + a conservatory (2-4) + 2 crypts (max and near-max) and a Dragon Utopia to top it all off :).
At the start of week 2 - aggressive push from the stables and Mephala sets up at the conservatory waiting for army shipment. Meanwhile, elves are being upgraded, air elementals are being bought from 2 Confluxes, and at home - everything except wood. On day 1 week 2, I take conservatory level 3 (quite clumsily - lost 4 air elementals, about 40 centaurs, and 1 elf), then Ivor takes another level 3. After a quick sweep of the treasure zone, I took a Hive with 6 Vivi and Pandora's Boxes with 10k gold and experience. Mephala level 14, 9-9, Expert Armorer, Tactics, Archery, Advanced Logistics (+ boots), Basic Offense and Earth. Didn't go deep into the treasure zone, decided to make contact (and along the way check the Dragon Utopia too). The Dragon Utopia turned out to be the big one, I keep moving. I see a conservatory, seemingly taken, and Lacus nearby. Checked with a secondary hero: my troops are better, but not by much, however in terms of parameters - a significant advantage. I was worried about magic (30+ mana and 7 spell power) and surrender, but not enough to not attack. There wasn't enough money for surrender there, and in battle, Mephala (even without a spell book) couldn't be broken.
Thanks for the game.

25.01.2012 Lider1 (red, castle, Valeska, Mephala) def R55Max (blue, rampart, Ivor, Vokial) 8MM6a 214

On the first [map], I lost absolutely all spearman and put knights in the fort with griffins. Scouted a throne console on my respawn.

On the second, angels are in the castle. Took wood on 6 from brown, while Gurni lost a knight. Then just twitching back and forth.

On the third, I take the console, break through the block with archmages and go out to the village for clues, but they are on sand. Here the opponent pops up. Build a stack of 5 trees 28 vivs. Dragon Utopia is nowhere to be seen.

On the fourth, I take the capitol from yellow, entered blue's area opened visibility, ran around half the map, Dragon Utopia is nowhere. Nowhere left to go really, either to the opp or to my village, decided to visit there. Meanwhile trying to build GM in rampart. And already despairing on 145 candle to Dragon Utopia!! +6ol, and the next one with a captain's hat. But at least money.

On the second month I upgrade archs, learn meteor rain with antimagic, take golden bow and with a running start of 3000 moves catch the main hero on acceleration. Buyout. Dive into monolith, and there is a purse, quite a big one. Attack - гг

It's so frustrating to lose like that

Plus we played for 11 hours

Thanks for the game.

That happened. The red player's turn turned out to be incredibly long :D .
The long road to the teleport promised control over the red approach, but the move turned out to be veeeery good.

In the middle of the game I built GM5, there is DD, but neither air nor wisdom were offered. But generally the key mistake was that I didn't go for the reds on the 3rd week. I should have built level 4 and attacked with a meteor scroll. Instead, I decided to farm money, but all I found were 3 mini consoles (brutal) and about twenty duck hives and a lone dragon utopia.
Thanks for the game.

#203 Psych, please start streaming again, we really miss it =/
P.S.: I know why you stopped streaming.
P.P.S.: Sorry for the off-topic post, I hope the admins understand.

28.01.12 Psyche_7(blue,Rampart,Ivor,Mephala) def Lider1(red,Castle,Valeska,Lacus), 2sm4d(3), 125

What can I say... had a good scribble, guessed right with rests, got lucky with the layout...

I can say the same, even though I don't like smku it would be a sin to complain, just didn't get lucky with hero leveling.

111 I scout an external dwelling of archers, stables, and a Griffin Conservatory, 6 heroes appear on the map. I plan to make Lacus the main hero.

112 Adelaide takes the dwarf dwelling, lose 4 archers to morale, buy 1 more hero to break the scout cover. I discover that GO is off-road.

113 I open the scout cover and see another Griffin Conservatory, but messed up the chains and had to buy another hero - Shakti. Lacus takes the army and enters a secondary Rampart, from external dwellings I see wood and horses, there he takes a crypt, reveals a tree and another Griffin Conservatory. I think we'll meet soon.
Lacus got stuck with damned wisdom. When air magic was offered I didn't really want to take it, but decided it's better than various navigations in the future and took it.

114 a wood crisis is looming, horses are questionable. In the other direction there's a block of dogs, decided to break through with the main hero and go there. My wood mine is visible there.

115 I pass through the respawn and run into a gr group of gargoyles guarding the metro, I won't say I was afraid to fight them, but didn't want to risk it since I only have 10 pikemen as backup.

116 a scout hero finds a tree on the secondary, horses stalled. But the result is sad from turns 113 to 115 the main hero wasted time running back and forth for nothing. Grabbed an external dwelling of wood.

117 Near the Rampart there are some stables, I want to start from there, running there. Took an external dwelling of dwarves for feeding.

121 Entered the stables, got +1 attack, preparing for the second Griffin Conservatory.

122 A scout hero takes the medusa dwelling, the main hero runs to the Griffin Conservatory and on the way hits trogs, but I'm 43 exp short of the next level hoping for expert air magic.

123 I can't call it anything but a fail. 22 archers, 34 dwarves, 5 wood elves, all Centaurs, pikemen, they all died in that second one and I barely crawled out of it :eek: About 7 morale procs triggered in the fight, I just couldn't protect my archers. But the tree was taken cleanly.

124 Adelaide learns slow to her advanced earth and is ready to serve the fatherland. Lacus replenishes mana. The army takes an external dwelling of horses and goes for gold.

125 Valeska discovers another Griffin Conservatory. Wow! I'm pleasantly surprised. On one hand I should run to the treasure zone, on the other hand I can't leave something like that on my respawn. Briss teaches advanced air magic, through scouting discovers blue dots on the secondary, but also two heroes in the Dungeon, seemingly in the treasure zone, whatever it is, I think I need to take that throng Griffin Conservatory. Adelaide aims to run to the newly scouted Griffin Conservatory next turn. Sylvia runs to the gargoyles to wait for the army. Lacus takes the Griffin Conservatory, and it's a second one. Near the Castle there's another one not taken this turn.

Well, I froze waiting for what would happen.

On their turn the blues scout me and attack. And I only have basic earth, but artillery without a cannon. In short I cast mass haste, tried to knock out the elves, wasted a turn with griffins killing a singleton. And of course it was pointless. There were few of them, and I shouldn't have gone into contact.
I expected mass slow, but no, I think he's saving mana for later. Everyone back.
I have no shooting, archers deal very weak damage. Couldn't break through Mephala.
The icing on the cake was that there wasn't even a spell book. So that's how they killed me "like a bot", which especially saddened me. If I'd known I would have stood still under haste, but how was I supposed to know. And it wouldn't have helped anyway.

If I'd gotten expert air scouting on turn 124 I should have sent a scout hero to the Griffin Conservatory, taken the main hero to fight right there and take the army back, but no.

Of course I should have leveled Shakti right when wisdom was forced on me, he has attack too, but something jammed me up, usually Lacus levels fine.

After the game, I couldn't sleep for a long time, lay there and thought for about an hour and a half, would have been better to play Adelaide as a last resort, at least with mass slow the outcome would have been completely different in the FB.

The killing of the main hero without a spell book caused butthurt. I'm left with some vague feeling...

Thanks for the game!

28.01.12 bRitvo4kA (blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) def CryptoNight (red, Castle, Turis, Moner), Jebus Cross, 116
Distribution was not bad: 3 external dwellings of cats, Dragon Utopia, stable, hives are okay. But the opponent is throwing. Thanks for the game.