Posts from "Newcomer-2012. Summer"

29.07.12 SVAROG(red, Castle, Valeska) def darkello (blue, Dungeon, Shakti) 2sm4d(3) 224
We played a long time ago, I don't really remember the details. Valeska's FB level 23: expert: leadership, archery, wisdom, defense, tactics, air, fire, attack. She leveled up properly. 23 29 18 16. Army: 433 skeletons, 13 angels, 35 necro wyverns, 35 monks, 45 griffins handle Shakti: level 20, 29 22 19 23, expert: attack, tactics, earth, defense, log., sorcery, adv. wisdom, basic air. Army: 54 gr. wyverns, 4 devils, 3 hydras, 24 medusas, 42 Evil Eyes, 9 minotaurs. Before the FB I decided to put the Sphere of Inhibition, because in my secondary he researches and learns Armageddon and frantically replenished spell power before the FB. 54 gr. wyverns *70 roughly 3800 HP, I feel 13 angels won't be able to withstand, and with the sphere the opponent has no chance.
P.S. Good people, tell me how to post screenshots, because describing the process takes a long time, thanks in advance.

I confirm
Again my 3 Dragon Utopias (maxi, triple, double), including maxi (maxi shield +4 all, Shield +12, two Spheres of Vulnerability) gave nothing forest-like except the sword +5 all, ah and also the book of water.. Well, I won't even mention the blocks... since restarts were taken immediately, I had to play... the road split into two directions, the first being the exit from the dungeon where I spawned (15 snipers from the dungeon side, 46-48 cursed orcs level 3 from the other side on the first day), the second being the road to GO which was also blocked along the way (impassable) by roc birds on the first day 20-49... as a result, I was left with the dungeon less than one turn away, having broken through to the surface swamp with epic losses, I moved to it..
And then the opponent's artifacts decided it in my opinion (+5 all, +6 all, Cloak of Negation, Sphere of Inhibition, Book of Earth, Necklace +3 +3 morale luck etc etc - nothing to compare), and the opponent as if he knew put the sphere before my attack as well., which sealed it finally and irrevocably
thx for the game

08/01/12 m2d3(red, Swamp, Tazar) draw Vinceras (blue, Castle, Valeska) 2sm4d(3) 135
We started without rests. I had a very strong respawn point. 2 Wyvern nests, 3 Gnoll dens, 4 Water Mill, 3 Crypt, 3 Nagabanka, 1 Medusa den, 1 Wyvern nest. 2 Coliseums, and a skill-boosting building. All of this was built in about 10 days. I headed towards the opponent. I attacked the castle. In the end, there were 30-40 coins and 9 Swordsmen left. I retreated with 17 Lizards. The opponent came to me. He came straight to the castle. But he didn't attack. Tazar would have defended, of course. I attacked myself. There were 10 Swordsmen and 40 coins left again. In these 3 weeks, the following were lost: 22 Giant Wyverns, 80 Lizards, 100 Gnolls, 9 Gorgons, 15 Valeskas, 20 Flies, 80 Marksmen, 9 Monks, 8 Knights, 8 Rocs, 4 Wyverns, 10 Swordsmen, and 20 Spearmen. That damn Valeska's arrow hit for exactly 70 damage against a Wyvern. And the castle always shot at the same Wyverns, dealing -1 to -1.5 damage.
Thanks for the game.

01.08.12 m2d3 (red, Swamp, Tazar) draw Vinceras (blue, Castle, Valeska) 2sm4d(3) 135
We started without rests. I had a very strong respawn. 2 nests of wyverns, 3 gnolls, 4 water mills, 3 crypts, 3 naga banks, 1 medusa hut, 1 nest of jasper creatures. 2 coliseums, and some stat increases. All of this was taken in about 10 days. I ran to my opponent. Attacked the castle. In the end, 30-40 spearmen and 9 swordsmen remained there. I ran away with 17 lizardmen. The opponent came to me. Came right to my castle. But didn't attack. Tazar would have defended, of course. I attacked myself. Again, 10 swordsmen and 40 spearmen remained there. In these 3 weeks, the following died: 22 greater wyverns, 80 lizardmen, 100 gnolls, 9 gorgons, 15 basilisks, 20 flies, 80 marksmen, 9 monks, 8 cavaliers, 8 roc birds, 4 wyverns, 10 swordsmen, and 20 spearmen. That damn arrow from Valeska hit exactly 70 - the wyvern. And the castle always shot at those same wyverns and dealt -1-1.5.
Thanks for the game.

Confirmed. Thanks for the game!

01.08.12 m2d3(red, Swamp, Tazar) draw Vinceras (blue, Castle, Valeska) 2sm4d(3) 135
We started without rests. I had a very strong respawn point. 2 Wyvern nests, 3 Gnoll dens, 4 Water Mill, 3 Crypt, 3 Nagabanka, 1 Medusa Lair, 1 Wyvern nest. 2 Coliseums, and a unit upgrade building. All of this was taken in about 10 days. I ran to the opponent. I attacked the Castle. In the end, there were 30-40 coins and 9 Swordsmen left. I ran away with 17 Lizards. The opponent went to me. He came straight to the Castle. But he didn't attack. Tazar would have defended, of course. I attacked myself. There were 10 Swordsmen and 40 coins left again. In these 3 weeks, the following were lost: 22 Greater Wyverns, 80 Lizards, 100 Gnolls, 9 Gorgons, 15 Valeskas, 20 Flies, 80 Marksmen, 9 Monks, 8 Knights, 8 Rohirrim, 4 Wyverns, 10 Swordsmen, and 20 coins. That damned Valeska's arrow hit exactly 70 - Wyvern. And the Castle always shot at the same Wyverns and did -1-1.5 damage.
Thank you for the game.

So, why was it a draw? How did it end?

So, why was it a draw? What was the outcome?

Because both teams are already qualified for the playoffs, and this match doesn't really matter. In my opinion, for regular players, it's just like playing a ranked game.
P.S. Maybe both players lost the battle and decided to settle the matter peacefully.

25.07.2012 HellLighT (Red, Citadel, Gunnison, Crag) def RozenKran (Blue, Necros, Clavius) 2sm4d(3) 145

We played in several sessions, I don't remember how many restarts we burned through, but the start was great. Crag arrives. Contrary to my usual habit of making Gunnison the main on SM, seeing the respawn, I decide to make Crag the main. And here's what I saw on day 111 after lighting up the scout... 2 arenas, 4 external goblin dwellings, 2 Griffin Conservatories, a Pandora's Box for 50-99 thieves, GO Ghosts into the underground, and 2 grass secondary skills.

Week 1

I spread out to 5 heroes. Besides Crag, Galtran also showed up with 1 skeleton :D But I didn't dare go Necro, placed a thousand on day 111. Day 112 was terrible. Due to the large number of goblins, I upgrade them, but the army, not yet upgraded, had already left to break through to a secondary skill guarded by boars. After that, I immediately decided to take the Pandora's Box (which turned out to be empty). As a result, I lost more than half the goblins... Left with 40 goblins, I waste almost the entire first week on complete nonsense. I revealed a third Griffin Conservatory(1) on the respawn and another Conservatory(2-4) on a secondary skill... I checked Conservatory(1) on the respawn again; the third was behind elves. I only took the Conflux secondary skill, which turned out to be an adjacent zone, on day 116, while the opponent had a secondary town from day 111. In short, things weren't so rosy anymore. By day 117, I barely got Bears built in the Fort.

Week 2

With Bears and goblin growth, Conservatories(1) fell perfectly. Finally started working on chains. I took another Conflux secondary town, recovered a Sword +2+2. The third respawn Conservatory also turned out to be a level 1, which was no longer so pleasant. And then comes the magnificent moment of attacking the adjacent zone Conservatory, which turned out to be max level... I won't go into the details of my idiocy :smile04: and my magnificent skill combined with luck, but from an army of 2 Bears, 3 Angels, 120 Hobs, 23 Wolves, and a bit of Tower chow, I emerged with 1 Angel! Nothing much to do; I had plans for a nearby Dragon Utopia, but with only 5 Angels left, I ran to the swamp treasure zone. Luckily I got Pathfinding.

Week 3

The treasure zone turned out to be quite tasty, but unpleasantly stretched out. I ate it all week, took 3 Dwellings of Angels, 5 Hives, recovered a Sword +6, bought a Shield +6, 3 Cyclopses, a Necklace, as well as Pandora's Boxes for experience and Castle meat (Crusaders + Monks). I was on the approach to the Sphere of Inhibition for gold and the Dragon Utopia, waiting for growth. There was a foray into the opponent's adjacent zone on a pony with a hundred skeletons and 4 horses, on whom, due to the opponent's grease, I lost half my growth in the form of Bears and birds.

Week 4

With 10 Angels, 26 Wyverns, 40 Crusaders, and 30 Monks, without waiting for growth from the main, I fly into the Dragon Utopia(3). I lose 20 Monks; they give complete junk - a bag of gold, a Captain's Hat, and a Book of Fire. Now this is the most skilled Crag Hack in the world :smile52:. Not losing heart, I grind gold for the Sphere, lose the rest of the Monks. I don't manage to arrive in time to place heroes in the chain, which costs me an extra turn. On day 144, I take the minimum Dragon Utopia on the adjacent zone; it only gives KV. With Crag, I break into the main, next to which is a Fountain of Mana x2. And then the opponent pops out, chasing my army on a cockroach (he had money for ransom), but miscalculates and doesn't reach me. On the next turn, I cover him with Crag and the Sphere, immediately burst in with Angels onto his stack of Wyverns, cutting down almost all of them, and lock his skeletons with single Roc units. The opponent, after not thinking long, capitulates. Thanks for the game.

25.07.2012 HellLighT (Red, Citadel, Gunnison, Crag) def RozenKran (Blue, Necropolis, Clavius) 2sm4d(3) 145

It happened. Appeared in the underground on 111, captured the double and decided to play. On the 2 respawns there wasn't anything particularly good. 1 Griffin Conservatory under the castle, a refugee camp. From the pickups, 1 zombie and 1 skeleton far away on the adjacent zone.
On 121 or 122, with 200 skeletons, 20 vampires, and 5 horses, I took the max conservatory losing 4 horses. The fun ended there. In 2 treasures and my 2 own zones, I only found 1 shield +5 on stats, constantly lost skeletons, managed to lose 2 angels (1 on a necromancy pile, 1 on a non-essential grand breakthrough), dug up 5 red dragons from a Pandora's box, which burned 70 skeletons in the hive (I still don't understand how to position them so they don't burn), farmed a few ducks and found a level 5 hat. On the 4th week, I decided to run to the Dragon Utopia, but the opponent's cockroach with all his power except angels stopped about 1 turn from my main. I wanted to thin them out a bit with an explosion. In the end, I didn't make it, and the opponent caught up the next turn and beat me. Thanks for the game!

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31.07.2012 RozenKran (Red, Castle, Valeska, Dragon) def Егор Коробейников (Blue, Citadel, Gunnison) 2sm4d(3) 232

We spent all the restarts, the spawn was great - a bunch of roads, crypts, a stable under the castle, Solmyr and Crag. On 111, I died completely in the max crypt. I went in with Solmyr with 19 archers and 4 spears - wanted to take it like in the textbook, but no, the vampires for some reason went aggressive at one point and flew to the crossbowmen. I retreated and also lost Crag. I thought about surrendering right away or running, but when I saw that the adjacent zone was a double, I decided to resist. On the first week, I collected everything that was lying around and with the Dragon with 45 peasants, I fought chests behind zombies. I gathered enough for horses in the citadel and captured the secondary on 116.


On the second week, first thing after upgrading the horses in the stable, I scouted a single conservatory on my main and took it immediately (single). Dragon with an angel on one front, the rest of the army went through chains to take crypts and medusa dens. By the end of the week, I placed angels in the castle and took 2 pre-max hives. One more remained at home. Found a Dimension Door scroll.


On the third, I broke through to another adjacent zone, there was a conservatory (1), a naga bank, and a medusa den. I started slowly building a guild in Inferno. On 136, I only came out into the treasury, took the Dragon Fly Hive and an earth booster. On 137, the opponent stopped one turn away from me in front of a hive and 10-19 green dragons from 2 Pandora's boxes. His stats were higher, army 5-9 behemoths, 1-4 angels, and apparently single ducks.


4th Week. I didn't attack, as it turned out later, in vain. Instead, I brought the army, took the hive and Pandora's boxes for 10 and 20 experience seemingly right from under his nose. The opponent transferred the army, killed Solmyr, and crashed against my hero. He turned around into another treasury and ran there all week, took 4 hives, Angel Wings, and a quest artifact (20k exp). The opponent apparently took a Dragon Utopia and somewhere in the middle of the week broke through the ГО. A massive spoon fight - I'm trying to break chains. The opponent took my main from Gunnison with stats 23-14-8-7, 7 white bears, 1 angel, and about 10 rocs, and he has Town Portal (I suspect the Earth book). I have 13-17-7-8, 7 angels, 13 champions, 67 ducks (!!!), 30 knights, 68 archers, 19 griffins, and 86 pikes. I'm running to recapture my main and then...

2nd month: Plague week :trf: - the opponent rages and spams in chat for a long time... leaves an empty castle and scatters across the respawn like cockroaches everywhere. This week, I finished off the cockroaches, took 2 cyclops dens, and gathered resources for guild levels 4 and 5. After capturing the main, I teleported with the main hero to the third treasury and finally found the first Dragon Utopia there. It gave КЗ, an air booster - I assembled the Sniper's Bow. At the end, I took another Dragon Utopia - nothing worthwhile there, I think. And I fought for a +2 speed cloak. I've been scouting the opponent all the time since air magic appeared, probably since week 3. He just enters this treasury at the end of the week.


2nd week of the 2nd month: I was about to return and go to the opponent's main, but I decided to run around the treasury a bit more, and it wasn't in vain! I first found a +4 all stats shield, then another divine Dragon Utopia (a kettle, sandals, and Claw). The opponent was running around at the beginning of the treasury. I took another couple of hives and Town Portal home. Topped up my mana, upgraded to Archangels, and went to the opponent. On 227, I captured his second-to-last castle, and he promised to Fireball next turn if I stayed there. But on the next turn, he changed his mind and said he'd run for another 15 minutes =)))). That didn't suit me, and after one turn I caught him. Explosion for 3k - 9 behemoths. Archangels finished off the rest - gg. Thanks for the game.:smile13:

31.07.2012 RozenKran (Red, Castle, Valeska, Dragon) def. Egor Korbeinikov (Blue, Citadel, Gurnisson) 2sm4d(3) 232
1st week, 1257. The Castle gave the hero good skills, but nothing else was yet explored. It takes 5-6 days to reach the secondary locations (this is just to get to the secondary locations, and then to the Castles or the opponent...). They are in the portal for the 1st secondary location and 4-5 days to the snowy area via the rough terrain, both secondary locations. There are 2 paths to the Grand Order, one and one to his secondary location (where he has no exit, and I really wanted to meet him sooner).
On the main, there was a Pandorica with 20-49 Medusas. In the 2nd week, there was already an Horde. I thought it would be 10k gold or experience, but there were 50 dogs, which would have helped me take the Utopia.
At the beginning of the second stage, I go to the Treasury, but there is neither the 1st Hive nor the 1st Citadel, only Minotaurs 20-49 guarding the quest artifacts or +skills. There is also the Horde of Vivene guarding the quest artifact. In the end, I kill the Horde, Silver Pegasi, for the Pandorica, 15k gold. On day 131.

On days 131-134, I kill the Citadel on the main, a level 4 creature, and check for the Utopia. The Utopia turned out to be the 3rd one. If it had been smaller, I would have taken it with almost no losses, but I decided not to go for it because I didn't have much meat... I divided the army. The Rukh went to the secondary location.

I am already on 1, 3, 5 and I go to the 2nd Treasury because I see 2 Hives there. I kill 9 Angels without losses, they give the entire land in the Book of Wisdom, level 2. I eat the Hive and meet the opponent with a larger army. I lost the meat, I don't know how to play with the Citadel.
And when I was breaking through to the Hive, 20-49 Snipers shot down an Angel. The Hive was guarded by 45 Snipers. Already in the 2nd Treasury, on day 137, I saw a blue flag when Cregg had 5 squares left. I had almost no army left, only elementals, Angels, and 10 Ducks, the rest of the army was with Shoh. I didn't have time to combine them back, but the opponent didn't attack.

If I had eaten the Utopia then (if I hadn't lost the meat) and had at least 7 7 magic stats instead of 2 2, and had the Wisdom skill before the Angels, then the game would have ended, but I was playing very inattentively. That's why I didn't fight then...
And if the Treasury that I completely explored in the 2nd stage had not been so bad, 1-2 Citadels and Hives, or a Utopia on day 141, the game would have ended.
BUT against 2 Castles and without a quick passage to the Utopia and with so many mistakes, it is impossible to win.

Thank you for the game.

Oh yes, on day 141, I went home, took the Utopia, broke through to the Grand Order - another Angel. On day 144, I took the opponent's main. I thought I would buy from 2 cities and go to kill the opponent while he is in the Treasury. BUT there are 2 Hives on the main, a Citadel on the main, a Citadel on the secondary, 3 Hives in the 1st Treasury on his side, and the 2nd Treasury with 3 maximum Hives???, in the end, 70 Ducks on day 211 and the Plague Month finished the game (did I still have an advantage in stats then?).

And yes, I dragged the game on further, I wanted to find all the Fire magic, I thought the opponent would put himself under Berserk...

02.08.2012 twaryna (red, Citadel, Crag) def artbocha (blue, Castle, Turis, Marusya) 2sm4d(3) 225

02.08.2012 twaryna (red, Citadel, Crag) def artbocha (blue, Castle, Turis, Marusya) 2sm4d(3) 225

As I understand it, this is the last game of the round ;)

I understand that this is the last game of the round ;)

HellLighT - Yegor Korobeynikov We are waiting for the result of the last match;)

08.08.2012 Yegor Korobeynikov (Red, Conflux, ingissa, moner) def HellLighT (Blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Goltran) 2sm4d(3) 222. On 111 he defeated earth elementals for 20-49 snakes. Then 10-19 elves. And then a couple more nasty blocks... on 113-114 he broke 25 swordsmen with 11 air elementals, 7 earth elementals, and e-ds. Then everything’s a blur (I’ll add the rest later). HellLighT surrendered early, but being a man he didn’t say anything to me; angry SEVENSAN riled him up as always... So at the start it turned out ugly — I apologize, I didn’t know, I thought that with a 1-1-1 score in the group, only season (rating) would count. Though Hell corrected me later.
Thanks for the game.

Let's summarize the results of the group stage.

A controversial situation arose in group #1. We decided that the time allotted for playing in groups of 3 is an ill-conceived rule. Therefore, we referred to the seasonal ranking.
Yegor Korobeynikov has the highest ranking in this group, so he advances from the group in 1st place, while players HellLighT - RozenKran will play a tiebreaker for 2nd place.

JustObserver, darkello, marader-kisa, we would have liked to see you in the playoffs, but the competition was fierce! We wish you good luck on the battlefield;)

Players twaryna and Wladysha took first place in their groups and are therefore in different branches of the playoff bracket.

artbocha, SVAROG, Vinceras, m2d3, Yegor Korobeynikov, and the winner of the tiebreaker game, HellLighT - RozenKran, were randomly assigned.

Play-Off

Full Double Elimination
(losers from the upper bracket drop to the lower bracket, where the games are played until elimination)

The map is chosen randomly from the list: 2sm4d(3), 8mm6a, Jebus Cross, Mini-Nostalgia, Panic
The blue player starts the procedure.

Please note!!! Games are played to 2 wins. If the score is 1-1, the 3rd game is played on 2SM4d(3) all-random. The time limit for one round is 2 weeks.

P.S. Play-off games were played to 2 wins solely due to your game speed; we hope that the rounds will not be delayed in the future either;)

Good luck to you, and may the strongest win!!!:smile49:

06.08.2012 Egor Korobeinikov (Red, Conflux, ingissa, moner) def HellLighT (Blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Goltran) 2sm4d(3) 222. On 111 I broke earth elementals for 20-49 serpents. Then 10-19 elves. And then a couple more nasty blocks... On 113-114 I broke 25 swordsmen with 11 air elementals, 7 earth elementals and ed-ki. Then everything's a blur (I'll add more later). HellLighT surrendered early, but he didn't say a word to me like a man, angry SEVENSAN riled him up as always... And at the start it turned out badly, I apologize, I didn't know, I thought with a 1-1-1 score in the group only the season (rating) would count. Although Hell corrected me later.
Thanks for the game.

I confirm, it turned out that two Dwellings of Dragons with a chest and a pile are guarded by 32 Minotaurs with gr oO, a stack, and 120 Trogs, which as luck would have it dealt minimal damage, so I couldn't even split them... and the worst part is that with the remaining 20 skeletons it was incredibly difficult to break through the blocks that were generated, so in the end I started playing from the 3rd week, necromanced as much as I could, but by the end of the game the game started to lag; driven into the treasure zone, I ate decently, and then started feeding meat to neutrals with misclicks, forgot to equip artifacts for +speed (Snipers didn't hesitate to take advantage of this and killed 20 of my Wyverns :D after casting Stone Skin each time) I could have run around more but I got so tired I decided to give battle, though literally in 1 turn near the end I necromanced 300 skeletons out of 1300 available (having 2 Necromancers, a Fur Cape, and Boots) but oh well. Thanks for the game