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There was a minor hiccup with the save of the first game, because after the first victory, we immediately started the second one, a series of small mistakes, after which all desire to play disappeared, I conceded the second game in favor of the opponent with an agreement to play the third on Jebus Cross (essentially the second one, so the rule about a third game on 2sm4d did not apply) and gave Swarog the right to choose the faction, starting as Red again, overwriting the saves of the previous game, if Swarog miraculously still had them, I hope he uploads them himself. I'll write from memory.
08/06/2012 HellLighT(Red, Conflux, Brissa, Mephala/Vidomina) def SVAROG(Blue, Rampart, Ivor) panic 124
It seems I got 2 restarts, and the opponent finally... a Necromancer arrives, albeit with 1 skeleton, the respawn is large, but almost all of it is on no-road, an external dwelling of air elementals and a bunch of unpleasant guards for useless artifacts, I lose a fair amount of meat on the breakthrough, the butterflies scattered like fluff, but I carefully save the skeletons ;) I captured the robes +5 to necromancy, on day 1.15 I broke through to the secondary, there despite the small zone, lots of goodies in terms of gold and simply a paradise for a Necromancer in the form of trogs/gremlins/goblins. By day 1.17 the birds were in the fort, I immediately set my sights on a Griffin Conservatory duo on the respawn, which Mephala arrived at at the very end. On day 1.22 with 200+ skeletons and 4 birds, the Conservatory falls, I'm thinking about what to do next, from the fort's edge I see the entrance to the treasure zone behind 5-9 devils, I was about to move there when the opponent runs out to the adjacent respawn with a secondary, intending to get into the Conservatory, leaving Ivor on the rush, the chain standing by takes a nearby village with the appearing opponent, I catch Ivor with the artifacts, never letting him move, but to reach the machina I had to buy heroes until one appeared with 6 speed, the army advantage was great, there were mostly just Grands there and I had 2 Angels, 4 birds and almost 300 skeletons + minor units, GG.
08/15/2012 HellLighT(Red, Conflux, Kalt, Galthran) def SVAROG(Blue, Castle, Valeska) Jebus 134
I really didn't want to play Luna, but when Galthran and 2 other Necromancers came, I couldn't refuse such a setup. Giant respawn, a huge pile of external dwellings, shacks, a couple of water/air ones, but I messed up pretty badly on one of the days, forgot to save up money and simply built nothing, and since the air elementals weren't built, the birds vanished on the first turn, everything was laid out very inconveniently, the road twisted as much as it could, passing by the Garrisons Object on the way to the secondary, the second one was blocked, I freed another level 5 Necromancer, behind 19 gr Ogre Pandora's Box for 10k xp, Galthran expertises Earth and picks up Tactics, there are almost no stat artifacts on the respawn, only behind strong guards. I spotted 2 Throng Conservatories (one in a terrible backwater) and 2 Hives, since only Gosh could take the Conservatories, their gathering took 4 turns, not without incidents as always, after one of the Hives, which I took on autobattle to save time, I forgot to turn off autobattle and the second Conservatory was taken exactly with it :D luckily I almost didn't lose skeletons, but the meat stacks were thinned out considerably, near the Garrisons Object I opened a Pandora's Box for all Air magic without Wisdom... annoying. The Garrisons Object gave 100 gr Liches, with Tactics they fell almost without losses, the treasure zone turned out to be small, the start there wasn't as productive as I'd hoped, after the Key Villa for a Dragon Fly Hive, I attacked with a scout hero without stats on 20-49 horses for the Hive and an artifact +1 mana, there turned out to be 49 horses!!!!!! I lost almost all the meat except for 30 Magmarae, even though the Hive was maxed... the only consolation, from scouting I could see that the opponent wasn't even approaching. I fiddled around for a long time, took the Shield +4 all behind Minotaurs, the premine Dragon Utopia turned out to be unusually lucky +5 all, Wings and Crown +4 +4, after that everything became much easier, I cleared the treasure zone, another scout showed that a blue hero and the chain behind him were nearby, I broke through the Garrisons Object and caught Vala on 6 Angels, I think a direct fight wouldn't have changed anything because there was a chain of 1600 with an Orb of the Air, and parameters twice as high. Thanks for the game.
08/06/2012 SVAROG(Red, Tower, Solmyr) def HellLighT(Blue, Fortress, Tazar) mini-nosta 114
After losing Tazar, the opponent offers to surrender in exchange for the last game on Jebus.
In the third game, I still couldn't get to the center. On day 133, Gosh comes himself and near the Garrisons Object he catches me on a rush again. GG.
Many thanks to the organizers and all participants for the tournament! It was very interesting! Good luck to the remaining participants! May the strongest win. I'm rooting for artboch`a.
