Posts from Турнир "ФБ-6" -> Tournament "The Final Battle - 6"

Javdet (blue ramp, Kyrre, Kyrre) def Chemist (red Castle, Val, Val) mini-Nosta, 136, SoD 1-0

Got lucky with scouting, ended up with drakes hidden under the town, 2 native heroes (including Ivor). Kyrre gets Earth magic right away — super. Then she just leveled perfectly — Tactics, Wisdom, Defense/Attack, Air. First week I fought mainly with Ivor, while Kyrre had the toughest challenge — fending off the combined AI army on snow with dragons. No surrender option, but I managed to stall, and the key was an anti-morale artifact given by another AI. Meanwhile, on the other front, Ivor finally decided to go for the Dwarf 100. A couple of morale procs would have seriously crippled the second week’s combat potential (earlier I messed up and lost about 20 Centaurs). In the end, everything worked out — horses in the Castle, AIs defeated, Kyrre runs to the stable by 121.

In week 2, I found a Griffin Conservatory at the Barbarian’s, where Ivor’s Pathfinding came in handy. Level 2 Artifact, I take it. On the other end of the chain, Kyrre prepares to enter the treasure zone. The treasure zone wasn’t great — snowy and small, no Dragon Fly Hives, but I did pick up 15 Thunderbirds, a +12 Breastplate, and Slippers from the Alliance. And some Pechs in the corner, grabbed by a freed scout hero at level 20. By 125 we move to another treasure zone, but I’m worried about the lack of an Angel stack. I decide to send Ivor to a side path for a Griffin Conservatory while Kyrre checks out the treasure zone with 2 Angels. Along the way, he finds another Griffin Conservatory — level 3.
I decide not to rush to the targeted Griffin Conservatory — it would cost a day, a day that ultimately helped me finish so quickly.

In the treasure zone, there are several Dragon Utopias, a couple of mini-hives, and decent chests.
After one chest that gave 60 Archers, I decide to push and go into a Dragon Utopia with whatever I have (didn’t have gold to buy the army). I have 21 Thunderbirds, 5 Angels, and a lot of imps. Turns out it was a minimum one, and nothing valuable died — I got a +4 Breastplate, buy up, and assault the next one — level 3 with a Tome of Earth Magic and a +4+ Shield. At 135, I very timely grab a Tome of Air Magic, portal for mana to give Val a surprise next turn. Turned out I got a pleasant surprise myself — Val was right there and got brutally beaten.

Thanks for the game.

P.S. It’s worth noting that Maretti was right — 8 minutes are too little for Nosta. Sometimes even 10 wasn’t enough, even though I played as focused as possible and didn’t stall. In time trouble, I did something incoherent.

Javdet (blue Ramp, Kyrre, Kyrre) def Chemist (red Castle, Valya, Valya) mini-Nostalgia, 136, SoD 1-0

On the first map I took Tower and the Conflux. The road to the barbs is blocked, going around is not viable. On the grass Conflux the Griffin Conservatory is at 3/4 of an Angel, on the snow a Conservatory with a Naga is guarded by 20+ gr. Minotaurs. The Naga of spears and horses is in the Citadel.

On the second map from the Conflux into the treasure zone — small, sand and completely empty. I took the Dungeon town. On the snow I picked up an artifact: attack +4, a couple of Angels, and by the end of the week I entered the underground treasure zone. At the same time, I never left the external marketplace.

There I collected 3 Angels, 46 Wyverns, and 12 Unicorns from the pickups, but in a week I never made it down the path to the town. There was still the same amount of road left. From three shipwrecks: 2/3/3 Drak — Book of Earth, shield +6, a couple of small magic artifacts, and a blue hat. Stats — nothing special. I decided to make Archers, and the scout hero jumped to the Ramp town to at least transfer the Unicorns on the fourth week, and hop through the underground until the fifth week.

But Kyrre arrived very timely, a day earlier/later, and Valya would not have been home. From the three still unclaimed shipwrecks, at least the parameters would have been evened out, but as it was, an Imp with 3000 gave no chance at all.

Thanks for the game!

I suggest I get the win vs Term to avoid futher delay. Its still round 1 of 2nd ladder and nothing indicates we will play any time soon.

TERM could not play that days and he told about it.

He said he could play from the 23th and that was allready very late in my opinion. Its now the 28th.

10/09/2012 Javdet (red swamp, Taz, Taz) loose Chemist (blue castle, Valya, Valya) 2sm4d3 1-1 132 SOD

It's unclear why he attacked and got completely crushed. The SOD swamp differs from the VT one and is clearly not for the better, and if you add in some bad luck and the generator isn't on your side, it's even harder.
In general, it took almost 2 weeks to get out of this mess. On level 131, I see Valya, with vipers up to 19, angels up to 5, not many horses, and around 50+ marksmen. I decided to attack, hoping for a trade, since only the number of vipers had increased. It turned out to be even worse - almost all the angels, horses, and marksmen were present, the vipers were already 33, and in the first round, the morale of the archers dropped...
Analysis after the game showed the path I could have taken - I should have constantly maintained a chain with the ability to attack the opponent's table with Fionna. Otherwise, it's extremely difficult...

Thanks for the game.

14/08/2012 Amiloo (blue Rampart, Ivor, Nila) loose Twaryna (red Castle, Vala, Clavius) 2sm4d3 1-0 141 SoD
The game was completely in my hands :) Double with an external dwelling of Grands, no problems at the start, on week 2 I got a decent amount of ducks in the treasure zone, on week 3 I ate a Dragon Utopia, got the Red Orb. Ate another treasure zone and gave myself up by splitting the army, not equipping the Chupa Chups despite expert Air Magic scouting. I had to manage it, and I did! :)

16/08/2012 Amiloo (red Tower, Torosar, Crag) def Twaryna (blue Fortress, Tazar, Tazar) 8mm6a 1-1 135 SoD
The spawn gave a very fast exit from the zone and on 112 the castle was taken, where Centaurs were subsequently stationed in the fort, so basically we played swamp vs castle. Spent the entire first week grinding, collecting bones with Xsi + there was a bugged passage and I was punished with another comp's Citadel. On 117 I had 110 bones, standing to smash a necromancy booster +10.
122 scouted a Vial of +2 HP and a strong Griffin Conservatory at the comp-Tower's respawn. 125 Crag was born, killed the Tower comp, have 260 bones. Slowly thinking about building Angels. 127 the comp recaptured the castle, I had to get distracted, causing me to zone out and forget to build the Mage Guild in the castle => missed the Angel build. However, Xsi didn't waste time and scammed 390 bones, took the corner village, a single Griffin Conservatory, and scouted 2 Dragon Utopias right there.
131 I take level 4 Griffin Conservatory, buy out all the meat available. 132 Level 2 Crag, no fool, jumps into a Dragon Utopia to level up xD, loses all the meat and Centaurs to hell and gets the Red Orb, Boots of +2 All and Armor of +4+4. 133 I take the second Dragon Utopia, get a Tome and junk, Crag gets trashed in the castle, flies to the center to find the opponent (leveled up Armorer and expert Air, though forgot to buy the book :)). 134 I trade at the external market to zero but still manage to make 6 Archangels, fly in with Crag as far as possible and here comes the opp, who also attacks under camouflage (shows 2 stacks of 1-4 Greater Hydras). Almost blundered and attacked, but came to my senses in time and checked with a scout. Turns out Tazik is on the rush (15 Angels 1 Fly), I make a brilliant move, equip the Red Orb, take 6 Archangels, 350 bones, single Fairies and pounce (there were a million options to bring in all sorts of meat, but why?? it's more interesting this way xD). FB Tazik 6 17 vs Crag 20-17 Crag barely wins with help from the opponent's misclick, reaches the meat and gg.

2/09/2012 Amiloo (blue random/Necro, random/Moandor, Galtran) def Twaryna (red Rampart, Uland, Torgrim) 8mm6a 2-1 131 SoD
We got our faces wrecked in everything possible, ending up with Necro vs Rampart. But the euphoria quickly passes: all in all 90 bones, the exit from the respawn is completely blocked by 30+ Elves with a Guardhouse (Obelisk with a resource) + the opponent has a Necropolis secondary => who will out-necro whom is still unknown. 112 got lucky, broke through a min Dwarf Dwelling, got a fat chest, out-sneaked Aislin's Elves, built Mage Guild 1, regen mana, getting ready to sneak again. 113 barely broke through the remaining 18 Elves with the loss of 1 Vamp and here's the happiness: external market, buy more heroes, rush further. Pillar of Experience => all Necros with advanced Necromancy, Vokial is already expert, I exit into the corner zone, 2 more Dwarf Dwellings of 15 and 20, scouted an external dwelling of Peasants, smell freebies. 117 Centaurs in the castle, Moandor flies on 2 Centaurs to kill the comp, Vokial pushes further into the corner zone: 2 external Peasant dwellings, everyone necros like gods, overall have 225 bones.
121 Galtran arrives, Vokial scouts level 3-4 Griffin Conservatory and a Pandora's Box for Skeletons. Vokial takes the Pandora for 330 (OMFG) peasants and 2 more external dwellings of these same spineless ones, urgently chain back home, Moandor finished off the Inferno comp. 123 Galtran with 800 bones takes the home level 4 Griffin Conservatory. 124 Vokial takes another level 4, Moandor breaks into the center, Gosha at home with 1 Angel and 250 bones crawls to get the boots. 125 I exit into the center, immediately a Dragon Utopia and kill the opponent's scout. 126 I take the Dragon Utopia, extremely sloppy (-3 Angels and 100 bones) - Shield 12, Armor 10, I take out Mephala on a Serpent (thought it was the main), attack with Moandor with the remnants: 550 bones and 4 Angels, no mana, against Torgrim with his full army, and the bastard has 80 mana and even better combat stats. Don't know if he has Slow or not, but don't want to risk it and buy back entirely for 29k. 127 Refill mana, give Moandor the boots, boost him, set Galtran to split. 131 Moandor with expert Logistics and Boots reaches the central Necro village, from there Galtran emerges and with 900+ bones, 60 mana, and Teleport in the spellbook reaches the opponent's meat on the scout, gg wp.

Many thanks for the games, had a lot of fun ;)

08/14/2012 Amiloo (blue Rampart, Ivor, Nila) loose Twaryna (red Castle, Valya, Clavius) 2sm4d3 1-0 141 SOD

08/16/2012 Amiloo (red Tower, Torosar, Kreg) def Twaryna (blue Fortress, Tazar, Tazar) 8mm6a 1-1 135 SOD

09/02/2012 Amiloo (blue random/Necropolis, random/Moandor, Galtran) def Twaryna (red Rampart, Uland, Thorgrim) 8mm6a 2-1 131 SOD

Confirmed. Thank you for the interesting games!

09/05/2012 Gomunguls(Red,random,Conflux,Fiur,Fiur)def bRitvo4kA(Blue,random,Conflux,Gelar,Clavius)8mm6a,2.2.6
We took all the restarts and a lucky handout... the town had a stable, started leveling several heroes... anyway, on the first bird in the Fort, the gray computer was killed.. on the second, I broke a 3rd-level Griffin Conservatory almost without losses, and then things took off... on the 3rd, 3 Dragon Utopias fell, towards the end of the 3rd I captured the enemy capital... tried to pursue there but couldn't catch the enemy's main hero... everyone scattered across the map in all directions... chased and chased but never caught... towards the end of the 3rd, there was a mage's duel... my Brissa turned out stronger and won... through replays I saw the opponent only had 2 heroes... I followed the tracks and saw many Griffin Conservatories and 3 Dragon Utopias... things were getting grim... controlled 3 Confluxes for 2 weeks... gathered strength... in the end we met at Green's respawn where the Final Battle happened! Cursed Armor, Red Ball, Sniper's Bow, and Cape of Speed did their job + a significant army advantage...
Thanks for the game!!!
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05.09.2012
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Did you play as Warlock, or where did you get so many magic elements from?)))

Tiamath vs R 55Max 2:1

We played three times Mini-Nostalgia. In each game I have better situation but in second one I simply scrued in FB. Writting about three games, 4 weeks each would take to much so I just say that R 55 do all he can to won.

Thanks for games.

P.S. Minwhile ouer third game english rules bug show up.
According to special rules for mini-nostalgia player can move to middle zone only when he kill zone guard. Ther is no exception about "flying in", "DD in" or "AngelWings in", so no matter how he wanna get in he must kill guard. Thats what litteraly say rule. I speak with Maretti and he had exacly same interpretation for such a writted rule, untill he play with someone from HW.
It shows that writted english rule is diffrent from played russian/HW rule.

So here is my request for precisive explanation to rules. I dont wanna get known in middle of game that somewhere on HW forum was decided that
this or some other rule have diffrent interpretation then it's literaly form.
Thank you.

We have determined the first participant for the FB! Gomunguls completed his part of the bracket without any losses, so congratulations and best of luck in the 3rd stage of the tournament.

In the match between TERM - Maretti, considering TERM's valid reasons and the fact that he has been waiting for his opponent for a long time, and with Kilgor's consent, we decided to extend the deadline slightly. According to yesterday's information, the 3rd week of the second game is underway. The score is 1-0 in favor of Anders.

In the match between ProtosArchon - Tiamath, the deadline for the first two games is October 1st.

ProtosArchon - Tiamath - period for the first two games - October 1.

To Tiamath:
Please, make the reports about your games according to the following template:

date player1 (color 1, starting town 1, starting hero 1, main hero 1) def player2 (color 2, starting town 2, starting hero 2, main hero 2), template, last game day.

For example:
01.09.2012. Maretti (red, Castle, Valeska, Solmyr) def Pit for LM (blue, Conflux, random Grindan, Monere), 8mm6a, 134.

Also, the tournament organizers are interested in the status of the following matches:
Piterius - Medium_HP,
Stryfe - theShevanesian,
shpilenger - OUTLAW.
Please provide an update.

Playing the first game.

P.S. Minwhile ouer third game english rules bug show up.
According to special rules for mini-nostalgia player can move to middle zone only when he kill zone guard. Ther is no exception about "flying in", "DD in" or "AngelWings in", so no matter how he wanna get in he must kill guard. Thats what litteraly say rule. I speak with Maretti and he had exacly same interpretation for such a writted rule, untill he play with someone from HW.
It shows that writted english rule is diffrent from played russian/HW rule.

So here is my request for precisive explanation to rules. I dont wanna get known in middle of game that somewhere on HW forum was decided that
this or some other rule have diffrent interpretation then it's literaly form.
Thank you.

I'm sorry for misunderstanding.
Actually I considered interpretation as follows. Normally, we have FMG rule. For mini this rule works only for the passage to the central zone. The phrase "The exception is the strong guards to the central zone - they must be fought" should refer only to FMG, thus it doesn't make any limitations on using DD, fly or AW.
If you should eliminate guards before entering the zone, it is written explicitly (as for Jebus).

But if both you and Maretti interpreted that differently, it should be corrected. And it is done. Sorry again.

Is FMG a type of guard with shifted movement? I also had the same misunderstanding about this part of the rules, maybe we can add some examples?