Posts from Season: "Autumn 2012". Online games for rating (reports, confirmations, discussions).

31.10.2012 twaryna (red, random, Dungeon, Andra, Aenain) def d-neez (blue, random, Stronghold, Gurni, Crag) 2sm2c 136

We played M200 according to sk2tv rules. Started without rests, got a decent amount of meat at the start, plenty of gold at the respawn, some good magic. Then broke through to a snowy secondary — there was a native village there. By the end of the week, I went into my treasure zone, killed the rags for a Pandora's Box with 5k experience and a tree +1 level, and couldn't fight anything else, crashed back home and went into the same treasure zone, but from home, through another passage, via a well. On week 2, I ate a Dragon Fly Hive, a few Naga banks and crypts fell, got a Shield +5, built Hydras in the castle. On the 3rd week, I picked up the Book of Earth, a couple of Pandora's Boxes for experience and the entire 2nd level, crashed home and killed the opponent in his castle. Thanks for the game!

31.10.2012 twaryna (red, random, Bog, Andra, Aenain) def d-neez (blue, random, Stronghold, Gurni, Crag) 2sm2s 136

We played M200 by SK2TV rules. Started without resets, got a decent amount of meat at the start, plenty of gold on the respawn, some good mages. Then broke through to a snowy secondary town - there was a native village. By the end of the week I entered my treasure zone, killed some rags for a pandora's box with 5k experience and a skill tree +1 level and couldn't beat anything else, retreated home and went into the same treasure zone, but from home, through another passage, via a well. On week 2 I ate a Dragon Fly Hive, several naga banks and crypts fell, recovered a shield +5, built hydras in the castle. On week 3 I grabbed the tome of earth, a couple of pandora's boxes for experience and all of the 2nd level, a retreat home and killing the opponent in his castle. Thanks for the game!

That's how it was. At first I was happy about the 2 native heroes, ballista, empty road, chests and all that, but seeing the GO on the only road, I realized I was in trouble. All exits were deep in the respawn on roadless terrain, and the respawn was poor anyway. I took the secondary town as late as 123, and there was nothing except a thick medusa bank and an equally thick naga bank. The second week I was running around in the treasure zone, where the only good things were an imp cache, a crypt, and a pandora's box with 50 dwarves. All the treasure zone value was eaten up by the captain's hat and hill fort ) At the beginning of the second week I seemed to be ahead in meat, and the strategic overview was revealing part of the opponent's secondary and treasure zones, in principle I could have tried to catch him, but the portal guards were intimidating + on the other side there was a mage with a lot of mana, I didn't want to risk it, I just had to keep stacking up, I thought about going through the GO on 141, but Twaryna came earlier with 200 mana and a tome of earth. FB with no chance, GG, thanks for the game.

11.11.2012 zoog (blue, Conflux, Monere, Ryland) lose Sevan_80 (red, Inferno, Ignatius, Pyre) 123 anarchy
In Ryland's tavern, on turn 11, he barely managed to find ore for phoenixes. On turn 12, he attacked 40 units of dendroids with 22 storms, 4 phoenixes, and 4 psychics, and they died. He took auto-calculation (thank you, given this situation - the opponent had 4 heroes - to suggest that - that's a strong spirit!). He combined his forces, resulting in 32 storms, and also lost due to a couple of morale checks at the wrong time.

11/11/2012 zoog (blue, Conflux, Monere, Ryland) lose Sevan_80 (red, Inferno, Ignatius, Pyre) 123 anarchy
In Ryland's tavern, on turn 11, I barely managed to find ore for Phoenixes. On turn 12, I attacked 40 Dryads with 22 Storms, 4 Phoenixes, and 4 Psychics, and I died. I took auto-save (thank you, given this situation - the opponent had 4 heroes - to suggest that - that's a strong spirit!). I combined the troops, and it became 32 Storms - and I also lost due to a couple of morale checks at the wrong time.

Thank you for the game.

01.11.2012 Maretti (blue, necro, galthran) def StickyFingaz (red, ramp, ivor, monere) 125 on jebus

I had a nice map with 2 dragon dwells and 1 bk dwell a few hives and a con. At 124 I broke with 9 bones, 10 dreads, 3 angels and aprox 350 skells vs throng pit lords. Before the break i had no magic, after the fight I had exp earth. Then I beat throng wyvs that guarded a library and soj, but i couldnt reach those. Next turn he came with 10 angels and got those plus 7 to all stats and then attacked. Even though he could have killed most of my army he gave up early in the battle. Thanks for playing.

01.11.2012 Maretti (red, ramp, ?, gurnisson) def Sevensan (blue, dung, ?, jarbarkas) 125 on jebus

Played at close to perfect game. Broke 124 with 9 angels and 8 greeen dragons. Same turn I reached a middle town with last step for mana. Next turn I made a chain back to get dragons upgraded. I didnt have a tradepost but trading from 4 markets was enough. Same turn I beat pack arch devils for fire book and a hive. Then he came and attacked me with similar stats, 16 scorps and 50 plus wyverns but I could pretty easily kill all his army but the wyverns and then blind them. Thanks for playing.

01.11.2012 Maretti (red, ramp, ?, gurnisson) def Sevensan (blue, dung, ?, jarbarkas) 125 on jebus

Played at close to perfect game. Broke 124 with 9 angels and 8 greeen dragons. Same turn I reached a middle town with last step for mana. Next turn I made a chain back to get dragons upgraded. I didnt have a tradepost but trading from 4 markets was enough. Same turn I beat pack arch devils for fire book and a hive. Then he came and attacked me with similar stats, 16 scorps and 50 plus wyverns but I could pretty easily kill all his army but the wyverns and then blind them. Thanks for playing.[/QUOTE]

confirm, cant do nothing. mb couse bad position, mb just to mutch troops for maretti. thx.

01.11.2012 Maretti (blue, necro, galthran) def stickyfingaz (red, ramp, ivor, monere) 125 on jebus

thx for game

01.11.2012 ~no1_knows_me~ (red, Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre) def DemonChik (blue, Castle, Valya, Valya), 2sm4d(3), 144

Near the Castle there were 2 stacks of horses, one of which I took on the first week and inserted the horses into the Citadel, then the second one, pre-max Dwarf Cottage, a couple of Dragon Fly Hives for 10 Wyverns... on the 3rd week, after buying all the horses, taking the 3rd-level Griffin Conservatory, all the woodcutters and dwarves, I went into a Dragon Utopia with 2 black dragons - they killed all my troops, leaving only all the horses and a couple of woodcutters, I didn't take the Wyverns into battle =) great, they gave me gold and a level 5 hat. Wyvern upgrade (20), horse upgrade (31), Grands (40), Imp on 1k - Valya couldn't do anything in the FB.
thanks for the game

02.11.2012 Dima Surmay (Blue, random, Castle, Sir Mullich, Kairi) def Sevan_80 (Red, random, Castle, Tiris, Tiris) Jebus Cross, 133

Caught Tiris in the Castle and without mana.
Thanks for the game.

02.11.2012 Dima Surmay (Blue, random, Castle, Sir Mullich, Kairie) def Sevan_80 (Red, random, Castle, Tiris, Tiris) Jebus Cross, 133

Caught Tiris in the third castle and with no mana.
Thanks for the game.

Confirmed, thanks for the game.

02.11.2012 high (red, Rampart, Kyrre, Gurney) def MUNAKATA (blue, Conflux, random, Labetha), 2sm4d(3), 123

we started playing after two restarts from the opponent. I still had both.

111 bought 4 heroes, 3 crypts and 3 prisons were revealed. No bows came with the heroes. Decided to play.
112-116 beating everyone we could, Kyrre cleared a path to the secondary town and stopped next to it (a shame, could have entered and moved further, time ran out...).
117 in the castle everything except dragons is built. Secondary town captured — Fortress.
121 7 heroes including Kyrre (level 6) Gurney (4) Tazar (2) freed from prison — Sorsha (5), Aeris (10). The question arose who to make the main hero...
122 everything was decided in favor of Gurney. He stood at the end of the chain in front of 10-19 Vampires and 20-49 Knights, while Labetha was revealed on the other side.
123 Gurney breaks through the guard, drops excess items to Tazar and attacks Labetha with 5 horses, gets the archery range and that's it. The opponent didn't have much luck. There were almost no troops, surrender followed.

Thanks for the game!

02.11.2012 ~no1_knows_me~ (blue, Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre) def DemonChik (red, Castle, Vala, Vala), 2sm4d(3), 126

Opponent wanted a rematch, we re-hosted for a long time, eventually with the second hero came 6 elves, took their external dwelling, Dwarf Cottage on day 15, external dwelling of wood, minicons, and with the last move on day 117 the scout hero captures the native secondary town, right there I immediately recruit elves. At home, the cavalry didn't work out... pandora's box for 5k gold, Kyrre flies into a tower where 24 Marksmen, a couple of Swordsmen and Pikemen of the red player were garrisoned. I kill the red player's scout hero, while building a long chain for upgrading elves from the external dwelling and the secondary town, managed it in 2 days basically, and transferred everything that was there for Kyrre, she runs along the road straight under the red Castle, Vala having picked up a Shield Guard +4 takes cover in the castle... fortunately only the Citadel is built, the remains of Marksmen, but there are 8 Champions, Kyrre has 39 elves, an Angel and various cannon fodder... I block the gates and shoot them down.
Thanks for the game.

02.11.2012 ~no1_knows_me~ (blue, Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre) def DemonChik (red, Castle, Vala, Vala), 2sm4d(3), 126

Opponent wanted a rematch, we re-picked for a long time, in the end with the second hero came 6 elves, took their external dwelling, Dwarf Cottage on day 15, external dwelling of wood, mini-cons, and last move on day 117 my scout hero captures my own secondary town, right there I immediately recruit elves. At home the cavalry didn't work out... Pandora's Box for 5k gold, Kyrre flies into a tower where red's 24 marksmen, a pair of swordsmen and pikemen had spent the night. I kill red's scout hero, and myself build a long chain for upgrading elves from the external dwelling and secondary town, in 2 days I managed it and transferred everything I had for Kyrre, she runs along the road straight under red's Castle, Vala having taken a shield +4 barricades himself in the castle... luckily only the Citadel is built, remnants of marksmen, but 8 Champions, Kyrre has 39 elves, an angel and various cannon fodder... I press the gates and shoot.
Thanks for the game.

It happened.... Thanks for the game!!!

29.10 — 03.11 Vaflya (Blue, Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre) def Сатир (Red, Castle, Caitlin, Ignissa), 8xm12a, 144, 200%

111 — Kyrre came with 3 archers, plus four more in Aëris's city. Scrounged some cash from a campfire and a pile of gold. On the road, a block made of zombie piles, no army strong enough to break it, and it's positioned so I can't even send a scout through.
112 — Stumbled upon another campfire, hire Aëris, check the stable. The block's still there, nothing decent to break through with.
113 — Plus 2 piles of gold, total 2400, no wood at all, no idea how I'll build. Still two heroes.
114 — Hire another scout hero, break through the block with Kyrre, and the guard for the Cloak of +3 Duration. Stig takes two piles of wood, I slot in the archers. Check the camp for Pikemen.
115 — Revealed a Crypt, turned out to be near-max. Aëris stumbled upon some ore, Kyrre fights the Crypt and zombies for a box with an obelisk, expert Archery. With the money I hire Sandro with archers, slowly bringing him up. I planned to upgrade archers and Centaurs, needed cash for the Citadel, but it wasn't looking promising.
116 — Scouting, another near-max Crypt, an external Pegasus dwelling, cleared a camp but didn't reveal what's there, 41 Centaurs, 14 archers, I spot an Artifact of +10 Archery, but far from the road, thinking about how to take it.
117 — Drained the Crypt, heading back to the main, upgrading archers and Centaurs, home has 1-3 in the Citadel without Dwarves. There was also an external Dwarf dwelling, but I never took them all game; if I had, there'd be about a hundred, more on that later.
121 — In the tavern, Torgrim with 3 archers and a good stack of Centaurs, camp gives Energy. These guys carried me half the game :-) Hired him, passed to Kyrre for a speed boost, she went to hit land-based units for stat boosts. Hire Tor, upgrade Centaurs, head to the Wheel, building gold for the buyout. Kyrre got Tactics! Hooray!
122 — Good turn. Everything went pretty smoothly, except Sandros was one tile short of reaching the city, but that didn't slow me down much; the chain was coming together. Built up to the Artifact +10 and passed it to Kyrre, she got the last stat boost, advanced Tactics and Logistics, I'm planning to break through a small wood pile for a Nagash with a scroll.
123 — Everything aligned, grabbed the Artifact, broke the wood, scroll had Fly, thinking about the Mage Guild, the Nagash was a min, took it and went to scout the neighboring zone — it's snow. From scouting I saw a branch to the left, wanted to go there, but decided to go against my instinct and was right about the direction; that road only led to a corner treasure zone, very rich I should say, but nothing to take it with: 2-8-2-1, 27 archers, 70 Centaurs, and 4 Energy elementals.
124 — Scout heroes gathering resources near the road, building a chain for next week for supply transport. Kyrre breaks into the subway, then a teleport and reveals a village, apparently the central mini-treasure zone, the village belonged to Green, who had the most towns at that point. He was a Necromancer.
125 — The village turned out to be a jackpot! Built up with Tavern, Mage Guild, thousand gold and market! Hire Crag from it, jump to the overview and reveal the Necro's capital. Send Kyrre there, Arena on the way. Home has Pegasi and wood, planning to slot in horses with such a windfall. Sent Torgrim for a pile of gold in the snow, preparing to build a chain to the village and supplies.
126 — Out of nowhere, Avax-Fiona appears and takes my village! Elshar with a small force from a Necropolis town ran into the Arena; the town itself is empty. Without much thought, I beat Elshar, get +2 Defense and hide in the Necropolis town. 2 thousand gold, a Reinforcement, and 1-5 in the Citadel! Another gift :-) With such a start I thought I'd burn out completely, but now I had every chance in the game. Planning to beat Sandro in the Necropolis town and do a little necromancy; thank god I had the cash. Crag couldn't reach Fiona, who had fled a bit to the edge. I took the town, hire Sorcha, the same Elshar shows up with 2000 MP. But I didn't use them. With Sorcha I beat Fiona, who had Pixies; she bought herself out, I come out of the subway, and there's Ignissa — the opponent's main hero. A minute earlier and I'd have gone in and maybe fried her, but she had a decent force, even if strong; of course there'd be no main hero, but we'd have mauled each other pretty well. I hire Elshar and sacrifice him to Ignissa, who loses 10 archers. I send Sorcha along the road. Then Torgrim reveals a Shield of +6 guarded by Diamond Golems! Kyrre already has 10 Defense; with this shield she'd look really stylish, I decide to take it, even if it costs a few days — turns out it wasn't in vain.
127 — Finished building the chain; they took my village back. Kyrre walked along the path and hit a teleport, from there another, and ended up near the subway next to my village. Very lucky. The Necro owner never showed. Sandro took two more turns to come and get beaten, but he was also part of the chain. I left him with +3 Duration, which I regretted later. Spotted a Wyvern impling and a Cape of +2 Speed behind a pack of griffins, really wanted to take it, but feared morale penalties; for two valuable objects there'd probably be under 20, and I could handle that army but with unacceptable losses. Kyrre camps in the subway, horses in the Citadel; next week I plan to take the village, trade, and buy out.
131 — Transfer army through the chain, kill the opponent's scout hero who took the village, bought out without horses and wood, barely had enough money, left resources for Mage Guild 2 but never built it anywhere. Run with a defense item, minus two days of tempo, but the goal was worth it. Clancy shows up, by the way, didn't bring archers but had 19 Centaurs — still nice.
132 — Retook the shield, now 17 Defense. Kyrre was constantly visible in the tavern, speed-boosted to 7 speed, had Centaurs and archers, didn't lose much speed. Beat Sandro in the Necropolis, hire him and... Galtran appears! What a streak of luck :)) Naturally, I happily hire him, Sandro goes to gather resources, Gosh goes to level up. With Reinforcement, I could necromance to my heart's content.
133 — Nothing particularly interesting happened, no fighting, just through teleports Gosh met Kyrre, dispersed the first one, planning to take the Dragon Fly Hive guarded by a horde of hellhounds, Kyrre plans to push toward Conflux, which the opponent took. Here we saved and didn't play after day 3.
134 — Reviewing the game; seems there were no serious mistakes. Gosh takes the Dragon Fly Hive, turned out to be a min, the bones I got from the hellhounds (and lost 17 Centaurs) I left in the Hive. Oh well, +4 Wyverns isn't so bad. Sent Gosh above the village to scout and level up a bit. Kyrre tried to guess the direction to Conflux and guessed wrong... But going down, she hit a brown scout hero, and he was Rampart! Another freebie; I decided to take his town and come back from there. Kyrre heads to Conflux. Money-wise it was fine, I had more than the opponent, so he couldn't afford birds — that was reassuring. Captured Jager from jail with 0-0-7-3, a good defender, but no shooters. Need to find some.
135 — Kyrre killed Olema, who bought herself out; along the way grabbed a min-Dwarf Cottage; Jager scouted the Rampart, which was empty — that was good. Also noticed in the tavern how much defense the AI had; turned out 4 (!) stat boosts, one on the road and 3 near the town. Spotted a box guarded by Thunderbirds, planned to take it and build a chain from the town next week. Also slowly building from the main, where wood and horses were gathering dust. Gosh necromances.
136 — Sneaky Green takes my Necropolis from me, came out of nowhere from the dark, and I hadn't even left a single unit there. Not that it would've helped; there were many shooters and a Citadel. In a Castle I might've fought back. Take the Rampart, which has 1-6 in the Castle with a Capitol! I suspected this was the finish line. Sent a scout hero from the town to scout — the AI wasn't even nearby. Could easily bring in troops; Kyrre went through the stat boosts, 3-21-3-3 :smile08:
137 — Before this turn, I see Purple coming out of the underground where Gosh was heading. He was only three tiles from me, but didn't attack. And on Red's turn, Purple dies! And Gosh is right there. Got a bit scared, but decided to risk it and ended up taking a Castle at the end of the week; there's a Fort there. Gosh has expert Armorer, about 70 skeletons, nowhere much to fight. Could've taken a scout hero, but for some reason didn't, because I didn't have first strike and didn't want to run into basic shooters and get countered. Built all chains properly, preparing for a big buyout, 20 thousand gold, income 8350. :-) Kyrre took the box, 10k experience, gains three levels with Earth magic. And the most interesting thing — I forgot to enter the Rampart after retaking it, and it had Slow and Haste, which I didn't have.
141 — This is insane: week of wood! :D
Gosh gets killed; they took along an Angel and 20 ducks. The towers shot at who knows what, and I handled the battle poorly, could've removed the Angel. But the opponent got lucky too: after hitting the skeleton stack, the Angel managed to get morale, hit the same stack again, and evade the counterstrike. Now there was no chance to kill the Angel, and the first shooter hit a duck for no reason. I decided I couldn't handle the Angel, but that was a mistake. Ufretin shows up; I don't hire him; along comes Alamar. Perfect timing for when I need to school the butter! First bought out completely in the main, finally broke through and killed Fiona — she was tough — take the central village and start trading. Still didn't have enough for a full buyout. Hire Alamarich in the second Rampart, buy out, transfer everything to Kyrre, now I have butter. Run into the subway next to the village, keeping the opponent out. Planning to take Conflux. In the town, Jager has 70 Troglodytes and a few Harpies; no money, but Brown is nowhere in sight.
142 — Red is doing who-knows-what; Yanova finally appears: 9-9-3-1, a severely beaten two-week army and 4 ducks. It'll be tough to defend, but Jager also got a shooter from schooling; with 7 SP he should hold out. Kyrre comes out of the subway to take a Hive guarded by a horde of gr. Pegasi; turned out to be under a hundred, but handled it without losses thanks to butter. There was also a scroll there, presumably the fifth, but the Hive (which gives eight ducks, by the way) was in snow, so I decided not to waste movement and returned. Did some stuff with scout heroes, nothing interesting.
143 — Yanova attacks and kills! She broke through the walls very luckily and got through; there really was too much army there; even the 16 Dwarves I hired didn't save it. But the AI is still an idiot; left the town unguarded. Right under Kyrre's nose, Crag ran by with an army that had been delivered to him through the chain. I didn't know where he went, but Crag stopped on the road. While taking a break, a funny idea came to mind; I just had to wait for my turn. And it worked! Greenie, who had visited two stat boosters for experience the day before and mastered Earth magic, sped up with Energy elementals (! Energy elementals made the game!), gets beaten by Crag; with scout heroes I take the Rampart and hire Greenie there. Now definitely no one will retake the Rampart. :-)
Kyrre heads left on the road, sees a stable, visits it obviously, runs a bit further and sees the infamous Conflux. Completely unguarded, even though there was something to guard it with. And Satir had plenty of money after the Dragon Utopia. In the tavern, it showed 13-8-6-3 against my 4-21-5-3, but the strongest monster was no longer an Angel, but unupgraded horses. Funny — I didn't check the chain, but Crag was definitely carrying horses; how they didn't end up in a stable, I don't know. :-) I take Conflux and am 20 MP short of entering! Can't speed up or replenish magic. Pass the turn.
144 — Yanova attacks, gives up the Shield +2 and Mace +4, and I didn't have the War Boots all game; thinking about how to bring them after the battle. But then in the snow behind Conflux, I see Ignissa fighting a horde of ogres. Her army has 50-99 archers and 20-99 ducks, nothing much else. Also in the snow lies a pair of Boots. The opponent passed through; there was Pathfinding, and he stops next to the teleport to the central treasure zone (judging by the guard). I speed up on gr. wood, total 2750 movement, considering the stable. Turns out the opponent detached the archers and was planning to take the Dragon Utopia; he was just one step short of taking it. But either way, it was a max, and he'd either take heavy losses or stay there. In the end, Kyrre reaches it on the last step! The opponent has no Tactics; I have skill superiority, bigger army, and 60 archers with Tactics are ready to volley 29 ducks; I have exactly enough mana for one butter spell. GG

A very interesting, intriguing, and contact-heavy game, I enjoyed it :-)

Thanks again for the game, Satir!

Attaching the VODs:
http://ru.twitch.tv/wundervaflya/b/337336280
http://ru.twitch.tv/wundervaflya/b/337354479
http://ru.twitch.tv/wundervaflya/b/337823220

October 29 - November 3 Vaflya (Blue, Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre) def Satyr (Red, Castle, Caitlin, Ignissa), 8xm12a, 144, 200%

Thank you for the game.