Posts from M-200% No. 6

26.12.2012 Mizrael(red, Dungeon, random, Damakon) def Anri(blue, Inferno, random, Ignatius) 2sm2c 127

We got a lineup with 2 native heroes and a lot of gold. On the first day, three heroes and a thousand. I decide to level Damakon; with upgraded Harpies he clears the crypt, there is a Troglodyte external dwelling. Week result: Minotaurs in the Citadel. I break into the adjacent zone, there is some gold and an immediate exit further, scouting shows Boots. I take them without looking, set up a chain of couriers, Damakon goes for the stat boosters and for the Sword +3 from the crowd of wandering monsters. Then there's a Dragon Fly Hive with 6 Wyverns and a breakthrough against the nasty Archmages blocking the passage to the opponent. On day 126 I sit down to refill mana in his village. On 127, scouts find Ignatius marching home with a Power... I ignored the unkilled Griffin Conservatory by the opponent and attacked: tactics, stat advantage, ranged fire, and Curse on a hundred Imps decided it. Thanks for the game.

12/26/2012 Mizrael (red, Dungeon, random, Damakon) def. Anry (blue, Inferno, random, Ignatius) 2sm2c 127

Confirmed.
Thank you for the game.

RiMpel2 (ed Castle Lounis, Sandro) lose Amiloo (blue Dungeon Synca, Brissa) 2sm2c 132
thanks for the game

Confirmed. I don't remember how it went with the restarts, to be honest, but the start was godly. True, I had to fight 39 Troglodytes against a half-stack of blues, but thanks to Brissa the problem was resolved. Then there was a lot of cash; on 113 I popped the min Dwarf Cottage with Brissa as well. Then I broke through a portal, took a Conflux village in the snow. I beat Brissa back home and knocked out the remaining cash on the main and the crypts. By 117 I built 1-4 in the Citadel at home + a portal with Medusas.
On 121 I upgraded the Dwarves and rushed into my treasure zone, ran in, poked around, realized nothing decent awaited me there, broke back home, mana whirlpool and boost before ГО. 27 gr. Dwarves, 100 gr. Troglodytes, 20 little eyes, Brissa 1 1 5 5 (100) with expert Air — seemed like the right time to go pillaging + the opponent's Griffin Conservatory was uneaten and right there next to me. With great difficulty I dismantled a half-stack of Diamonds, checked the Conservatory — level 3 with Guardian Spirit, not an option. Right next to it I broke into my treasure zone from the other end through Energy Elementals and took a Pandora's Box for 5k per gr. Harpies — got Fire. I return to the path, manage to take the opponent's Dungeon village with Roaches, launch another Roach from there into the opponent's treasure zone, and there I see Sandro fleeing on Angels and meat on a Kreeg. But obviously I can't catch up, so I finish off the Roaches and run to seize the main, watching in horror as Sandro in the treasure zone spawns Bones and gets 10 Necro Horses from a Pandora's Box =[br][/br] On 131 I take the opponent's main, Air scouting shows a Roach trying to hide some of the growth. I buy another hero and shut that down with the loss of 3 Medusas. Meanwhile, the Roach in the treasure zone caught up to and punished the Kreeg that was supporting Sandro. 132 The opponent breaks through to me on the snow and runs to the Flux village. I dump my entire army, beat Brissa, buy Air Elementals and play a trick with an Angel and a few Bones. Left alone and broke in the snow, Sandro capitulates.
Thanks for the game!

26.12.2012 RozenKran (blue, fortress, Wystan) def Злой_Романтик (red, castle, Orrin) 2sm2c 126

We got wrecked completely. One road into the treasure zone was secured with 20+ storms. Level 2 built.
111 Korbac on a serpent fly. I scout 2 crypts and the Griffin Conservatory. Not enough for a second hero.
112 Bought Rosic. Checked the Conservatory - it's troglodyte(?). I place 1000.
113 Lizard upgrade. Rosic runs deeper into the respawn with the army.
114 Placing wyverns. Buy a third hero.
115 Buy a fourth hero. I scout the exit to the secondary and bring wyverns there. Rosic is fighting for money deep in the respawn.
116-117 I capture the barbarian secondary, place 1000 there. At home, wyverns in the castle. The chain of 4 heroes total is severely lacking, but Korbac on 2 wyverns handles it well enough.
121 Korbac breaks through from the secondary into the treasure zone and scouts it with his view - a real sight for sore eyes: 3 Dragon Fly Hives, 2 Pandora's Boxes, a prison, and several crypts. At home, Wystan is bought - he gets 4 wyverns, a few lizards, and we take the first max crypt.
122 The whole army is brought up and bought - Wystan takes the second crypt and makes a run for the treasure zone through the secondary, stopping by the stat boosters along the way.
124 On the secondary, I take a Pandora's Box with 80 goblins - that's practically meat for the Dragon Fly Hives.
125 Korbac frees Sorsha level 5. Wystan takes a Pandora's Box with 25 minotaurs for 5k experience. There's also a tree for +1 level. He gets expert Defense, Attack, and Archery.
126 The opponent breaks GO 10-19 naga and runs through the secondary into the treasure zone. Orrin stays by the well close to Wystan. On my turn, I take another +1 Attack. I attack with all mages using the spell book, leaving 19 archers there. In the final battle, the stat and army advantage is mine.
Thanks for the game

26.12.2012 crzq(blue, Castle, Turis, Tante) def Javdet(red, Dungeon, Dees, Dace) balance 115.

I had a good setup - everything evened out in gold and necro was slowly getting there, while my opponent had absolutely no prospects, didn't want to hope for a throw, so I surrendered. Didn't want to take a win without a game, so we decided to play a BO3.


26.12.2012 crzq(red, Inferno, Xyron, Inteus) loose Javdet(blue, Dungeon, Lorelei, Sephyroth) balance 133.

At first it seemed like a good setup - Inteus appeared right away, gold seemed to be there, but then gold ran out, the exit to the adjacent zone was blocked by minotaurs along the path, and to the other side I'd have to run with the entire army through a corridor. The only hope was that my opponent had Lorelei and also 2 heroes until 116. On week 1 day 1-2 in the fort, but everything was bought out. Since there were no particular prospects, I decided to build a Mage Guild and fight with magic. At the start of week 2, I almost got completely wiped (had 80+ devils and 50 gogs) when approaching the central castle, breaking through the guard (10-19) of minotaurs (18). And then also when breaking the Conflux castle. Built Efreeti and attacked 20+ lizardmen (for the external dwelling of harpies, campfire, and mill). And attacked them with singles - there were 45 of them, got wiped and went home. Built Mage Guild 4 - meteor shower and clone. Meanwhile, my opponent ran to the treasure zone, I decided to cut him off and stupidly exposed my main, losing it. But there weren't many chances anyway.


27.12.2012 crzq(red, Castle, Sylvia, Valessa) def Javdet(blue, Rampart, Uland, Mephala) balance 123.

Got a mega-sweet setup - 2 native with Valessa, an external dwelling of archers, and in the pre-max crypt gave boots. Result: 90 marksmen by week 2. Valessa (6-7) leveled great and was already killing everything she saw on the way to the opponent, but opp threw in the naga bank (3).

Yeah, that happened. In the first one, a total nightmare. No money, no starting army, the way to the adjacent zone was blocked by ГО, and even in the Mage Guild built for Deremif there was no room for the shooter.

In the second one, I didn't overdo the building much — Eyes in the Fort by week 3, but 3 Dungeons and lots of Trogs. I built the mage tower — Armageddon was there, perfect against Efreets :D

In the last one, the Boat with Lighthouses, a mini Griffin Conservatory, and something made me want to level up on Nagas. Plus my daughter confused me with advice so much that the Angel ended up outside the battle :D
Turned out I did everything right, saved us both some time )

Thanks for the games and good luck in the Tournament ;)

26.12.2012 RozenKran (blue, Fortress, Wystan) def злой_романтик (red, Castle, Orrin) 2sm2c 126
It was tough, the archers hit hard. Markov almost ran out of units, he bought some after the first battle, but then he did the same thing in the second battle, effectively clearing the map. I couldn't find him after that.
Thanks for the game, good luck in the tournament.

26.12.2012 Ayauhteotl (Blue, Citadel, Sorug, Ayn) def Redwhait HP (Red, Castle, Christian, Jellar) Skirmish 135

Opponent used 1 resp, I had nothing left, we started.

Week 1 - Ayn and Gundula arrive. I quickly break through with them into the secondary town, take it, meanwhile the scout runs around collecting resources for the respawn. I upgrade goblins and wolves, take 3 resource mines (except mercury, as per tradition). I run into the might upgrade building, think for a long time about whether to attack the gold mine behind 20+ vampires or not. I decide not to attack. I enter the lookout tower, see that there's a passage behind 20+ demons to the lava, and a bit further a passage behind 20+ vampires to the grass, where Inferno is and 2 Dragon Fly Hives are visible. On 1-1-7 I get 1-2-5 in the fort, and the scout very opportunely finds the wolf nest.

Week 2 - I hire a hero, bring troops to Gundula, so that's 50 upgraded wolves and 70 upgraded goblins (not enough for birds), take the gold mine behind the vampires (28 with haste), move the troops to Ayn, break through both passages into the zones. Demons ~40, almost without losses, but the vampires are almost maxed with haste, leaving 35 wolves and 35 goblins. Ayn learns Air. I take Inferno, build Mage Guild-1 there, restore mana. I break through the prison and the artifact +1 Attack behind 30 basilisks, they give me Kalt lvl 5. Fakes are very fitting. I enter the lookout tower, in the zone on the right (behind 20+ Fire Elementals) I see Mullich. I build Mage Guild-2, there's Lightning Bolt. I hit 90 rags for the Dragon Fly Hives, but there's up to 100 there. I don't go in, bring up 5 upgraded birds, hit 40 Fire Elementals with haste, ride to the opponent. I build nothing except the Mage Guild, save up money. I send Gundula forward for scouting with 1-stacks of fakes. Brissa with 1-stacks of Gremlins attacks Gundula, but miscalculates somewhat, runs away. Then another scout attacks, now Gundula runs away. I ride the main hero to the opponent's castle. Gradually I pull up scouts with magic and build a chain for delivery. The opponent places blocks on the road using scouts with 1-stacks and magic; it turns out he has Ice Bolt, and the scouts kill birds with it in one hit. I don't have much mana anyway, spend archers to preserve more birds. I kill 2 heroes, lose 2 birds.

Week 3 - 10k gold, I'm in no hurry with the delivery, build Mage Guild-3 in Inferno, there's Fireball. I see the opponent's castle with the main hero, there's Jellar with 20+ Arbalests, 20+ Pikemen and 1-stacks and a Citadel. I realize I can't handle it, mana for 2 Lightning Bolts (200 damage). I don't attack the castle, kill 2 more of his scouts with my scout and Ayn. Jellar attacks himself.
Ayn 1-0-6-7(16), Air expertise, Lightning Bolt. 3 1-stacks of birds, 2 stacks of 15 wolves, 2 stacks of 3 fairies.
Jellar 0-0-4-5(50), Water expertise, Ice Bolt, Ring of Cold. 20 Arbalests, 38 Pikemen, 1-stacks of Pikemen.
I kill the Arbalests with Lightning Bolt, all forward. The opponent nearly destroys 1 stack of wolves with Ice Bolt, and corners the Pikemen. On turn 2, I kill 20 Pikemen with Lightning Bolt, and kill almost all the 1-stacks, but the 2nd stack of wolves didn't reach, and predictably got hit by Ice Bolt. I realize that with 3 birds, 6 fairies, and 2 wolves there's nothing to catch here without mana, so I surrender. I buy back in Inferno, build Mage Guild-4. Of course, Fire Shield and Executioner. But now I have Fireball. I bring up troops, attack the castle again. I have 6 birds (3 stacks of 2), 30 wolves, 40 goblins, and fakes. I fly the birds forward, wait with the rest. The opponent kills 2 birds with Ice Bolt, and as expected, corners himself directly into 2 Fireballs.

As it turned out, the opponent miscalculated a bit and lost to a Pandora's Box at the start of week 2.

Thank you for the game.

24.12.2012 Heroin (red, Barbarian, Kyra) def R55Max (blue, Rampart, Solomyr) balanced, 136.
We each took one rest and went. A Citadel with Grechina and 70 hobs dropped; in the tavern were Gurney and Aiden. I scouted the tower and saw boots, a crypt, and a passage to a secondary with a fort through a resource zone; north of the town was a Conflux secondary. I hired the heroes with the army; Gurney headed toward the boots with the secondary. And Aiden took the native Barbarian. Kyra and Septienna appeared in the tavern. Seemed like a decent start, but the Gate portal had 50+ air elementals, and what was on the other side was unknown. On day two, Gurney with Grechina cleared the crypt and the guard on the secondaries with the fort, so now there's a Conflux + two chests scouted on the way from it. I hired Kyra and sent her to the second Conflux + scouted a bit of the blue respawn and, as it turned out, a completely inconvenient Gate on the other side of the portal — 50+ grand elves. Afterwards I developed the economy a bit and decided to hit the Gate with grand air elementals, of which I had 24. At 117, 1235 in the Citadel isn't much. Kyra got Earth magic almost immediately, and I got Slow and Haste without issue in the Conflux. On day 123, I took the chests for 20+ Medusas and 10+ Earth Elementals, which gave experience and 50 boars (much needed meat at the right moment). Logistics was making itself known; there was a turn where Kyra had more than half her movement points left, but nowhere to move and nothing to move for. On day 126, I broke the Gate — already 100+ air elementals and 100+ elves. I shot down the air elementals with Slow, but the second group was tougher; still, losses were insignificant — orcs, fairies, and a few goblins, and even then the elf stack only got morale-boosted once. In the sand I took two Dragon Fly Hives — a max and a near-max — and gloves. But the army had 6 birds, 3 grand air elementals, and 20 ducks with 0 mana. On day 127, I returned Kyra to the town for mana and troops. Well, from day 131 to 135, I cleared the entire treasure zone. The Dragon Fly Hives were generous — about 4 max ones and all the rest near-max, except one with 4 ducks and one with 6. On day 135, I flew back to the town and replenished mana. On day 136, I attacked the blue town; Solomyr was there with a chain lightning dealing 800+ damage, but Mass Haste and 84 ducks left the opponent with no chance in the Firebird. At the start of the second week, I thought I'd enter the treasure zone a couple of days later; mid-week I thought we'd enter together; and on day 132 I realized the blue player wasn't even thinking of going there anymore. Something went wrong for the opponent, even though the Gate was much weaker — 50+ grand griffins. Thanks for the game!

A one-sided match; the generation just didn't work out for him.
The opponent had 2 Confluxes with an external dwelling, great passages (convenient and easy with decent experience), while I only had 1 Tower secondary; I never saw the second one until the end of the game, and also 2 boxes against my one.

On day 1, Ivor with 4 archers and about 20 Centaurs. The respawn only had 3 piles of gold and a crypt; I bought a second hero on day 2 and went to check the second road; there was a Gate blocking the way to 20+ grand zombies. I could and should have tried to break through with 4 archers and 20 Centaurs plus 3 Dwarves, but I didn't want to sacrifice the Centaurs if there were too many zombies, so I decided to give the second hero's army to Ivor. In short, no gold — the only path to the Tower secondary was through the Cap. I gathered a bit of gold there, but no real building. Elves with Dendroids in the fort. I had 7 archers and 44 Centaurs. How to play from there, I have no idea. I didn't take the Dwarf external dwelling because it was too expensive. On day 2, Solomyr arrived, and the only thing I had was a box. On day 121, Solomyr took it — +5k. I decided not to go at the opponent through a dangerous two-way gate with 20+ elves, and to stay on the respawn, since there was no way to oppose him in a fight (correct decision not to go, because going would take at least 4 days on foot, again through a narrow path 1-3 tiles wide).
- The second road went through a two-way gate along a winding path in no-man's land. I went there to collect resources and +3 magic. There I took the Castle Centaur external dwelling. I built Mage Guild level 4 with a library; the only hope left was a poor treasure zone so the opponent wouldn't pick up Wyverns there, but that's exactly what happened. I've never seen a richer treasure zone on M balance (it was probably even bigger than all three of my respawns put together).
Thanks for the game

12/26/2012 Ayauhteotl (Blue, Stronghold, Sorug, Ain) def Redwhait HP (Red, Castle, Christian, Jelar) Skirmish 135

Thanks for the game.

That's right, I was hoping for Jelar and Brissa, but it all went badly. The secondary hero was blocked, so I couldn't break through on the first one. I was going to do it on the second one, but I don't know why I changed my plan and went for the Pandor, and then I lost on turn 122 with 0 resources and no money. I wasted a whole week on this, even though I built a guild, but it didn't really help because Bolt and Fireball solved all the problems.
Thanks for the game.

During the New Year period (December 30th - January 7th), the tournament will be suspended; I don't want to deprive you of the festive mood and fun. Of course, if you wish, you can still play, no one will stop you, just don't be upset if you have to wait for the others.

So, Happy New Year to everyone! Finish your 3 loser bracket games, and I'll see you all on the 7th, rested and ready to fight against the opponent and the generator! Good luck and have fun!!!

29.12.12. Pit for LM (red, random Inferno, random Nimussa, Labetha) def GoD (blue, random Rampart, random Coronius, Dessa), 2sm2c, 132.
Had to take my restart 112 when I saw that the path to the secondary was blocked by ГО, and there were no detours. Although there was a good Tower, some money, normal heroes. Then the opponent takes two 111 and the most pleasant pair doesn't come up.
111 - the start seemed not bad - Nimussa has 3 stacks, Pepelina has another 2 decent ones, and there's Labetha. Not enough money for anything, though.
112 - I buy Pepelina, then Labetha, find a Griffin Conservatory, go a bit further along the road and realize my chances are very slim - ГО blocked the passage to the secondary again. Essentially, this means I have to stay on the respawn for the whole week. I place 1000.
113 - out of frustration, I place dogs, spending all the wood. Fortunately, as it turns out later, it worked out.
114 - I find an external dwelling of demons, some gold, buy Lorelei. I build a Mage Guild. There's a slow unit in it, which is not bad. The exit to my treasure zone is guarded by dendroids, which is also not bad.
115 - I scout the lookout tower and reveal a decent picture - there actually is an exit to the secondary in the very corner, and the village is native and on grass.
116 - I transfer the army, break through to the grass. I place demons.
117 - I almost reached the village. Spending every last coin, I placed efreeti in the fort. The secondary is very poor, practically no prospects. Labetha didn't conduct a single fight.
121 - I take the village, prepare to take the dwarven treasury.
122 - Taking the 20 dwarves is very hard due to morale in the first round and a hit on the gogs. But it works. I run to the treasure zone. I buy another hero.
123 - I run to the treasure zone.
124 - I arrive. Upgrade gogs. I find a chest - 1000 gold (funny, the first one in the game, there were none on the respawn or secondary).
125 - Lorelei breaks through from the treasure zone to the secondary. She scouts the lookout. I see Dessa with 20+ pegasus, with unicorns, decent stats. Very few chances. My own treasure zone is completely empty.
126 - well, okay, the slow unit leveled up - that's good. I recall home.
127 - I set up on the Griffin Conservatory. The plan is - with the growth, take the Griffin Conservatory, then without growth break through ГО, take the opponent's village, and cut the chain. Or who knows what might happen... I built a Citadel, also upgraded the dogs.
131 - The Griffin Conservatory turns out to be a level 2, taken with one slow unit. My ГО is unpleasant - 20+ scorpicores, but it works. On the other side of the portal - magmas, freebies. I sit in the dungeon, but I can't interfere with the opponent's constructions at all, everything is very far.
132 - I bring the growth, run to the capital.
Here the opponent does something incoherent due to time shortage and surrenders.
Well, thank you for the game.

30.12.2012

positive (Haven, Castle, Turis, Grindan) def BlooDy)DriVeR (Haven, Inferno, Octavia, Strake) @ 2sm2c 121

I took 2 restarts, then the opponent took his, and we decided to play it out. My luck wasn't great; I almost conceded immediately (because I saw the opponent rushing to the secondary resource along the path and his +3 shield), but Grindan showed up, and I decided to play a bit longer. The opponent then got disconnected, and we decided not to continue.

Thank you for the game.

30.12.2012 Mizrael (red, random, Tower, Rissa, Luna) def. JustObserver (blue, random, Inferno, Axis, Calh) skirmish 132

Only one resurrection remained. He gave up a town with good heroes, so I decided to play. Towards the end of the week, Luna arrived. I stopped building and bought her in the Necropolis and started leveling her up. Fire, intelligence, armor - it's great. On day 127, I upgraded the town to produce dragons, and on day 131, I had my first encounter. On day 132, I used a portal to attack Calh and a scout with a powerful artifact, and my opponent surrendered. Thanks for the game.

29.12.2012 Captain (blue, Barbarian, Isra) def. R55Max (red, Tower, Moner) balanced game, 133. I had a hidden stash of birds and ogres, and 2 constructs on levels 3-4. My opponent also seemed to have a good setup, but he started to play poorly and lost. Thanks for the game.