Posts from [2x2 Tournament] Resurrection

Please forgive my immodest assessment of the draw, but it seems incredibly uneven!.. Again, in my humble opinion, the strongest should compete in the playoffs, so the situation where all the favorites are in one group is absurd! I suggest doing something about it!..

We have a request – could we agree to play on a different date, and preferably not in the evening?

Yes, of course – you can play any day with any pair by agreement – it's unclear why they made the fixed pairing – it's very inconvenient.

I suggest making the first round last 3 weeks, as many are participating in tournaments in Kingisepp or Moscow...

Happy upcoming holidays to everyone!!!
LeBron, Dirty_Player! We have a problem, Pit will be playing in the CIS tournament on the 5th, so we won't be able to play at 7 PM! (...and 7 PM Moscow time isn't the best time to play either; we wouldn't really want to play all night... We have a request: can we agree to play on a different day, and preferably not in the evening?

01.01.2013. Kilgor (red, Rampart, Ivor, Kirr) + antoshkin (green, Conflux, Moner, Ellezar) def WariatorHW (blue, Stronghold,

Tyraxor, Tyraxor) + KostyaN (brown, Dungeon, Shakti, Gunar), Jebus cross, 1000 + 400.

That's exactly how it was!

We played haphazardly, well Roma was sort of okay, basically everything he had that was essential, he gathered and executed... The main problem - we each played for ourselves, we simply didn't grasp the mechanic of the 2x2 format.

About the game. The setup they resurrected for us was interesting - I had a 5-cap stack on the road behind the dogs. In the final hand, both of us had something decent - but without mages and magic:smile35: . In the prisons, both of us got fighters, and I got a gimpy Torosar at level 10, alright with Logistics and Pathfinding, but with Mysticism, Artillery, Ballistics. On the first day I was happy - no money (4 heroes), but already gutted 2 Dragon Fly Hives for 10 in total - that's a noob mistake with an extra loss of Troglodytes, and as a result, from a nice stack of a hundred little freaks I was running around with scraps later, when I could have gotten into the 112-113 hives with some sort of edge and Gosha with his armor, instead of Miner (Lebron's advice).

Then another mistake - for some reason I went for 15 snipers on the prison, scholar, and resources - quick save gave minus 1, and a reroll gave minus 2 ducks due to morale (that Torosar was sitting there, the bastard:mad: ), then all sorts of twisting and turning, almost aimless, during which I managed to share some details of the setup with Kilgor instead of Variator:smile26: , almost missed the 3rd hive, disguised by rocks (mini:( ), on road 1 unpleasant up to 20 morale kings - I avoided them, screw 'em!

By the end of the week, a semblance of a plan emerged - take both found external dwellings of mind flayers at opposite ends of the respawn and stick them into a castle with a portal (I gave up on cats and their dwelling behind those kings, 1 dwelling won't cut it), everything almost came together + I got a decent artifact +3/3 for magic, but here's the problem - 400 seconds, damn it!:mad: :mad: :mad: , if only time didn't pass during battles... But we knew what we were signing up for - no use whining... Anyway, the fatal mistake was Torosar (who had become a temporary link in the chain) visiting the max-fiend pit - I could have taken it on day 2, I had the money anyway and it was right on the path, but no - quick save minus 2 ducks - reroll minus 3 ones and almost a minute of precious time, which wasn't enough to enter the 2nd dwelling I had captured (also had to chase away some dwarves there to avoid agreeing to quick save's minus 3(!!!) ducks:eek: !).
No idea how to beat my above-mentioned GO with 20 mind flayers and 12 ducks (same for taking a Dragon Utopia, where there might have been some magical arguments against GO) :/ ... Could build two swamp-villages, but waaaaay too long for this format, where it's all quick and done - no center:) .

Good game! We'll learn from our mistakes...

01.01.2013. Kilgor (red, Rampart, Ivor, Kyrre) + antoshkin (green, Conflux, Moner, Elleshar) def WariatorHW (blue, Stronghold,

Tyraxor, Tyraxor) + KostyaN (brown, Dungeon, Shakti, Gunnar), Jebus cross, 1000 + 400.
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We took one rest. Opponents didn't take any.
111 Revealed an external dwelling of Rogues, external dwelling of Psychos and Fire Birds. Also a Book of Fire lying for 20-49 Evil Eyes.
112 On red's respawn, found 1 external dwelling of Elves and 1 Dragon Fly Hive. On green's respawn, 2 Dragon Fly Hives and an external dwelling of Fire Elementals.
113 Red's external dwelling of Rogues is being cleared. Checking Dragon Fly Hives on green's respawn - 1 small and 1 big. From the prison on green's respawn, we free mage

Elleshar level 10.
114 Red breaks through the Evil Eyes for the Book of Fire and passes it to green. With the mage, we take both Dragon Fly Hives with Armageddon.
115 Resource gathering, trades, and preparation for taking the external dwelling of Birds.
116 Taking the external dwelling of Birds. Recruiting Birds. Breaking through 90 gr. Magi Ogres.
117 Capturing the central Castle in the treasure zone. Recruiting Mage Guild 1. in the center. Birds are placed in the Citadel. Scouted the GO at brown's - it turned out to be triple
(Cyclops, Arch Liches, Wizards). Elleshar is stationed in the central Castle for boosting. The treasure zone is poor, just corridors and cliffs, a couple of Pandora's Boxes visible in the distance, and that's it.
121 Blue kills red's scout hero in the center, breaks through the Unicorns for a Pandora's Box but doesn't quite reach the Pandora's Box itself. The whole air section was there.
FB
Elleshar (4 8 7 5 [5 Fire Birds, 13 Fire Elementals]) vs Tyraxor (16 8 12 4 [2 gr. Beholders, 13 Birds, 15 Scorpicores, 24 Orcs.])
After 2 Armageddons, blue has 5 Scorpicores and 1 Bird left, and he buys back. The absence of Mass Haste on the opponent heavily decided it.
122 On blue's turn, he himself attacks green's main hero, loses all artifacts to Armageddon, and news of surrender arrives. GG.

2 January 2013
[rebellious(red, Broghild, Fortress)+CJIOHuK(tan, Necropolis, Galtran)] def [Kilgor(blue, Castle, Valeska, Dace)+antoshkin(green, Inferno, Rashka, Gird)], Jebus cross, 1000 + 400, 133

We got the first chocolate unguarded. We got our mega gnoll layout - all around there were nothing but piles of gnolls. And then in game - I had one road blocked by a pack of king cyclopses - guarding a water book. Two days, basically, I did nothing. But then two level 20 Dwarf Cottages, 60 marauders in a pandora, a pile of hydras and a native secondary, where I placed a castle with Wyverns on 117. Also on 117 I took the second native secondary. And in the main castle - no cows. The Guarded Object was a horde of greying basilisks. Broghild himself, level 12 with expert scouting, armor, and tactics, advanced logistics and fire magic, stood on 117 near the so-called stable, where he waited for the fire book, and then after double-mana - to the Guarded Object.
After breaking through my Guarded Object, things started to go wrong - I forgot to give the fire book to the squire, and then a shifted Guarded Object awaited me (on a roadless passage) with green's respawn, which blocked further advancement into the treasure zone.

On 123 I attack Dace with a horde in the center of the treasure zone, but he throws lightning and buys himself off (the opponents had already started to settle there). And I don't reach the central Tower. Then followed constant terror from the opponents' squires - who kept slowing Broghild down. In the treasure zone I took a teapot and a speaker's hat, visited the library. Still remaining in my plans were several beehives and the earth book. On one of the turns I moved towards Inferno to a previously spotted Dragon Utopia there. At that point I hadn't broken through the Guarded Object (as it turned out, green hadn't broken through it either, although the central tower was green, and I assumed the Guarded Object was therefore broken). Hats off to the opponent for forgiving the mistake. And the Dragon Utopia was a mini one. Then my Verdis thingy twitched into the empty barb of the opponent (although you weren't supposed to go there, all because of that same Guarded Object). But the opponent was extremely generous - and this time also forgave it :) And after that, I was just accumulating gold to buy out the army and move towards the opponent. Good thing the necro mint worked just flawlessly (there was also an external market there) - got about 70k from it over the course of the game. In the end, I took the shackles from a respawn, 12 Wyverns, and 3 angels from an ally. And it only remained to catch the enemy scouts (there were already over a hundred Wyverns). On one of the raids, Gird was captured. After realizing that I had the shackles, the opponents' plans for hit-and-run fell apart.
Thanks for the interesting game to the opponents!