Posts from SoD Championship

Favio (Blue, Castle, Labetha) def scorp (Red, Stronghold, Gurnisson), 124, 2sm4d3.

On the first week I spread out in all directions, roads are slow, 8 heroes. There is an external dwelling of spearmen and swordsmen, and 2 money buildings. I opened 3 Griffin Conservatories and 2 Hives, as well as an external dwelling of angels at 117 in the far corner behind a horde of beholders, but going there was impossible.
At 121-122, Labeta takes two Griffin Conservatories for 4 angels in total, a Pandora's box for all tier-3 magic, and at 124 I stand in front of a Hive, a tier-3 Griffin Conservatory, and prepare a chain for the second Hive. The opponent surrenders in the largest Griffin Conservatory. If he hadn't surrendered, at 127 I would have already broken through a stack of white behemoths and he would be at his respawn. Thanks.

Wic (c, Castle, Kyrre) def Nagan-4 (s, Fortress, Tazar), 6LM10a

It turned out that now they don't just play 6LM10, but only with the letter "a".
We started — rather poorly, external dwelling of lizard archers, gloves. Took the nearest computer — Conflux. On day 117, Wyverns with a citadel.
There was a heavy army loss, but on day 121 Tazar arrived, started leveling him.
Nothing tasty dropped persistently, took one pandora, empty (a pity, just barely missed getting Advanced Wisdom), then 25 upgraded elves from a pandora.
Cleared everything that was lying around poorly, on day 137 ran into an enemy Kyrre on the march, army at the scout hero. Though he did reach Tazar as well.
Wic built Dimension Door and Town Portal in his castle up in the tower.

Haven't played for two years, at least remembered something, congratulations to Wic on the victory.

Two matches of the first round remain: Mizrael vs Matrosov and Sticky vs Vitalik.

There are two matches left in the first round: Mizraela vs. Matrosov and Sticky vs. Vitalik.

Please update the replays.

Please update the maps.

They don't want to... even though I asked them.

Round 1 is almost over. Thank you, Nagan, for organizing it, and I'm glad to meet Russian Heroes of Might and Magic players, although I didn't have time to get to know everyone; half of them left for lunch when our group went home :D

The first round is almost over. Thank you, Nagan, for organizing it, and I’m glad to meet Russian Heroes of Might and Magic players, although I didn’t have time to get to know everyone. Half of them went to lunch when our group went home.

Thank you and Gem for participating; we look forward to seeing you tomorrow for the continuation of the tournament.

How are the remaining players doing in their matches? Also, there are supposed to be a total of 3 rounds, right? Tomorrow, the winners of the first round will compete against each other?

They don't want to... even though I tried to persuade them.

1. StickyFingaz (Haven, Inferno) - Vitalic (Sylvan, Conflux), Jebus cross
2. MatrosoFF (Fortress, Rampart) - Mizrael (Stronghold, Knight), Jebus cross

I was a spectator, and at Nagan's request, I'm posting the results. Sorry, there won't be many details today – I'm not very eloquent.
In the first match, Vitalic won, consuming an incredibly large number of wyverns, which forced StickyFingaz to wave the white flag.
In the second match, Mizrael surrendered, and the victory went to MatrosoFF, although, in my opinion, they could have continued the battle, but then the game would have ended closer to 2014. Or maybe my opinion is wrong.

That's all for now, the first day is over.

In the pair Stick-Vitalik, a replay occurred due to technical reasons. Ultimately, they played on the M200 balanced template (red Dungeon vs. blue Inferno). Stick tried to rush with Solmyr, but it didn't work out — GM4 didn't work, and the opponent, taking a maximum Griffin Conservatory in their adjacent zone, went into the treasure zone, found at least 7 Dragon Fly Hives and an external dwelling of Fire Birds there.

Another question, there are only 3 rounds in theory, right? Tomorrow the winners of the first round fight each other?

Yes, today the winners of the first tour play. Unfortunately, two players from St. Petersburg spent so much energy in the game and celebrated their victory so wildly (it's not often that two St. Petersburgers beat two players from the Tambov region) that they were non-transportable this morning. Therefore, I paired them with each other; same way, Viku cannot escape a game with Pit or Vitalik...

Next - 4 winners remain - Pit, Favio, Vitalik, heroes13. We are waiting for Vitalik and then we'll do the draw. Matches for those who lost in the first tour take place by mutual agreement.

Briefly about the first tour. Naturally, the center stage was the game between Matrosov and Mizrael. Misha threw away a large army on black knights guarding two Pandoras, leaving only 1 knight; Mizrael lost two days. After finishing off the scoundrel, he got all the earth from one and 5 green dragons from the other!
Everything was compensated.

After that, both leveled up normally, and the final battle occurred. Misha had a pumped-up hero with expert Earth Magic, explosions, resurrection, and elementals; Matrosov was hitting them with a "teapot".
Soon Mizrael had several weak stacks and 68 elementals left, while Dmitry had 22 unicorns. Since the ballista had been destroyed by Chain Lightning, Blindness on the unicorns was appropriate. With 280 mana points, it was possible to raise almost the entire army and finish off the unicorns. Matrosov ran out of mana.
Instead, an explosion occurred, leaving 9 unicorns; in response, using the last bit of mana, a Chain Lightning killed all stacks — and the unicorns, taking advantage of the first move, hit the elementals and perished.
Both heroes died, but Matrosov had several mages with DD.

He could have played around with the tavern, searched for heroes—the army and money were there—but Misha was too upset. The best match so far.

They don't want to... even though I urged them.

I talked to the guys; I think there will be two broadcasts of the leaders now.

We've done the draw for now, it turned out...

Wic - MatrosoFF
Favio (k, Stronghold, Tiraxor) - Pit for LM (s, Castle, Valeska), Balance
heroes13 (s, Castle, Valeska) - Vitalic (k, Dungeon, Shakti), 2SM4d(3)
Mizrael (k, Castle, Valeska)- Yama-Dharma (s, Conflux, random), Balance
Nagan-4 (k, Dungeon, Shakti) - nik312 (s, Castle, Valeska), 8mm6.

Yama-Dharma replaced Scorpa in the 2nd tour.

In the Sticky-Vitalik pair, there was a replay due to technical reasons. In the end, they played the M200 balance template (red Dungeon vs blue Inferno). Sticky tried to rush with Solmyr, but it didn't work out — GM4 didn't go through, and the opponent, having taken a max Griffin Conservatory on their adjacent zone, went into the treasure zone, found at least 7 Dragon Fly Hives and an external dwelling of Firebirds there.

exactly, first we played Jebus Cross. We scrapped it out very strangely, Conflux against Inferno (and this on SoD). We played until about 123, I took two external dwellings of Phoenixes, in the piles Green Dragon, there is a Shield +12 and Wings, 3 Dragon Fly Hives, two conservatories. We saved and went for lunch, logged out of the session. After eating some food and a bit of vodka — we returned, but our logins (prepaid time until 22.00 not working), Nagan showed enhanced ORG capabilities (many thanks to him for that) and the time was extended, but the saves were not preserved, upon logging out of the session everything gets wiped((. We decided to play something small. It rolled Inferno against Dungeon, I have no mages, only fighters, and that's a loss on such a map. And the opponent keeps appearing near my teleports. On 124, a reinforcement in the form of 4 Angels (the whole operation was under great threat, the opponent could destroy all the chains at any second, but phew, I made it). Then rushed to the center and into the treasure zone, there were 5 Dragon Fly Hives and Boots shining. I grabbed Tactics and became like a walking scout, and another 7 Dragon Fly Hives and an external dwelling of Phoenixes were revealed. While Sticky was taking hundreds of Earth Elementals with Solmyr for 50 minutes, my fighter with Logistics, Gloves, and Boots took 50 Wyverns in one turn and another 6 Dragon Fly Hives, a Pandora's Box remained for the next turn. Time was approaching night and Sticky conceded the victory to me, he can't handle a hundred Wyverns...
thanks for the game and to Eric for organizing the tournament, communication is POWER :smile44:

Duplicating the post about the draw:

Wic loses to MatrosoFF
Pit for LM (blue, Castle, Valeska, Tamika) defeats favio (red, Stronghold, Gurnisson, Gurnisson), balance, 141.
heroes13 (blue, Castle, Valeska) - Vitalic (red, Dungeon, Shakti), 2SM4d(3)
Mizrael (red, Castle, Valeska) defeats Yama-Dharma (blue, Conflux, random), Balance, 132
Nagan-4 (red, Dungeon, Shakti) defeats nik312 (blue, Castle, Valeska), 8мм6, 144

Yama-Dharma replaced Scorpa in the 2nd round.

The session has ended, now a new one begins,
TV7 id: m68-668-218

Pit for LM (blue, Castle, Valeska, Tamika) def favio (red, Stronghold, Tyraxor, Tyraxor), balance, 141. Soperink took two restarts on 111, after which the game began. 111 - I scouted the area and opened up a very good territory. There are hidden archers, monks (which I didn't take), a good amount of money, a secondary town on a rough road, and it's quite close. Valeska also has three stacks, and the other heroes have decent armies. Seven heroes on the first day. 112 - I upgraded the archers, took the secondary town, bought an army there, and Tamika, who cleared a path to the lava through earth elementals, gaining scouting. Another hidden location with swords was discovered. 113 - I took the swords. 114 - Tamika captured an Inferno town and a chest behind the skeletons. She also cleared a second path - but it's stones on a rough road, so it's not a viable option to go there. 115 - I defended the hidden archer location. 116 - Tamika is running along the road towards the center. 117 - I defended against a +2+2 sword unit. In the capital, there are horses in the Stronghold. Unicorns appeared in the center. There's a good amount of money for buying units. 121 - I bought a hero in the wrong town, resulting in a loss of 2500, which is unpleasant. However, Tamika's army wasn't fully upgraded anyway, so it's not critical. 122 - I cleared out the unicorns with reinforcements from Inferno and moved into the center. Nothing is visible yet. 123 - I brought up the crusaders and moved into the Necropolis. 124 - I scouted the center. Everything is calm, I don't see the opponent, and I'm not expecting him to appear soon. I'm running towards Pandor. 125 - Pandor has 5k experience, a +2+2 cloak, and a useless chain on the tomb. I'm running towards the stables. 126 - I upgraded the horses, Valeska found a way to the treasure, excellent, I'm going there. 127 - Perhaps I rushed. I attacked 100+ pegasi (guarding the treasure), lost two horses, almost all the crusaders, and more than half the spears. At the same time, I entered the zone about 6 steps and was left without a speed bonus. In general, I should have attacked with a speed bonus. 131 - The opponent appears (through a gate, as expected), clears out the djinn, and remains near them. I fully buy out the town, bring up my army, and take a Hive +6. 132 - Tyraxor didn't do much, he basically stayed in the same place. I take two hives - +10 wyverns. 133 - The opponent took Pandor with evil eyes and ran towards my gate. I took gloves and Pandor with 60 skeleton units. 134 - The opponent is running towards the center. Hive +8 wyverns, defended another one. 135 - Tyraxor ran past both Necropolises and headed towards the lava. Gurnisson, with the help of a ballista, destroys the enemy heroes, and with 30 skeletons, runs towards the capital. 136 - Tyraxor is still running... He almost reached my secondary town. I took a Hive +8, found another one, and boots. There was a funny battle with Christian against some mage. I had 20 stacks of zombies (7 units each), and he had 1 unit of goblins. He ran for quite a while, but in the end, he was trapped and eaten. I attacked with the remaining units against the next mage - but there's no ranged attack, even though there are 3 goblins... 137 - Tyraxor takes my secondary town and runs back. I get the last Hive and boots, totaling 43 wyverns and almost 300 skeletons that need to be upgraded. I didn't lose the archers, and I still have 4 horses and 11 crusaders left. Gurnisson, with the Necropolis troops, is taking the opponent's capital. And Tamika, meanwhile, got a log. 141 - Thus, I control virtually all the towns, completely cleared the treasure, gathered a lot of wyverns, have incredible speed, and Tyraxor is stuck somewhere in the corner of the map without a serious army or stats. We decided not to waste any more time on this. Thank you for the game.