Posts from [2x2 Tournament] Resurrection

The situation with "ham" - wlk777 personally reminds me of a situation in a cartoon about a little raccoon: for some reason, neither I nor my partner, Variator, had any communication problems with Valentin, while a bunch of "daddies" and "little daddies" (please don't take "little daddies" as an insult or apply it to yourselves - it's just that I might not have expressed myself very well) constantly had some kind of disagreements... In short, guys, it's not worth growling and waving a stick at the "monster in the lake" - wouldn't it be better to do as in that sentimental song: "Share your smile, and it will come back to you again!" ;) ?

12.01.13. Pit for LM (brown, Castle, Valeska, Marius) + Gomunguls (red, Fortress, Broghild, Broghild) def LeBron (blue, Necropolis, Galthran, Galthran) + Dirty_Player (green, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti), jebus, 123.

I also want to share my impressions)
First of all, thanks to Pit for the game, we played and managed to do everything very well!
On day one, I grab a Pandora's Box and upgrade Learning to Advanced, grabbed an external dwelling of cows, then the main hero trained on chests while the scout heroes cleared everything, 2 Dragon Fly Hives (4+4), then after Brogh grabbed a Pandora's Box with 30k experience on day 5, I crashed into town to replenish mana while the scouts grabbed a level 2 Griffin Conservatory... on day 116, I break a GO with 50+ movement points, losing 7 Gnolls, and stand next to the Crystal Dragons... killed a couple of dragons, losing an Angel's Ogre and 5 Mighty Gorgons, but I get another 30k experience... I grab 2 Dragon Fly Hives and crash into Pit's castle where there are 3 more hives, and along the way, while carrying the army, I grabbed another Dragon Fly Hive... on day 121, I destroyed 3 hives and break a Dragon Utopia... after it, I had 48 Wyverns and 2 Hydras remaining, losing a second Angel and Ogre... they gave a Sword +12, a Book of Water, and Boots... then on day 122, the whole army goes to the capital for an upgrade and I grab another Dragon Fly Hive and the Bow of the Sharpshooter, I pass the Bow and other artifacts to Pete (there are already plenty of Archers there), and since my Brogh is already a monster (on day 117 he was already level 21), all the best artifacts are given to me... on day 123, I use the scout heroes to break a 3 Nagas bank at my respawn, buy the necessary troops, and run to Dirty since in the meantime the allies have already headed to LeBron... I see a piece of the dungeon and jump straight to Galthran through Dimension Door... and then the surrender.
Thanks again everyone for the game!!!

the most scandalous tournament of the year :D
the first round hadn't even finished, and there's already as much trash talk as there was throughout the entire year on Hv. I can already clearly feel that this won't be the last one :rolleyes:

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The situation... personally reminds me of the situation in the cartoon about Raccoon... In short, guys, it's not worth growling and going to the "monster in the lake" with a stick - wouldn't it be better to do as in that sentimental song: "Share your smile, and it will return to you again!"?

"FISH'enebnye" vs. "Slow Play".
The AC considered the issue and decided not to decide anything (the decision is obvious, but it won't make anyone happy). To find a compromise, an agent "little enot571" with expert diplomacy was sent to the warring parties, who began subversive peaceful activities.
Since we are mostly here to play, not to argue, we came to the conclusion that the best option would be "let the game decide" and agreed to continue the match to 2 wins, with the score being 1-0 in favor of Fish.

The AK considered the issue and decided not to decide anything

A paradox :)

Redwhait HP (red, ramp, Ivor, Crag Hack) + StickyFingaz (brown, Tavern, Iona, Luna/Brissa) vs BA/IEHOK (blue, barb, Tyrax) + KobRa_RR (green, Castle, Valeska, Sanya) Jebus 123

The map was tricky, so we decided to go for the Tavern upgraded dwelling (just in case there are no giant external dwellings :D ) + building up in the ramp.
The start was good; on day 1-1-1 we had 8 heroes, including Tazar, Crag Hack, and Aeryn level 5 with expert Scout. I picked up a free Ring of Speed. There's an external dwelling of green dragons and a couple of Dragon Fly Hives. Sword +6 and Head of Legion from ogres.
Sticky's most interesting stuff is Luna with +3/3 spell power/knowledge, a Pendant, and a Dragon Utopia.

On 1-1-2, I found a unique external dwelling and a couple more Dragon Fly Hives. Crag Hack at the log and stables. Tazar took out the ogres for the sword. I have 5-9 Archangels + 10-19 Devils, and possibly also KobRa's group to break 50+ Archmages. Sticky has 5-9 Arch Devils.
On 1-1-3, Aeryn takes a village and a unique external dwelling. A scout hero is bought and takes a minimal Dragon Fly Hive. I chain carry to the second one, but it's strong, so I decide to wait for the next day when Tazar arrives. Tazar along the way crushed some Griffin Guards for a Shield +3/3 and a dragon external dwelling. The chain goes further, and Crag Hack takes out 50+ Golems for a Pandora's Box, but he doesn't have time to claim it — the time runs out.

On 1-1-4, Crag Hack takes a swamp village, builds a guild there, buys a spellbook, returns for the Pandora's Box (15k XP). He levels up his logistics and wisdom, and also gets a second scout and a base defense stat. He takes a unique external dwelling. The chain goes to Tazar, who takes a Pandora's Box for 10-19 Griffin Guards (gold) and a maximum Dragon Fly Hive. Then, giving everything back to Aeryn, she takes out 10+ Gorgons for another Dragon Fly Hive. Sticky has a box covering the entire surface, unfortunately only with advanced wisdom, no external dwellings; he builds a guild.

On 1-1-5, I buy all available heroes since there's no more room in the Dragon Fly Hives. I take a gnome hovel and a couple of Dragon Fly Hives with scout heroes. I carry everything to Crag Hack; he takes another Pandora's Box for boars (5k XP) and advances his defense. He heads toward KobRa's group; stats: 18-10-3-5; army: 32 Griffins, 13 Grand Elves, 1+1 unique, and about 6 Harpies, with a scout hero having more. Sticky got 80 Gremlins from a free box, bringing his total to 200, and built a level 4 guild — junk spells.

On 1-1-6, Crag Hack takes out the Archangels, immediately captures the central castle (just a couple of moves away), buys Gremlins and Gargoyles there, and takes out the Devils. We mowed them down like crazy, damn. One green player remained whom he didn't take at the group; 1 Grand Elf, 29 Griffins, and a few Gremlins with Gargoyles. We still need to hit KobRa's group too :( I decide to fall back, while Crag Hack goes to replenish his mana — he got crushed. On the fly, Sticky and I debated what's more profitable: rebuilding the 4th guild or building the 5th; we decided to rebuild the 4th — there was Town Portal! (As it turned out later, the 5th had Fly, which would also have been very cool.)

Then we decided to take the Dragon Utopia at Sticky's respawn with Crag Hack. On his turn, he uses Town Portal to grab the army and positions everything near the Dragon Utopia.

1-1-7: I get Crag Hack crushed in the snow, and take a level 3 Dragon Utopia. It had chocolate, КВ, КО, and Gladius! I give the army and artifacts to Sticky.

1-2-1: Crag Hack gets crushed back home and goes to the stables and well, picking up speed along the way on a Pegasus group. I left the army near the castle because we planned to attack the green Castle. Sticky takes the army and carries it to the central castle; there he buys out Luna and breaks KobRa's group of Archmages, uses scout heroes to grab a Fire resistance booster and +4 spell power. He runs to the green player's respawn with last week's army, but even with Dimension Door we can't reach it. However, a scouting reveal shows that the Castle has a Citadel, meaning what we feared — Archangels, so it'll take a couple of days for sure.
Luna uses Town Portal to my secondary town so Crag Hack can take a Dragon Utopia in the center from there.

1-2-2: KobRa captures our central castle with significant parameters, but the army consists of 100+ Wolves, fewer than 20 Griffins, and a couple of Angels — just enough for one Armageddon.

Plan to cover her in the castle with a group of Efreetis; to do that, we need to check with a scout hero what's there and how. There happens to be a Necromancer on Pegasi who can reach it. They have +2 speed, but we have +1, and Sticky will place a group of Efreetis on that day — that's enough.

Crag Hack takes the army and artifacts from Luna and takes a good Dragon Utopia in the center, then also a Griffin Conservatory. He could have reached a couple more prisons, but we decided not to risk it. I use Town Portal to boost Luna, otherwise she won't make it, but I miscalculated and got crushed in my main town, and from there I couldn't reach her at all :mad:. On Sticky's turn, we thought for a long time, but there was no way out; in the end, Sticky boosted in his main town on a group of Efreetis, and I in my secondary on Pegasi.

1-2-3: I recapture the central castle with Crag Hack and get crushed into the secondary town for boosting. The blue players set up a chain to eat a couple of prisons and a Dragon Utopia with a Dragon Fly Hive in the center. We decide to rush there with two groups of Efreetis to deny them at least a couple of prisons and take the second central town. Sticky reaches the first hero there — Brissa, level 20 with expert four elemental magics, plus Catapult and Accuracy, all artifacts. She goes further because Luna has low movement points, and she redeems herself from the scout hero. Brissa takes the second prison: Halon with expert logistics — clearly an Inferno in the center. Sanya sits there with all her might. Brissa attacks, and we have the first turn in any case because Catapult + Armageddon wipes out everyone, and artifacts spill out of Sanya. Brissa uses Town Portal from there just in case, as she didn't have much mana left. The opponents surrender.

Thanks everyone for the game!

0). The Tournament is crap, the rules are crap, the only good thing is that it's fun..:D
1). For some reason they respawned the very first generation, when an external dwelling of angels and cons appeared for the first and last time. It turned out they were testing the connection(??) why choose castles and heroes then?? oh well, screw it
2). Second generation - opponents have a bugged passage to each other, we have nothing - restart.
3). Third generation, also the final one, now there's a bugged passage (even three passages) to the opponent, request for a technical restart - denied. Fine, screw it. On my respawn the most valuable things are the stable under the Castle and the prison behind the demons. I check on 112 - 35 units, run from them with marks for a long time, eventually killed them, a level 20 mage is in the prison! I build up the tower. I find an external dwelling of horses, go all-in on them :D
Valenok has it better, 2 hives and cons(4), + 2 Pandoras totaling 85 wolves! But since the opponents wanted to play practically SoD, there's little joy. Also on his respawn we find a sword+5 all and most importantly, the blue cap!! without which one could have surrendered immediately. :D On 116 my mage with 320 mana breaks Valenok's double ГО (Green Dragons and Enchanters), takes +2 speed, hives and targets the titan cuirass. A turn later we take the central tower, clear everyone in sight, then the earth book and boots. Next turn we settle into another central city to replenish mana. We see a Dragon Utopia, hives, cons, decent purse, angels' speed is 15, thinking about an upgrade so as not to fear anyone..and here we make the only mistake, which became fatal, on Valenok's turn we unexpectedly change plans and don't break both prisons near the Inferno..As it turned out these lands were already scouted by enemies, so we paid for it immediately.
Thanks for the game! You played well

From 22:00 to 25:00 Moscow time, and all day on the 26th and 27th – I’m available to play – either with Sevanu_80 or with me.

Hey everyone, let me know when you're available to play, and let's coordinate!

Hello, are you ready to play today? Attack!

Pit for LM (red, Stronghold, Tyraxor, Tyraxor) + Gomunguls (brown, Inferno, Calh, Moandor) def StickyFingaz (blue, Necropolis, Galtran, Luna) + Redwhait HP (green, Tower, Iona, Thorosar), Jebus, 123.
Started with first generation.
111 - near the Castle there are two external dwellings, a bit further - two Pandora's Boxes, even further - a Dragon Fly Hive with a third Pandora's Box. Such a thing does not respawn so that it doesn't spawn on the lava. And there it spawned a Dragon Utopia, a Dragon Fly Hive, a normal big unblocked respawn.
112 - I light the lookout tower. I see the Sword of Justice behind mummies - freebie. From the first Pandora's Box I get 35 orcs, from the second - 60 goblins. Scouting one secondary town - a native one. Next to it - an external Marketplace. There is also a Griffin Conservatory, a Mana Doubler, a bit further - a Stable, several Prisons. On the lava, a double Griffin Conservatory is scouted, another Dragon Utopia, a small Pandora's Box behind wolves, Moandor is bought and started leveling.
113 - I capture my native village. I clear both external dwellings, in the freebie prison they give a native Barbarian with three stacks, in the second one - Andra level 10 with Pathfinding and Earth magic. Brown took both secondary towns, a chest for 10 (20)k experience. Too bad, there are no external dwellings at all there...
114 - I clear the Sword of Justice. Scouted GO - cyclops, the town is right behind them. I start building up the secondary town - Fort. Another orc dwelling found, a couple of Pandora's Boxes. Another couple of Dragon Fly Hives found on the lava.
115 - I take my second village, clear a gold mine.
116 - not a very good move. Without looking, I enter the Dragon Fly Hive, having 2 behemoths, 35 orcs and some fodder of spearmen and archers. It's the max size. The behemoths got eaten, a dozen orcs also got killed. Well, 12 wyverns are also fine. The second Dragon Fly Hive turned out to be minimal, and in the Pandora's Box next to it, it gave 50 wolves. Meanwhile, Moandor ate another Pandora's Box for experience.
117 - I doubled mana (to 280), broke into an allied dungeon, studying Haste with Air Magic, as well as Blind and Bolt. Along the chain I ate a minimal Griffin Conservatory, a Pandora's Box for 15k gold and a Pandora's Box for 15k experience with Andra. From building, I got behemoths with orcs in the Castle and just behemoths in the Citadel. Brown has efreeti without dogs in the Castle. For buying and upgrading I have 30k+ left and many resources that can be sold. Also a lookout tower was revealed, showing blue Luna standing at GO on the snow.
121 - upgrade behemoths, Naga Bank, I run towards GO. Moandor clears a Dwarf Cottage, a Naga Bank, a Dragon Fly Hive for 4. Luna grabs Wings and portals somewhere.
122 - I realize that due to the need for buying and upgrading, I'm a bit late. So I have to play aggressively. I break Tyraxor - he was standing right before the Genies on a speed boost. Aiden takes a Naga Bank, troops are brought up, level 1 Korbac pulls 35 wolves from the last box, fights GO on quick combat, losing a hundred goblins, takes the dungeon. There Tyraxor is recruited, on quick combat he breaks a minimal Dragon Utopia, losing the rest of the goblins and 3 birds. It gives +2 speed and a not particularly needed Sentinel's Shield. I chase away one of the blue mages from the center, take the second town - Swamp, send out a scout. There are many Pandora's Boxes in the area, a couple of Prisons, a Dragon Fly Hive. Vitaly gets 12 wyverns, 4 angels (2+1+1), prepares to take Dragon Utopias.
123 - I break gold dragons, release a decent Jabarkas from prison with Pathfinding and Logistics, who immediately eats 20k experience, clears an amulet +3 to all stats. Andra eats another Pandora's Box - experience, learns and experts Fire Magic. Well, and Tyraxor runs to a cluster of Pandora's Boxes. At this point the opponents surrender.
Thank you for the game.

Pit for LM (red, Stronghold, Tyraxor, Tyraxor) + Gomunguls (brown, Inferno, Calh, Moandor) def StickyFingaz (blue, Necropolis, Galthran, Luna) + Redwhait HP (green, Tower, Iona, Thorosar), Jebus, 123.
Thanks for the game.

It wasn't the most successful game, both in terms of battles and tempo.
On day 111, blues have a Straker, but a Pandora's Box with 80 skeletons and a couple of Dragon Fly Hives. I have 3 Griffin Conservatories, Dragon Fly Hive, external dwelling of Behemoths, Boots of Speed and Haste/Gloves, but no good heroes arrived, and even so it's very hard to resurrect this. I decided to place Behemoths, and in Necropolis to build the Guild.
Both of our heroes seemed difficult: I had 20+ upgraded Cyclopes or a couple of Fairy Dragons, Sticky had double — Wizards + upgraded Dwarves.
In the end, on my respawn I got 3 minimal Griffin Conservatories and one level 3, plus blues also had one minimal. Not many Dragon Fly Hives, but gathered 30 upgraded Dwarves, also Luna came from a prison and we found a level 5 hat. Town Portal was built from the second attempt in Necropolis. I messed around the whole game (clearly lacked experience playing Tower on Jebus) and was clearly late with building the Inferno town, only breaking out on day 121. We got Armageddon from upgraded Cyclopes and Wings (of the Phoenix?) from Crystal ones. Then we decided not to risk it and Sticky left to replenish mana. After that, we decided to take the home Dragon Utopia. The center, as we expected, turned out to be tiny, and Tyras showed up there with 10 upgraded Behemoths and 180+ upgraded Wolves, plus Mass Haste.
In the Dragon Utopia, a minor Grail (Ultimate Artifact), but it's essentially useless.
We were in a bad spot money-wise, so we both had to sell everything down to 0 once each. We decided to take more Cyclopes and build level 5 magic in the hope of Armageddon on the first try. It wasn't there, so we decided not to stall, since Armageddon without the Grail is weak, and we clearly lose in power and stats.

Thanks for the game.

Pit for LM (red, Stronghold, Tyraxor, Tyraxor) + Gomunguls (brown, Inferno, Calh, Moandor) def StickyFingaz (blue, Necropolis, Galthran, Luna) + Redwhait HP (green, Tower, Iona, Thosar), Jebus, 123.
Thank you for the game.

Red side had a very good development, I also had a good one, and we started playing! On day 3, Moandor was level 13, captured 2 gold mines, 2 heroes with +350 gold each, totaling about 5k income per day. I sent everything I collected to Pit for town building, did good scouting — there are 2 Dragon Utopias, GO 5-9 Titans, and since our respawns with Pit are large, it became clear that the center shouldn't be big (as it later turned out, everything there was compact :D)... I'm in no hurry to the center. On day 121, I broke a max Dwarf Cottage and Nagashnik, 4 mini Dragon Fly Hives, and transfer the army to another Hive — that one turned out to be large and killed all Pits, and I never finished off the demons... On day 121, 3 Griffin Conservatories (2+1+1 and another Dragon Fly Hive with 8... I stopped at a Dragon Utopia planning to take 2 Dragon Utopias the next day, but then a surrender happens... On my turn, I break 2 Dragon Utopias (2+3) — they all gave Titan's Glare, Boots + 2 All and the Water Book with Dimension Door :)
Thanks everyone!!!

Dear participants, round 3 starts on 02/02/13, and some teams haven't played a single game yet. If nothing changes by Monday, I will start assigning the first technical wins. I hope for your understanding.

1. 02.2013. wariator(Citadel, Tirax, Tirax)/KostyaN(Necropolis, Gosha, Gosha) def Sevan_80(Castle, Valya, Kirr)/ariputra(Swamp, Vistan, Vistan), 122 (approximately)

Not much to write about. I transferred money normally – I think around 40-50 thousand + and also shared some of my army. Roma has conscripts, beehives, an external dwelling with 2 dungeons, and ГО up to 100 gold. Vaseк is doing well too – so reaching level 117 is quite normal. There are no drowned in the center, but there are many beehives. In terms of parameters, thanks to the +4 all shield from Roma's starting hero and earlier development – the advantage is significant; in terms of power due to the opponents not combining their forces – ariputra has a tolerable advantage (a lot of gold, ducks, etc.). Overall, GG.

Thanks for the game!