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Group SoD-A
29.01.2013
wowa (blue, Castle, Valeska, Crag Hack) def Dima Surmay (red, Stronghold, Gundula, Gundula) 8MM6a@227, fast roads
Both used all restarts
On the mandatory surrender with the 2nd hero Christian, only 20 archers (and over all 7 generations, archers were never built))
But then Crag arrived, the edge of the Boots was revealed, and on 112 Valya takes them behind a horde of wolves with GS
Then Crag runs down the path in the boots and with the ballista from Christian, and on the 2nd level he was offered artillery, refused, so on the 3rd level it was forced on him anyway :D
Wood mine location unknown, but an external dwelling of griffins was captured, considering going into them
But at that moment the game was postponed, and then a considerable fail: a lift and a lot of wood on the road, was planning to go around it, but after resuming, for some reason decided this lift was to zone 11 or 12, and even thought I saw a road under the roots that never existed in the first place :D
But it turned out to be the guard of zone 24, and there was 49 wood – without morale I would have destroyed it with the shooter, but as it happened, I got beaten up big time)))
If we hadn't just sat down to continue, I would have surrendered, but instead I decided to keep playing
Also, during the turn transfer, a green Torosar came out of the fog and kills Christian; if he had run towards me, it would likely have been GG, as there was meat there, including mages, and the cheap shooter because of them))
But it worked out, until the end of the week I'm messing around on the respawn, Crag with the surviving shooter and 4 swarms captures the 2nd external dwelling of griffins, never found wood for cavalry, griffins in the Citadel
Prospects: Griffin Conservatory, Pandora's Box, and a prison behind a lot of thunders, as well as gloves behind a horde of fish, though quite far
At the start of the 2nd week I check the Conservatory with a scout – a two-spot, just what was needed)) A tough trade from the 1st market, buying up griffins from 2 external dwellings and their upgrade, and Crag takes down the Conservatory
In the Pandora's Box behind the thunders there's 5K gold, Crag runs to take revenge on the green player, captures a tavern and goes to zone 14
The zone is rocky, but native, an external dwelling of pikemen, cavalry, and another griffin one; by the end of the week I take everything and finally build cavalry, but no Castle, never reaching the sawmill))
Crag stands before a Pandora's Box behind a lot of monarchs, which on 131 with a small delivery he breaks through, there's 10K XP, I expertised Air, and was even given a Log :)
Then a native village, below it a prison and two Conservatories, though near the 2nd one there's a heap of stuff scattered and a guard of a lot of cyclops
I go into the 1st one without checking; from the army, besides angels and the eater from the tavern, there are also cavalry and griffins from the external dwelling, pikemen from there too, plus from the village, plus from my own heroes (from the prison and the one who arrived at the start of the week); I thought with Mass Haste even the maximum size would be enough, so I didn't try to bring cavalry from home, especially since they had just broken through to the sawmill in the badlands, and the chain from there likely wouldn't have worked
But in the Conservatory, the right-bottom 40-stack flies not up towards the decoy, but for some reason up-left, and of course gets a morale boost :D and immediately crashes into the eater made of golems, which was supposed to hold the right stacks for 2 rounds
Now they'll definitely reach the angels-pikemen-cavalry right away, not letting me pick off the griffins one by one(( the only hope left was for my own morale, which was +3, by the way)) but it didn't work out, alas, and Crag runs away for the 2nd time in the game :(
So I had to drag the cavalry from home after all, I finish off the Conservatory with them without losses, beat the cyclops, the 2nd Conservatory is a one-spot, the scouts found a Dragon Utopia with 1-2 Black Dragons and Crag camps on it on 137
The Dragon Utopia turned out to be the minimum, but it gave a Blue Cap! Can jump now, but Crag the Barbarian has a moped-sized fuel tank :D so during the night I have to refuel, while the scouts with the Pouch and the Cap search for and clear out various treasure zones
I find 2 more Dragon Utopias, in them a Sword +12, Wings, and a Book of Air)) through views I see the red player scuttling around in a corner treasure zone
And, although I know the red player has the Pouch on their scouts, but only 2 Dimension Doors, and can't really jump to the opponent, I go along the computers
On the way to the purple Conflux, I consume another Dragon Utopia with a 2nd Hat of the 5th Magic, then a pink Castle and I have a double, I build angels; on the 2nd front, scouts led by Dessa frantically capture resources for towers
But there's no Town Portal either in the Conflux or in the tavern; however, underground I spot the Cloak against 3-5, Crag goes for it; further on a village with a Dragon Utopia, there are 2 deliveries: a red orb and the missing component of the Mana collector, now we have eternal batteries :) I move towards the opponent, but halfway there see simply unreal stats, I turn back to eat some more, luckily we have a double, and besides Crag there are 2 scouts with Expert Air)) I also try to find Town Portal, meanwhile keeping the scouts positioned so I can break Crag into any of my towns
But Town Portal stubbornly refused to appear at the 5th and a half tower (there's also a library in the tavern)
And I only get distracted once for the gloves, and also to pick up the Pouch from home, and it's precisely at this moment that Gundula jumps over the mountains and appears near the Conflux, there's no way to transfer the army from Crag there
Gundula takes the town, displaying Alliance, then buys up the Conflux Pouch and portals home
I run Dessa into the empty Conflux and Crag charges towards the direction Gundula came from, we already have Archangels!
I take the red ramp and there they finally gave a View of the Land)) so I decide that if the opponent doesn't want to come to you, then go to them not directly by jumps, but through the road system
But then the red player themselves emerges into another treasure zone at the edge of the map, I turn my main hero around, and see that on 227 Gundula is camping at a stable near the 2nd Conflux
The distance is about a third of the map, I try to reach and succeed on the very last step!
In the FF, despite the Alliance and stats, almost all of the red player's stacks folded after the first hit; however, before Prayer, all of Crag's stacks acted, except for the stack of geese, which along with the griffins survived that battle
As it turned out, Gundula just got Dimension Door from a Pandora's Box this very turn; I, on the other hand, had as many as 4 copies!
Overall, the game can confidently be called "the generator's mockery" – the blue player had from the whole map a bunch of transport relics without Town Portal and only one Sword of Crag's name, while the red player had simply broken stats, with their scouts all running around with shields giving +4 each :D
But, one way or another, the Pouch overpowered, GG, thanks to the opponent for the game :)
