Posts from Diamond Monster

I suggest banning criticism of this template :D

LSM (Blue, Rampart, Mephala, Mephala) def Diabler (Red, Fortress, Tazar, Tazar) SoD, 142
We each took 2 restarts and began. The spawn had no external dwellings, but plenty of roads and the second hero had 5 elves. There's a stable.
On the first day I take a swamp village - good, there's a place to upgrade Wyverns if needed. I spread out my heroes. By the end of the week, 3 villages and on day 7 an epic fail with the loss of my entire army. Only one horse remained, which mows down with a purple eye. On the second week I take another village and immediately go into a Dragon Fly Hive with horses and dwarves for 93 Witches. 8 Wyverns are ours. I take a second Dragon Fly Hive for 94 Golems and another 6 Ducks join the army. I check the Griffin Conservatory - troglodytes, Earth magic isn't leveled enough so I avoid it. I decide to take an external dwelling of Wyverns behind a lot of Pit Fiends and the КЗ for 20-49 upgraded Unicorns, fortunately I level up Earth magic right at the dwelling. I see another Griffin Conservatory. A third one. We take it. We take a troglodyte Griffin Conservatory - a fourth one. Then Dragon Utopias started to fall. A total of 6 of them were taken. Along the way, individual Dragon Fly Hives were taken and Wyverns were upgraded. The last Dragon Utopia fell on day 141. Another Griffin Conservatory is discovered and Mephala moves to take it with a plan to upgrade to Angels, especially since through the mountains there's exactly the computer's Castle. Suddenly the opponent presents himself with an upgraded Fly and an army at the scout hero and Mephala attacks, GG.
Thanks for the game.

I think Org didn't think it through when he gave the right to choose a castle without a ban on certain creatures, which creates an imbalance.

P.S.
at least he could have given each player the opportunity to veto one castle.

Bayazet (blue, Tower, Iona, Grindan, Galtran) def LSM (red, Stronghold, Tyraxor) WT, 143 (recall loss for color)
Started without resto, external dwelling of gremlins near the town, black market.
On the first one I managed almost without blocks, killed 2-3 comps (Castle, Rampart, and Inferno), captured 3-4 villages, took 4 vines.
On the 2nd I tried to take back at least something from what was seen, managed to get +6 to all and +2 to speed (and bought +1 speed at the market). On 131 I take the KO, 5x hat, Level 2 Griffin Conservatory, and 3 Hives. Got something to break Dragon Utopias. Proceeded to do that. Old man Grinya with three magics, Logistics, and no Armorer of Offense.
4 Dragon Utopias, levels 1-2 gave almost nothing new except gold. Air book, +3 to all, black orb, 5x hat, and +10 hat. Took +12 shield from the reds and started to take towns after upgrading Archers. After saving, we decided not to finish.
Thanks for the game!

yeah, banning Necro entirely, and if it's Necro village, what to do right away :D

Are you guys high?) The player with the higher rating chooses whether to start the map or pick a color. It's a standard procedure: one starts creating the map, and the other chooses a color.

Well, you need to express yourself more clearly; that's what I'm telling you :D

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For SoD: the player with the higher rating chooses – color or Castle.
Rating is HERE (see the file attached to the post).
For WT: there is bidding, and the winner chooses – color or Castle.

Then, the choice of Castles is made in the standard way (both in SoD and WT). The player who received the color in the previous step picks second. The player who received the Castle in the previous step picks first.
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