Posts from "King of the Hill"

Come on! Show me the save!

Here's the save from the end of turn 111. Was it worth taking the resource? If I continue playing, which direction should I focus on?
Passwords: Red - hl76, Blue - vs dirty.

A perfectly workable spawn. The computer is nearby, there's a neutral angel stack at the bot respawn. Stables near the Castle. One exit to the center is far, but the second one is fine. There's a free dragon stack; you could have used it to open a second front on the way to the metro.
Of course, if you idled all week on the respawn and, without scouting anything on the second, immediately wanted to rush the Griffin Conservatory/Hive, then the situation looks bad for you. Panic is much more suitable for that kind of play ;)

Here is the save at the end of 111. Was it worth taking the restart? If playing, which direction should we run?
Passwords. Red hl76, Blue vs dirty

I was interested in the save of the turn at the moment of surrender! If playing, then of course run in all directions, as always. But I would take a restart, Conflux needs more money, the army is too small and it's unclear what to do

Seems like it, if you're interested.

7.04.2013 Captain(red, Rampart, Ivor, Aislinn) def HellLighT(blue, Castle, Valeska, Crellion) 2sm4d(3) 136

Opponent took one resource (I had 19 elves there from the start), and we were off.
Minimum elves at the start, but super-fast roads and a stable right by the castle. There is also a Dragon Utopia (meaning it ate all the value of my spawn). Two weave trees (10+ group of champions and 20+ storms guarding). But 4 roads!
Quickly took two secondaries (7 heroes from the start), and finally dug out a necromancer as the 8th. I was afraid the opponent would pop out from the third secondary, so I kept my troops in the capital almost all the time. The entrance to the third underground secondary was guarded by 19 storms (they wiped out almost all my kents), and at the second underground entrance there were 10+ mages.
But I got lucky; on turn 121 I took that secondary too (it turned out to be empty).
The config on the secondary was 2 cons, and another con on the barbarian one (7 angels in total). Three weave trees gave 18 weaves.
On turn 132 I break through ГО and take the opponent's castle. He also had a Dragon Utopia under his castle, which I ate immediately (+10 knowledge and +10 spell power), while at my own place I built up to level 5 — which gave flight; I returned to learn it and take my own Dragon Utopia (only an air book of value there).
Then I spot the opponent in his treasure zone and attack.

Thanks for the game!

□Captain (icq 310362915) — vs — ■ Javdet (icq 432146477)

7.04.2013 Captain(red, Rampart, Ivor, Isline) def HellLighT(blue, Castle, Valeska, Crellion) 2sm4d(3) 136

Confirming, only one rest remained, an external dwelling of swords and horses, but the sawmill was completely blocked by 5-9 Bone Dragons for a quest artifact. I was hoping to find wood on the secondary, but I was badly mistaken — on 2 respawns I found 1 pile +1 from the secondary’s sawmill. Not only the horses didn’t come through, but even the Stable; as for Griffin Conservatories and Dragon Fly Hives in my area, I never even heard of them :) ... normal main failed to come together, but Crellion took Earth. I decided to go for him as Father, but the march to the first treasure zone ended with a meeting with 20+ Ghost Dragon horse units that completely blocked the path ... with an army of 4 champions and under 50 Marksmen, 20 Cavalry + pokemons, it was suicide to attack them (Slow wasn’t even a factor). I ran to the Snow zone, but it was just as bleak there. So I crawled across the wasteland looking for luck — 1 Dragon Utopia on the respawn +2 in the treasure zone, but nothing to take them with ... and the opponent decided to come straight to me, which was the right call in this situation. Thanks for the game.

14.04.2013 Captain(red, Necropolis, Tamika, Aislin) def Javdet(blue, Rampart, Kirry, Gunnar) Mini-nostalgia 146

Very tedious game - played against the computer for about 15 hours.
Then some weakling attacked me and game over :)
Thanks for the game!

P.S. Super fast roads, a stable under the castle and my nearest castle is 2.5 days away, the second one in 4.5 days. I never even reached the third computer during the whole game.
At the respawn there are three external dwellings of skeletons; the opponent only had a viv tree and an external dwelling of pegasi. But the computers were close to him.
In the treasure zone I got 2 Dragon Utopias for everything, in the Tower I built level 5 with a library and then just chased around the map.

Good report.
From my perspective, it went like this: two idiots played, both played terribly, and the first one got incredibly lucky that the opponent's Dragon Utopia were times worse and there was no anti-magic for the 50+ stacks, which were very relevant.
And the word "crap army" fits both sides perfectly in the finale.

Thanks for the game.

□Captain (icq 310362915) — vs — ■ Maretti (icq 581475607)

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Dragon Utopia is right there (which means she devoured all the value of my resp)!

What kind of nonsense is this?

What is this nonsense?

Well, a person wants to think that way.
I once had 8 drownings on a Jebus Cross, and the entire IQuality was eaten up :D :D :D

Good report.
From my bell tower, it was like this: two rams were playing, both played terribly, and the first one got incredibly lucky that the opponent's Dragon Utopias were way worse and there was no anti-magic for the 50+ wyverns, which were very relevant.
And the word "shitarmy" fits both sides perfectly in the final

Thanks for the game.

:)
Who was talking about some kind of template balance? ;)
I assert that any template is unbalanced, only on one you can spend 2-3 hours on a game, while on XL+U you get this kind of "shit..." and waste a straight 10+ hours.
Which has now been proven.

Preds, there is a presentation on Google by the creator-programmer of SOD, about zone density, their contents, and many other things that will open your eyes to the game mechanics. If you really know English ;)
There was a Dragon Utopia in the starting zone of the SM-castle.

there is a presentation by the creator-programmer of SOD on Google, it covers zone density, their contents, and much more that will open your eyes to the game's mechanics.

Could you provide a link? I have researched quite a bit in GSK, so it would be interesting to read this kind of information.

Can I have a link? I've actually explored quite a bit in GSC, it would be interesting to read this kind of information.

It's a dull and uninformative presentation, incorrect in many ways.

Regarding "ate the value" - that's nonsense, nobody eats the value; it is evenly spread across the respawn with the density specified in the rmg. The presence of a Dragon Utopia on the respawn simply means that a Dragon Utopia was generated from the higher range (10K-15K), which does not affect the lower ranges. If the respawn is small, there is usually 1 object from the higher range on it, most often a Dragon Utopia/hive+something/major+something/6-7 dwells+something.