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Group H
10/20/2013 Ayauhteotl (Blue, Flax, random, Luna) def GoedenDag (Red, Tower, Torosar) 2sm4d(3) 121
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It was a one-sided match.
Thank you for the game.

Well, it wasn't that bad. It could have been worse. Much worse.
Thanks for the game!

25.10.2013 BlooDyDriVeR (blue, Necropolis, Galthran) def Simon5760 (red, Conflux, Grindan, Vistan) JC 126
I got a better share than the opponent. I had Griffin Conservatories and a hive on the main. I came out with 7 Angels, 32 Dragon Flies, 350 Skeletons, and Flesh Golems late, on 124. On 126, I pushed the opponent out of the center, and he wrote GG. Thanks for the game!

Confirmed.
I don't remember the restyle since the game was stretched over a couple of weeks, but I'd never play such a layout anyway) Not a single Griffin Conservatory or a single hive on the respawn, not even an external dwelling of birds, 1 external dwelling of Psychos and a couple of Refuges. But despite this, I cleared G without losses, not without the help of Grindan (a Pandora's box contained 30 Water Elementals). Well, further on, there was nothing to do in the treasure zone, and even less to fight the opponent with) gg

Thanks for the game

Group D
10/18/2013 Nitro (blue, Shaktis, Shaktis) def ColdRain (red, Rampart, Ivor, Ivor) Skirmish 127
140 troglodytes from the start. Quickly broke through to the treasure. There, he took 2 giant nests. Shaktis leveled up well. After the fastball, the opponent surrendered. Thanks for the game.

Group L.
10/25/2013 Tovariщ(Blue, Castle, Kaitlin, Tazar) def Alone(Red, Necropolis, Gosha, Gosha) jebus cross 133.

Tazar rules ;)

Thanks for the game!

25.10.13 KobRa (red, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) def St_Klaus (blue, Fortress, Tazar, Tazar) on Balance at 147

We chose all the restarts. It generated, albeit without cons, but the best of what was available. On the first week, I took an external dwelling and built Minotaurs with two portals, also clearing paths to both zones without roads. On the second week, I decided not to rush (since the swamp isn't the fastest here), and to thoroughly buy up, for which I took a couple of Nagas and other trinkets, like a Manticore external dwelling :rolleyes: also building a fort in the second Dungeon and capturing a third) Simultaneously, I leveled Shakti with earth and fire and Craig with air... At the start of the third week, we finally met; my only dream was to buy everything up and end the game, but the opponent predictably headed to the treasure zone. Under time pressure (we only played with 6 minutes), I followed him, which turned out not to be the best decision, because Santa was no slower in main hero speed, and I was hot on his heels, seeing a Dragon Fly Hive taken here and there (Tazar shakes the Dragon Fly Hives)), dreading to see a horde or even 100+ Wyverns.. In the end, I managed to grab only 4 Dragon Fly Hives in total for a whole 18(!) Wyverns. The opponent got the expected 50+ Wyverns, due to which I had to urgently wrap things up.)) Luckily, I was given another couple of days to buy up, which I gratefully made full use of! That one half-stack of Minotaurs alone was worth it!.. and there were also 600+ Skeletons, 60 Evil Eyes, 16 Scorpicores.. and stats were similar, but I had 200 mana with mass Curse, Slow, and Bloodlust to boot))
Thanks for an interesting game!! I wish you only continued progress!

Confirmed.
I don't remember how we reset, since the game stretched over a couple of weeks, but I would never play a setup like this in my life) Not a single Griffin Conservatory and not a single Dragon Fly Hive at respawn, not even an external dwelling of birds, 1 external dwelling of psychos and a couple of Groundling Hives, but despite all that, I cleared the ГО without losses, not without the help of grinding (there were 30 Water Elementals in a Pandora's Box) well, then there was nothing to do in the treasure zone, and even more so nothing to fight the opponent with) gg

Thanks for the game

We were both left without resets

25.10.13. Pit for LM (red, Conflux, random Ignissa, Moner) def R55Max (blue, Rampart, Kairie, Kairie), Jebus, 133. Very tough game. The opponent, on his red generation, took 111 twice, and on my first red, I bluffed with the Moon and also followed with a retreat. Then we started playing from the first turn. On 111, I see a conservatory, a hive, a book of air, a pit of pixies with Pandora behind a swarm of flies, a refugee camp, and a ring of speed and a golden bow. There are a lot of air creatures, there will be 15 of them (not built) + a large stack of troglodytes + a cannon. Ignissa immediately grasped the tactic, and Moner arrived. It's impossible to retreat. 112 - a camp with various junk guarded by 50 nomads, but they were easily taken. I took the gold mine. I saw the edges of two more Panodras. It seems like a good resource... 113 - in the camp, they give crusaders, I hit Ignissa with a block on the way from the pits, I also scout another pit, a sphere of earth, and a library. Ignissa gets earth, and there is slow in her native guild. It seems like everything is fine, but that's not the case... 114 - I took a +3 shield, but there were about 50 flies guarding it, and they damaged several units. I almost reached the secondary resource, and there is another conservatory. I scouted my main resource - on the road there are paired green dragons and monsters, on the pathless road - a group of cyclops. 115 - a rampart village, the conservatory turned out to be a minimal one, but there is nothing to take yet. I took a pit of pixies from the diamond golems. I lost some air creatures... Moner has nothing to do, he runs around the hills. In addition to what was found in the first three days, there is basically nothing else. Although I scouted a lot - the resource is completely useless. And there is no second road either. 116 - I put Moner to replenish mana, and Ignissa followed him on the hills. 117 - I built and bought birds, took Pandora from the swarm of flies - 10k gold. I took a pit of pixies. I transferred the army to the far hive, and Jeditt ate Pandora on the way for 5k experience and got fire and earth, but I didn't use this hero later. And the hive turned out to be a minimal one. In total, we have 1-7 in the fortress + 2 pits of pixies + a pit of fairies. 121 - I send the birds to take the conservatory near the village, I get an angel, and on the way, Ignissa takes a stack of medusas (6) and prepares to take the second griffin's nest. Moner, meanwhile, with the rest of the troops, breaks two large vampire hordes for Pandora. They give 10+10k experience - wisdom, tactics, defense, scouting. I took a sphere of mana from the tomb. 122 - the conservatory turns out to be a minimal one! But I urgently need an expert earth to break through the main resource... I hit a hundred griffins with two majors - there are a little less than 2k left, and that's where they will definitely be. But the leveling is not very good... I took the book of air in the meantime, and I put Moner near the main resource. 123 - there are enough griffins (from the pit) and flies to create a mass slow, but I have to give up on logistics... +8 wyverns. And with this not very outstanding army - 12 wyverns, 14 pixies, 2 angels, 4 birds, single units, and a cannon - I attack the monsters (I decided to fly over the dragons, and Ignissa and Moner did). There are a lot of monsters - about 40 - but the main thing is that 8 of them are gray. There is, of course, a mass slow, but the strength is only 2, and there is 20 mana. If a couple of unsuccessful morale checks happen, it will be bad... But even so, they hit hard - they killed all the wyverns, the cannon, and the bird. The angel and the second bird survived with the last HP. The army was transferred to Moner, and he ran along the road. At the pit behind the horde of pegasi, the rest of the fish and fairies were killed, and the second pit behind the elves was taken easier. The result - 12 wyverns were restored, and there are still air creatures, 25 of them. 124 - I made a big mistake here. Moner attacked the monsters again, guarding 2 pits, Pandora, and the diplomat's medal. There are, of course, many of them, about 30, and, most importantly, there is another group. The castle was already visible, and it was only a couple of steps away - the next day, Ignissa would break into it with full mana and take it without losses. Moner lost 3 wyverns, two birds, and almost all the air creatures. They gave not much again - 12 wyverns, in total - 19. I'm sitting, replenishing mana. There are many Pandoras in the center, but they are all not very tasty... 125 - the castle turned out to be in the very center, but at the same time, it's a dead end. Therefore, I had to fly to the road. I did this immediately with Moner and Ignissa. Moner took a scorpion for Pandora with experience, medusas for a refugee camp with 2 scorpions and a bunch of diamond golems for a dungeon with a rather crooked mage. Ignissa took the book of fire and the dungeon from the monsters. Moner finally leveled up air, found out that the blue is quite close. Therefore, I give the book of fire and the last bird to the freed mage (mage with 580), and the rest of the few troops to Moner. Kairie decided not to attack (probably, she has little mana) and left me alone for a week. 126 - I run with Jager on a bird to the opponent. I continue to explore the center, with the book of air and heroes with mana from the dungeons, this is going quite quickly. There are many utopias, but I can't take them yet. I took +6 wyverns. On the move, the blue attacks me with one stack of unicorns. I'm very slow. I cast blind, slow, berserk, I just want to fly and shoot with an arrow, but the unicorns are upgraded, they run fast, and they also get morale. They kill immediately... It's a pity, I could have put the mage with 5 in and bought it right away or summoned fire elementals for reliability, and then kill even 10 of them... But as it is, the hero and the book are lost. I will regret the hero later - he had literacy, and there were spells that needed to be transferred... 127 - Ignissa took the second central city - the Dungeon. Nearby - it's good, two hives and a tasty Pandora. Moner with the troops took the dungeon with an ideal Damacon (attack, scouting, logistics, wisdom, earth, tactics, cannon), then - Pandora for a group of cyclops on the whole earth and another dungeon with a weak scout Korback. I scouted the watchtower, another couple of hives, and Pandora. I teleported to the recently taken pathless village to replenish mana. It's getting a little more fun... 131 - it's problematic to increase the growth for now, all the heroes are in tight desert chains. I return to the center through the DD, take the watchtower, break into the hive. Then I take it with Korback, then - Pandora for 20 fanatics with Damacon and another hive, after which the army goes to the dungeon. On the way, I take two more pits and Pandora for 15k gold. In total - 43 wyverns (all the pits are small). Now I can climb into the utopias. 132 - Ignissa takes the first utopia (books of water and fire), the second (boots of levitation) and is upset. Moner is luckier - +6 all and +3 all. I transferred everything to Damacon, he took Pandora for the nagas, but there is little experience. But he built a chain for the growth of nature. Since I climbed into the utopias without a reserve, I lost 7 wyverns. 133 - I increased the growth, took Pandora for 60 spearmen, transferred everything to Moner, he went into two more utopias - there, in fact, is nothing, only a titan's cuirass. He ended his turn in the central castle, built merchants of artifacts, bought a +2+2 magic cloak and boots. I feel quite confident, especially since Kairie has not very high parameters. 133 - I see the blue. Kairie just took the utopia, got archangels from Pandora, but the parameters did not increase. I go around the entire center, take 4 more Pandoras, the useful ones give 30 monks and 20 crusaders. I go into the library, get dressed (I thought and thought, but I forgot to take the golden bow) and attack. I have 18 fanatics, 30 monks, 36 wyverns, 2 angels, 4 birds, 20 crusaders, and 24 pixies, the parameters are 23-32. There - a red ball, 20+ gray unicorns, 50+ gray elves, 3 archangels, 3 angels, a few pegasi, 30 archers, and a few centaurs, +2 speed, but the parameters are only 19-18 and there is no armor. But there is morale and luck +3. I closed on tactics, after the ranged attack and the sacrifice of the birds, the elves ended, and the battle ended. Fortunately, I didn't forget to put on the shackles, so GG. Thank you for the game!

cuc9ctblu (blue, Swamp, Tazar, Tazar) def BISHOP (red, Tower, Solmir, Solmir) 8mm6a 135
Good defense with swamp dwellings, took a companion for 115, built a dwelling there, has a home base with over a hundred earth elementals, as well as a dwelling in the adjacent zone with over a hundred battle gnomes and a horde of gray pegasi. The plan was to build two more dwellings, upgrade the dwelling, and go to the opponent. Saved several times, lost the dwelling due to a mistake, in the end, on turn 126, the opponent emerges from the underground and passes the turn, and I was just standing, preparing to attack in front of my guard. I break through it, take the amulet +3 +3, and attack. Tazar, level 16, with expert earth and air magic, 6 15 6 6 stats, against 4 0 6 6. He wiped out part of the army. After chain lightning, there was a retreat, I turned back to replenish mana, get a dwelling behind the pegasi, and take the Cloak of Negation. I decided to take a tower city on the third week. On turn 135, the final battle in the tower castle - there are 12 spells and 130 mana, lightning for 350 and mass slow. During the battle, I thought I would lose, but Solmir's low defense and decent stats ultimately won the game. Without the cloak, it would have been difficult to do anything + there was full control. Thanks for the game.

Yes, that's exactly what happened! I didn't want to give up the city with the teleportation, I was greedy :D. I thought he would die, but it turned out he killed me :) . Well played.
Thanks for the game!

23.10.2013, Group G
rebellious (red, Tower, Solmir, Galthran ) def Alexey-omsk (blue, Inferno, Pyre, Gerwulf), Mini-Nostalgia, 223

The spawn was interesting - in the center, three roads - to the comps (Dungeon, Rampart, and Conflux) and a branch - into the basement for Rust Dragons toward the opponent. On the small compact snow there are Boots of Speed, an external market, a Dwarf Cottage on the road, and also a Dragon Fly Hive with Preserve - almost a bit of everything...plus 7 heroes from the start. By week 1 day 1-7, there are Nagas in the Citadel at home, the Dungeon and Rampart have been taken but are completely unbuilt. A week later, I scouted one of the underground treasure sites, gained +3 Angels in the army, Solmir level 14 (5-5-7-10), Expert Earth, Air, Intelligence, and with Literacy. On the third week, I received 15 Cyclopes from a quest, took the first Dragon Utopia on day 1-3-6 - Titan's Helm, Pendant of Lightning, Boots of Levitation, and Eagle Eye Crossbow, and Solmir became some kind of collector of unnecessary skills. So I quickly leveled Gosha on the quest. And the game turned into who could gather more. The opponent took my towns alternately, while my heroes were clearing treasure sites in the meantime. Within a couple of days I got everything back, but for the opponent, assembling an army into a single stack without a Portal and without intermediate towns became problematic. Plus the Week of Plague made adjustments. And soon a message about GG arrived. Thanks for the game.

Group L! Is there any connection with Mr. Stizko?
The last activity on the forum was on September 18th, and Valera is not responding on ICQ. If there is no information by Monday, we will make a replacement.

Group L! Is there any connection with Mr. Stizko?
The last activity on the forum was on September 18th, and Valera is not responding on ICQ. If there is no information by Monday, we will make a replacement.

I wrote to him, but he didn't respond... It would be good to have a replacement. 1 burger per group is quite enough.

23.10.2013, Group G
rebellious (red, Tower, Solmir, Galthran ) def Alexey-omsk (blue, Inferno, Pyre, Gerwulf), Mini-Nostalgia, 223

The spawn was interesting - in the center, three roads - to the dungeons (Dungeon, Rampart, and Conflux) and a branch - into the basement for rusted gear towards the opponent. On the small compact snow there are Boots of Speed, an external market, a Dwarf Cottage on the road, and also a Dragon Fly Hive with canned goods - practically a little bit of everything... and 7 heroes from the start. By week 1, day 7, there are Nagas in the home Citadel, the Dungeon and Rampart are taken, but completely unbuilt. A week later, I scouted one of the underground treasure zones, +3 Angels in the army, Solmir level 14 (5-5-7-10), expert Earth, Air, Intelligence, and with Literacy. On the third week, I got 15 Cyclops from a quest, took the first Dragon Utopia on day 1, week 3, day 6 - Titan's Helm, Pendant of Lightning, Boots of Levitation, and Eagle Eye Crossbow, and Solmir became some kind of collector of useless skills. So I quickly leveled Gosha on a quest. And the game turned into who could collect more. The opponent took my towns alternately, while my heroes cleaned treasure zones in the meantime. In a couple of days, I got everything back, but for the opponent, gathering an army in one place without Town Portal and without intermediate towns became problematic. Add to that a week of plague, which made adjustments. And soon came the news of GG. Thanks for the game.

Eh, it's a shame, of course. The start wasn't great, the underground was vague, the only direct roads were to ГО. But 4 external dwellings of imps and a ring nearby. With a scout, I revealed the Cloak of the Undead King, the Book of Air, and another ring. That seemed encouraging. Then I assembled the Elixir, but didn't find Town Portal anywhere. And also, I didn't go to my own treasure zone, which had 4 Dragon Utopias with everything needed. I went to the center for some reason, there was one Dragon Utopia and that's it. Well, without TP, GG. If there were TP, maybe things would have worked out, even despite the opponent taking 9 Dragon Utopias(!), while I only took 3, since with the Elixir, the demons grew very, very nicely.

Thanks for the game!

18.10.2013 Nitro (blue, Shakti, Shakti) def ColdRain(red, Rampart, Ivor, Ivor) Skirmish 127
140 Troglodytes from the start. Quickly broke into the treasure zone. Took 2 external dwellings of giants there. Shakti leveled up well. After fireball, opp surrendered. Thanks for the game.

My surrender was also not bad, as far as I remember, for 4 days along fast roads I ran to the secondary zone through mountains, noticed the external dwelling of giants late, took it on day 117, home with ranged units in the fort, no tempo, plus a block of Efreeti, had to wait for Deys with tactics to arrive, Ivor had neither earth nor slow, 20 mana and 1 spellpower, in the treasure zone from the good stuff only a Pandora's Box with 80 shooting Gremlins and a Dragon Fly Hive for 20-49 Mighty Gorgons, although I had 34 giants, I didn't go for it, broke through to the enemy's secondary zone and saw 2 external dwellings of giants there (and immediately felt somewhat sad).
On the next turn, Nitro with roaches and shooters shaved off 7 of my giants, then attacked himself, Shakti's attack and defense are lower but he has tactics, +1 to speed, mass slow, 50 mana and a shooter at 70, meat count even higher than mine, in the fireball despite my 2 most successful morale procs on the giants which shaved off 140 Troglodytes and 3 giants that came into direct shot range – no chance. Later I watched the saves, I could have broken through tempo-wise on week 1 with 19 giants into his secondary zone and taken at least 1 external dwelling of giants and maybe pressured him, but I thought that with my external dwelling of giants I was doing very well and there was no rush. Thanks for the game.

25.10.13 Group D
ColdRain (Red, Rampart, Ivor, Ivor) def wariator (Blue, Tower, Nella, Nella) 2sm4d(3) 127

The game turned out nerve-wracking and barely held together. Started without restarts, Ivor immediately broke through 2 blocks, a crypt for 2 turns, a portal to the grass adjacent zone, experted archery, got a lot of gold thrown at me, on day 113, 8 heroes, the adjacent zone turned out to be native, on day 114 the roaches captured a cloak +2/2 to knowledge/power and a scroll of Armageddon, Ivor experted attack and ran along the stat-boosters. On day 115 I freed Xyron from prison, level 5, time was pressing and with him, without dismissing Bones or Inferno meat, I entered the Griffin Conservatory with grand haste, with 20 giants, 2 unicorns, 30 centaurs, 1 dendroid, 15 skeletons, 17 imps and 5 gogs and got wrecked – 5 anti-morale procs on giants, unicorns and centaurs, and 6 morale procs on griffins, and Xyron didn't get out, immediately wanted to turn off the computer and go to sleep:smile05:
I was already thinking about surrendering, asked for auto, found out that there was also a complete loss on the other side, and we continued playing)). Which probably lifted the spirits not only of myself but also of the opponent.
Ivor ran into a couple more stat-boosters, decimated the home zone and stood on the road before the entrance to the underground, and right next to it along the road was an entrance to another grass secondary zone.
On day 121 I finished the Griffin Conservatory, bought up giants and unicorns, and immediately almost got killed again on 1 angel breaking through 57 orcs with grand haste, survived with 8 HP, on the same turn decided to take +1 to speed from 50-99 ogres, went in with 1 angel, 9 giants, 3 unicorns and singles, and there were 70 of them with grand haste, barely survived with the loss of 1 pegasus, lucky they didn't get morale when they shouldn't have.
Afterwards there was unclear running around, found 2 more Griffin Conservatories but they turned out to be strong, the only Dragon Fly Hive deep in the rear of the native spawn, the roaches captured a sword +3, an external dwelling of pegasi, in the castle 4 GM with resurrection and rain, wanted to teach Ivor curse from Solmyr through a level 3 scholar but it didn't work out, on day 126 Ivor with 50 mana, 6 spellpower, Armageddon at 330, shooter at 70 stood at the exit from the underground onto enemy territory next to the GO, next to the exit was an untouched Griffin Conservatory. On day 127 with all the meat – 1 angel, 16 silver pegasuses, 16 high elves, 6 dendroids, 2 unicorns, 28 battle dwarves, 40 centaurs – I surfaced onto snow, took the Griffin Conservatory with a single unit, and stood on the road next to the enemy main.
On his turn, the opponent loses on grass to morale-triggering dendroid guards and surrenders. There were two external dwellings of mages on week 1 and a berserker. Thanks for the game.

10/26/2013 Group E
bRitvo4kA (red, Rampart, Ivor, Ivor) def Akella (blue, Rampart, Kirr, Kirr), Mini-Nostalgia, 146

Thanks for the game.

24.10.2013 Heroin_HP (red, Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre) def Dima Surmay (blue, Necro, Gosh, Gosh), jebus 127.

He surrendered nicely: 2 stacks of horses and pegasi, 1 of elves and dendroids, 4 Pandora's Boxes - experience + 35 gr. dwarves, and also 3 Griffin Conservatories for 8 angels, Dragon Fly Hive for 36 dragon flies. I took all of this, but on 123 I failed and got crushed by Kyrre 200 MP from ГО, I had to have Shakti with advanced tactics beat the sorceresses. Then I took a Dragon Utopia with КЗ + on
native respawn I reclaimed the found wings. I captured the central Castle, Gosh appeared and attacked him, there were fewer troops there, stats were approximately equal, except for defense. Troops were worn down, we exchanged imps, GG.
Thanks for the game! Good luck further in the tournament!!!