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October 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, Necropolis, Gosh, Gosh), jebus 127.

The spawn was great: 2 stacks of unicorns and pegasi, 1 of elves and dendroids, 4 Pandora's Boxes - experience + 35 griffins, well and 3 Griffin Conservatories for 8 angels, a Dragon Fly Hive for 36 dragon flies. Took all this at 123, failed attacking Kyrre 200 MP from ГО, had to use Shakti with advanced tactics to hit the Sorceresses. Then took a Dragon Utopia with КЗ +
at my home respawn I defended the found wings. Captured the central Castle, then Gosh showed up and attacked it, his troops were somewhat smaller, stats roughly equal except for defense. Troops were spent, we traded Imps, GG.
Thanks for the game! Good luck further in the Tournament!!!

26.10.2013 Chemist_HP (red, necro, random, Moandor, Moandor-Miner) def myduck (blue, Inferno, Kalth, Clavius), 8mm6a 144

At the start: three Dragon Fly Hives, a Griffin Conservatory, a Stable, and a skeleton hiding spot. On the first week - necro horses in the castle and a castle of the AI-Dungeon, next to which is another Griffin Conservatory.
On the second week: 14 Wyverns from the Dragon Fly Hives, 6 Angels from the Griffin Conservatory, mini-utopia - necklace +3all.
On the third week: from the Dragon Fly Hive - 6 Wyverns and off on the long journey to the opponent.
In the final battle, the Miner's advantage in raw stats decided the outcome against Clavius.

Thanks for the game!

Surrendering wasn't bad either, as far as I remember I ran for 4 days along fast roads to the secondary town through the mountains, noticed the Grand grail late, took it on day 117, home had unicorn horns in the fort, tempo was terrible, plus a block of Efreetis, had to wait for Dees with Tactics to arrive, Ivor had neither Earth nor Slow, 20 mana and 1 spell power, in the treasure zone the only goodies were a Pandora's Box with 80 shooting Gremlins and a Dragon Fly Hive for 20-49 Mighty Gorgons, although I had 34 Grands I didn't go in, broke through to the enemy's secondary town and saw 2 Giant grails there (and immediately felt kinda sad).
Next turn, Nitro shaved off 7 of my Grands with Rocas and shooters, then attacked himself, Shakti's attack and defense are lower but he has Tactics, +1 to speed, Mass Slow, 50 mana, and 70 shooters, even more meat than I had, in the fight despite my 2 luckiest morale procs on the Grands which killed 140 Troglodytes and 3 Giants that came within direct shot range - no chance. Then I watched the saves, I could have tempo-wise on week 1 with 19 Grands broken through to his secondary and captured at least 1 Giant grail and maybe pressured him, but I thought with my Grand grail things were going 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 was nerve-wracking on a shoestring. Started without restarts, Ivor immediately broke through 2 blocks, a crypt on turn 2, a portal to the grass adjacent zone, expert Archery, got a ton of gold, 8 heroes on day 113, the adjacent zone turned out to be my own, on day 114 the Rocas captured a Cape +2/2 to Knowledge/Power and a scroll of Armageddon, Ivor expert Offense and ran for stat boosters. On day 115 freed Xyron from prison level 5, time was running out, and without dismissing Bones or Inferno meat, entered the Griffin Conservatory 1 with Fort, with 20 Grands, 2 Unicorns, 30 Centaurs, 1 Dendroid, 15 Skeletons, 17 Imps and 5 Gog and got wrecked - 5 anti-morale procs on Grands, Unicorns and Centaurs and 6 morale procs on Griffins, and Xyron didn't make it out, immediately wanted to turn off the PC and go to sleep :smile05:
Already thought about giving up, asked for auto, found out there was also a total loss there and we continued playing)). Which probably cheered up not only myself but also the opponent.
Ivor ran into a couple more stat boosters, got wiped, returned home, and stood on the road in front of the passage to the Underground, and right next to it along the road there was a passage to another grass secondary.
On day 121 finished the Griffin Conservatory, bought all Grands and Unicorns, and immediately almost crashed again on 1 Angel breaking through 57 Orcs with Fort, got out with 8 HP, on the same turn decided to capture +1 to speed from 50-99 Ogres, went in with 1 Angel, 9 Grands, 3 Unicorns and singles, and there were 70 of them with Fort, barely got out with the loss of 1 Unicorn, lucky they didn't get morale at the wrong time.
Afterwards there was chaotic 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 Rocas captured a Sword +3, a grail of Pegasi, in the castle 4 GM with Resurrection and Rain, wanted to teach Ivor Resurrection from Solmyr through a level 3 scholar but it didn't work out, on day 126 Ivor with 50 mana, 6 spell power Armageddon for 330, 70 shooters stood at the exit from the metro onto enemy territory next to ГО, near the exit there was an untouched Griffin Conservatory. On day 127 with all the meat 1 Angel, 16 Silver Pegasi, 16 Wood Elves, 6 Dendroids, 2 Unicorns, 28 Battle Dwarves, 40 Centaurs, got out onto snow, captured a single conservatory, and stood on the road next to the enemy main.
On his turn the opponent wipes on grass against morale-ing Dendroid Guards and surrenders. There were two Mage grails from week 1 and Berserker. Thanks for the game.

10/26/13 Ominous1 (blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) def leosnow (red, Castle, Kaitlin, Kainlin) 8mm6a 111
My opponent didn't have a good game. Thanks for the time.

Complete nonsense... I know I'm a newbie, I know my level is low, but... this is ridiculous... I don't think this was my loss, but rather a flaw in the game's mechanics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Starting with a plus five resource bonus and not building a single archer... WHAT HAS MY FAVORITE GAME BECOME???? Losing to Gnomes??? This is the END. What is 8MM6A? I don't play it that often, but this is a mess...
I confirm the loss... a tournament is a tournament.
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22.10.2013 Diabler (red, Necr, Galtran) def numOne (blue, Inferno, Kalh) 117 6lm10
We restarted a bit. On 111 found gloves, Widowmourn came, got the cloak. Decide to play. Start actively necroing. By around 114 already 120-130 skeletons, but then started to throw them away. Dumped about 20 in the crypt, then 50 on mages at the passage. In the dungeon secondary found a couple of Dragon Fly Hives. In the Conflux comp took a Castle, thank god it was empty. On my turn the opponent surrenders.
Thanks for the game

Group L.
25.10.2013 Tovariщ(Blue, Castle, Caitlin, Tazar) def Alone(Red, Necropolis, Gosh, Gosh) jebus cross 133.

Tazar rules ;)

Thanks for the game!

I've noticed for a while that the probability of a level 2 building appearing in castles decreases with the importance of the castle. For example, for a Flax or Castle, a level 2 building is built approximately 1-2 times out of 10. But the unnecessary Dwarves appear 7-8 times out of 10.