Posts from The Crusade (autumn, winter 2013-14)

20.10.2013 Group #5
Pyre (red, Swamp, Tazar) def Lexmaster (blue, Rampart, Ivor, Sandro) 127, Speed-2

Gave up the external dwelling of gnolls and wyverns; the sawmill turned out to be far away and blocked, so I built only the bare minimum. Set up a mage guild and wyverns in the main Castle, and did the same in the secondary, but in the Stronghold. Explored one neighboring zone, but it was empty — no dwelling or hives.
On the second week, I ran to another neighboring zone where a dwelling was visible in the fog of war. While I was moving, my opponent caught me off guard, broke through the ГО, and took my main town. But I still managed to capture the dwelling, which unfortunately turned out to be a mini. Transferred troops via chain to the secondary Swamp town and moved Tazar there. Sat for a couple of days thinking what to do; the opponent was holed up tight in the Castle and didn't want to come out. He had Spell Power 8 against my 4. Initially, I thought about sitting back and building up to GM2, but then I decided to rush his respawn; Tazar has Expert Logistics and Earth Magic, and Main Tactics. I run there, but he catches up to me. I have 54 Greater Basilisks, 70 Gnolls, 10 Greater Wyverns, 1 Angel, 23 Greater Serpents. My opponent has about 60 Centaurs, 40 Greater Golems, 18 Dendroid Soldiers, 48 Elves, and about 15 of my Serpents.
After the Fireball I come out with 24 Basilisks and 40 Gnolls.
Then came the chasing; I captured his native towns in one turn. At this point, he left my main town. I took advantage of that, transferred the army via chain, used Labetha from the secondary town to reach my main town, and moved Tazar there.
Later there was another battle where Labetha took out the remaining 2 Wyverns on 7 Dwarves. After that, he surrendered.
Thanks for the game!

20.10.2013 HellLighT(Red, Swamp, Tazar) def Iamsamstan(Blue, Stronghold, Gurnison) Jebus cross 134

We started playing quite a while ago, a decent layout with an external dwelling of Wyverns, hydras, 4 Dragon Fly Hives and a couple of confluxes+ a few stat artifacts were tossed in, the long road to GO hindered a tempo breakout, in the treasure zone I barely managed to eat anything, a pandora's box for experience + a couple of libraries, when the opponent pops out on 12 stone golems, 2 angels + a couple of wyverns and single units on 124, I had a decent mana reserve 30 wyverns, 5 angels, 4 hydras, and higher stats, I attacked, and there was also a Chupa... under her they tore me apart) I bought back on 4 hydras, 2 angels and 8 wyverns, lucky that the opponent chased into my direction, trying to finish me off, and I, thanks to Taz, with scraps of an army, took the central town and, having broken a path onto the snow, sent noobs there, who discovered wings behind 50 ogres, then cockroach wars ensued in which I, thanks to the wings, gained the upper hand, as a result I broke the supply chain, ate 3 angel portals + a pandora's box for 3 archangels and with the supply of growth after the Dragon Utopia I cover Gurni, who only improved in stats from 2 libraries and with the same 11 stone golems (I did kill one :D) while Tazar already had 40 defense, + 8 angels, 3 archangels, 7 hydras, 20 wyverns and +2 speed, surrender follows, thanks for the game.

10/16/2013 Lim4 (red, Swamp, Tazar, Tazar) lose to Lucky George (blue, Conflux, random, Aenain, Luna) Panic, 144
There was nothing to counter the high-level, powerful magic. Thanks for the game.

26.10.2013 Frol off(blue, random necromancer, Sandro) def Mar(red, random Stronghold, Shiva, Adele) Anarchy №9 147

What can I say... The Cartographer and 4 Dimension Door carried the game, Sandro in one move wiped out both the mother, who fled from tactics, and a not-so-impressive army in the city - five grey bears and 35 vampire lords. Thanks for the game!