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07.12.2013 Snooppy (blue, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) def Alexey-omsk (red, Inferno, Pyr, Pyr) skirmish m200% 132
Practiced skirmish a bit – liked it. Layouts are always good, lots of gold, development always turned out standard: cavalry in the Citadel, or even in the Castle, all good. Against Inferno I thought about playing something fast, was glad to finally get a skirmish. And then it started: the first layout was promising: while waiting for my turn, I could already see the external dwelling of pokemons and the Griffin Conservatory, but the opponent restarted, each subsequent layout was worse than the previous one, eventually the respawn was nothing but mountains, and exiting the respawn behind 10+ orcs. Only positive was the wood mine on this side of the mountains with 3 piles. But no money, only 2 heroes for the entire first week, Valya spent 4 days running around the mountains looking for an ore mine. Eventually, with great difficulty, cavalry in the Fort.
In the second week with a full trade I finally exit the respawn, 19 vampires surprisingly easily give up a gold mine. A second one behind 20+ griffins – didn't risk it. Next turn, upgrade archers!:) and I hit the griffins: 3 stacks, clever creatures. First stack is shot down on approach, the second deftly kills a singleton, the third crashes into the archers – result -5…:( Then two paths: one leads to 10+ cyclopes, the other to 5+ efreets, what the hell :mad: ?! I go off-road, there are 20+ pegasuses, at least something. I burst into the respawn, immediately stables – upgrade cavalry :D and then a goldmine: swamp respawn (on grass), 5 chests (managed to take 4: for 60 gnolls, 60 lizardmen, 5K experience, all 2nd level magic), external dwellings of gnolls, lizardmen, basilisks, and hydras. Plus Nagash with their level 5 dungeons with expert necromancy and basic logistics. That's how the 2nd week ended.
Situation is sketchy: at any moment they could break the chain and grab the main, but the opponent preferred to die at the naga bank. There were 2 external dwellings of efreets there… dodged a bullet, basically.
Thanks for the game!
group G
07.12.2013 Snooppy (blue, Castle, Valeska, Bron) def kalababa (red, Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre) Mini-Nostalgia 213
Started a week ago, don't remember everything. Hard start, very little money. There are 2 Dwarf Cottages: one behind lizardmen, the second is almost maxed, a naga bank (actually 4 in a stack), apparently all the value was eaten by 3 Dragon Utopias. On the respawn lay: sword +6 and shield of the cursed (in the end, there wasn't enough skull for the assembler). Somewhat got cavalry in the Citadel. Ran towards the conflux all week. The passage to the dungeon is blocked by 20+ archers. Where the Citadel is, not at all clear (took it for the bears, but never made it there).
Second week: on 121 finally take the conflux, decide to go for birds. On the respawn, I find an external dwelling of psychos (but the external dwelling of medusas is already taken) and a chest for 20+ pit fiends. On the other side, Edric, while storming the dungeon, loses the archer growth. On the respawn, I see an external dwelling of tyrannosaurs behind 20+ ducks, but never took it by the end of the game. All week raising funds for birds.
On the third week, Bron with 4 birds, 5 psychos, 4 basilisks, and pixies takes 2 fat medusa hatcheries, recovers a scroll of flight and breaks into the treasure zone, where he takes a chest for 15k experience behind 50+ pegasuses and a Dragon Fly Hive for 6 ducks behind 20+ rocs. The pegasuses and rocs hit hard: 3 birds and 2 psychos left, further expansion promised nothing good, Bron crashes into the main, Brissa pulls the army back to the conflux, takes the external dwelling of psychos. Bron moves towards the first Dragon Utopia, located halfway between the main and the conflux, clears the Dwarf Cottages and naga bank along the way, picking up the sword and shield.
The fourth week starts with taking the Dragon Utopia: a level 2, goes in tight, ate a bird, but 11 cavalry tear it apart. It gave a breastplate +12 magic, Captain's Hat, Dead Man's Boots, Legs of Legion. I bring in a feeder, the second Dragon Utopia is also a level 2, another minus one bird (why are they so loved?), gives a Book of Earth :smile03:, Head of Legion, breastplate +4 attack/defense. Things get more fun after that. I summon angels. From the third Dragon Utopia – min spawns – a bag of gold drops, a collar +3 morale/luck, another shield of the cursed and a helmet +1 to knowledge. Plan for 211 is to break into the central treasure zone (50+ efreets), but there's still a day left, I decide to swing by the treasure zone behind the dungeon (fortunately close). There, Bron finds a chest for 10k experience, frees Deesa level 5 with expert logistics, a shield +3 attack/defense and another Dragon Utopia, decides to stay here a while.
On 211 takes the Dragon Utopia, it gives a Book of Air :smile44:, next plan is to gather growth, refill mana and head to the center, but due to the fog of war I don't make it in time and Bron, without moving a single square, stays to sleep at the Dragon Utopia, and not even boosted :( . Maybe it's for the best, because I didn't notice the Dragon Fly Hive right away. But then Kyrre shows up and I pray that he doesn't sit in the castle with 3 unrecruited archangels. But Kyrre doesn't attack, I gather the army through the Dragon Fly Hive, a whirlpool of mana, and attack. Kyrre has a slight stat advantage, but an army of little consequence, although there is an elixir and a stack of 37 monarchs. The whole battle comes down to exchanging implosion/resurrection, but the meat ultimately wins.
Thanks for the game!
Ended the group on a high note.
