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23.12.2013 ShadowManiac (Blue, Rampart, Ivor, Ivor) def Grisha =) (Red, Stronghold, Kreg, Kreg) 8mm6a 115.

The opponent failed to handle the guards.

Thank you for the game.

25.12.2013 Toganash (Blue, Necro, Galtran, Galtran) def rebellious (Red, Conflux, Cieleka, Shakti), JC, 124

I chose all my resists, the opponent still had 1 left and we started.
On 111 I take a scout, I see a 3rd-level Griffon Conservatory from Castle and 5 external dwellings of skeletons scattered around. A large half of the respawn is cut off by 50-99 orcs, which I decided not to fight until I get the Angels. The top respawn is practically empty, so until 115 Gosha just ran around to visitables and found a Pandora's Box of 5000.
On 115 I take the conservatory, immediately run to the orcs, take an external dwelling of Death Knights, another conservatory, a Pandora's Box of 15000. I leveled up okay, I have skeletons, but there's a severe lack of money and Earth magic came late, won't have time to level up for the Dragon Utopia. Until 122 I hang around in the bottom, break a 2nd-level Dragon Utopia (except for the red orb — everything else was total nonsense), find another 2nd-level conservatory with a lich and another external dwelling of horses.
On 123 Gosha breaks into the castle at the exit to the treasure zone, takes the library, and sits to replenish mana.
On 124 troops are transferred to Goshan (I goofed and didn't take the Manacles that were looted) and breaks a Dragon Utopia of 30 greater hydras. There the red player is already visible. Vidomina checks Shakti at the Dragon Utopia, but it's unclear from magic (mana seems less, but he was in the center a day earlier than me and I saw him eat a Pandora's Box), so I decided to attack with the red orb equipped. Here I goofed a bit again: instead of taking the Dragon Utopia and attacking Shakti, for some reason I killed a lich behind and didn't have enough movement points for the Dragon Utopia, and there was a KZ there, as the autopsy showed.
But even without that, the power advantage was on my side. Goshan: gr. Skeletons (400+), Angels (8), Horses (12), gr. Vampires (11). Shakti: gr. Air Elementals (30+), Magma Elementals (2), Water Elementals (10+), Phoenixes (4), Pixies (17), Air Elementals (5), Sprites (37)
Thanks for the game.

12/25/2013 Toganash (Blue, Necropolis, Galtran, Galtran) def. rebellious (Red, Conflux, Cielka, Shakti), JC, 124

Thank you for the game.

23.12.2013 Captain (Red, Dungeon, Arlash) def. Iamsamstan (Blue, Rampart, Koronius) 125 skirmish

First, the template, then the game time; I corrected it myself in the list of reports; please take this into account for the future.

24.12.2013 Tovariщ (Red, Swamp, Tazar, Tazar) def. Akella (Blue, Castle, Valya, Clavius) 2sm4d(3) 137.

I want to express my gratitude to both players.
Unfortunately, I missed Akella's application and didn't include him in the draw due to the general discussion.
Once again, thank you to Akella for his understanding and composure, and to Tovariщ for showing loyalty. I don't think everyone would sacrifice a free slot in the first round, risking being eliminated from the tournament, just to ensure that no one is left out.

25.12.2013 Heroin_HP (Red, Barbarian, Deesa, Deesa) def u2noob (Blue, Swamp, Tazar, Tazar) 2sm4d(3) 133.

Big respawn with nika of goblins and ogres, + 4 Griffin Conservatories for 7 angels and decent gold. On the first day I took secondary Castle and a single Griffin Conservatory, in the Castle town with 123457. On 122 Tyrax and Deesa each take a Griffin Conservatory 2, totaling 5 angels, Deesa also picks up a Dragon Fly Hive with 4 ducks and a Pandora's Box for 5 experience behind 80 demons, has earth magic, attack, tactics. Along the chain the noob takes a Griffin Conservatory 2 on grass, while Deesa goes into a scouted treasure zone for KZ and a Dragon Fly Hive. On 125 I take KZ for 45 Sorceresses and a mini Dragon Fly Hive, and a Pandora's Box for 4 gr. bears for 20 vampires. I wanted to break ГО on day 2, but the chain didn't grow on the native respawn 200 MP due to the penalty, didn't take a prison, so I had to delay and grind the respawn with Deesa, should have spent a day in the treasure zone. Found wings, a Dragon Utopia, and two Pandora's Boxes in the treasure zone, took everything on 133 with a ramp in the Castle with 9 angels, 5 gray ones, a few ducks, about 40 orcs, and single birds with decent stats and 180 mana, I'm about to hit ГО - ГГ. That's a defeat there.

Thanks for the game!

26.12.2013 Vinceras (red, Bog, Tazar) def aka.Ward3n (blue, Rampart, Kyrre) 8mm6a, 115
There was an external dwelling of basilisks, built Wyvern and Citadel, wanted to go to the computer, but the opponent's game didn't work out.
Thanks for the game.

26.12.2013 Vinceras (red, Swamp, Tazar) def aka.Ward3n (blue, Rampart, Kyrre) 8mm6a, 115
There was an external dwelling of basilisks, built a Wyvern and Citadel, wanted to go to the opponent's castle, but it didn't work out for the opponent.
Thanks for the game.

4 General, 4 Ufretin, shooter blocks, well in general didn't want to drag the cat by the balls. Thanks for the game!

4 generations, 4 ufretins!

Inspector Coldraine has already left.

4 generations, 4 ufretins, ranged units, well, I didn't want to drag things out. Thanks for the game!

You also got a bit tilted, just like me. I would have preferred to respec Kirr. He's a happy snake.

12/25/2013 Defiant (blue, stronghold, Crag Hack, Crag Hack) def Mar (red, inferno, Calh, Nymus) 8mm6a, 124
The respawn seemed quite decent at first: we found an external dwelling of ogres and goblins, a Griffin Conservatory, a block of unupgraded dwarves on our native adjacent zone, a medal +3+3 morale/luck with laughable guards, a cloak of +2 speed behind a pack of gr. cyclops. However, it later turned out that the path to the opponent was cut off by a treasure zone block of 50-99 horned demons, and the wood and ore mines were somewhere behind the mountains, god knows where. There was an exit to the center with a crowd of orcs, and I managed to make a big mistake by attacking them; they wore me down considerably, and there was nothing interesting on the other side. With Crag having nothing better to do, I went back to clear the respawn with 3 birds and the remains of my army, found boots in a cart via a scout, grabbed earth magic with Crag, but was immediately handed water magic because I risked picking up a Scholar. By the end of the week, I found an external dwelling of orcs on the respawn and an external dwelling of bears behind a horde of royal griffins. Crag already had expert armor and offense and 11 attack, and bears were being built in the citadel. On week 2, I brought all the orcs (about 30 of them), 2 bears, 7 birds, and other cannon fodder and attacked the griffins—79 of them. I fought well and didn't lose anything in the external dwelling. With Crag, I broke into the castle; with the scout, I bought a bear, took the medusa dwelling, and with Crag grabbed the medal +3+3 morale/luck and ventured into the home Griffin Conservatory, which turned out to be a double with Ghost Dragons. Autobattle suggested losing the cannon fodder and all the orcs, which I regretted, so I saved the orcs in the end, but the griffins ate the bear :(. I got a speed boost from angels, planning to take +1 defense next turn and go break through the ill-fated horned demons, but it was too late and we saved the game. Afterwards, the opponent decided not to continue the match. It seemed like a decent surrender: good heroes, plenty of Griffin Conservatories, but little gold and shooting blockers everywhere, which prevented me from snowballing.
Thanks for the game.

25.12.2013 Defiant (blue, stronghold, Crag Hack, Crag Hack) def Mar (red, inferno, Calh, Nymus) 8mm6a, 124
The draw was actually pretty decent: good heroes, a bunch of Griffin Conservatories, but little money and ranged blockers everywhere, which prevented me from getting going.
Thanks for the game.

Nymus came in as the 5th hero, put him in the garrisons and off we went. On 114 I broke into the adjacent zone, from there 3 roads! O.o One is blocked by the guard of a dead-end treasure zone - a horde of gr water elementals, and behind them 20+ eyes (we don't need to go there yet). I look further, there is 1 teleport guarded by 20+ weak archers and a lift guarded by 20+ gr archers (crossbowmen), I figure the lift leads upwards for sure - I attack. There turned out to be 45 O.o Total fail (((I was wrong. I break through, on the other side 90 thieves - they fall. My army is almost gone. ((( I look further, a village is visible, the passage is blocked by an obelisk guard - a crowd of weak elves, up the road 50+ gr lizardmen, the 3rd road is blocked by a crowd of weak archers (man, I'm lucky though). I go back to the underground. At home there are pits in the Citadel. ((( On turn 2 I bring a couple of pits (just 2 of them, no money for more). I hit the teleport, I end up next to the opponent. He meets me with all his growth plus gr butterflies and all the power at mama's! ))) I attack for the hell of it, no chance there.
Thanks for the time.
P.S. But the draw was good, on respawn 3 Griffin Conservatories (2 of them 2-4 without gr) and 2 Griffin Conservatories on the opponent's respawn. There's an external dwelling of efreets, but it's blocked by a black market guard (50+ weak dogs). But I didn't find any money on respawn! (((

27.12.2013 Palach (red, Barbarian, Kreg, Kreg) def ShadowManiac (blue, Fortress, Valeska, Gretchin) smka 123
The distribution wasn't very favorable in terms of money; I got more, but I spent it all on bears in the castle and was also struggling in the second week. I engaged in combat and made a few mistakes in the front lines, but the meat still carried me to victory.
Thanks for the game.

Inspector Coldraine has already left.

It's a complicated case, involving court proceedings and investigations; you can't do without a lawyer.

27.12.2013 Palach (red, Barbarian, Crag, Crag) def ShadowManiac (blue, Castle, Valessa, Gretchin) smka 123
The gold distribution to the opponent wasn't very favorable, I got more, but I spent it all on bears in the castle and also was sucking my thumb in the second week, went for contact and made a few mistakes in FB, but the meat still pulled through.
Thanks for the game.

Thanks for the game!

There was no gold at all. Barely got the cavalry built. We made contact on 123, if I'd had a book with oil, I could have won the FB. But as it is - "we have what we have" :smile21:

Good luck in the future:smile13:

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4. The template is chosen by marking it from the list of 9 templates: 2SM4d(3), Balance, skirmish (at 200% difficulty), Jebus cross, Mini-Nostalgia, Diamond, 8mm6a, 6LM10a, and Spider. The player marked in blue in the table starts eliminating the template. The default qualification timer is the standard one; in groups, a chess timer may be recommended. .....................................................................

Could we get some numbers now? And it wouldn't hurt to prioritize this. In the first game, I waited for the opponent's move for 40 minutes, or even longer, at 2 AM. His timer was stuck at 3:01. I even managed to doze off twice in my bed. I was about to write to him to save the game, but I couldn't think straight because I was half asleep.