Posts from Winter 2014. Automated submission of seasonal reports.

because you needed to get a double on the first week.

The game unfolded in several stages, let me tell you what I remember. Thanks for the game.

Freed Grindan from prison, immediately got a slow buff, concentration buff, mana doubled, and we met in the sands near the Haven. More creatures, more mana (175 for me), lightning spell deals 250 damage. Thanks for the game.

On 111 the respawn was completely unappealing due to the winding road that split, with one branch going into infinity and the other hitting a block of 10+ black horses. But I found a Griffin Conservatory and decided to wait for 112 to check it out and then decide. In the end on 112 I took a single Griffin Conservatory, Gunnar was recruited, and he ran further with it. Then I took: an external dwelling of Minotaurs and another 2 single Griffin Conservatories. In the end Shakti returned home and went for the Necromancer Horses, while Gunnar with 3 Angels went further. The roads were just infernal. Gunnar with Expert Logistics took a week to reach the nearest Castle. In short, until the end of week 3, Gunnar and Shakti kept running separately. I built 3 Mage Guilds by the end of the week, but I never got Town Portal anywhere; however, Gunnar found the entire level 5 in a Pandora's Box. Then on week 4 I took down Gray, who was the last opponent on the map. In two turns Gunnar reaches the opponent's main, where he learns Town Portal, combines the armies, and on 214 Fire Blast with overwhelming power, stats, Shackles of War, and Armor of the Damned.
Thanks for the game.

The beginning was slow; I went the wrong way, spent a long time collecting gold, and didn't have enough crystals for the bears. I gathered an army from a hidden stash of Orcs. In the second week, my opponent came to my secondary town, bought an army, and used Force of Arms. Thanks to tactics, haste, morale, and a numerical advantage, I won.
Thank you for the game!

5. To confirm a report for the second player, you need to find the game report and click the Confirm Report button.

It was a heated match.
On the first week, I killed the computer (swamp), broke through the underground direction, found a dungeon village in the sands, and next to it an external dwelling of wyverns. I ignored upgrading my own castle and built 1345 in the fort. Through scouting in the underground, I spotted КВ, a shield +4 all, a couple of fat chests, a sword +12 for 50+ wizards and a Griffin Conservatory 3-4.
Having bought wyverns on the second week from wherever I could, I ran to the adjacent zone, took КО, clues for 4 wyverns, teleported home - went into the underground, a level 3 Griffin Conservatory - perfect for breaking through the wizards, but those scoundrels cast slow, further pain is hard to describe, in short, I lost.
But I took the sword +12, through teleporting and using the external tavern, I take the shield+4 all, КВ, two pandoras with 20k experience each. Ivor levels up so-so, I have logistics + earth, but they gave resistance + leadership, also had air and tactics. On the third week, I eat another treasure zone, again only mini hives, I just want to laugh. I teleport into the swamp (the computer's former castle), there's a level 2 Dragon Utopia there, oh there's the Captain's Hat, game is won. Another teleport into the dungeon, with a pre-upgrade of wyverns, I take two mana and on my 141 I beat Misha's main, using Dimension Door and fly, there I buy birds and run towards Tazar underground. He, meanwhile, finally found the Colossus on all 5 stats, which I would have taken the next turn, which I had been spotting through scouting since the first week, but I never had time to capture it - annoying, because mage stats there are even higher than mine.
Catching up with Tazar, I find two more hives - totaling 8 wyverns :smile16: and a Dragon Utopia, - there's a book of water and papal pendants. On my 144, I spot two Dragon Utopias, wings, clues and all of this untouched, although Taz definitely saw it (the medusa external dwelling was painted in that part of the map), as expected, Taz takes everything on his turn except for one Dragon Utopia in the corner and attacks with bracers and the red sphere.

Ivor: 33-21, expert attack, expert archery, expert tactics, army: 15 manticores, 40 monarchs, 8 wyverns, 9 dragonflies, 2 angels, 3 birds, 32 grand elves. +1 HP +1 morale.
Taz: 27-28, expert attack (not sure), defense, tactics, army: 8 red dragons, 47 wyverns +1 wyvern +1 wyvern, 2 angels, 3 birds, 35 upgraded medusae. +3 speed +2 morale +3 HP.

This was a fierce battle, on my side was the higher speed of my cats and monarchs relative to the wyverns (11 vs 10), i.e. I hit with my stacks first and only then received a counterattack, and what helped me win, literally by a hair (the net result was 7 cats, 7 monarchs), was the fact that morale procced for me and not for Misha, although with equal morale or its complete absence, Ivor FB would have lost, also by a hair, but would have lost, though to be fair: the passives of manticores and monarchs never even procced once :).

Thanks for the interesting game!