Posts from Winter 2014. Automated submission of seasonal reports.

The first week is a warm-up with two heroes; there are no trees, so I took a secondary town, a pikemen dwelling, and a stable. I built up the castle and upgraded levels 1, 2, and 4.
The second week – we push further, take the Pandemonium for 5k gold and a ring that gives +1 to speed, capture a village, and see a giant dwelling, but we don't have time to take it because of the timer. There are still no trees.
The third week – we take the giant dwelling, a gold mine, and head to the center. There, we attack an opponent with 2 red dragons, 9 storm birds, and about 50 griffins 4/5/4/5. I have 6/6/1/6, 59 marksmen, 14 crossbowmen, 89 halberdiers, and 14/1/1 core griffins. I try to break through to the archers. After the dragons and birds die, it's game over.

The game went quite sluggishly because the only road to the computer was guarded by archmages. Plus, everything valuable was guarded by hordes or hundreds of medusas, hordes of fanatics, and groups of dragons.

There was a funny moment when the opponent knocked back a sword with +3 to attack, but didn't have time to pick it up; I took it with a scout and then defeated the scout :)

I was planning to enter the Dragon Utopia, not knowing how that would end, but Gosha moved into range, and I attacked.

In the finale, there was a slight advantage in army (2 angels, 6 hydras, 300 skeletons against 3 angels and 200 skeletons), skills (10-7 against 5-5), and mana.

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Opponent conceded in the maximum difficulty level.

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Thank you for the game!

It surrendered well, by 117 I had already killed nearly 50 Wyverns, by 122 I took a Dragon Utopia near the capital and by 123 the second one and approached the ГО...there I was attacked, bought myself out, and was back in a three-way...then we ran around a bit and by 133 I had gathered over 120+ Wyverns, by 106 I upgraded and am going on the offensive, there's a red orb and the surrender follows.
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The spawn was small and blocked, so I immediately went underground, into Tant's folders. I painted a Conflux village, gathered a few skeletons, and Expertized Earth magic.
In the middle of month 2, Mullich arrived with good troops but no tome. I met him, attacked — he used Tactics to go for the Efreets, I responded with Oil and won fairly easily. Buyout.
Afterwards we ran around without encountering each other. Tant with Logistics, Boots of Speed, found an external dwelling of Devils, recruited them on month 3 and also a portal in the dungeon. On month 4, Devil upgrade, nearly 1000 skeletons. By month 5, full control is already established, I sniped the opponent's scout hero with an army, killed 29 of his ducks while losing 8, he bought himself out. We ran around a bit more, then the surrender follows.

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Both of us respawned and I got my native town, I didn't offer a mutual restart, I'd be lucky to win even with such a handicap. Not much gold, no elves from the start, at my respawn there was a level 2 Griffin Conservatory and a Dragon Fly Hive. On day 116 I killed my opponent's computer, found 3 external dwellings of centaurs at his place. At the first one I got stuck with horses in the Castle, I didn't build anything at the computer's town.
At the second one I found 3 more Griffin Conservatories at the computer's respawn, an external dwelling of horses, a Dragon Utopia, and an external dwelling of elves and a Dragon Fly Hive. Gradually I gathered everything, once I failed a bit — I broke the guard of the Dragon Fly Hive, anyone would have cleaned it without losses... and something distracted me and I didn't take it )). In the end I took the Dragon Utopia on day 134 with the loss of one Angel, it gave +11 all. After the Dragon Utopia I thought about going to the treasure zone, but then red flags appeared and I decided to go for contact, to at least capture some castles, which was successful as I captured a Tower with level 4 magic and already a Library, there was Resurrection, I built level 5 and got Flight.
On the fourth week I run further to find Tazar, in terms of stats and army I had superiority. I can't catch Tazar, but I understand that he's coming out of the treasure zone most likely without mana, and on one of the turns I'm 3 moves short, though he doesn't know that. He runs away along the road and captures the computer's town. I run for contact and catch him, but the town turned out to be Dungeon and I was afraid he could have doubled his mana, but there was no running away anymore and I attack. In the end Tazar was without mana since he didn't expect me to catch him, FB no options. But it could have been different if I had been waited for, I would most likely have lost.
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Both of us were lucky with diplomacy, but when our armies met, they were small, but mine was stronger.
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The main hero was Mullich, not Valeska; I can't choose, there's no Mullich!
Anyway, there was a huge respawn; as it turned out, it was 2 turns of 2400 movement points each to the GO along the road; I couldn't see it earlier because there was a block of 50-99 ogres; I collected 6 Hives, 3 Griffin Conservatories for 8 Angels and 44 Wyverns; I gathered the meat near the exit and found +4 all, though I forgot to buy the spell book; Mullich with a bunch of artifacts came out with stats 15-14-8-8; through the GO 5 Rust Dragons, then 9 Arch Devils; the meat didn't get through; I messed up; I took the Library and wanted to sit in the central Tower I had seen, but it turned out to be guarded by 10-19 Golden Dragons with an adjacent GO to the Tower; I stood next to them and skipped a turn with 33 Wyvern units (Wyverns themselves) and 8 Angels without the spell book; the opponent breaks them, breaks the ducks for the Pandora's Box and 2 Prisons, and attacks with Ignissa (12-6-6-5) with 40 mana and no Mass Curse; 15 Birds, 1 Angel, 2 Psychos, 86 Faeries, 15 Wyverns, 12 Elementals, and 1 unit; the opponent crashes into the Wyverns through Protection from Fire, kills 1 and 8; then I cancel the attack and kill 7 Birds; on turn 2 the opponent surrenders.
Mullich has Expert Attack, Expert Defense, and Advanced Tactics; the opponent deploys.
Thanks for the game.