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

16.02 BA/IEHOK (red, swamp, Tazar, Tazar) def SVAROG (blue, rampart, Kir, Kir), diamond, 142

On the first [week] I played calmly, not rushing, at my own pace with maximum scouting, until on 116 in one of the underground treasure zones I saw blue flags. The loser's army had horses, bows, GR buddies, pegasi and 10-19 vivs O_o
In that same turn, the opponent picks up another 2 or 3 relics and moves a powerful unit to their own surface. In this treasure zone, I spot a couple more hives, shield +all, 5x hat and at least 3 Dragon Utopia + one more somewhere in an adjacent zone or wherever. I decide that under no circumstances will I let the opponent through; from 117, a war of mages with the arrow begins. Meanwhile, Tazar urgently takes a couple of hives with hydra and vivs, which were originally planned for 121.
On the second [week], a few more trees, cons two-slot, upgraded vivs. I take the shield and hat, preparing to take the nearest Dragon Utopia on 131 with growth. Kir bursts in via wings or flight and snatches the main.
131 I check the Dragon Utopia—maxi, basically I have nothing to lose, so I go in. 25 GR vivs, 2 angels, about 10 simple vivs, 2 hydras, gnolls and lizards. Mana for 1 skin; they ate everything except 1 angel and 20 vivs. They gave sword +all, КЗ, КО, wings. Tazar has exp. earth and air.
Refilled mana and with full control and resurrect took another 2 Dragon Utopia in the same zone next turn. Next turn another Dragon Utopia, then two more, then two more :) The Dragon Utopia were decent, I assembled a Haven. On 142 Kir messed up while refilling mana. Haven and impl in 2.5k left no chance, гг, thanks for the game!

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16.02 VA/IEHOK (red, swamp, Tazar, Tazar) def SVAROG (blue, Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre), diamond, 142

I confirm, on 111 two native heroes immediately Centaur grade, Kyrre takes a Pandora for 40 Gargoyles, gave 50 Dwarves, immediately take Tower village, also capturing a prison for Adelaide level 5.
112 near the village lies a Pandora for 50+ Monks, helm +12 for 50+ Eyes and wings for 20+ Wizards. Kyrre runs for the spellbook.
113-a scout hero with archery broke through 15 Mages for the Dragon Fly Hive, Dragon Fly Hive 50+ scout hero zero, I don't engage.
114-En route through stables Kyrre with a meat delivery takes the maximum Dragon Fly Hive, sacrificing 20 out of 60 Dwarves and all the meat,
115-captured an external dwelling of Dracons, ran cross-country to the opponent. Before the end of the week took another Dragon Fly Hive.
116 Pandora for 15k exp, Kyrre gets the full set: grants Earth, Attack, Defense, Tactics, Wisdom.
117-lit up a hot spring for 50+ Medusas, turn Kyrre away from the opponent, overnight in a captured Necro village, Pandora for the entire 2nd level.
121-meat delivery breaks the Medusas with a loss of Centaurs, a fight. Stats 12 12 12 10 something like that.
122-125 run for wings, 49 Wizards (wings and a box for 5 Centaur), immediately oil, and aimed shot, if not for the ballista at 330 who knows how it would have ended, but as it is -3 Wyverns, and all the meat.
126-break into the main, capture jacket +5 SP, Nagas bank 3, overnight in the main.
127- fly with wings to the opponent, capture the main, upgrade 35 Wyverns. Here Tazar's stats rapidly started increasing,
131-132 - at full speed fly to the two scouted Dragon Utopias, Dragon Utopia 2, give helm +4/+4, KC, Knowledge, sword +2/+2 attack/defense, bag of gold, the second Dragon Utopia already empty((see another one, but far underground, no DD.
133-134 grab a couple more Dragon Fly Hives all mini. Tazar is already scary with stats.
135-137 - TP to the red swamp, capture necklace +3 all, kindly left by the opponent, and into the treasure zone, take several hives, sword +5 all, on 137 a scout hero takes red Conflux.
on 141 Kyrre TP into it, take Dragon Fly Hive, also mini. see 2 more Dragon Fly Hives, a couple of boxes, overnight, next turn get swarmed by imp at 2500 and with the alliance. Thanks for the game!!!

22.02.13 Sanin (Red, Tower, Nila, Nila) def Amiloo (Blue, Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre) Spider 215

We started without resets.
111 Gargoyles built, native castle present, Josephine brought golems, immediately took an external dwelling of mages and two crypts. But only one road from the respawn.
By 113 it became clear that I had two roads ahead: one was blocked by diamond golems beyond the Dragon Fly Hive, the other by grand elves on grass past the prison. There was still a rest at 113, I needed to decide whether to take it... and I built a lookout tower. From the lookout I saw two Griffin Conservatories and an external dwelling of genies, but all behind a very long detour. I thought for a long time, but decided to play on, especially since Nila already had the Log.
Then it unexpectedly turned out that I didn't have enough ore to build nagas, and I had to build a marketplace. In the end, only nagas in the fort, although I still had ten thousand gold.
122 Nila reached the farthest level-1 Griffin Conservatory and took it. The second one turned out to be a max, I didn't go into that one.
125 I take the Dragon Fly Hive behind the golems. Max, I traded 16 golems for 12 Wyverns.
Further on, the road led to a village, next to which there was a Griffin Conservatory and two Dragon Fly Hives; I take all of them.
127 A scout hero breaches the grand elves; from the prison comes a level-5 Saurog, who runs further with all his might, clears the guard of a Dragon Fly Hive, then the blue scout hero, and doesn't quite reach the rampart where Kyrre is sitting. Kyrre crashes against Saurog, the main force containing a dozen grand elves and 50 dwarves rides off somewhere to the side, but not home.
131 I buy back Nila in the rampart, take a Dragon Fly Hive, making it 30 Wyverns.
Then I decided not to run to the opponent, but to go to the nearest treasure zone, fortunately there was a very convenient entrance. In the meantime, I picked up boots and gloves with scout heroes. My opponent took his dwarves home when he saw that Nila was defeated, but I ambushed him with scout heroes and in the end he bought them off.
On the third week I ran around the treasure zone on mud, took two Dragon Fly Hives there, Shackles, a +2 flask, Golden Bow, Ring of Speed. Not enough reagents for Armor of the Damned.
From the Rampart zone there turned out to be a quick exit to another treasure zone; on 136 Nila stands before this exit.
137 I burst in, and on the same day Nila takes a Dragon Utopia with a Titan's Sword, KO, 4/4 armor, and a Crystal Cloak.
141 I picked up a pendant for morale and luck.
142 I took Ring of Life and a box of Earth.
144 I take another Dragon Utopia in the same treasure zone; they give Sword of Justice, Titan's Cuirass, 3/3 hat.
146 At home I built Mage Guild level 5, nothing useful, but that doesn't matter anymore since I got a box of Air. By the way, all slots were filled: Log, Water, Wisdom, Attack, Archery. No Earth, but there is Inteus with basic Earth.
211 Month of Plague devours the unrecruited giants, and I was already about to upgrade.
212 I take a max-level Griffin Conservatory on the respawn and stand next to the enemy town.
213 The opponent leaves Aislin on an angel next to the town. Nila has no Tactics, so I attack with Gunnar with Expert Tactics, placing 4 + 4 angels. On Aislin +3 speed, implosion flies into one stack, and then shackles prevent her from escaping and I take the cloak.
Then Nila presses on and by 215 she is already flying to cover the main enemy force, but the opponent surrenders before Nila arrives.

Thanks for the game!

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3 group 02/28/2014 Roger DAltavilla (Red, Conflux, random, Luna, Moandor) def darkello (Blue, Necropolis, Clavius, Galtran) 6lm10a 225
Thanks for the game!
We played in 3 sessions, picked all the restarts, and in the last layout Luna showed up, followed by Moandor and Straker, so let's necro.
On the map, besides mine, there are 2 more Fluxes, no Castles.
On the first week I only built psychics in the castle, captured the enemy Flux, where the air elementals weren't built yet. On the second week I rushed the Griffin Conservatory two, which allowed my 2 necromancers to scatter in different directions - to farm bones. Captured another Flux and gradually upgraded all 3 to Phoenixes in the castle.
At the end of the month I got control and successfully captured the enemy's capital, which allowed me to convert the fairies accumulated from 3 Fluxes into bones.
Meanwhile, the opponent caught up in stats. I found a village-castle and started building up to Archangels.
On 224 I found Goshan in the treasure zone on mud, I attacked. My stats were slightly higher, especially magic, my army was 1.5 times bigger (except for skeletons). What bothered me was that the enemy skeletons had 8 speed, but mine had 9 health. And in the battle it turned out the opponent had no offensive magic (only Armageddon for 880, while I had Implosion for 2250). I made a mistake in round 1, the opponent cast Berserk on the Angels, and they got anti-morale :D I corrected the mistake with Antimagic.
Then I destroyed his army, and after the opponent's final Armageddon, he surrendered with the remaining skeletons. The next day news of GG arrived.
The replay analysis showed that my drops were richer.

Group 3 28.02.2014 Roger DAltavilla (Conflux, random, Luna, Moandor) def darkello (Necropolis, Clavius, Galtran) 6lm10a 225
Thanks for the game!
We played in 3 sessions, took all the rest, in the last layout Luna came, followed by Moandor and Straker, so we'll be necr-ing.
On the map, besides mine, there were 2 more Fluxes, no Castles.
On the first week I only built psychics in the castle, captured the opponent's Flux, where the air elementals weren't built. On the second week I broke into a Griffin Conservatory-two, which allowed 2 necromancers to scatter in different directions - to farm bones. I captured another Flux and gradually built all 3 up to Phoenixes in the castle.
At the end of the month I got the control and successfully captured the enemy's main town, which allowed me to smelt the fairies accumulated from 3 Fluxes into bones.
Meanwhile, the opponent catches up in stats. I find a village-castle and start building it up to Archangels.
On day 224 I find Goshan in a treasure zone on swamp terrain, I attack. My stats are slightly higher, especially magic, army is 1.5 times larger (except for skeletons). It was worrying that the enemy skeletons had speed 8, but mine had health 9. And in battle it turned out the opponent had no offensive magic (only Armageddon for 880, while I had Implosion for 2250). I make a mistake in the 1st round, the opponent casts Berserk on the Angels, and they get anti-morale'd :D I correct the mistake with Anti-Magic.
Then I destroy the army and after the opponent's final Armageddon he surrenders with the remaining skeletons. The next day news of the GG comes.
The autopsy showed that I was dealt a fatter hand.

super starting hand at first glance, Galtran and all that, 500 skeletons by day 125, BUT then there's just nowhere to go, everything is in circles, there are no Dragon Utopias, only 7 angels total, ducks (Green Dragons) along with scouting from week 2 onwards - 32 units, on day 225 I found a Dragon Utopia in the very corner
thanks for the game

03/22/13 Sanin (Red, Tower, Nila, Nila) def Amiloo (Blue, Rampart, Kirr, Kirr) Spider 215

Thanks for the game!

Confirmed, I couldn't increase my stats. Without shackles, I would have used a hit-run strategy, but as it is, GG WP.

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We played a game with bubuch a while ago, I think it was before New Year's. He won, but he didn't write a report, apparently.

All reports listed above were submitted during the winter season. There is just over a week left until the end of the tournament. We will finish the remaining games; I will not extend the tournament deadline. The last day of the competition is March 9th, which is also the deadline for registration for the spring stage of the Crusade. The list of participants is in the first post of the thread.

Roger DAltavilla and Diabler are ready to play from Tuesday evenings, from 10:30 PM Moscow time. Let us know when you are available. :smile19:

I'll sign up, template 6lm10a.

01/15/2014 BA/IEHOK (red, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) def bubuch (blue, Rampart, Kirr, Kirr) Diamond 132
confirmed, sorry.
THANK YOU FOR THE GAME!

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12/27/13 bubuch (blue, Rampart, Kirr, Kirr) def Pyre (red, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) mininoста, 132
thank you for the game!