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I played "at home." I chose a Necropolis (sm-ku), expecting to play red Castle vs blue Necropolis based on the cursor, but my opponent surprised me by taking Castle themselves. We started playing. First, the opponent took 111, then I had 3 in a row — one in Underground, one at Striker's, and one at Striker's in the Underground. After that, another one from the opponent, and finally we launched.
111 — Fast roads, at the top, as many as 4 roads. Fairies for speed boost, revealed an Observation Post under Castle, ГО — gold, there's a Griffin Conservatory. Respawn is average in size, not many mobs, but there are no blocks either. 2 external dwellings of skeletons and 1 of zombies. Ran Clavius along the level-up spots. Isra is there. Placed GM1.
112 — Lost 20 skeletons with Clavius against 90 gr skeletons, but then retook with Kalt a prison containing Serena and 34 gremlins, which turned out to be very timely. Transformer.
113 — Isra breaks a portal for 20+ nomads, lost the remaining chaff and 15 skeletons. On the other side, stone golems and cerberi; I turn around. About 100 skeletons. Graveyard at home.
114 — I build Vampires, Clavius kills a horde of zombies for one of the two exits to the grass. A problem arises — sulfur is nowhere to be seen. Clavius has Earth Magic and Tactics.
115 — I reveal an Observation Post on a secondary hero. Rampart, next to the town a stable, there's a Necklace of Speed +1 and a Griffin Conservatory. A bit further, a Dwarf Cottage is visible. I take the town; it has a Tavern, I return the army, Isra reclaims resources — some Necromancy. I build a Citadel.
116 — Moandor finds 3 sulfurs and 2 Dwarf Cottages on the grass. The first one, previously revealed, is behind Manticores, but the second is behind Basilisks and next to it — Boots of Speed. In Rampart there's a market — I trade for 3 sulfurs and build Liches.
117 — At home, Horses are built in the Citadel. I bring the army to Clavius, take the Dwarf Cottage behind Manticores, 20 with Greater Skeleton, it's a tough fight — lost 30 skeletons, though 20 were returned. Earth EXP. In Rampart — Elves.
121 — The Horses and Liches arrive. I kill a mass of gr Ogres for a Fury Statue + scroll of Chain Lightning, the Fury Statue has 200. Then I break through the Manticores, spend the night in Boots of Speed in front of the Dwarf Cottage.
122 — Dwarf Cottage is max, excellent! I sit in Rampart to replenish mana. I check the Griffin Conservatory on the grass — it's min. Isra takes it; I bring an Angel to boost Clavius's speed. I find another Griffin Conservatory on the grass.
123 — Clavius takes a level 3 Naga Bank, then goes through the Stable toward the second Bank and the Griffin Conservatory on the grass. Grand upgrade.
124 — Bank is min, Griffin Conservatory is min. Well, not bad either... I break through back home. I break through with Xi to the second grass secondary.
125 — I take another Rampart, transfer the army to Tantu, take a level 2 Griffin Conservatory on the dirt — lost 4 Liches. 4 Angels from 3 Conservatories, not great, but tolerable. With Clavius, I hope to get Wisdom at level 12; I run to gain more levels on the Angel on stone golems, but Wisdom isn't granted — apparently it already came earlier. I receive Pathfinder.
126 — At home I upgrade the Horses. With Clavius I gain another level; get Logistics. I boost speed through that same portal on the stone golems — it's a few steps from the ГО. My army takes a mini Dragon Fly Hive.
127 — Upgrade Skeletons. I gather my army into a fist: 1+450 gr Skellies, 4 Angels, 5 gr Horses, 6 Vampires, about 20 Zombies and Dwarves each. I hit the ГО. 14 Gold Dragons fall with losses of chaff, 40 Skellies, 1 Angel, and 1 Horse. The road is very long — even with 3200 movement I can't reach the town.
131 — I take the opponent's main, run to take his grass secondary; I'm thinking about the Dragon Utopia found on my grass. On his turn, the opponent surrenders. Thanks for the game!

Control is our "everything."
Thanks for the game.

Built a second tower, then Dimension Door, excellent. I see Crag Hack going into the treasure zone that I was scouting. Well, then it's the usual routine — 3 Dragon Fly Hives and a prison, Crag Hack naturally ramps up, and the noob takes the Dragon Fly Hives, and then I pop out of the bushes with the bracers. Thanks for the game.

It was an interesting game. First, Artem didn't give me very interesting starting locations, so I had to choose from the smaller ones. I chose this one because it had more experience points than the skirmish map.
We both chose all the resource locations, and in 4 out of 5 games, Gosha appeared for me, always without skeletons:D
Two of my heroes appeared at the same time, and I had enough money to buy them. Then a Dungeon mage appeared, and I even considered switching to him. I quickly took the Dungeon town, found a pit with creatures, and decided to play with that. I bought Gosha in the Dungeon, sent him to the upgrade locations to collect skeletons. There were many scrolls, but the Slow scroll was the most useful:D. With its help, I took the pit with creatures on level 117 and built a portal in the Dungeon, but then 7 Elves appeared from a pit that was taken earlier:mad:
At the beginning of the second turn, I bought everything. There were as many as 16 creatures in the pit. I built 2 Guilds, which gave me Bolt and Blind. I destroyed about 15 shooters in the Treasure room, and they gave me 25 gold. Then I got double mana and, in a fit of joy, decided to attack the dogs in the teleport, but there were 99 of them:smile11:. I had to spend a lot of effort and time, but Slow and Blind did the trick. On the next turn, a serious Mully appeared near my Treasure room, and I decided to take his town, but on the other side, there were Nagas on the snow and a stack of Griffins:smile19:. They cut me down, and I lost a lot of Elves, which was frustrating because of the morale. And to make matters worse, time ran out, so the plan failed:smile27:.
Then Artem returned everything in a chain and settled in his town, surrounded by a bunch of weaklings ready to hit-and-run me. I decided to leave, replenish my mana, and upgrade my Earth magic. During this time, they took my Dungeon town, and then my capital, which I lost after killing 40 out of 80 Gremlins near the shop. Mully was bought there and became an outside hero, and I was within striking distance, so I decided to attack.
Gosha: approximately 6-5-4 (30), 23 gold, 64 skeletons, 1+25 Imps, 13 Pits, 32 Gogs, 11 Elves.
Mully: 6-9-3 (20), 40 shooters, 51 gold, 3 skeletons, 1+1+9 Griffins, 6 Mages.
On expert tactics, he moved everyone forward. Then Bolt destroyed 5 shooters, and 2 units covered him, while the large stack covered the Gogs and Elves.
Then I wondered how Bolt spent 7 mana, even though the Imps sucked up another one, leaving 12 mana:confused::confused:, but I couldn't come to a logical conclusion.
I immediately used Bolt on the Gremlins -28, skeletons and Imps destroyed the shooters, and the Griffin was near the shooters. The Pits panicked(((, and the skeletons went to the shooters. The Nagas attacked the Gogs, and the shooters retaliated, and the Pits and Gogs engaged in melee, minus 2, and my skeletons finished off the enemy skeletons. There was also a volley attack against me after which the Imps didn't take the mana, which was also strange.
In the third round, it was just a formality. Bolt killed 4 Mages, and the last Imp covered the Grem, so they wouldn't shoot. Then Bolt and retreat. Then, in the last moves, I reached the capital, where there was a weakling with Golems, after which Artem surrendered.
Thank you for the interesting game.

We played a pretty good hand, decent money at the start, Griffin Conservatory(2), stables nearby, a Ramp secondary, got 27 marks, on the first week I took 5 crypts, 3 of them max, lots of money, so in addition to the horses in the Citadel I built Grands + wooden creatures in the Fort, Valeska showed poor growth, so Müllich who came on 121 was unconditionally declared the daddy, the most interesting thing is that from the secondary there were 2 exits nearby to different treasure zones, one into a portal, the other by road and also onto the grass, I immediately took the Conservatory(2) and a Dragon Fly Hive for 8 Wyverns, ran to the revealed Conservatory in the corner of the Ramp spawn, but it turned out to be a singleton, and on the guard consisting of 50 Monks and 20 Fanatics I left 3 horses... not sure if it was an ideal trade, oh well, then I couldn't speed up for a long time due to the lack of available Dragon Fly Hives, but thanks to Müllich and +1 speed, I easily took the hat of fifths from 35 Manticores right away, though Knowledge 4 and Spell Power 3 didn't give me a chance to go wild with that, but a little further there lies a belly +10-2 and a Dragon Fly Hive behind Death Horses, but I didn't touch them yet, I lit up a Dragon Fly Hive in the portal treasure zone near the entrance, moved the army there, took it with cheap units, + roamed around the surroundings, captured a КВ artifact, a ring of +1 speed, and returned everything back + bought a bit of growth (financial crisis), with 14 Wyverns I dealt with the horses quite easily, another Dragon Fly Hive for 6 Wyverns, turned in the КВ artifact for 20k gold (that was perfect for me), bought up a bunch of meat just in time for the revealed Dragon Utopias, another Dragon Fly Hive + 8 Wyverns, and Müllich without magic jumps into a Dragon Utopia(2) with a bunch of Ramp fat stacks of 30 Wyverns, 3 Angels, and stats around 10, the meat stack held up, I think one duck died, they gave a +12 shield and a +3 all neck, then I hit 13 Grey Dwarves for gloves + a red orb, and with a delivery from the Castle I jump into a max Dragon Utopia, there they eat the entire meat stack and 5 ducks, they give Wings, a Crown +4+4, a Gladius, and something else, there somewhere in a Pandora's Box 40 Elves and an Earth boost, I quickly transfer to the main and take the red capital on 136, there I light up 2 external dwellings of Wyverns and a Dragon Fly Hive! What a twist, luckily Taz had low stats, I quickly spread out in all directions, prepare to upgrade Wyverns and look for the negligent master of the swamps, but he was going through hard times and barely taking a max Dragon Utopia he surrenders, thanks for the game! 1-0

After clearing all the respawns, I got a pretty decent amount of resources, a lot of gold, a good road fork, there's an external market, a Lich Mound, and an external Air dwelling (but these two aren't very conveniently located) and a Stables. Deesu goes along the stat boosters and stables, lohs on errands and towards the computer opponents' directions. I chose Inferno first because the stables were located in its direction. Useful things along the way include an immediate Obelisk that reveals part of the unremarkable central treasure zone, a Griffin Conservatory on the Inferno respawn, and right there a huge loop towards the computer... Running a bit more, it turns out there's a block behind a Dragon Utopia there. Oh well, I turned around and by day 112 I'm near the Necro computer. By the way, there's another Conservatory there. Due to the lack of any urgent actions with Deesu, she continues her march along the stat boosters, which turned out to be plentiful, especially for Magic stats. So by the end of the week, she was something like 5 6 7 7, without artifacts, Earth Magic, Offense. The computers fell without any problems. Plenty of gold. Birds in the fort. Day 122, Conservatory (2). By day 124, I killed the Inferno computer and ate a part of its treasure zone along the way. It gave experience and all the water. Also revealed there are 2 Dragon Utopias off-road, but nothing to take them with yet. I transfer everything to the Necro treasure zone and take Conservatory (3) on the way. I forgot to mention that the Citadel computer bugged out and denied me its treasure zone (there was literally no road there, and within the treasure zone itself there were literally no roads, so I didn't even visit it). I'm cleaning up the tasty bits along the way again. Not rich in Lich Mounds yet, but they are there, though scattered God knows how. So far I've only taken one minimal one. The Pandora's Boxes give only experience and 20 Griffin units, a couple of stat artifacts. Deesu is already 10 16. I reveal a Max Dragon Utopia there, but then an opponent emerges, makes a small march with Wings over my zone, revealing an Inferno Obelisk that shows him a Lich Mound in the center, where he, thank God, went. In turn, I realize I can't delay. It's day 131. I buy the growth and dive into the Max Dragon Utopia. With the loss of one bird and almost all the growth minions, it falls, and it gives... the Torso artifact +10-2, the Helm +4+4, the Captain's Hat, and a Sack of Gold!!! A king's ransom! But I get super combat magic in the form of Water Bolt under Expert Sorcery and Expert Air Magic dealing 862 damage. There's already something to meet him with, but the opponent doesn't return. I collect 3 beehives with chains, and head to the Inferno Dragon Utopia, and from there to the Dragon Utopias of the Inferno treasure zone, of which there were 3! They gave stats, a 5th level Spell Scroll, КВ. Meanwhile, the treacherous blue player storms my capital, but doesn't stay, flying home with Town Portal. On my turn, I reclaim it and sit down, propped up by a loh. I equipped the Earth Magic boost scroll, the 5th level scroll, and maximized Spell Power. An attack follows. There are 10 Angels, 72 Monks, packs of Grand Elves, 10 Horned Demons, and other small fry, but their stats are one and a half times less than mine, and their Spell Power is only 6. Explosion dealing 4600 damage told the Monks that they flew to the wrong place :smile44: I wanted to surrender immediately, but thought that with such low Spell Power magic, he wouldn't hit hard, and if he did something wrong, I could also cover the Angels. Also, I was afraid that by giving gold for surrender, he would immediately upgrade the Archers, since the Castle computer was his. But Slow flies in, and everything attacks me without waiting, taking out single units of Wights and 3 birds. In response, I cut down the remnants of the Monks and decide to surrender to avoid being left without birds. Then follows a crazy chase and a war of lohs, because there is full control and the Gauntlets of Might and Sandals of the Saint, while I only have Gauntlets of Might and Dimension Door. However, thanks to a couple of fast heroes and 150k gold shaken out of the Dragon Utopias, I manage to wrest almost all of the opponent's towns and corner him, from where he carefully moved to my secondary Necro town. But the chain came together for a return and Deesu covers him. The stats besides Attack haven't changed there, so a second Fireball is one-sided. Thanks for the game! 2-0, revenge for the 4th World War! :smile19:

03/04/2014 Toganash (Blue, Castle, Gurnisson, Das) def darkello (Red, Tower, Aine, Tamika) 8mm6a 214
03/04/2014 darkello (Red, Castle, Valeska, Moandor) def Toganash (Blue, Rampart, Kairie, Kairie) 8mm6a 214