Posts from "Newcomer-2014. Winter"

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The start was rough; on the first week, golems were in the Castle :D because there was a block right away on the road, so I had to go around.

On the second week, I checked 3 cons (all 100-250); two of them turned out to be 2, 3, and 4. I took number 2, built GM4 with a library at home – only resurrected units appeared there.

On the third week, I gathered more cons, took 3 Dragon Utopias, which gave +5 gold, +3 gold, armor +12-3, and Titan plate for the entire 5th level (I quickly built GM5 - they gave Dimension Door).

My opponent's stats aren't very good – I decide to rush him and take his main castle with 2 Dimension Doors. On the way, I kill a couple of rogues with bears from an external dwelling, take a rogue scout – I see Kreg with 10+ angels and single birds, spend the night in his castle, and on day 143, I kill Kreg with 2 Dimension Doors.

Thanks for the game!

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At 111 I have 16 elves, a strategic overview of the central treasure zone (there's a Dragon Utopia there, my go is simple psychics, opp has titans) and opp's main, external market, stables, and even gloves behind a pack of storms. Even Ufretin didn't spoil the picture — dwarves are built up and their external dwelling is available, with a stack of combat fathers in perspective.
At 112 I run to the castle-comp, at 113 I kill him.
At 114 I set up a chain to the dungeon, break Ivor and head toward the swamp, grand upgrade.
115 I run to the Dungeon, comp is far away, Ivor has to waste a move.
116 I reach Gunnar with the strongest army according to thief info, autobattle loses two grands. I manage to survive, and Gunnar has a book, comp kills 6 pointy-ears :( for me, and even retreats. I can't reach the castle, my army is already quite frail.
117 — I pass along the chain to the swamp comp, hit a block of lots of vasya's in front of the prison. After some hesitation, I decide to push through, breaking it at the cost of 5 pegasi and some small fry. In the prison is Grindan lvl 10 with expert air and earth. I reach the comp's main with him.
121 — I recover mp boots in the swamp, speeding up.
Then a total circus began. The dungeon-comp returned with 110 troglodytes, took the castle, stocked up and attacked me himself. Killed all grands.
Army is small, nothing to approach. I break through ulik behind an army of dogs, got bitten hard.
At 125 I go into a thick hive with every possible zoo animal. Max! They eat me up, only 30 flies remain there.
At 131 I break Grindan toward the ulik with a 100-arrow, he finishes it off. I move the army to the other end to Damacon, who was chosen as main (took log and armor). I buy more ducks from the swamp and enter the treasure zone with 15 vivs, time is running out. I manage to recover and take a box behind wood for 15k money.
At 132 I hit a pack of gr. psychics. They eat all grands and several ducks.
At 133 I take the quest amulet behind 9 ghosts (minus one duck), a box behind trolls, there are 40 ghouls. I carry the army to the ulik at another respawn, check the quest — 20k exp. I break Damacon in there, they give tactics and fire :(. Ulik has 8 vivs, total 21. It's livable.
At 134 I plan to double mana, but have to upgrade harpies to speed up the main.
At 135 I pass along the chain into the treasure zone, finding the first consu on the way. Damacon has 3900 moves, I decide to take it, a one-unit. In the treasure zone there's immediately a block of sniper horde in front of the library. Have to wait for the main hero.
136 — I take the library, then a box behind hydras. I run as far as possible toward the castle, but it's far. On the way I spot КЗ behind a pack of phoenixes.
137 — a box with 25 swords, horse external dwelling for meat. Return for КЗ.
141 — recover КЗ at the cost of an eater and a couple of swords, hit a box for another 25 fathers, run to the Dragon Utopia.
142 — bring 2 angels from the castle, go in. A double, minus one angel. They gave another КЗ, beauty-sphere, some small stuff for stats. I get smashed at the double mana, TP back. I break one КЗ with a dummy toward Grindan with 50 mana and expert earth.
143 — eat a box for the whole fourth, scouting nearby found КВ, but not yet there. TP to castle, sword upgrade, Dragon Utopia is there.
They gave wings, a teapot. I refill mana with main, take the second consu (3) on the swamp respawn with dummy.
At 144 the opponent runs into the central treasure zone, and I see everything from the overview. I see that Moner didn't reach the Dragon Utopia and sped up on one-unit birds.
Then follows a productive move: I trade off, TP Grindan to angel upgrade, take the saved one-unit Dragon Utopia with main (sandals +2all, speed ring), TP home and from there on wings first cover the stash, and then, splitting archs into three stacks and throwing a chain lightning at the birds, kill Moner.

ГГ, thanks for the game.The start of the game turned out to be very difficult; mean comps left me almost without an army. At 123 only 4 heroes remained, but thanks to Moner, a one-unit consu and a couple of gnomelets, I managed to gradually build up and start clearing treasure zones. And then everything went simply terrible: out of 4 uliks taken, three turned out to be minimal, and in the three native Dragon Utopias they gave all sorts of trash. So I decided to try my luck in the center, where a Dragon Utopia had been spotted at the very beginning. It didn't work.
Thanks for the game!

I really don't want to describe such boring and uninteresting games. We played for a long time, both in terms of time and in terms of turns, and we would have played even longer, but the opponent misclicked and agreed to a draw.

Mega chocolate with millions of crypts, 2 grand caches and 1 unicorn cache, + on 121 I took Pandora for 25k grands, immediately decided to rush, seized all castles, built GM4 in the enemy main they gave TP, but didn't have time to max out wisdom, opponent ran around collected 2 cons and the Dragon Utopia and then surrendered

Added 7 minutes later
[/U]Due to lack of time, I'd like to suggest Roger-ua to play instead of me. I hope this won't cause any inconvenience to anyone.

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On the first respawn points, there's 1 Hive and 6 Cobras.
In the first treasure, there were no Hives; I wandered around there for a week and didn't get much out of it.
In the second, there were 2 Hives, 3 Cobras, and a Key of Zargoth. The Key of Zargoth on the mini-map is just amazing – it allowed me to jump directly to another treasure.
In the center, I took 1 Hive and +3 All Stats and ran to the teleport, where the opponent was dominating.
The Earth book and the combination of swamp + castle were great – they provided Group Air + Archmage.

The final was interesting.
The opponent's combat stats were slightly worse, but he had Earth Shard and Explosion dealing 3k damage against my 1.2k.
In the first round, I didn't cast Antimagic on the 46 Group of Ducks, but 7 Archmages under a shield and with Antimagic also did a good job.
Special thanks to the Vassals; 2 hits – 2 Stuns. (it's Bronze, after all)
Thanks to Bronze for the explosion resistance on the Archmages and the oil resistance on the Ducks.
And thanks to the opponent for the game.

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I won according to the plan, just like I lost the first game.
It just worked out well, and I didn't mess up. Plus, I had a bit of luck.
Thanks to my opponent for the games.

I am ready. All that remains is to hear confirmation from the tournament judges.

03/08/2014 artbocha (Red, Rampart, Kairin, Galtran) draw RaiseTheDead (Blue, Inferno, Mariussa, Tazar) 8mm6a 213
03/09/2014 artbocha (Red, Rampart, Ivor, Ivor) def RaiseTheDead (Blue, Necropolis, Clavius, Clavius) 2sm4d(3) 134

In case of a draw (1-1) or a draw in one of the games, a third game is played on the 2SM4d(3) template. Castles are random. In the third game, in the first generation, the colors are as in the draw grid. Then the colors are switched after each subjective restart.