Posts from Outlaw!

During the draft, I wrote that I was ready, but in reality, I was running around away from my computer and doing errands. As a result, I initially didn't pay close attention to the draft, but I got lucky, and we reached Diamond. Then I completely messed up... First, The_ eliminated the Tower, and I somehow missed it. In the final pick, I decided to go for my Tower against the Castle, eliminating the Dungeon. It wasn't very pleasant to find out that I had missed the Tower pick; I was left with the Citadel and Inferno. I chose Inferno.

The opponent took two early rests. In my first two turns, I built Goblin structures, but the map wasn't very playable (although both times I had a Demon stash).

In the end, after my 111th turn, a Demon stash appeared. Of course, we played on. However, the guard was Vampires. Also, the blue player's main town was visible on the map, but there wasn't a single decent hero there, so it was advantageous to fight against the Diplomat. It was immediately clear that the map was poor.

On turn 1, I placed Ifrits in the Citadel, and it was difficult to kill the Vampires. Also, thanks to the Ballista, I successfully cleared out the Demon stash.

On turn 121, with two Devils, I thought I had conquered the sea, especially since I already had around 45 Goblins. I went to free the hero from the green Demon prison. That's where I got completely beaten. It hurt so much that I thought I wouldn't recover. They destroyed everything I had, except for the Devils and 9 Goblins that barely managed to escape. It was very helpful that I had two Dungeon villages. First, I took a small Hive, then, with three Devils and several Ifrits, I encountered an Adela without mana, who stole the Hive from under my nose and, after my ransom and attack, bought it back.

Later, the blue Necropolis, which was generating 2000 resources daily, helped me and accelerated the blockade of the blue player, which the AI players were also helping to maintain. On turn 131, after buying everything I could, with 6 Devils, 4 Vivs, 12 Demons, 7 Pit Lords, 12 Goblins, and 5 Ifrits, I attacked the Castle fortification with Adela inside. There were 18 Vivs and 1 Angel.

Thank you for the game.

It would be more interesting if the reports described the strategy – whether it was based on diplomacy, speed, or money... I understand that's just a dream. But mentioning that the main hero was given a diplomat is, in my opinion, a must! And revealing the secret of how a diplomat managed not to defeat a simple beastmaster on the 7th week is also necessary. I thought only I could do that.

Simon5760, thank you for the detailed explanation. And did you jump into the darkness hoping for a scout with a money bag?? The maphack level is impressive, though. It's clear that the opponent set himself up, rushing with 21 is a deadly sin. But when you read some reports, it's unclear - either the opponent had terrible luck, or the most interesting part was missed.

I believe that even if I didn't win, I gained a significant advantage already on the black)
Dungeon already has the strongest start + on turn 1 I build a thousand exp and push diplomacy to my native Jeditte! :smile15:
and, as usual, I try to fail the layout (before that, in a restarted game, Diplomacy went to Daremif, but Shakhtyor jumped on a stack of Harpies for a +6 shield -- they were standing right on the road -- and lost half the Troglodytes, restarted... also restarted by agreed encounter, when Shakhtyor on day 114 was level 10 with expert Earth)))) this time I jump on a stack of Ogres for a +6 sword, also on the road, there are 52 with Haste, but I lost only 14 Troglodytes, we play!
on day 112, already with upgraded Troglodytes, I break into a minimal Griffin Conservatory, the Angel is given to the dug-up Riland and he rushes non-stop, while Shakhtyor with the remnants of the troops breaks through another direction and takes an Inferno village
Riland with the Angel upsets the green Castle AI, I build horses there more for the sake of the speed artifact, the log rushes further, joins the blue and neutral Gremlins, smashes Pandora's Boxes with solid guards, fortunately attack under 15! on the 2nd front, Jeditte also has expert Diplomacy, the map is being explored, a mini native treasure zone...
...on day 125, Riland, having devoured a Pandora's Box for 10K experience and 10K gold, reached level 15 and didn't quite run to the Conflux village, the other slackers take the external dwellings of Dragons and Phoenixes, houses are being built, the slightly damaged by ballistics Mullich is freed, level 10, but with Logistics! :)
on day 126, the opponent, having not found a diplomat and not having uncovered anything decisive, reveals Riland's parameters and decides not to continue :(

thanks for the game, good luck in the lower bracket! :)

Well, I won again, this time playing as Necropolis, and we had 111 super-heroes. I couldn't rest; on the next turn, I suffered huge losses on the ice elementals due to a teleport to the computer dungeon, but then I managed to recover quickly. On turn 121, I defeated 12 vampires, 2 conscripts, and 3+2 other units, and attacked from two sides.
Thanks for the game!

Game duration: 123, cannot be edited.

04/01/14. zloy_romantik (blue, Rampart, Rylander) def Pyre (red, Dungeon, Shifter) 217 mininost
The result can be summed up in one word: "Over-diplomated!":D

Roma, are you kidding me? If the tournament organizer can't even write a proper report, what can you expect from the participants?:confused:

We completely reset and went for it! Some mages and Bron came in alone, I decided to try leveling him up a bit, I see a Griffin Conservatory under the Castle, an external dwelling of archers, and the opponent's Conflux is connected, I find boots behind the zombies on 112, Not bad, took them and decided to rush into the opponent, :smile13: I take his main and wait, here naturally I get smacked by the arrow from the Conflux's expert mages (minus all archers), but there's a Fortress under the Castle behind the Cerberi:smile20: I barely rebuild the horses in the Citadel and on 117 I sacrifice them, along with all my meat on the Grand Harpies. I wanted to tell myself that's enough:smile38:, but on 126 another sacrifice, more horses and archers, but I freed the Fort, and then the luck came, I placed the birds, upgraded them immediately, rushed into the treasure zone, took max Griffin Conservatory and immediately got Archangels. Collected quite a few Dragon Fly Hives, got very lucky with the treasure zone, turned out to be 4 Dragon Utopias, Wings + control, though I never found the КЗ(( closer to the 2nd month I spotted the opponent's movement and decided to take a risk, 4 Dimension Doors and I reached the scout hero. Cut down a decent amount of meat, the opponent revived and fled to another treasure zone. And I, deceived by the previews, went into an almost empty treasure zone with no mana at all( Stuck there for about 5 days. But with scout heroes I managed to get another +7 angels (archangels) and waited for the opponent. Then he showed up, the purse is decent, but everyone has speed 6 and stats on Spell Power, and I happened to have a Red Orb in my bag. In Fireball the speed decided it. ГГ
thanks for the game!

Thank you for the game.