Posts from Jebus Cross - 4

We played with a timer of 24+8+1. Sometimes the timer was a bit tight, but overall it was enough. The distribution was quite decent — a couple of hives were visible, an external dwelling of horses, but the road to ГО was blocked by cyclops behind a box. You could run around for scouting. After a couple of days, I found 4 more hives (6 in total), a Griffin Conservatory, and boxes for all of level 1. In the 1st week, I took both secondaries; I teleported horses from the dungeon, but no real stack came of them — they were eaten. I also gathered all the hives — ended up with slightly over 30 ducks in total (lost a few to sultans), and skeletons by the start of the 2nd week were only around 200. Galtran had mass earth, air, and weapon. Loga never worked for him, and there were no speed artifacts for a very long time. I took Griffin Conservatory 3 and ran towards ГО. On the last moves at 122, I broke a double ГО of archdevils and monarchs. I launched scouting and accelerated. The center is quite poor — a couple of speed artifacts, helmet+12, 2 hives, boxes all for experience and crosses, necklace+3 all, a couple of utops. In the middle of the 2nd week, I broke through to the opponent's respawn — the road there is very wild. I never reached the main, but I took a couple of utops from his respawn — useful things were a level 5 cap, speed boots, and a gladius. I built up to a level 4 guild, and with the TP scroll, moving around became easier. At the start of the 3rd week, the opponent showed a higher army and equal stats. At 132, Gunnar, arriving via off-road, attacks me in my Castle, but I had reinforced just in case. Armies there from two built dungeons + 2 external dwellings of cats and 4 angels, plenty of mana, stats roughly equal. I have 40+ ducks, 300 bones, 3 angels and a few death knights, +3 speed. Impl there, mass haste and impl from me, slow and impl there (I only feared mass berserk). Next, I had the option to throw an impl and buy off with a superior army, but I cast sacrifice and trade 2 angels for 6 ducks :) and buy off with slightly over 20 ducks — there were a few medusas, eyes, and a couple of cats left, and Gunnar puts himself in a bad spot. I beat the red orb just in case (should have done it earlier, then I would have fought a kettle instead of a cap), take an angel from the external dwelling for the 1st move, and luckily Loshek with 25 mana was wandering the center. He captured the Castle and Galtran with mass haste kills Gunnar. Thanks for the game!

Key moments:
On 111 took Pandora's Box with 45 gr lizards
On 112 broke the prison with Gunnar lvl 10 (exp log, exp tactics, exp archery, advanced earth)
on 121 I take Dragon Utopia with Tazar (Hat, Shield of the Watcher, Sandals +2 all)
on 122 I zero out on the second GO of 110 cyclops
Then I took an external dwelling of hydras, broke another Dragon Utopia (got junk)
on 131 I went to the center (ate him up normally)
Then there was the 1st FB where my whole army was cut down. I retreated with 2 hydras
In the second FB, I cut down 9 angels and about 12 horses and a couple of drakes from the opponent
Well, in the third FB I had a mana advantage of 540 to 150 GG
Thanks for the game!

They chose all the rests. In the end, they played a good counter-game. A decent number of orcs arrived at the start + an external dwelling under the Castle. I spotted the bear external dwelling behind the vas'ki and the bird external dwelling as well. The only problem was money - the early game spread wasn't great and throughout the game there was always a lack of funds. Over the week, I eventually found 4 bear external dwellings, took 3 of them, a level 3 cons, clues, and Dragon Utopia. On 121 I took the level 3 Dragon Utopia, they gave me a red orb and КВ. I came out on 123 with 10 grey ones. On 124 I caught Solmir in the center. Thanks for the game!

Completely wiped out.
In the end, both me and my opponent got decent rolls. On the respawn there was an external dragon dwelling, a Dragon Fly Hive for 32 Wyverns, a Griffin Conservatory tier-3, Luna spawned, who leveled up well, cleared a couple of artifacts, took a Pandora's Box for the entire 2nd level, and learned Literacy (that decided the game in the end, Luna retrained the entire 2nd level into Shakti). In the Center, through the View, a Book of Fire was visible, and Luna had exactly 11 SP without artifacts. Anyway, gathering all the respawn goodies (there was a wild fail on day 114, I give Shakti 2 dragons, 4 Wyverns + low-tier units, all the cannon fodder on the scout hero, and I misclick attack 40 Medusas with the scout hero and cannon fodder - lost all Troglodytes, Medusas, Harpies, Eyes, ALL THE CREATURE GROWTH, just sad, it was tough, I even had to build Minotaurs for the low-tier units) I went into the center on day 123 via Archers, then straight to Chaos Hydras for a box of 20k +КO, Luna was refilling mana at home in the meantime (Shakti left her knowledge artifacts, since he already doubled his mana to 240).
After the box, I level up Air Magic, by scouting I see the red hero - most likely Crag Hack, stats roughly similar, I decide to try to reach him, ignoring all the goodies (Shakti had Expert Logistics + Stables), anyway, I reach Crag Hack with 75 MP to spare, but the army size doesn't please me - up to 20 Zealots, up to 20 Master Greifins, up to 10 Thunderbirds + low-tier Thunderbirds. Too late to retreat - I bet on the large mana pool - I attack.

Crag Hack 10 mana 6 SP, 12 Zealots, 14 Master Greifins, 5+low-tier Thunderbirds, Ballista
Shakti - 200+ mana 5 SP, 29 Master Greifins, 3 Angels, 1 Dragon (Arch Devils bit it), 4 Minotaurs, 6 Medusas, 69+1 Troglodytes, Ballista with Expert Artillery, combat stats roughly equal.

If Crag Hack had mana - 12 Zealots would have wiped everything and everyone, but as it was, we exchanged Cure and there was only enough mana left for one Dispel against Blind, after which the bears didn't capitalize on my mistake (I was sure I was hitting with Wait and sent the dragons forward to kill the low-tier birds) instead of killing the dragon and getting first turn (and consequently hitting the Wyvern before the next Blind) they go for the three Angels, then Blind + Cure + Implosion + Blind + Implosion + Blind + Lightning Bolt + Implosion = Crag Hack dies.

As it turned out upon analysis, if I hadn't attacked, it would have been very grim, Crag Hack had КЗ from the respawn, 3 external bear dwellings, in the treasure zone on his turn he would have picked up КВ, and who knows if Luna would have been able to do anything with КO or not.

Thanks for the game, good luck in the rest!

8 angels from respawn + 5 in Pandora + 3 archangels in Pandora + 2 Dragon Utopia maxis and 1 three-stack.

Thanks for the game.

Had a bad map and was struggling when opponent suicided. Thanks for playing.

I cleared the starting area with 5 external dwellings of Rogues, 2 Griffin Conservatories, and Crag Hack because of the GO Titans + inconvenient roads, and of course I got what was coming: three directions blocked, one heavily, one moderately, and the last one weakly behind 40 Archers)

next was home town, mini Dragon Fly Hive, native hero in prison with Elves, and a treasure chest for 50+ peasants, on day 115 I broke the block, with 19 battle rogues, losing
some of mine and 1 Duck, scouted the second library, Dragon Fly Hive and Perches. Kyrre experts Pathfinding and Wisdom)

then another Dragon Fly Hive and at the first one I'm late for the 2nd external dwelling of Rogues. Having gathered the treasure chest, Perches, Griffin Conservatory 2, 13 Horsemen, 16 Ducks, I went to the center on day 124 through
Monarchs. I took the Inferno town. I got 3 boxes, one of them is level 5, one is 20 Fanatics.

Nearby, the GO opponent broke through and chased Gosha near it. Well, and the battle at the Griffin Conservatory on Necroground (didn't have time to run away), with a 2x meat advantage for the opponent, a 2x attack/defense advantage for me, the shooters carry. GG

p.s. the track Get Lucky was playing the whole game, the starting spirit came as Spirit of Despair and on the first day two artifacts for luck)