Posts from Jebus Cross - 4

took 112, then decided to keep it and miscalculated, fell for the stable near the Castle and the hope of finding something worthwhile later. But in the end, on the respawn, besides the exterior market and 2 Dragon Fly Hives with a total of 18 Wyverns, there's nothing else interesting. On the first turn, I ate 2 boxes, one for experience, the other for 10k gold, and I forgot to add an angel — I sacrificed one in the Griffin Conservatory, then it was eaten by the Wyverns. GO, a crowd of General Necrohorses with a upgraded stack fell at 121 without magic, with 3 bears and 22 ducks against 40 hounds and 7 regular Phoenix birds. The opponent revealed stats at 121 initially for 10 each, and then from 122 onward for 25 each, and resigned after all the battles combined. Overall, lucky, thanks for the game.

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I chose all the restart options. The game was incredibly generous; the map was filled with resources from edge to edge, with excellent road connections in the form of figure eights. There were three Hive structures, each with 16 units, and when I captured a fortress that took 6 days to reach with 35 units, I was already confident in my victory. The only thing that worried me was that the Guardian of the Orb was about 6,000 movement points away, and it couldn't even be seen because of the three blocking structures, but that was a minor issue. Somehow, I managed to gather three more Angels from the respawn point! And I even found a hidden stash of Unicorns! With my mighty army of 15 Wyverns (one of which was lost somewhere), 3 Angels, 9 Unicorns, 14 Grand Griffins, 8 Pegasi, and 30 Centaurs, I rushed towards the Guardian of the Orb. On turn 124, I positioned myself right in front of the Guardian of the Orb, facing the Giants. On turn 125, with full speed and over 3500 mana, I entered the center (fortunately, the Giants didn't have Guard Shield, and the mana somehow replenished). In the center, I immediately devoured two Hive structures – the maximum level :smile16:. Then, everything went smoothly; I consumed the entire center, collected stats of 30-42, and acquired the Red Orb, gaining control. Considering that my opponent had a Grinding Pack with 13-13 combat stats, it was game over. I defeated him on his way to the Utopia with damage-dealing units. After reviewing the save files, it seemed my opponent also had a tough time. The only positive thing was finding a Teapot at the respawn point. Thank you for the game!

There was no money, the outer defenses were Cyclops (6 of them, and taking the Guardian of Order didn't change the weather), and with one weak unit and no log, plus playing as a Mage against a Red Orb, there was no chance. Thanks for the game.

As always, I spend all my rest, opponent does too, we started.
The roads are average, starting hero Luna, albeit with only fairies. Right at the castle exit, a block of 20+ dogs for a ring +1+1.

111 - the dogs are broken through by Luna without losses. Around the castle are solid mountains, only one road leading away from the center, which isn't very encouraging. Little gold, only enough for 3 heroes and a building. I crack the chest to hire another hero, but no luck, a dove of luck. It's even strange how unlucky a "lucky" artifact can be. Above the castle I see a ring+1 speed behind halberdiers, but I decide to leave it for later. Behind the mountains, a bird nest sticks out; how to get there is unclear for now.
112 - I run to a road fork, see a tavern, not bad, at least we'll speed up a bit. No gold, barely enough for a building and a hero. I want to buy another hero from the external tavern, yeah, right. I take the chest - artifact+10% eagle.
113 - gathered a bit of gold, buy 2 scouts from the external tavern, send them exploring. The scout took an empty secondary dungeon, Luna entered +1 attack and ran along the path; need to slowly move towards the center, otherwise we're grazing in a corner. Not enough for an 8th hero; in the chest is an amulet of mana. Nothing good in sight yet.
114 - I look over my heroes, realize the entire bet is on Luna; no one fits the main role. Luna 1-1-4-4 with Scholar, basic Fire and Earth, but no Mage Guild. I run further along the path; a fork: one way 50+ harpies for a pandora's box, the other way 50-99 gargoyles for +1 all, a chest, and a medusa nest. Can bypass all, but in an arc. The situation is complicated by Luna having no mana and unskilled Fire Magic.
115 - I ride past the harpies, take a max crypt, see a camp behind the gargoyles. Also see a Dragon Fly Hive and a chain+4 behind 20+ cows. Can't handle the Dragon Fly Hive now, but need to take the camp. Luna has enough mana for one cast of Wall; I think about taking 2 chests for experience and maybe breaking the harpies for the pandora if Fire Magic levels up.
116 - in the camp are 3 Pit Fiend; I hire them, they'll come in handy. I take the chest, bow+5%. The second one - min. Hmph, "leveled up Fire Magic" they call it. I position Luna at the harpies, build a chain from the castle.
117 - I bring up birds and crazies, attack the harpies, got 30 Water Elementals. Not bad. I attack the gargoyles, there are 90 of them, they bit hard. Fire Magic still isn't leveling. I decide to eat the chest for experience... get a Magic Cloak. And why do I always naively expect gold/experience? I find the path to the bird nest but don't reach it, will take it with a scout on 121.
121 - I bring up the growth, take the chain and max Dragon Fly Hive with a scout, take the bird nest with another scout, Luna runs along the path. Lucky we found a well.
122 - I clear the pandora's box behind 100+ harpies with a scout, but there's experience inside. Army to Luna, she continues along the path. I break the cyclops for a pandora, got 10k experience, finally Fire Magic leveled up. And got First Aid. Earth is also expert, have Shield and Skin, but still haven't found the Mage Guild. Finally see the center - rogues and giants, but fortunately need to fight only one of them.
123 - Efreeti in the camp. I buy them, bring to Luna. Stats 7-4-11-8, attack the rogues with 2 efreeti and 1 giant. There are 75 of them, and they have Magic Mirror. The stack doesn't even die from 3 Walls. A bit of a sketchy fight; I kill 40 rogues, spend two hours thinking where to place walls, but 1 efreeti remains with 50 HP; I decide not to risk it and retreat. Without Luna, there would be no chance for sure.
I rebuy at home and sit to refill mana. Finish off the center with a zero-level scout; we got beaten very unpleasantly, but at least managed to save all the birds. I see nothing good in the Center, golden golems for a pandora's box stand on the road.
124 - plan is to find the Center castle and rebuy Luna there. I attack the golems, inside the pandora 35 wolves. I run further along the path, and... hit the opponent's center. 50+ efreeti that block me from most of the center and all the castles. And above I see his second guard zone - green dragons, and if he breaks them, he gets access to the Center, while I have no idea what to do; there's nothing to fight the efreeti with. Next to the guard zone I see a secondary town of Tower, in which Mephala is resting. Sadness. I give a reverse order to scouts, otherwise I'd get caught. At home, I slowly build the Mage Guild. With Luna, I take the artifact +1 speed and park for creature farming at the goblins.
The opponent moves - brings army to Mephala and attacks the efreeti, not the dragons. Breaks them and rides a bit along the road in my direction.
125 - I fly a scout into his secondary town, check Mephala - the army isn't that scary; I rebuy Luna, run into +1 attack, attack.
Luna 7-4-12-(85), 6 birds, 7 wyverns, 20 water elementals, 35 wolves, 1-1-35 giant.
Mephala 6-12-2-(30), 2 dragons, 18 wyverns, 5 rogues, 1-1-1-1 pegasus.
There's no mass magic there, and thanks to Lightning Bolt for 310 I drag the fight, 5 birds survive.

Thank you for the game.

Time is up for the pair GoD - Little: - \ +

The remaining pairs need to finish their match no later than ODD.

Thank you for the game.

On turn 111, I took the Elven stronghold, Mephala was running along the road, breaking through the blocks, and by the end of the week, everything somehow gradually merged.
On turn 117, thanks to the external market, I'm placing Draconians, buying them out. With what little I have, I take two Horsemen strongholds and a Draconian stronghold (the autobattle was losing everything), and from the growth of the first week (including the strongholds), only two dragons and two Horsemen remained.
Then I take Pandora for 15k experience, and Mephala was only offered water in magic, which I didn't take. I take 3 Hives and fight the Ifrits. If I had known that my opponent was cut off by my Ifrits, I would have taken the domestic Utopian first. But in the end, I emerged in the center at the wrong time. Thank you for the game.

Thank you for playing!

2. The two domestic Utopians were weak. In the final against Magic, they didn't stand a chance.

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I frankly overslept the start of the game, after a tough workweek, and with pretty good generation I almost got caught. Bron entered, 2 external dwellings of hydras, though I was a few MP short to claim the second one, an external dwelling of wyverns and 4 trees, a couple of boxes, and with an eye to the future — 4 Dragon Utopias. I kind of stalled and dawdled, decided to take a Dragon Utopia, and got a royal reward: Captain's Hat and Steel Ball, ended up going out on week 1, day 25. There I was immediately accepted, cutting down 34 wyverns and 6 chaos hydras, showing Berserker and Implosion. I decided to fight, it's a tournament after all.

I bought 4 hydras, split into a secondary hero near the center, wanted to take a Naga Bank and a Griffin Conservatory, but figured 4 hydras could handle the Dragon Utopia themselves, and in the center there was an unclaimed one, and the opponent ran off somewhere. I go in, there's a Red Sphere and a Sword +6, but the hydra retreats. I run back to the town, picking up +2 speed along the way. Then Monere in the sands finds another Dragon Utopia, I decide not to touch the home ones yet, but try to gobble up the one in the sands. In a rush, I forget to take off the Red Sphere, so the Dragon Utopia guard kills off some of the meat, I go in with maximum stats on 4 chaos hydras, about 30 lizards and 3 cows. Shield, Skin, Cure — I come out with 2 hydras, there's КЗ and Gladius, that's something.

Little by little, I squeeze the center Castle, then a second one, and a miracle — an untouched Air Conflux. The situation improved a bit, but there were about a hundred wyverns, a pack of bears, and better stats; the opponent went off to feed heavily on another respawn. I send a reconnaissance drop across the mountains, and papal Monere finds a Dragon with all the artifacts and bears. I attack with the Vambraces, the Alliance gathers. Then I came to the opponent's respawn and was attacked, but the advantage was already on my side.

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Opp took 3 resists, I took 1, start animating 2 Dragon Fly Hives, Moner, stable. As a result, at respawn there are 4 Dragon Fly Hives for 20 Wyverns, 2 crypts and a Medusa hut from money buildings, no cons or high. lvl. caches. Collected ring of the mage, and went out on 123 through bone dragons, never found slow. After ГО - 12 Wyverns, center is empty, after surrender opp also turned out to have 12 Wyverns :D. Thanks for the game.

Opp took 3 restarts, I took 1, the start gives 2 Dragon Fly Hives, a monolith, a stable. In the end, on the respawn there are 4 Dragon Fly Hives for 20 Wyverns, 2 crypts and a medusa generator among the money buildings, no Conflux nor high-level external dwellings. I collected a Ring of the Magi and went out on day 123 through the bone dragons, but I never found Slow. After GO - 12 Wyverns, the center is empty, after surrendering the opp also turned out to have 12 Wyverns :D. Thanks for the game.

I confirm. The generation was quite rough, but in-game generation ended up turning out not bad: there are 2 external dwellings of Minotaurs, a native secondary hero, an external marketplace, 2 Dragon Fly Hives, an empty box for 20-49 mages (as it turned out, the entire level 4 was there). On day 117 after breaking the box (the bastards killed 1 Wyvern after all) I found an external dwelling of dragons and revealed another one, but it was far away, so I never took it by the end of the game. On day 121 I took another Dragon Fly Hive, captured a secondary town, Shattered into the first one where the vortex was, respawned back, and through the stables on a dragon ran to GO (Wizards), behind this GO another 2 are visible (20+ stone giants and 20+ greater hydras), and there's no way around them. We shoved Air Magic into Shakti, but far from Expert. No mass spells, I'm anticipating pain at GO, and then I also discovered I hadn't bought a spellbook (classic). On the way to GO I decide to kill 20+ cyclopes for the Dragon Fly Hive and the medusa generator, there are 25 of them with a Fortune Teller's Booth, I lose a dragon, a Wyvern, 5 Minotaurs, some filler :( . Then on the road to GO I pick up another Dragon Fly Hive, a box of 80 Troglodytes, an external dwelling of cats. Under all this, Air Magic gets leveled up. I build a Mage Guild in my main (Slow, Haste), Shatter the Miner there, learn it, and run to GO. On day 124 I finally attack the Wizards. Army: 30 ducks, 24 Minotaurs, 2 dragons, 110 greater Troglodytes + filler. I kill them relatively easily with Mass Haste, losing only the Troglodytes. During the battle I saw that the Minotaurs were not upgraded :D. I decide to upgrade, I buff up before the bears and hydras. On day 125 I bring up everything I can and attack. After the bears, 22 ducks and 9 Minotaurs remain + some filler/tier-1 units, after the hydras 12 ducks and some tier-1 units remain. But it turned out that these 2 GO were guarding a neighboring spawn. I run the Miner forward into the center, reveal tasty boxes of greater nagas and giants, as well as a KV for 20-49 ducks. I'm thinking of surrendering, but the presence of the KV, as well as the fact that on the tavern my army power is shown higher even with 12 ducks, convinced me not to type gg. I send a scout to the neighboring spawn, see a Sword +3, 2 Dragon Fly Hives, a native castle. The plan is simple: hold out until day 131, and by then the duck stack will recover (the Dragon Fly Hives turned out to be 8+8) + a pack of greater Minotaurs + filler. I planned to double my mana and take the KV with all this good stuff, but the opponent typed GG. After breaking through his own blocks, he had exactly the same number of ducks left, but his prospects were worse.

Thanks for the game.

I completely slept through the start of the game after some heavy workdays; with a pretty good map generation, I almost made it. Bron entered, 2 hydra external dwellings—though I was short a few MP to paint the second one—a wive external dwelling and 4 trees, a couple of boxes, and 4 Dragon Utopias for future prospects. I spent some time poking around and decided to take a Dragon Utopia; they gave me royal loot: Captain's Hat and Steel Ball. In the end, I came out as a pack on 125. I was immediately intercepted there, with 34 wives and 6 chaos hydras cut down, revealing berserkers and imps. I decided to fight back; after all, it is a tournament.

I bought out 4 hydras, crashed into the secondary area near the center; I wanted to take Nagobank and Consu, but thought that 4 hydras could handle the Dragon Utopia themselves, and there was an untaken one in the center while the opponent had run off somewhere. I go in, find a red ball and a +6 sword, but a hydra retreats. I run back toward the village, picking up +2 speed along the way. Later, Moner finds another Dragon Utopia in the sands; I decide not to touch my home ones for now and try to eat the one in the sands. In a rush, I forget to remove the red ball, and as a result, the Dragon Utopia guards cut some of the meat. I go in at max capacity with 4 chaos hydras—about 30 lizards and 3 cows. Shield, leather, healing—I emerge with 2 hydras, find КЗ and Gladius, now we're getting somewhere.

Bit by bit, I push out the center Castle, then a second one, and a miracle—an untouched Kvozdukha. The situation improved slightly, but there were nearly a hundred wives, a pack of grey bears, and higher stats; the opponent had gone to feed heavily on another barbo respawn. Sending a scout landing party over the mountains, Papal Moner finds the Dragon with all artifacts and bears. I attack with bracers, and the Alliance gathers. Then I arrived at the opponent's respawn and was attacked, but the advantage was already on my side.

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at 113 bears settled in, at 115 a total wipe of power, I'm left with 16 orcs, go evil, a hundred cyclops, at the end of 1st I place castle, at the start of 2nd I open 2 external dwelling of bears, open 2 pandoras: in one 5 tons of experience, in the second 40 orcs :D , decide to keep playing, run around, collect resources for bear upgrade, see opp in the center by my ГО, but I don't care, was counting on native Dragon Utopia, at 131 I speed up before it, a 3-stack, inside is an earth book and trash, well, captain's hat worked out too, get tired of running, break cyclops, settle in, opponent arrives with 44 gr ducks and stats 18-20, catch imp at 1600, and end the game by suicide via Armageddon.

The opponent took all the respawns. I started to think outside the box in search of the best option. This was with 2 optimal surrenders, and on the first one, 1 external dwelling of Angels was revealed, but there were blocks, so I took 2 at 111. I had to take one technical respawn; the map was bugged when playing around with the "Shockolate" setup. Then, on 111, I reveal a Griffin Conservatory near the Castle, Stronghold, and 1 external dwelling of Grand Elves and Monks with a Library in the block, though it can be bypassed. I took a risk hoping everything would go smoothly, and again my attempt № 2 ended in failure. As a result, by the first respawn, everything is practically cleared, there are no external dwellings of Angels, no External Market, just one Dragon Fly Hive in the middle of nowhere on the map. But gentlemen, there are 3 boxes. On 117, behind a horde of basic Hell Hounds with g.s., I took an empty box (got a decent level-up). 121, the second box gave 15 thousand experience; naturally, the Angels stood on the first one in the Fort. Next, the Griffin Conservatory was taken, Vale is slow expert — fortunately running on GO. 123, the Nagas were broken through easily; I didn’t even slow them down because I had 79 Archers and 5 Angels and was snowballing. Afterwards, I was surprised I wasn’t killed. Well, on 124, the opponent made a pope move and left 42 greased Swarms without Tazar in the center on his secondary and everything became clear. Thanks for the game and for such luck on my opponents' side.