Posts from OFB-8

A huge, inconvenient respawn point. I was slowly clearing it, as there was almost nothing there, and I was about to leave, but my opponent wanted to leave too – it didn't work out.
Thanks for the game!

probably the computer rebelled against the heroes, started by banning the creation of new reports, let's see what happens next:D

met on a snowy Castle treasure zone, opponent was in a bad spot, the battle didn't happen, opponent capitulates
thx for the game

We resurrected a couple of times from 3 castles and immediately started playing.
Luna gets a diploma on the first day, a Dragon Utopia stable (inconvenient), a couple of hives and a couple of hidden Air Elemental stacks. The map itself isn't very impressive, but because of the diplomacy I decide to take a look.
On the second day, I found an external market, 2 more hives and realized the map has 2 native towns, meaning it's very poor in Dragon Utopias and goodies. I decide to play.
By week 1, day 17, I gathered almost all the goodies from my spawn (Town Portal scroll being the most interesting), left 2 hives for week 2, day 1 and then passed them along the chain to Luna. By the way, I collected 30 Angels from 4 hives! Not a single one was maxed though.
On week 2, day 2, I break into the first intermediate territory and immediately get a join of 35 Ogre Magi.
Week 2, day 3: another join of Ogre Magi, now a hundred. I free Srakar from prison and reveal the underground cartographer. He showed me 3 hives nearby and 2 more stacks of Ogre Magi, one of which joins for free again, totaling 179 :cool:
All 3 hives turned out to be mini; I spotted 2 Dragon Utopias I can reach within 2-3 days, decide to take them and then the home one.
Both turned out to be trash — the most useful was a Crown +4/4. I take the home one on week 2, day 7 and it's exactly what we needed: 2 tomes of Air and Fire, perfectly suited us.
While running for the Dragon Utopias, I joined another hundred Air Elementals and 25 Phoenixes.
Immediately get Vision (by this point 5 Mage Guilds built at 2, none gave it), I see 20 Wizards and a Pandora's Box which the opponent broke but didn't take. It has 5k exp :(
Week 3, day 1: I see Adela but she goes as a secondary diplomat, the main hero is Ciele. I join 30 Black Dragons for gold and attack Adela. She has 6 stacks of bears, 30 Black Dragons, 30 Pegasi, 1+8 stacks of Black Dragons, 8 stacks of Cyclopes and about 20 Phoenixes.
The Wizards cast Mass Haste, the opponent casts Slow in response, and I follow up with Mass Haste.
He positions himself so that by the start of round 2 I cast Berserk on 4 stacks and finish off the rest. In the end, I never let him take another turn for the rest of the battle.

Next, the path leads into the snow because a fat treasure zone was spotted there, but on her turn Ciele occupies a Necropolis town there.
On the way to the town, I join 32 Black Dragons, 27 Wizards, a Sword +5 all stats, and a mini Griffin Conservatory. Ciele has a mana advantage of +100, but in combat stats it's roughly even. Her army has 80 Black Dragons, 4 Ghost Dragons and a few Scorpicores. Immediately Mass Haste and an attempt to break into my Black Dragons fails because there's -3 morale and the main Black Dragon stack didn't move.
And then I realize I still don't have Slow :D
I had to use Mass Haste and cut down the Dragons and Scorpicores, after which the opponent surrenders.
Thank you for the game!

Shakhti came with 2 stacks and 2 native heroes. There is a stable and an external market at the respawn.
Plenty of money, but the roads let me down - one direction led to a block of medusas (to the native treasure zone), the second led to a three-day route to a teleporter (to the necro computer), which I didn't take. I decided to head straight to the center and didn't regret it.
On day 117, the reds showed up at the central teleporter.
I clear the loot from the external dwelling of medusas and harpies and attack on day 117.
Shakhti 5 4
14 gr. eyes, 2 manticores, 8 medusas, 1+1+4 gr. harpies, 120 Troglodytes.
Tant 2 1 3 7 (8)
2 psychics, 1+1+1 fairies, 10 air, 9 fire, 130 skeletons
Tant retreats with 50 skeletons, I lose half of my Troglodytes because there was Haste on the skeletons.
Next I take the Dragon Fly Hive for 6 Wyverns, but the opponent couldn't handle the max Dragon Fly Hive and surrendered.
Thanks for the game!

Used all the restarts in the first game. I hid a bunch of Skull Lords, and I have Silka. On day 114, I took the brown, empty underground dungeon with built-up Medusas. I checked the consulate-dwelling in the underground (with a group stack), and there was also another consulate behind a group of Grand Griffins (a tier 3 unit). The AI went about its business, and I carefully cleared everything in search of money. The map is poor. On day 117, I built mages in the citadel, and in the dungeon, I painted the hidden cats and built a portal in the village (with Grem). I found a passage with shifted guards to the treasury on the rocks (there were 5 Hydras there). And on the second week, in the tavern, there was a pleasant surprise - Gurnisson with the missing artifacts for the Well, and he himself is not bad :cool: (during the rests in the last generations, the opponent chose him instead of Crag, with a very serious justification :)). The consulate is taken only on day 131 - Grem, mages, cats, and advanced slow (on the second week, Pikedram arrived). I saw a few more Hydras; I just need to decide from which angle to start and, of course, with some mini-boss. The opponent, apparently, had everything go wrong, and the green AI promised a fight... a quick (as much as is appropriate for this time) meeting was expected after the blue faction invaded my territory. The blue faction decided not to wait :) Thank you for the game.

Thank you for the game!