Posts from “Two Seasons: Summer-Autumn 2014” Tournament. Online games for rating (reports, discussions).

The time limit was tight: 12+6+1. The game was about who could capture more castles in a turn. Both players had full control and equal stats. Sandro + Shakti faced off against Dessa.
Sandro had a stack of 2k+ skeletons, while Dessa had 4k movement points.
In a rush, I didn't manage to hide Shakti, and Sandro was left alone. I was about to type "GG" because it's impossible to out-control Dessa... But then luck smiled upon me, and Sandro managed to reach the city where Dessa had decided to spend the night. GG.
Thanks for the game!

The computer turned out to be stronger.

The start wasn't great, didn't put any psychs on the first [week], but I took back the castle horses from the computer on the first. On the third, I took Pandora in the treasure zone and Mage Guild 4. Then I started messing up: I saw the Opp had broken into the treasure zone, so I used Town Portal to stand next to him in a village, but I transferred the whole army to a peasant — I'm an idiot; I didn't have time to get the army back because I had already built the Mage Guild this turn and the village had no tavern. The OPP attacks, my Army is gone, and he went back into the treasure zone. Over the next 2 weeks, I restored the army (23 birds), took 2 Dragon Utopias on FB, and decided the attack/defense parameters of Mephala with the Cloak of Renunciation. thx for the game

At respawn, two Griffin Conservatories 2-4, an external dwelling of Minotaurs, good heroes, I swapped to Necropolis, on the second week I built the home Conservatories, and another one totaling 8 Angels, I found a Dragon Utopia and wanted to take it immediately..but it turned out to be maxed out, I took it around day 132 I think..with Resurrection and Raise Dead, almost without losses, it gave stats and wings. I also ran around for 4 more days, and Scorpio surrenders out of hopelessness.
Thanks for the game.

111 - In the tavern, Piquedram with 8 gargoyles and a Rampart hero. I buy and upgrade gremlins, about ~50 of them, leave the castle, and run into a block of 50+ gremlins... some "friendlies". Despite the set-up centaurs who had "shoot us" written in big letters on their foreheads, these pests mowed down 15 of my gremlins, which were scarce enough as it was. I run further along the path, there's a prison with archers guarding it (well, at least it's not with ballistae), one path leads to grass past 50+ dwarves, nearby a shield +4 guarded by 20+ dwarves. The other path is another block, but this time with a choice: another 50+ gremlins or 20+ gogs. Lucky me, I find a gremlin dwelling with my scout off-road.
112-113 - I break into the prison, I get a level-zero Rampart hero, but I also get centaurs, which no one wants to hit. I take out the second group of gremlins, the losses hurt, every little pointy hat counts. I'm left with about 40 gremlins, 30 centaurs, and a few gargoyles. With the cart, I haul dwarves for 2 weeks, breaking through to both the shield and the path to the grass. I build a mage guild, no slow or haste, but I do get prayer.
114-117 - on the grass I take a Conflux, there's a stable, and I open up the view. Almost the whole zone is visible. This is clearly not the adjacent zone, there's a passage up to a treasure zone on sand, I can't find the passage to the second treasure zone, but there aren't that many unexplored parts. For good stuff in the zone I see 3 crypts, I take them, one is max, so I get nagas at home at the citadel. At the respawn, meanwhile, all my scout-collectors have hit blocks, and the second road leads to ГО.
Second week - I buy everything, upgrade the nagas, run with Nila randomly towards the passage to the second treasure zone. It's where I expected it, the underground. Army: 90 gremlins, 10 gargoyles, 5 upgraded nagas, 6 mages, and a bit of fodder. I have tactics, no magic is given. I see a Dragon Fly Hive, take it, level 6. Further on, the passage is blocked by 20+ monks for shackles. Upwards, 50+ vampires for the memory amulet. I hit the monks, there are 40 of them, -magic. Next, a block of 50+ monks for 2 scrolls. I decide I've had enough of monks, so I hit the vampires. There are 65 of them with haste, -fodder. I run further, a block of 20+ efreet for a pandora's box and +5 attack. It becomes clear I'm not welcome here, I run back. What about my magic? Nila got air, and the mage guild in the Conflux gave me slow. Strange - air is good, slow is good, but having both somehow feels bad. I evaluate the options: run to the other treasure zone on sand, but I have no pathfinding. Or look for passages to other secondary zones at the respawn, which are who-knows-where, and probably the result will be that I get caught off guard. I decide to run for the sands. By the end of the week I see Kyrre, who is breaking through the efreet in the underground treasure zone. I check with a scout - decent stats, ~20 wyverns, 30 grand elves, and more fodder. 0 mana, but there's no point attacking without haste, slow, and mass magic.
3rd week - Kyrre runs back, I take 2 Dragon Fly Hives in the sand treasure zone, run looking for something tasty. Red takes both my castles and Kyrre chases Nila through the treasure zone. I grab basic pathfinding, take a chest guarded by 100+ djinns, a necklace +3+3 guarded by 50+ rocs, gather 30 wyverns, but after all the fights I'm left with just wyverns, 7 nagas, and 40 gremlins, that's it. I barely spend mana, still have no mass magic, and I realize my only chance is to find wings\КВ\КЗ\a level 5 hat. Alas, I find none of that, I run out of the treasure zone onto a secondary zone, and on day 141 Kyrre catches up. In the final battle, no chance.

Thanks for the game.

Hack rules! tnx for game.