Posts from Jebus Cross - 4

I got an average respawn in terms of content, but everything was too scattered. There was an external dwelling of bears and a market, which helped to have five upgraded bears by month 1 week 2 day 3 and exit through a tavern close to the ГО. I ran around a bit, cleared a nag horde for a Pandora's Box with all fire spells, an external dwelling of bears, and a Griffin Conservatory with 3 wyverns, and then I see Tazar. The power stats are roughly the same: I have 3 angels, 5 gray ones, 18 wyverns; he has 23 upgraded monarchs, 1 angel, and singles... I attack, the Armageddon at 180 helped a lot, and then level 15 Crag Hack finished off the remnants well. As often happens on Jebus Cross, one day decided everything; Artem's respawn was also far from easy. Thanks for the game!

It turned out to be an awkward game.
Opponent took all the rests, I had another one that I didn't even think to use after revealing three Dragon Fly Hives and two Griffin Conservatories on the first day. The respawn was great, in the end I got 5 conservatories for 11 Angels and about 30 Ducks. Admittedly, I slowed myself down because I went the wrong direction, not towards where the maximum Dragon Fly Hives and the max conservatory were. I got to 123 with a rush, and then 124 with a Force Blast, which I should have won easily (11 Angels, 2 Bears, 30 Ducks, 6 Birds against 3 Angels, 3 Draconians, 35 Ducks, 50 Grands, a few Royal Griffins), but I froze at three in the morning. I thought I had +1 speed, which I hadn't even picked up from the respawn, so I just cast Mass Haste and charged into the Duck stack with everything. 11 Angels hit perfectly for -11 Ducks, but in response, I lost an Angel (the respawn didn't give artifacts, though my base stats were sufficient after Arenas and other boosters, something like 16-9 vs 14-20). Then, instead of my Ducks moving, the Angels suddenly went, I got Oil applied to my face, and over 2 rounds I lost all my feathered troops. In short, a failure; Kyrre ended up buying a truce. The center was tiny; I colored the Angel external dwellings, took the conservatory, a couple of chests. In general, I ate what the Red player hadn't collected and went to another respawn, chasing all the scout heroes out of the center and taking towns. Midway through the third, Kyrre ran out of the respawn and went to another adjacent respawn, where Crag Hack accidentally caught her on the rush, though without artifacts, but still. This was followed by an attack from a Prison hero with 400 mana, but Crag Hack had a Cloak of Negation — that's GG. Although the home Dragon Utopias were fat (there was no Dragon Utopia either at home, in the center, or on the other respawn; there was nowhere to take parameters and control, whereas the opponent had 3), the Red player found control and parameters and was slowly turning the game around — a game I had almost given away out of my own courtesy (read: stupidity), but the gift was returned :)

Thanks for the game!

Ugh.. it was all so close..
We picked all restarts, and I had to take 112, because there was a moon, but the respawn was poor; after scouting GO bleeks and efreets, I realized it was a hopeless idea.
I took another restart due to a block.
In the end, I got quite a trashy spawn: at respawn a Griffin Conservatory 1, a Dragon Fly Hive behind 19 archliches (it turned out to be a mini), I scouted two external Phoenix dwellings, one behind 10+ Wizards, the second behind a hundred magogs, an external dwelling with magogs kilometers from the castle, in a loop at the corner of the respawn (scouted via landscape with a scout hero). There are also two external dwellings of Psychic elementals — nothing to take them with (one was guarded by 10-19 nagas, the second I did take, but only after losing all my meat).
One of the roads was blocked by 40+ Ogre Shamans, behind a prison, a chain +4, resources, an obelisk; there was no question of breaking through on the first one.
On 117 I place birds, break through the liches — minus a bird, a mini Dragon Fly Hive, I take the Griffin Conservatory, give the army to Arlash (I was leveling him), 12 Wizards somehow managed to break through on autoresolve without losses, at the external dwelling they finish off the last bird, though the Angel survived.
Needless to say, the situation is terrible: GO has a hundred+ archliches, no tactics, no magic at all, Arlash is level 6..
I take the prison behind the ogres, and there is a sight for sore eyes: Gunnar level 5. At home I build a School of Magic, teach him Earth, behind a block I found another Dragon Fly Hive and it painted the second external bird dwelling, Gunnar at home also grabbed a Pandora's Box for 15k experience, getting Literacy and Armor. With an army of 12 ducks, 9 birds, 1 Angel and a Pit Fiend, I kill the liches — minus a Pit Fiend and 3 ducks. Next, 50 Cyclops Kings for a +4all shield and resources; I broke through surprisingly easily.
The opponent is already in the center with archs, retreats into the fog in the center, I follow the tracks, there's nothing else to catch; I've already fully accepted defeat, when a box in the sand appears on the path; the opponent left it behind 10-19 ghosts, it gave 15 Monarchs — that's a bit more cheerful, but the opponent runs to the central castle and sits there.. out of desperation I run there too (nowhere else to go), by army there are added upgraded hydras and regular ones, black bulls. Overall, bad times — I lose both by stats and by meat, but oh well, I didn't come all this way for nothing — I attack.
And the opponent has 0 mana.. well now, Gunnar has 44 mana, Oil + Shield + Stone Skin and a Lightning Bolt for 310 (I built GM2 at home). Battle stats are higher there, but not by much; by meat: 5 archs, 14 ducks, 15 black bulls, 4 chaos hydras, 3 regular hydras, also a couple of gnolls. I have 1 Angel, 9 birds, 2 water elementals, 2 faeries, 15 Monarchs, 3 Psychic elementals, 9 ducks. Mana ultimately wins the fight; it turned out the opponent built ducks in the castle instead of a GM, which decided the outcome of the game — with mana, Fūyr killed Gunnar easily and effortlessly, plus there was a KV involved besides all that.

Thanks for the game!

Strange surrender, crooked roads, I spotted 2 external dwellings of dragons, 2 Griffin Conservatories, 2 Dragon Fly Hives, 2 Dragon Utopias and 2 external dwellings of rocs + Ciele appeared, I decided not to restart, but as it turned out, it wasn't that great, there wasn't much gold lying around, I had to clear crypts with chains, Kyrre leveled up like a freak - Learning + Water, only later did she get Tactics, Defense and Earth, there was nowhere to level, I spotted a third dragon external dwelling near the exit, but neither gold nor chains lined up for it, both Griffin Conservatories turned out to be singles, 2 Dragon Fly Hives with 12 Wyverns, I hit GO (though with regular Nagas with GS) with Kyrre at level 8 without magic with 8 dragons, 2 angels, 12 Wyverns and 9 gr rocs + singles, even that was painful, at the exit there were immediately 2 Dragon Utopias and Pandora's boxes with 50+ gr cyclopes and 20+ giants, I rushed only for KV + a library with 49 deaz knights with GS, there I also got hit hard, but with KV and Ciele's Air expertise, I decided to return to the Dragon Utopias, the first was max, I cut down half with summons, I finished the other half myself - they rewarded royally with KZ, a hat level 5 6 all +12 -3 sword, next turn upgrade to golden, the second Dragon Utopia (3) there KO + Fire boost, something else, in general the treasure zone was split, but the opponent on 127 was already in my part and managed to grab the Dragon Utopia, I immediately attack him and cut everyone down with Armageddon at 1670, but 1 bird resisted (sadness), then surrender, then Growth, buyout, pursuit to the respawn and victory, thanks for the game.