Posts from Outlaw!

Another subtle point, aka the advantage of blue, is that it can demand a restart on the opponent's turn, while red can no longer do that.

So, I can pass my turn and see how my opponent reacts. If I see that they are playing, I can just write 111, right? Because my second day hasn't started yet, so there's no reason to write 112.

In my opinion, since you passed your turn, turn 111 is over for you, and when you take a restart, it will be turn 112 for you.

I think I'll write a report too)

A 2-consecration at the Castle and 19 groups of archers from the start + their external dwelling made me think about playing. However, it turned out that the only road was completely blocked by a lot of Pit Lords. But a teleport was found within a day and a half's journey, so after some brief deliberation, I decided not to restart. I run to the teleport; it leads to a block near my home town. Adela is already level 8, with expert Air, but no same-turn movements. There are a couple of small joins. I set up horses. The opponent has roughly the same, only they already have 200 gremlins. On the second week, I take the 2-consecration very clumsily, arrive at the center and manage to slip past the computers at 124; basically, we missed each other. I take the swamp and 12 hives there; quick calculations showed a loss)) but magic carries! At the end of the week, I reached the underground cartographer; in my army, there are only 2 angels. 11 vivs, 20 fish, and 100 poks, but Adela has Logistics, Air, Earth, and Tactics. Kira is working another center during this time; she has shackles and resurrect from Alamar. In the army: 2 angels, 316 gremlins, and 50 groups of flies. Skills - 3 magics. Two Dragon Utopias are visible near the central Castle. At 131 I spot them too, just thinking about how to take them since it's still too early. I run to the village between purple and pink. Non-stop battles for my strategic center (height) are taking place, consuming a lot of time and money) Until 135, I clear this zone with Adela; in the army there are already 8 angels and 27 vivs, I have meteor at 275 and 180 mana (got expert Intelligence), now I'm seriously thinking about the opponent's utopias. The opponent meanwhile is standing on their 3-utopia up top, but for some reason isn't taking it, probably waiting for something. He also has 4 castles, in the army: 2 angels, 24 vivs, 15 lord vampires, and 350 gremlins. 136-137 - With chains I take another 2 hives, vivs are already 47!! Adela runs to her utopia below; I don't have time to take another consecration on the swamp. 141 - I take my utopia - minimum, but it gives wings :smile23: Sitting in my home computer-Inferno, replenishing mana. 142 - I pick up everything that is lying around and position myself without acceleration one day's journey from his utopia, but in a way that I'm not visible. 143 - Not enough cells to cover the stash, I take the utopia, another single one, but with КЗ!!! I do a Town Portal home. 144 - Grade 50 vivs, I take the 2-consecration in my center with КВ :smile54: 145 join 18 sultans and 14 necro-horses, double the opponent's mana, try to catch the main or an army without mana with 4 Dimension Doors, but miscalculate slightly and do a Town Portal home.
146 - utopia for spell +10. Joins of sultans and liches. Grade everyone in the hills fort. 147 - FB. In the army: 12 archs, 95 groups of vivs, 32 sultans, 14 dreads, and 63 groups of liches, 600 mana, all Air and Earth. stats 7 6 18 9 (573)
Tvaryna's: 7 angels, 30 vivs, 327 gremlins, 20 medusas, 9 golems, 10 flies, 6 19 12 14 (106) magic - 3 elements, but without Town Portal. Mass-haste, because of high defense the archs don't kill the gremlins)) But still GG - Thanks for the game!
Sorry it happened this way (c)

PS. Got revenge for the defeat in the second round of this same tournament! Only in that game I actually played very coolly; whoever saw the game from Tvaryna's side will understand.

25.11.2014 BISHOP (Red, Conflux, Luna, Ciele) def KobRa_RR (Blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) 8mm6a 216

Thank you for the game! Details tomorrow :D

Is that all? Can we congratulate Bi?

Thanks for the game! Details tomorrow :D

Added after 16 hours 14 minutes

So in order. The final game. The start was nice, a stable nearby, a diplomat in the tavern, and the top cartographer :D. Barely managed to place birds, almost lost to the medusa den on 117 with 40 medusas, got out on 20 fairies. At the start of week 2, I open the cartographer and run to level the diplomat and join monsters. I see the enemy, he captured the Castle AI and went into the Griffin Conservatory on the green land, where he was pecked to death by the proud birds :) . After Cobra's wipe, I played almost relaxed, gathered 25 ducks, joind enough resources for a Dragon Utopia, and sent the zero-level Kira into a max Dragon Utopia. Got +11 to stats, then started looking for a path to the opponent, the underground is blocked, roads are medium and running without log is clearly too slow. Started collecting all the scrolls in a row and on top of that found an underground cartographer. Meanwhile, Cobra, after the wipe with a pack of Minotaurs, grabbed 2 Griffin Conservatories, retreated into the underground where he was spotted making a whopping 2 Dimension Doors :eek: . I, in turn, managed to grab a Town Portal scroll by luck, and a couple of turns later took a Pandora's box with 5 levels. Well, I thought, now I'll catch him with 4 Dimension Doors... But without log, even with 4 jumps, I couldn't reach. I also picked up bracers, boots, and visited the stable to be sure :) And then I notice the enemy's resources at castles with several heroes, I see he also has Town Portal, and suddenly a hundred Liches appeared :smile54: . Oh, what a scoundrel, I think, he actually assembled the Lichinator... I need to kill him quickly, before they become a legion. I hopped to the town closest to the opponent, on the way joind 100 Monks to my existing 50, attacked with Shackles of War and GG.
I took a screenshot of the Final Battle, I'll post it later.

P.S. I still think the outcome was unfair, with a 0-1 start and a match played to 2 wins, but I signed up for the tournament, so I agreed to it. :)

Is it fair that the winner doesn't have the right to lose?
We can find a compromise, for example: if the loser has played more than N games through the lower bracket, then the winner's advantage in the grand final is lost or reduced (instead of BO3 with one loss, it will be BO5). We need to think about this, although it might not be a very good idea.