Posts from "Newcomer-2014. Summer"

111-6 heroes. I have some good potential main heroes like Gundula, Mullich, and Galthran in the tavern. Able to explore 2 cavalier habitats, 3 beehives.
Buildings: magic guild

112 - Mullich took the gold mine. I can see an angel portal, but it is located behind a natural barrier. On the way to the second city, there is a stack of 20-49 monks.
Buildings: blacksmith

113 - Mullich killed centaurs guarding a +4 crown. Explored: utopia, 1 more cavalier habitat, and a wyvern monarch as a center guard.
Buildings: barracks

114 - Adele saw a Pandora guarded by 20-49 mages next to the off-road exit (unicorns). Mullich freed Krellion (level 5, basic logistics) and took the Dungeon. Mullich took ballistics and is no longer a suitable main hero.
Buildings: castle - monastery, Dungeon - magic guild

115 - Tyris took a +3 +3 shield, an undue risk. Scouts 2 more beehives.
Buildings: Castle - angel portal, Dungeon - tavern

116 - I took the angel portal and explored one more beehive.
Buildings: Citadel

117 - with 2 brave angels, I took three beehives (20 wyverns) but didn't have 282 movement points to take the second angel portal. Galthran got basic air and basic earth.
Buildings: the castle

121 - finally reached the outer market. Bought all the angels and worked with 2 separate armies. Galthran, next to the crypt, is prepared for suicide.
Buildings: Stables

122 - Galthran will double up on mana in the Dungeon (120) and with an archangel next to the stack of 20-49 monks. Took two beehives and money structures.
Buildings: castle - Portal of Glory, Dungeon - mana vortex

123 - Galthran had 2 attacks and stopped next to Pandora and blocked the off-road exit. Bought 1 more hero to upgrade the remaining 4 angels and take the 2 remaining beehives.

124 - Galthran with 7 Archangels and 46 wyverns took 2x10k experience Pandora and went to the center.

125 - took the utopia first. I got a fire book, a +12 shirt, speed boots, and a +6 sword in exchange for 15 fearless skeletons.

126 - took 2 Pandora with 15k gold and all the magic, also a +12 dagger

127 - took 2 beehives, Pandora during 10 war unicorns, and settled in the central city.

Week 3: early, I managed to take the blue main city. Found 2 conservatories (2 + 3). In 135, the opponent entered the barbarian respawn, but it was within Galthran's range. In 136, I attacked with 19 archangels and 58 furious monarch wyverns.
Final battle: antimagic + armageddon + resurrect.

ggwp.thx

p.s. to be honest, I won due to the better area of control. Opponent played very well, good luck in future games

It takes about 4 days for Kyrre with 3300 movement points to run from the Castle to the GO.
Well, they also never gave Kyrre earth magic.

My only mistake was that I didn't restart the spawn with roads leading to the wall, hoping the detour would be short. In short, I don't know when the tournament will deal me a winning Jebus Cross layout, probably never.

If the GO were closer, or Kyrre had earth magic, there would have been some chances.

At respawn 3 Dragon Fly Hives, Griffin Conservatory is level 1, 3 external dwellings of minotaurs + a secondary swamp, gathered the goodies, came out to 123 immediately Castle in treasure zone, went to the second one along the way collecting Dragon Fly Hives, at 125 the opponent arrived, in the final it was decided that he advanced without mana, took out the skeletons with archers, was left with 23 hp on one minotaur.

Thank you for the game!

Everything was going well, but the opponent surrendered.
Thanks for the game.

Another epic game on 8mm6a. We spawned, got a respawn with two wolf stacks and a home Water Elemental, but I managed to lose a fair amount of meat in the beginning and made the game harder for myself. Then I chose the wrong direction and went into a swamp adjacent zone, thinking it was the opponent's respawn — wanted to rush him — since I managed to place Bears on the first week. Instead, I got stuck in the swamp for about a week, played very poorly, and lost too many troops. By the start of the third week, my army consisted of 3 Water Elementals, 3 Bears, and 8 Birds.

I made it to the central zone, luckily got 2 Griffin Conservatories — level 1 and level 2. Found a big treasure zone on grass with a couple of Dragon Fly Hives and a Water Elemental, which I only took on 211. Watopa level 3, gave the standard 2 bags of gold, Captain's Hat, and a Sword +2+2.

Around the same time, the opponent appeared with a serious army and twice as high stats, captured the central town and took my main. I found myself cut off from the center. I started building guilds in search of control. Built about 5 over the entire game, and right up to the last moment there was nothing with control anywhere. I also scrolled all scrolls and took all boxes on my map. We played in 3 sessions, and on the last day we ran for 12 hours. I had already eaten absolutely everything possible, and there was no other choice but to go to the center and fight.

I captured the central village, the opponent built up 4 levels in it, I put in a 5th and used Dimension Door. The turning point of the game. Immediately got wrecked by Crag Hack, learned it, got wrecked again, and flew into a treasure zone underground, through a blocking obstacle. There I took a couple of boxes — gave me Fly too.

And then unexpectedly, on his turn, the opponent boosted Tazar with 150 green Snakes near the central village. And in front of me stood a tea hero. I attacked the tea hero, bought back with Angels and Dragons, bought myself out in the village, and with the help of Fly and Dimension Door, trapped Tazar with Shackles. Tazar had all artifacts at that point.

Thanks for the game!

It gave a compact respawn underground with 2 roads, an external dwelling of demons, a hive, 2 obelisks for experience and a lookout. The adjacent zone to the center is also underground with a lookout and 2 exits to the center very close - one treasure zone underground, the second through a portal with a swamp village on snow. The inner treasure zone is also underground, native with an external dwelling of devils, a Dragon Utopia and a Pandora's Box behind a horde of vampires, its guardians blocked the passage to my opponent's town. The road in the corner adjacent zone led to a treasure zone, and along the roadless area I was in no hurry to search for the opponent's town, since he was Tower.
On day 114 I captured in the central treasure zone on snow a shield +6 behind 35 swordsmen and spotted there behind 5-9 hydras a speed cloak (I couldn't take it, and later the opponent took it, which had a very significant impact in the end), and further there was a block of a hundred griffins behind a quest artifact. In another central treasure zone a block of a horde of ogres behind a prison blocked the passage. There was only one option left - to go to the corner treasure zone.
In the end, by the middle of the second week I hit a tough block of a horde of mages (for a Pandora's Box + plate armor +4) in the inner treasure zone and was left with one town, very sad, since it's impossible to demonize properly without secondary skills. The first two weeks I ran around with Kalth without earth magic and could die in a fight with neutrals quite a lot of times =).
At the start of the third week I broke through into the inner treasure zone and simultaneously took the opponent's town. I captured the Pandora's Box in the treasure zone and left it for Gunnar, lucky they gave 10k experience and I experted logistics + earth magic. I started capturing Griffin Conservatories, of which there were 2 and both were 3-4. At the end of the week the opponent sent scouts to me, I chased away a couple of scouts and on day 137 he comes with his main army with fifty monarchs.
Fighting was not an option, on day 141 I bought out everything I could from Inferno and went to take 2 Dragon Utopias in the corner treasure zone, one turned out to be a minimal one with КЗ, the second a tier 3 with a red orb, a 4/4 cap and boots of levitation. While I was taking these, he predictably occupies my Inferno. Then, unfortunately, I was one move short to knock him off on the charge, and I decided not to Town Portal immediately but to try to grab another Griffin Conservatory in the inner treasure zone, which I had spotted this turn. Unlucky - I got it, remaining with 186 MP. It turned out very sad, I had 14 mana and needed to replenish before fireball, on his turn he spots with a lookout an untaken Dragon Utopia in my inner treasure zone. I Town Portal to the tower, run to the well with passability, and, since I could no longer reach Kiryuha, I take a maximum Griffin Conservatory there. The opponent took the Dragon Utopia (it was a maximum one with plate armor and a cap +10 -2) and replenished his mana, I had 1 town, I couldn't burn the stats, but I had to attack.
On day 146 he attacked me in my central adjacent zone, he had a lot of meat + attack parameter more than 2 times greater, he tried to counter my explosion with resurrection, in the end I bought myself off by killing over 30 wyverns and 5 hydras, but also lost a fair amount.
BUT that was clearly not enough, on day 147 I engage him again, again 2 rounds of exchange, and then I have no mana against his 100 mana, but he was already without monarchs, bought himself off and bought out in the tower, dumped all his resources on Kalth and attacked, exchanging was already pointless for me, since his resurrection was already enough to raise a full stack, and the opponent didn't want to buy himself off and preserve the army.
Since on days 147-211 I couldn't recapture Inferno, I decided to surrender.
Good game well played. Thx for playing.

P.S. I would like to clarify regarding the recent changes in the rules, the opponent wanted to play exclusively SoD timer and without red rush. Request for the moderator to clarify which timer is the main one and about red rush on XL+U templates.