Posts from The Final Battle 8

I was satisfied with the template, the castle layout is of course worse, but it'll do.
We each chose 2 rests; I got Luna and a small respawn with 13 quests!!!:eek: :D
Luna went straight for Wisdom, so the tempo slowed by a couple of days.
I quickly took Inferno and Rampart, the conflux was somewhat blocked.
I scouted 6 confluxes, 2 in each zone, all close together, but 4 of them turned out to be minimal ones :smile45:
I built Efreet and Firebirds, even without Citadel.
Everything went according to plan; Luna leveled well; on the second week, the Gray Bears easily fell for the Library and the quest. I scouted a couple of Dragon Utopias in the underground treasure zone.
On 126, I easily broke a Guard Outpost from War Unicorns with 17 spell power, why not? In the center, there were 2 Dragon Fly Hives, a Water Book, and a Dragon Utopia, and that's it. The center was even smaller than my small starting respawn.
Although Luna had defense, with stats 4-6 I didn't risk the Dragon Utopia because 6 Angels, 20 Ducks, and a small Jumper. I decided to take a couple more confluxes, the final ones.
On 132, Nimussa takes a mini Dragon Utopia in the center, capturing Wings and a Water Book successfully. Luna in the treasure zone takes a level 2, a 4/4 Crown, and a Fire Book. She buys herself a +3 Sword, and on the next turn, a Helm for AODT was found very opportunely :) and another garbage Dragon Utopia.
On 141, I hit Kobra; the main bought 2 Angels there. He was holed up in the Swamp with stats 30-30. I bring Luna a couple of Firebirds and attack hoping there are no Earth or Succubus Shields because 400+ mana there, but alas, hit-and-run failed; there was a Ring of the Magi, I had to run away because money was near zero. I didn't decide to attack with Nimussa because my stats are 3 times lower, and armies are roughly equal, even with AODT and Earth Shield.
What happened next, words cannot describe.
I cleared all 3 of my treasure zones and the center can also be counted, built a Mage Guild, and nowhere did I find either Dimension Door or Town Portal, plus the stat disadvantage and despair. Kobra amassed 1k+ Skeletons with 70% Necromancy, stuck in Archers and 50+ gr. Ducks. He came to me and dragging it out made no sense.:smile34:
Even though I got myself a Titan of 10th level and leveled him to 20th, it changed little:D. And by the way, Luna was pwned after she retreated following the attack on Kobra, and he dug her up the next day :(
The post-game analysis showed, Dragon Utopias 8-2 (central doesn't count) in Kobra's favor, he saw the Ring of the Magi against Luna from the second day, and overall I had no chance.
After thinking it over, if Luna hadn't come, it would have been an easy rest, but sometimes things happen :D
Thanks for the game, GL further on!

P.S The only consolation is that I ended the year with a battle draw against Kobra, although maybe we'll see each other in Favorites:D

The opponent used all the respawns. I still had one left, but I got a couple of extra gremlins, Boots of Speed on the elf respawn, and Goshans showed up, but first Clavius, and then also Tant and Nagash from a level 10 prison. Nelka died quickly, after an auto-combat replay (Lakuska cast Haste in battle and killed her, so the mod needs tweaking). But the Necro factions started growing; on day 122 I took my native secondary town, also with two extra gremlin spawns, recovered a Town Portal scroll (and another one later), there were 4 Dragon Utopias, a tier 3 Griffin Conservatory, and a Dragon Fly Hive with about 26 Wyverns in sight. I built Dimension Door on the fifth, but only used it a couple of times, then I also got the Air Book with the Blue Cap. Necro Boots were also obtained. One day I encountered an enemy scout who came out of a monolith — and that was the only road exit for the red player — so movement in the enemy camp was controlled. In short, I had gathered everything possible, maxed out all skills, and prepared to face the opponent, but they raised the white flag. On the rocks, everything was quite dreary; even the computer painted the sawmill on my respawn. And at the respawn exit, there were also blockers. Thanks for the game.

Health combo, red orb, AOTD, golden bow, tp, DD, strong army. Hack rules. Thanks for playing.

HellLight-Kilgor, what's going on with you guys?
Heroin_HP, KobRa_RR - finally confirm your losses.

Everything is bad. Jeb has been on week 4, and we're struggling. We agreed to finish it on Tuesday.

I managed without restarts, the opponent used everything. Two Griffin Conservatories near the town, second level built, enough gold but barely, Necropolitan next door, and Gosha comes last - that's where I started. On 116 I take the green Necro (although nothing is built there). And on 117 Gosha of level 5, 3634, home everything without hydras in the Castle plus an outside Wyvern taken, 2 Dragon Utopias scouted (one in direct access). On 123 I take the barbarian village in the underground with a bunch of Dragon Fly Hives, Red flashed there too - and stole one Dragon Fly Hive, but didn't come to me. Found the Necromancer's Boots, and on 131 took the first mini Dragon Utopia (4 Angels, 38 Wyverns, for 300 bones, etc.) with the Speaker's Hat. After that everything went easier, but lacking Knowledge for jumps. My army was shown as supposedly larger than Red's, I decided to reinforce, especially since Gurney has attack near 30. In other Dragon Utopias there were Books of Fire and Air, 4th level in the Necro town was useless. And with the new week I decided to go to the Dragon Utopia spotted on the rocks - it was a respawn taken by Red from the computer. And I moved deeper into that respawn towards the stream. And the next day I ran into Gurney on birds in one stack. Oh how I regretted not picking up the Shackles of War that I had taken down long ago. But Gurney with Expert Tactics decided not to flee for some reason, and was killed immediately. Thanks for the game.