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Scadi (red, Inferno, Pyre) def (Soulen, Castle, Müllich), DK 126

Agreed with the opp on 1 rest (111 or 112)
I start as blue, see a block at the castle and immediately write 111. Opp gives another rest (111), thanks.

111 Scouting 3 steps from the castle, see an external dwelling of shooters, an angel dwelling, some gold, I take the peppers from Müllich. I don't decide to restart. Bought 5 heroes, no gold.
112 Opp has more heroes on 111, but whatever. 31.10 is my birthday, I'm invited to go have fun. I apologize to the opp and ask to save.
113 I struggle to remember what I was doing, but there seems to be some kind of plan. Running back and forth. I see another Griffin Conservatory, Dragon Fly Hive, external dwelling of horses, and fail the shooter build. I give up on building angels in the castle.
114 I take the external dwelling of horses, lose 5 archers by misclick. On opp's turn, he gets a hit and my heroes get stuck. We restart, I try not to lose the archers, but end up losing 15 archers on the horses' morale (right where I misclicked), I ask for auto. Opp reloads, I lose 5 archers (guess the first time was lucky, who knows why).
115 I see another external dwelling of archers, lose a horse to gogs due to a lack of units, but I don't want to lose tempo.
116 I find Oil in a scroll (Müllich already has expert Earth, has weapon, has wisdom). Müllich sees 50-99 swordsmen and a pandora behind them, I decide not to fight. Nearby vamps (20-49) + a pandora behind them, that's my target.
117 I have 43 archers, 1 horse, and some meat. I clear the vamps easily, the pandora has 60 archers. Müllich doesn't decide to fight the swords (and rightly so). The archers are sent for upgrade (since I already failed with the angels).
121 How right Müllich was... The swords - 80 of them. 100 gr archers kill 14 per volley. I clear them without losses, the pandora has 15k exp. Everything seems more or less okay, BUT I discover that the GO is fairies.
122 I don't notice that the opp has disconnected, I make a few moves (then realize the opp is gone).
We replay.
121 I lose 1 angel on the swordsmen and a second morale. Gritting my teeth, I continue. I discover a passage to the GO nearby through some grizzly bears.
122 I fight the bears (Müllich with 3 mana, has 2 artifacts +4 mana for the next turn). I see a helmet +10 mana behind the gr. rhinos. I fight the rhinos, take the helmet and break Müllich at a Dragon Utopia to replenish mana.
123 Müllich runs to take the home angel dwelling, the scout hero takes a Dragon Fly Hive (18) + 3 Griffin Conservatories. Müllich gets knocked out. Valeska runs to the center towards the town (finding the road by intuition, since there's no scouting). I build a chain to Valeska to take the town + revive Müllich there.
124 Müllich finishes some business at the respawn and gets knocked out in the center.
125-126 Müllich fights necro horses for a pandora and a prison (lvl 30 saurug, expert Air + expert Scholar). Müllich runs back to a crossroads, I take the prison with Valeska, saurug runs to Müllich to learn View. Müllich runs back a bit towards a sword +5, Dragon Utopia. He transfers troops to the scout hero to clear the Dragon Fly Hive. I think for about 5 minutes whether to transfer etc. I see that saurug doesn't have View (I don't understand why). But deciding to risk it, I leave Müllich without much of an army, clear the Dragon Fly Hive guard with the scout hero. I use View with Mirlanda, don't understand a damn thing.
127 - Opp shows up. Turns out he was literally 500 MP away from me.

The only thing I don't understand - after passing the turn, I checked saurug again and saw he had View... I don't understand how I could have failed that, but I guess clunkiness decides.

Thx for the game.

Skadi (red, Inferno, Pyre) def (Soulen, Castle, Müllich), DK 126

skd (red, Inferno, Octavia, Pyre) def Soulen (blue, Castle, Valeska, Sir Müllich) JC 127. Something like that.
Got a layout with an external dwelling of efreets. 2 roads, one of which is blocked by royal griffins. In the other part of the spawn, 4 hives and that same external dwelling. On 115, I ran into a common problem on Jebus Cross as Inferno: ran out of meat for sacrifice. By the end of the week, I chained to the last 2 hives and broke into the main with Pyre. I was hasty, since an undrafted hero spotted КЗ 2 hexes from the main.
Decided to take КЗ early in the second week after the hives. The guard was 49 minotaurs, I waste mana, don't have enough for Town Portal, a disaster. In the end, I reached ГО by 125; in the meantime, 3 more hives with undrafted heroes, resulting in 35 vivi on exit. ГО titans. Came out on 126, then Gladius for nagas and hit a road block of 20-49 giants for the Sea Necklace + prison. I speed up since the opponent can't possibly take that prison. About 900 moves to get there along quick roads. On 127, I reach both Müllich and the undrafted hero. Müllich had combat stats of 5-13; even with all that power, it would have been tough for him. Opponent surrenders. Thanks for the game.

kapitowka(red,Dungeon,Shakti) def spl1nter(blue,Rampart,Melhala) 2SMd(3)
The first time, Shakti came with 3 stacks at a moment when neither I nor my opponent had any reinforcements left. On turn 1, I took 1, 1, 3, and then on turn 2, I took the second castle, 1, 1, 4. I took the box with all the level 1 spells, then 1, 2, 1, and another box with 80 Imps. I saw that on 1, 2, 4, my opponent had Isru. I asked if there were any Necromancers there. After that, he wrote "gg" and didn't expect the map to be so small.

01.11.2014.MikeM (blue, conflux, random, deemer) lose Makiavelli (red, inferno, random, pasis), 2sm4d(3), 147.

We played full random. From the start, the spawn gave a decent amount of stat boosts, meat, a stable near the Castle, an external dwelling of Earth Elementals, and we got Deemer and Gunnar. Then the complete money struggle began, so I gave up on building up, only placed the Earth Elemental dwelling. I leveled Deemer a bit, on 114 took a secondary Dungeon. Next to the Dungeon was a Griffin Conservatory 2-4 — turned out to be a size 2. On 124 I managed to barely take it with Deemer and started expanding with two Angels. I rushed to the first treasure zone — nothing there except tough Pandora's Boxes and a minimum Dragon Fly Hive. Went to the second — same crap. The third treasure zone was just as bad. I started building a Mage Guild in the Dungeon hoping for magic — got complete garbage. In the end, on 141 I had neither army nor magic. On 143 the opponent went on the offensive through the GU, and I went to grab the Pandora's Boxes in the scouted treasure zone hoping for a powerful magic spell (luckily I had 22 spell power). Out of five fat Pandora's Boxes, only the last one had all of level 5 magic, but that didn't change anything anymore, since the opponent got a chocolate payout from 4 Griffin Conservatories at respawn, triple Inferno, three Naga banks, and Dragon Utopias with KZ, a level 5 hat, and stats.
Thanks for the game.

01.11.2014.MikeM (blue, conflux, random, deemer) lose Makiavelli (red, inferno, random, pasis), 2sm4d(3), 147.

We played full random. From the start, it gave a decent amount of upgradeable dwellings, meat, a stable under the castle, external dwellings of Earth Elementals, deemer and gunnar showed up. Then a complete money drought started, so I gave up on building up, only placed the Earth Elemental dwellings. I leveled deemer a bit, on 114 I took a secondary Dungeon. Next to the Dungeon there was a Griffin Conservatory 2-4 - turned out to be a two. On 124 I cleared it with deemer and started scaling with two angels. I rushed to the first treasure zone - nothing there except tough Pandora's Boxes and a minimal Dragon Fly Hive. Went to the second - same crap. The third treasure zone was similar. I started building a Mage Guild in the Dungeon hoping for magic - got complete trash. In the end, on 141 neither army nor magic. On 143 the opponent went on the attack through ГО, and I went to clear Pandora's Boxes in the scouted treasure zone hoping for offensive magic (luckily I had 22nd spell power). Out of five fat Pandora's Boxes, only the last one contained all level 5 magic, but that didn't change anything anymore, since the opponent got a chocolate spread from 4 Griffin Conservatories at respawn, triple Inferno, three Naga Banks and Dragon Utopias with КЗ, a level 5 hat and stats.
Thanks for the game.

Confirmed. Very good roll. I took 12 angels from 5 Griffin Conservatories, entered the treasure zone late, in week 3, fought two battles there - took the shield +4 to everything from dragons, and in the Dragon Utopia the helmet +6 to everything, broke into the castle and went for the opponent

Thanks for the game!

03.11.2014 sShreKs (blue, random, Fortress, random, Corbac) def Turkish (red, random, Tower, random, Theodorus, Silya) 8mm6a 1 3 5
Decent respawn, external dwelling of Gorgons near the Castle, Vidomina shows up in the tavern, plenty of troops, enough gold, downsides: long road to the exit, only one Dragon Fly Hive on the entire respawn, sawmill blocked by mountains, never managed to get it. On days 1, 2, 3 I met the opponent, took two of his heroes, lost Vidomina, Corbac ransomed himself. Bought everything available and went to fight, traded almost to a draw with Silya. Corbac ran around the upgrades on the respawn again, bought everything, and met the opponent on his home turf. Prevailed. Thank you for the game.

03.11.2014 sShreKs (blue, random, Fortress, random, Korbac) def Turkish (red, random, Tower, random, Theodorus, Silla) 8mm6a 1 3 5
Decent respawn, near the Castle there's an external dwelling of Gorgons, Vidomina appears in the tavern, meat is plentiful, gold is sufficient, downsides: the road to the exit is long, there's only one Dragon Fly Hive on the entire respawn, the sawmill is cut off by mountains, never got to it. On 1 2 3 I met the opponent, took two horses, lost Vidomina, Korbac bought his way out. Bought everything available and went to fight, traded almost all the way to zero with Silla. Korbac ran around the respawn to the stat boosters, bought everything again and met the opponent on his home turf. Prevailed. Thanks for the game.

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On all fronts, there were unpleasant guards and not many Gremlins from the start, Naga appeared in the Fort on the first week, the opponent arrived on 121, we traded almost all the way to zero. On 131 I bought everything I could and attacked the opponent, as there was no point in stalling. In the end, the opponent had a significant advantage in meat, magic didn't decide the outcome.

GG, thanks for the game!

03.11.2014 Makiavelli (red, rampart, Ivor, Ivor) lose PutinKING (blue, dungeon, Shakti, Yog)

The draft was normal, with 2 external unicorn dwellings right next to the castle; a bit later I found another 3. There were almost no Dragon Fly Hives, just about 3 pieces, and they were in the very corners of the spawn without roads, so I decided not to recruit wyverns. In the second week, with 26 unicorns, I captured 2 Griffin Conservatories (5 angels) and broke through the ГО (18 angels with a griffin stack) with minor losses on day 124. Ivor's development was very unlucky — no spell book, level 11, the only useful skill being Offense. In the center I met the opponent on day 125 — there was a level 30 Yog with good stats. I started retreating Ivor back toward the castle (the opponent broke the chain by killing my scout hero), but Yog caught me on his turn and, with Oil and mass Haste, easily killed me with 36 wyverns

Thanks for the game!

03-04.11.2014 Egipet (blue, necro, Galtran, Galtran) and R@sim (green, Danj, Shashti.shahti) def Marader-kisa (red, Stronghold, Gyrnison, Syrnison) and Pasha_UA (brown, Castle, Tyris, Eine) Jebus Cross 122
took an external horse dwelling and two Pandora's Boxes with 35 rags and 15k gold.
took three Dragon Fly Hives for 25 geese and on day 1 cast Anull on the horses and broke through for a teapot at a respawn of a medusa horde and immediately ГО. too bad I didn't have enough points for Mass Slow, lost the horses and sat in the castle hiding. then the opponent attacked, but I had no mana with 100 kills. cast Mass Slow and Arrow. at the end, the opponent bought back with 2 bears and 1 Wyvern. I was left with 13 ducks and ran to take a couple of Dragon Fly Hives and continue building up. on 122, Rasim attacks the opponent too. the latter breaks through ГО, beating him while seeing a library and a Pandora's Box. Rasim catches up but doesn't have time to equip the items due to the timer, but still defeats the opponent with a meat advantage: 2 external Dragon dwellings, 20 Wyverns, 5-6 cats, etc. ГГ ВП. victory

03-04.11.2014 Egypt (blue, Necropolis, Galtran, Galtran) and R@sim (green, Dungeon, Shashti.Shahti) def. Marader-kisa (red, Stronghold, Gyrnison, Syrnison) and Pasha_UA (brown, Castle, Tyris, Eine) Jebus Cross 122

Confirmed
Thanks for the game!

03.11.2014.Marrakesh (blue, Citadel, Gundula, Isra) def Makiavelli (red, Castle, Valeska, Valeska), 2sm4d(3), 127.

Gundula came with +5 to Necro, found Isra in the tavern.
Isra leveled up terribly, but the skeletons carried.

Thanks for the game.

05.11.2014 XIII (red, Tower, Nila, Nila) def Vatya (blue, Stronghold, Kragg, Kragg), 2sm4d(3), 126

Kragg arrived with angels and stopped right at the city. After that, he was driven out by a hastily assembled army.

Thank you for the game.

05.11.2014 XIII (red, Tower, Nila, Nila) def Vatya (blue, Stronghold, Kragg, Kragg), 2sm4d(3), 126

Kragg arrived with angels and stopped right outside the city. After that, he was driven away by a hastily assembled army.

Thanks for the game.

He got too carried away, thinking he could reach the main base, but it turned out to be too far. And his support was lagging behind.

05.11.14 MetallEater (red, rampart, ivor, gunnar) def Makiavelli (blue, tower, solmir, solmir) 6lm10a 143

The respawn turned out to be a bit poor; I couldn't place a Naga in week 1 due to an absolute lack of wood, but then things more or less got back on track. Solmir was given Earth and Air, I picked up a couple of Dragon Fly Hives and a Pandora's Box, then unfortunately overextended while splitting a hundred Dendroid Soldiers (on turn 9 the oil ran out, and they caught up to the Nagas and Wyverns on their native terrain with morale, which consequently ended up lying there dead). On day 142 I met the opponent, on day 143 a scout hero checked Gunnar — he had 12 Angels, many shooters, but only 3 mana. I decided to attack Gunnar with Solmir (with 4 Giants, 200 Gremlins, 20 Mages, plus Master Genies and Golems) despite the superior army — my hope was on the oil and a chain of 600 damage — but the opponent turned out to have a Shield... in the end, the finale — no losses))

Thanks for the game!

05.11.2014 Night Troll (blue, Castle, Valeska, Kalt) def Marrakesh (red, Citadel, Gundula, Gundula) 2sm4d3 127
There are two stables near the city. There is gold. The downside is the isolated secondary resource location; I had to fight my way through rough terrain. I cleared the map with chains. The main hero headed towards the secondary resource, and on day 123, I captured two hives on map location 12. On day 117, I got horses in the castle. On day 121, I had 12000 gold. I bought everything and went to the opponent's castle. Thanks for the game!