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23.08.2014 Aya (red, Necropolis, Clavius, Galtran) + Lim4 (brown, Conflux, random, Grindan) def MuLLIyTa (blue, Dungeon, Shakti) + Yegor Korobeynikov (green, Rampart, Ivor) Teamwork 124
The start was so-so, I had around 70 skeletons in total, most of the respawn was cut off below by mountains with a huge detour, available were a prison, 2 Dragon Fly Hives, an external market, a skeleton cache, and the Cloak +10 Necro. Masha's respawn was empty, we ran towards the shared zone. Was hoping for a skeleton boost from the hero in the prison, but it was Lori. Decided to build birds at Masha's, and Mage Guild at mine. Gosha came to the tavern, I bought him, potential main. In the shared zone we found Shackles, a Pandora's Box for 10+ horns, and a shield +3+3 for 50+ ice elementals. Lim took Tower, a gremlin cache, and brought me all the meat for transformation. GO - gr minotaurs, and the scout showed the opponents' exit, which made us feel more confident. On 114 I took both Dragon Fly Hives - 4+4, Gosha grabbed Earth, broke into Tower, ran into the stable near Tower and the knowledge booster. Clavius broke the ice elementals (lost a ton of skeletons), took the shield, found a Griffin Conservatory, took it too - level 2. His army: 8 Wyverns, 2 Angels, 300 skeletons. Found a scroll of implosion. On 115 Gosha took the XP Pandora's Box, skilled oil, took the Shackles, and prepared to go out. Unfortunately, there was nowhere to restore mana, and I didn't want to waste an extra turn, so I only had 32, which was a bit worrying. Masha meanwhile was clearing and collecting resources and gold, and also turned in a quest artifact, which gave 35 efreets. In Mage Guild level 4: portal and weakness - not a waste of all those resources. Everything seemed fine... but then we see green Ivor attacking his GO, breaking through it, and riding a bit along the road to the Center. What to do? Well, we have to attack. Without the Shackles, of course. I hit the minotaurs, spend precious 5 mana on one oil, set up Mage Guild level 5 with implosion, exchange a bunch of resources sent by Masha for gold so I can resurrect, and attack.
Stats are about equal, but he has tons of mana against my 27. Gosha's army: 300 skeletons, 2 Angels, 8 Wyverns, 35 efreets, and level 1 fairies. Ivor's: 5 Angels, 28 Wyverns, 20 Grand Elves, a red dragon, 30 Troglodytes, and 4 Dwarves. A tough situation, it's immediately clear the battle can't be won. And it's unclear what to cast... if I cast implosion (800 damage) immediately, then oil and ranged attack will follow, and I won't deal any serious damage. But if I don't cast implosion, I won't have enough mana for it. Besides, there's no mass haste anyway, and oil won't help.
I decide not to cast anything, carefully advance everything forward. At the end of the turn, Ivor casts Blind on my Angels, next turn he hastes the Wyverns, and attacks with Angels and Wyverns on the skeletons that moved forward. A lot of skeletons are taken down, but 2 Angels die from retaliation, and that attack was just right. I hit the Angels with skeletons and Wyverns, 2 Angels remain, 50 HP. Again I cast nothing. Next turn the Angels fly away, Wyverns almost finish the skeletons, my Wyverns are killed with lightning. Now I hit the Wyverns with implosion, then with the tiny remaining skeletons and 35 efreets with luck. 10 Wyverns remain, I have no mana. Next turn Ivor casts oil and flies back, time to resurrect.
I resurrect at Tower, which is closest to the Center. Not a great situation, but we hope we made the Center clear difficult for the opponents. On the blue turn, Shakti arrives at the Center, takes Ivor's army, and hits the Behemoths for a Pandora's Box. Goes deeper into the Center. We see what Ivor is left with - some level 1 creatures. Masha builds bird production, takes the Shackles from me, and kills him with a scout. Removes the Shackles, goes to their shared zone. She is attacked and driven off by a scout (we resurrect), but having scouted a bit and killed Ivor is already nice.
On 117, with Galtran, I stubbornly run to the Center again with 2 Angels and 35 efreets. About 70 mana. Shakti returns from the Center and attacks. This is also pleasing - when the opponent's main clears the center in the dark, it's not too pleasant and gives a lot of food for thought. Their troops are split, clearly from implosion, 1-1 Angels, 1 dragon, 4-5 Wyverns, 10-10 Grand Elves. Stats are better than mine, but not by much, and only 12 mana. I have 1-1 Angels, 30 efreets, and level 1 efreets. Too bad I didn't have time to learn weakness.
I block the Angels with efreets, wait. I hold back on casting, afraid of oil and two turns of beating. I fight the battle not very well, on the first turn I click the mouse without thinking properly and block an Angel with a level 1 efreet, allowing the dragon's breath to hit it, which the opponents do. Of my troops that haven't moved, only the wounded Angel remains, and it is killed with a simple ranged attack, they have archery. - a cast. Next turn I attack the Grand Elves with an Angel, luck procs, and I kill one of the Angels with a ranged attack. They finish off my Angels and hit the efreets with lightning - big losses. But they have no mana left. I estimate they'll hold for another turn, in the end I have 4 efreets left, I kill the second Angel with a ranged attack and run away.
Shakti goes to our shared zone, kills one of my scouts and breaks against the second. New week. I resurrect as Gosha in Necro, finally learn portal and weakness, teleport to Tower, thankfully I have quite a bit of mana left, take Lim's birds and immediately run towards the Center. A scout reveals that in the Center there's a blue swamp within a turn's distance of Gosha. Shakti, apparently having doubled his mana, also runs towards the Center. Masha on her turn gathers meat from all the castles after having learned portal and running around with boosters as Grindan, buys everything she can, and gives me 5 Psychos, 5 birds, and as many as 295 skeletons. On my turn, I raise a few skeletons with Clavius, now 296 skeletons, and think about what to do. Shakti has Rogues, Grand Elves, Dendroids, Dragons... I decide not to attack but to take the Center swamp. But I run only with 4 birds so it's easy to resurrect. I take the swamp, scout, the Center has a very long road, all in mountains, the only good things I see are +10 Attack and a Library for 20-49 Efreet Sultans. We decide to build a Mage Guild and spend the night in the castle, using a scout for backup (having learned from Stinger and Bishop in the last tournament:) ). Shakti doesn't attack - apparently didn't make it, instead he clears a Pandora's Box for gr golems, we see it gives 35 Serpent Flies. Lim as Grindan on a bird with decent stats, Wave of Death, implosion for 800, and weakness runs to the opponents' respawn, I teleport home, take the skeletons, clear the +10 Attack, stop at the Library, and teleport back to the swamp. Mana 30. Shakti attacks, he has 3 dragons, 9 Wyverns, 5 Rogues, 10+ gr Dendroids, 7 Pegasi, 15 Grand Elves, 35 Serpent Flies. I hit with weakness, -2 dragons, Grand Elves, 6 Pegasi, and resurrect. Masha kills 3 scouts with Grindan and runs to take Dungeon. Grindan pleases us - grabs Intuition right before the well.
The plan is to resurrect Gosha, regenerate mana, and attack with the full army and Shackles. But the opponents decide not to continue, despite having gathered a lot of Air Elementals and having learned weakness with archery.
A tough game. Thank you.
Gomunguls
