Posts from The Final Battle 8

Thank you for the game!

Shit happens :mad:
The game turned out to be very tough, right from the start. Despite 3 stacks of troglodytes and Sandro in the tavern, everything went badly. All the little critters were somehow against me, morale and luck were hammering poor Sandro pretty hard. I was too lazy to build the Necro upgrade for a whole week. I barely managed to stick the bears in the castle and put the troglodytes into the transformer by the end of the week. After that, things got even worse. The treasure zone was small on the sand, but due to Pandora's boxes I got stuck—I thought it was magic, had to lose a couple of days to avoid picking it up with advanced wisdom. Turned out to be 10 experience and 25 gr demons.
On day 127, an external dwelling of bears and a third Necro town (no raise dead there, of course).
At the start of week 3, I rush into a new treasure zone—there's a Pandora's box with 50 gr liches + hives. Without tactics and mass haste, they ran over me pretty hard, but level 5 magic was a relief. Right after, a Dragon Utopia is visible. Mini and there's a level 5 hat :D . Then a crab move ruined the game. I changed my plan and Dimension Doored in the wrong direction, ended up taking a village cheaply from the prison, and Sandro went to his rest—he suddenly decided to crash his gargoyle into the liches, and there was luck :D . Could have written GG, but there was a level 2 Crag Hack with logistics. The opponent (OP) has scary stats but won't come visiting.
After the save, I took my 2 Dragon Utopias—Crag Hack went into the first one 5-0 :)
I gave away part of the skeletons and the demons, got plate armor...
Went into the second one with the mage counting on an imp, but didn't put the plate armor on :)
Result: minus a bear and a bunch of skeletons :(
Then, with full control, I went to clear the third treasure zone with Crag Hack.
In the treasure zone, all the Dragon Utopias are small—only a teapot and a +12 shield for stats. Almost all hives are mini. Took about 15 minimal ones during the game!!! :smile49:
Came to visit the opponent, upgraded the dragons but forgot the only angel (facepalm here)—against 500 mana and a catapult, there weren't many options. Crag Hack was just perfect, so I decided not to risk it and bought the last unnecessary fire column, then checked—turns out I was given artillery with which I think I could have won the finale. The catapult that the opponent had control over decided things, since the gray units were essentially trapped. And a very unfortunate misclick happened, after such a long match.
Thank you for the game and good luck in the remaining matches—you (the opponent) are obliged to win them!

Took all the rests, got shit loot. Bugged respawn with one isolated Castle. On the entire respawn, 4 Dragon Fly Hives for 22 ducks, no caches, no cons either, one plus — Des came through like a god. But at 124 the opponent crashed in the bracers.

Thanks for the game!

Yeah, it's a shame it broke in my hands.

Thanks for the game!

It was a fun game.
On day 111, I found a stash of swords and griffins, Grindan arrived, and I had enough money – so I decided to play.
In the first week, I took an Inferno castle, and in the second week, 2 Dungeons and a Conflux.
At the end of the second week, I made contact with Galtran.
I trapped him in his home reserve, but in the third week, thanks to expert logistics, he managed to break out into a dead-end fortress, where he gained 20+ units.
There were 2 even exchanges, I built a tower in the Necropolis village, got Armageddon and Earthbind, but in the end, I decided to double-increase my Dungeons, which I bought and upgraded to take the mini-utopia, where I got the red orb.
Galtran remained after the exchanges with 300+ skeletons, and I had 40+ griffins, 27 storms, 31 medusas, and 200+ troglodytes.
I reached him with a rogue mage and shot him down.
Thanks for the game!

10.01.2015 Kilgor (Blue, Castle, Random, Adelaide, Deesa) def bubuch (Red, Dungeon, Gunnar, Gunnar) Jebus Cross 124

Took all the respawns, got crap loot. Bugged respawn with one isolated castle. On the entire respawn, 4 Dragon Fly Hives for 22 ducks, no chests, no cons either, one plus Deesa leveled up godly. But on 124 the opponent crashed in the bracers.

Thanks for the game!

How did it happen that you played Random, and the opponent played Gunnar? Was that agreed upon or something?

The draw is complete, good luck. Deadline: January 27.

How did it happen that you played with random heroes, while your opponent had Gunnar? Did you agree on that?

No, I decided to randomly roll for Milu.

Thank you for playing!

Thank you for playing!

Great layout, a bunch of Hives, most near the roads, 2 swamp villages! ) and a double cons, quickly started gathering all the goods, by the end of the week chains consisted of 9-10 heroes each, on 117 the plan was to take 2 more Hives, upgrade Monarchs, take the Dragon Utopia near the main, and hand over to goshan who was already waiting near a double ГО of devils and nags, but after the save it wasn't possible to finish playing, the opponent had issues with time, the reveal showed total dominance, only the Dragon Utopia didn't work out as planned, the hero with defense and stats for the Dragon Utopia fell short by 1 move, thanks for your time

On respawn point 1, there are birds and 3 goblins, a mini-construct, a mini-hive, and another hive with 20+ storm birds. There are also titans. Kragg leveled up ballistics; they only gave fire as magic. I didn't see any prospects and decided to give up. Thanks for the time.

Is this some kind of a trick on Jebus Cross — Barbarian vs Necropolis???

Tournament standings after round 8




There are three matches left to play.
In round 9, the central match is Kilgor-Maretti, which will eliminate one of them from the prize pool, considering that the Dane has very difficult games remaining – against his closest competitor, Cobra, and the leader's “nemesis,” Butch. Who will now be “dealing” with Cobra. The leader also has an important match in this round as he is a source of irritation for all opponents.

I scribbled all over, as I thought, magnificently: blue dungeon, the whole deal. 2 stacks of creatures + 2 native heroes came in.

But on turn 112 it turned out I don't know how to take a level 2 Griffin Conservatory in the underground. Out of 150, 40 troglodytes remained :D

Then everything went downhill: Shakti leveled poorly, the computers were bullying me, I ran around with 4 heroes for the 1st week because I had no gold. Got an annoying block on the 1st treasure zone.

The 2nd treasure zone turned out okay, Shakti was completely depressing, I saw Dessa in the tavern, leveled her, and immediately got Earth magic. On the 2nd week I took a couple of beehives and 2 libraries with Dessa. I saw Opp in the center — got completely upset. Was slightly cheered by a sword +5 defense for 15 ghost dragons, but left all the meat and a couple of ducks there.

But then a lucky streak began, on turn 127 I think I took a level 3 Griffin Conservatory at home with the miner, transferred back to the treasure zone to Dessa, took the 3rd library, and then — for the liches that I broke through with 5 angels on autoresolve, they give the entire 4th one!!!

Then right away I take a Dragon Utopia, double mana, 3 more Dragon Utopias, gloves, boots, Dessa flies, stats grow like crazy. I also snatched a max Dragon Utopia from under Hel's nose. Built bears in the treasure zone, upgraded them. I decided I needed the first turn. Initially, I fell just a little short of Opp's main on turn 136.

Opp had Castle and Rampart computers, I checked with the viewing spell, decided to take a risk on turn 137 and grab the Castle, upgrade the Archangels. I guessed wrong — I hit Rampart :(

Moner's stats suddenly skyrocketed on turn 141, I could have attacked him in the open field on turn 137, but I chickened out, probably for nothing.

OK, now I know exactly where Castle is — I fly with 4.5k movement points to upgrade Archangels on turn 141, having only bought bears to not waste moves. So I fly to Castle, and Moner has already teleported there from the center :(

I decide to attack. I have 13 bears, 16 greater ducks, 7 angels, about 40 greater lizards with a Golden Bow, dragonflies, stats 32 46.

There: 10 Archangels, 59 regular ducks, 5 birds, + useless meat, stats 41 23, Horn of the Abyss, Shackles of War. Fortress luckily.

Well, nothing to do, I close the catapult, wait for it to make a hole. It just can't do it at all :smile18: They systematically kill everything with Archangels through waiting, and they even get morale every round. By the time the hole is breached, all bears, ducks, and 2 angels remain. Only 1 Archangel is killed from a retaliatory strike and 2 birds by the ballista.

I burst through the hole, killing all the meat. On the 2nd round, Opp removes the bears' retaliatory strike with the birds. I charge into the Archangels, starting with the bears, kill them in one round, losing a couple to the ducks. Then the poor ducks die from a broken heart.

The advantage in stats decided it, and the bears were magnificent :smile03:

Thanks for the game!

Tried to contact Heroin, but my attempts on ICQ and the forum were unsuccessful. Unfortunately, I'm stuck in the hospital and probably won't be able to play for the rest of this round.