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Fill-ua (red, Flux, Monere, Monere) def KILLED (blue, Fortress, Tazar, Tazar) 145 Jebus Cross
Respawn is huge, everything is scattered. Pandora's Boxes for 5k gold and 5k experience went to Gunnar as well. I came out on 125 with capturing the Dungeon center, and taking the Dragon Fly Hive with 6 Wyverns.
Then I went on a roll, caught up with the opponent in parameters, and matched him in army size. I was pleased with a level 24 Monere, 3 Archangels in a Pandora's Box. The finale was a siege of the castle, lucky that I blocked the gates! The battle was even.
Thanks for the game.

02/22/2015 Kamnerub (red, Fortress, Wistan) lost to Bahan (blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Tazar) 2sm4d(3) 135.

Around turn 112, I had about 40 Gryphons. By turn 117, I had built Hydras in the Castle and later converted them into Chaos Hydras. I was exploring the resource nodes.
I went to the Treasury a bit late.
It was the first time I saw the Fairy Dragon Lair. I didn't immediately understand what it was, so I looked it up on Google :smile28:
By that time, the opponent had already cleared out a few Merrows and ~5 Hives in that Treasury, and that's where we met. He had a stat and magic advantage, so I lost decisively.

Thanks for the game!

Fill-ua (Castle, Edric, Edric) def Chinhiz Khan (Stronghold, Crag Hack, Crag Hack) 125 FEAR
Got a ranged unit buff, Edric leveled up to advanced ballista for defense, stats are the same, and the troops are too. In the final, I was surprised why Chinhiz split his 20-unit group, seeing my 100+ halberdiers. It resulted in a victory. Thanks for the game.

R@sIM (red, Stronghold, Crag Hack, Crag Hack) lose She1don (blue, Inferno, Marius, Gunnar) 124 Jebus Cross
Good spawn, lots of external dwellings: imps, pandora for cerberi, thanks to which I captured a double griffin conservatory on turn 1.15 and then captured conservatories and clues in sequence. On turn 1.23 I took the artifact before exiting and went to the center, where I found the opponent. I set up and prepared for the final, but the opponent attacked 50-99 cyclopes and threw the game.
Thanks for the game.

Fill-ua(Inferno, Fiona, Nimus) lost KILLED(Necropolis, Ghaltran, Ghaltran) 132 Jebus Cross
Reached 126 with the capture of the central Rampart. On the respawn, there were 7 angels and about 24 sprites. On 127, I took the treasure and a 4th-level Utopia: Gladius and Teapot. There was no pass, so I decided to run along the road, took the Orator's Headgear, but it wasn't very useful (30 mana). On 131, I reached the Dead Earth, killed a GO opponent there, and 35 Hydras with a group stack. 33 attack from Nimus against Gosha's 11 attack couldn't do anything, due to the overwhelming advantage in troops and in combat spirit/luck.
Thank you for the game.

Danchik defeated the Night Troll

They played like Elves against Humans.
After a few restarts, I got 25 Elves with a Castle.
In the first week, I built Crypts, upgraded dwellings, and set up an Elven ambush.
I also freed two heroes from prison, one of whom was Moner, and I bought him a book in the Necropolis town because I saw him as a main hero.
Unfortunately, it turned out that either Moner collects gold, or I defeat him and buy him back for my main hero to do more serious work, but in that case, I can't build the Castle anymore.
The result of the week: horses in the Castle, and Ivor is back in action, especially since I gave him armor.
On day 117, I saw the Reds moving around, so I headed in their direction.
On day 122, I was attacked by an Alpha Troll with Expert Air and Tactics.
Ivor didn't even have a book, but the Elves were amazing, and I'm very proud of them.
If my opponent had gone first, the final battle would have probably been more interesting.

Thank you for the game

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Danchik lost to Zhawdet

We played for about 2 hours: +1 time because of a very good starting position, but this Yerokhin Zhawdet showed up quickly, and another time I created a strong army without a Dungeon.
The road layout wasn't very good; one road quickly ends in a Guardian town, and the second leads to my secondary Castle, where the entrance to the Underground Treasury is located.
In the first week, there was a shortage of stone and gold from the Crystal Mines, so I built a Naga in the Citadel on one market, also took my secondary Castle, and scouted 3 Conservatories.
On day 121, my scout discovered a market behind the mountains, which allowed me to buy an army and take 2 Conservatories (1+2); I didn't dare take the third because it was 100-200, and I had already lost some Golems.
I went to the Treasury because there was nowhere else to go, and I scouted 3 Pandoras behind the Rusty Dragons, 50-99 Zealots, and 20-49 Manticores.
On day 124, I decided to take the last one; there were 40 Manticores, and one stack on low morale attacked the Goblins (I could have defeated them with Angels and Cavaliers, but I wanted to attack with a wait tactic), then everyone attacked the Naga... it was painful.
My opponent offered an auto-defeat, but I didn't accept.

Thank you for the game

21.02.2015 def emmure (red, random, Necropolis, Tamika) boevoyzaec (blue, random, Dungeon, mines) mini-nosta
The distribution was decent. There was 1 shooter block to 1 secondary skill. On the way to the second, upgraded 200 Imps blocked the path, so I moved towards the third. After a bit of necromancy, I broke through the Imps and the shooter, but due to a lack of resources, I essentially missed 2 days of building, so I had to rebuild the economy.
On 121, I entered 1 treasure zone which was no cakewalk – 2 Dragon Fly Hives behind Efreeti that required a long march to reach. Luckily, there were 2 Pandora's Boxes which I looted.
By 125, I was already in the 2nd treasure zone, but thankfully there were 3 Dragon Fly Hives there. I entered one without checking the guard, and it turned out to be a triple; in the end I lost a lot of bone dragons (there were >200, about 50 remained). As a result, I was nearly without an army, but with upgraded dragons.
After that, I spent another week necromancing and only came out on 141 (ГО 3 crystal dragons).
On 145, I captured the opponent's main castle. After encountering him, I attacked; he had a significant army advantage (60 upgraded dragons), and as a result, I lost the final battle. Thanks for the game!