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Masha surprised me a bit on the bridge, essentially removing all the templates, leaving three templates that were ideal in my opinion against Flax - Skirmish, Jebus Cross, Balance. After eliminating Skirmish, I was left with a choice between Jebus Cross or Balance; from my experience on Balance, external dwellings and conservatories often spawn on respawns, so the double dungeon looked more attractive than a random Jebus Cross, so we played Balance.
I had to take a painful 112 restart due to a loss (I went into conservatory 2 and couldn't handle it), before that also a 111, it would have been unpleasant to catch a total crap because of this, but in the end I got lucky. On the respawn there's an external dwelling of Minotaurs, a conservatory two, though very few Troglodytes and the roads are very crooked.
I struggled with a lack of money the first week, built/portal-summoned Minotaurs, leveled up secondary heroes, picked up a box for 5k along the way, another cos one, a couple of Dwarves. I haven't seen such a bad Shacti in a long time, first it pushes Leadership, then Artillery, then Earth, Intelligence, and Fire. Well, at least there is Mass Slow, and thanks for that.
On 123 I break 27 Royal Snakes in the center, in the center I pick up a Sword +2+2, find a passage to the super treasure zone and a conservatory in the sands.
On my turn, Mullich bursts into the center, but after breaking through the GO, he essentially stops at the entrance. His army there is 5 Birds, a couple of Angels, about 40 Air Elementals and some misc, my stats are slightly higher, by 1-2 at most. My army has 3 Angels, 24 Royal Snakes, and misc. In theory, the Minotaurs should have crushed everything, but I was afraid of Mullich with his +2 Speed, and who knows what magic he has there, I decide to just go into the treasure zone carelessly.
Mullich didn't chase me, he decided to capture all my towns, as usually happens on Balance - quite vainly. After 5 days he brought 70 Dwarves, - and I even managed to catch Mullich with all my strength, before the start of the new week, he conceded.
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On the bridge I try to get rid of templates that potentially threaten me with one-sided games, playing for two months, leveling the hero up the entire skill tree, building thousands of Mage Guilds in thousands of castles, running around treasure zones, knowing the opponent is running around other treasure zones at the same time, Diamond is too meticulous, you tremble for every village and relics are lying around... So the choice remains very small.
Balance is good for Conflux with a native secondary skill with Air Elementals. But I didn't have a road to that native secondary town.:( I liked the heroes from the start (Mullich, Grinya), second level, good Mage Guild, lots of Air Elementals. I could have taken 112, but I was afraid it would turn out worse.
113 - I break 20 Storm Elementals on the grass, send a scout without an army, and he runs into a block of 50+ Dwarves for a scroll (of Flight, which can't be used on Balance).
114 - loss in conservatory 1.
117 - Birds in the citadel.
The roads aren't great, or maybe I played poorly. In general, I see Shacti running from the pre-treasure zone into the treasure zone. I won't catch him since I have no Logistics. I ran to take his castles. The roads there are veeeery long, by the time I took everything, Shacti was already returning from the treasure zone with +70 Dwarves, in Boots of Speed and Gloves. Mullich was jealous. No chance.
I don't know, maybe I should have run after him into the treasure zone and collected objects simultaneously, but I doubt I would have made it in time, since there's also a helper from the prison and he had 900 more movement per day + Shacti was already a day ahead.:confused:
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Accepted by opponent on 3/18/2015 12:51 PM
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Весна 2012.

The roadblock gave the reds a week's head start. Kira was carrying tough fights with just a handful of Grands, Luna was slowly gaining momentum, and only by the middle of the second week did the blockade of dead horses fall. On day 127, I take the orange Castle, with an army of 30 Grands and 10 Dwarves))
After that, I ramped up, got several Conservatories, Hives, 1st Dragon Utopia, and a very lucky one. A Breastplate of the Air, a Cuirass for magic, and a 2nd pair of Boots, which sealed the deal.
On day 141, the reds showed up where I had planned to send Luna. Had he appeared a day later, I wouldn't have been able to buy myself out. But as it was, I calculated that I could reach both the Pope and the Horse with the Power on the last move and attacked. There were about a hundred and fifty Demons, a few Angels, 20 Vives. GG.
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I dodged on infernal luck and Papal speed for Amilu.
The road block gave Red a week's head start. Kirry carried difficult fights purely on a handful of Grands, Luna slowly gained momentum, and only by the middle of the 2nd week did the block of dead horses fall. On 127 I take the orange Castle, with an army of 30 Grands and 10 Dwarves))
Then I ramped up, a few preserves, beehives, the 1st Dragon Utopia and a very lucky one. Ring of the Air, Cloak of Magic and the 2nd pair of Boots that sealed the deal.
On 141 Red showed up where I planned to send Luna. If he had appeared a day later, I wouldn't have been able to buy myself out. But I figured I could reach both the Daddy and the Hog with Mooshna on the last move and attacked. There were about a hundred and fifty Demons, a few Angels, 20 Vivi. GG.
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In general, I had everything needed for victory, including the Shackles, full control. But Papal speed :)
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"Это нам идеально подходит!" [Новосибирск, 2013]
"Красавчик! Если только не читер.." [Киев, 2014]
"Это Вам не шутки - нажрался Dust в маршрутке" [Новокузнецк, 2015]
Сам ты фиш (с) :D
Level 2 is set. From Castle the road goes down and up with a fork, but the upper path is blocked by vampires from the Dragon Fly Hive. Lucky that Ciele showed up — the vampires broke through fine, despite the GS. The Dragon Fly Hive turned out to be big, GO hundred GR Liches close to the Castle, there's a Griffin Conservatory 2-4 and another Dragon Fly Hive. Not bad. Main is Fury, no better candidates. A promising start, but the respawn turned out to be large and fairly empty, not counting 5 Dragon Utopias. By the end of the week, another Conservatory-1 and a Dragon Fly Hive were found far away and inconveniently. But besides that, in the corner of the respawn, wings were found behind the Wizards, which already inspired optimism.
117 — home birds in the Citadel.
121 — I buy out, Fury takes the Dragon Fly Hive with 8 Wyverns (while joyfully leveling Mysticism), a scout takes a mini-Dragon Fly Hive, Fury takes the Conservatory, which turns out to be max — a bird. I move the army to the wings, a scout takes them, the Wizards kill another bird. Next choice: exit to Underground on 122 with the remaining moves, or stop in front of the GO, grab another Dragon Fly Hive (with wings, no need to run 3 turns around) and exit with a running start on 123. I choose the second option, the main's development is none, no mass magic, not even Muddle or Haste, need more troops.
122 — Fury is at the GO, a scout takes the Dragon Fly Hive-6 and a Pandora's Box with 20 GR Earth Elementals. Also, the scouts miraculously find scrolls of Muddle and Haste in one turn.
123 — I hit the Liches, sacrifice all birds, 18 Wyverns and 5 Angels remain. Fury redeems himself and levels Earth and Tactics. I run further, and there's a max-Dragon Fly Hive. Even further — boots.
124 - 126 — I take the Underground Castle, clear the Underground fairly quickly with the wings, take 3 Dragon Utopias — they gave stats, then I take the Hat on all of the fifth (when I saw it, I didn't have time to pick it up the same turn, and was afraid the opponent would take it), and I decide to go to the opponent, since his army power and stats glow less. Opponent's GO — Bears and Efreets, he needs to hit both. At the GO stands Mephala on Cerberi. I hit the Bears, kill Mephala, run up to the army. GG.
As for the meat, by that point it wasn't that bad, but there was no Oil, and such a GO would have been very hard to take.
Thanks for the game.
Accepted by opponent on 3/24/2015 11:51 AM
03/22/2015 Javdet (Blue, Rampart, Kairie, Kairie) def Amiloo (Red, Inferno, Mariussa, Mariussa) 6lm10a 141
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WiZarDX_576, =Stinger=, SVAROG, rebellious, ProtosArchon, Jewelmask, do you no longer want to win the tournament and have you stopped participating?
We are finishing the games, writing reports.:smile13: :smile13: :smile13: :smile13: :smile13: :smile13: :smile13: :smile13:

Dirty took all the respawn points, then I didn't like any of the generated maps, we rerolled, and started again.
I'm doing great, I have a team with 50 creatures and a lot of might, and I'm about to attack on turn 121.
But my opponent is having trouble with both the map and the heroes :D
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Thank you for the game.
Many, many demons.


