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03.04.2015 TwinkieThecake (Blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) def Bison (Red, Inferno, Kalh, Tiraxor) Jebus Cross 142

Took 2 restarts; in the end, it generated 2 external dwellings of cats and a level-1 cons near the castle. During the first 3 days, I cleared both external dwellings, portaled the cats to the castle, and took the cons. There were practically no clues on the explored territory (there were only 2 clues that could actually be taken somehow). On the other hand, it dropped a bunch of Pandoras, which I collected until the start of the 2nd week. The Miner leveled up Earth; one of the checked huts gave armor, so the main hero became practically ideal, but on one of the level-ups, they offered resist and something even worse. I wanted to move out on day 123, but that same day speed boots and a flail appeared (and it seemed to me that Shakti's attack is lacking), so I decided to build a chain to take these artifacts. On 124, I burst into the center with momentum (ГО group of cats, beat up some meat and broke the ballista); on the way, I found a teapot for 14 red and 3 black dragons (finished off the remnants of the eater) and captured the central castle nearby (Ramp) (set up GM and sat there to replenish mana). On the next move, I defeated a loser with a land view scroll, bought him out in Ramp, passed the scroll to the Miner, and saw that most of the center is stretched upwards, meaning for the opponent to reach the tastiest parts, he has to go through me. I took advantage of this, bought as many heroes as possible, and began scouting. Thus, I ate almost the entire center, assembled a sword of justice from Dragon Utopia, a necklace +3 all, shield +4 all, red orb; from one Pandora for 100 pits they gave 3 gold dragons, for 60 nags there was a box of 10 uniques, and for 40 hydras they gave another 3 golds. Meanwhile, the opponent was eating his own respawn and didn't venture toward the central castle. On 137, after breaking through one of the opponent's ГО, I used DD and flew toward his castle. On 141, I took the castle, bought some losers, killed his losers, scouted the area for a main hero nearby (turned out he was sitting with his whole army in the secondary), and ran toward him. On 142, the opponent attacked me himself (Shakti: 32-34-27-23 with red orb; Tiraxor: 27-22-16-21). Shakti has a lot of troops, Tiraxor has no defense... Thanks for the game!

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1.04.2015 Jelen117 (blue, Necromancer, Galthran, Galthran) def unq_flipmo (red, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) Jebus Cross 116

31.03.2015 gee gee (red, ramp, Kirre, Kirre) def unq_flipmo (blue, dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) Jebus Cross 117
Had 2 lvl7 externals (took both) and another dung town, Shakti well developed as always but because I was continuously bothered by my father whom I invited to watch the game on skype (bad, bad idea, he was continuously "what's that ? when do you plan to do that ?" Dee Dee style) finished the time, a whole day did nothing (not quite right, managed to have instead a speed 11 unit on me troglos) then finished the time another day and got sick of the whole thing and decided to go (without any sane reason, just crazy gung ho 9/11 style) on a full cyclops stockpile. I don't even know how many dragons I would have lost, after losing 1-2 just gg-ed my opponent and friend and went to sleep. Thinking about the match two days after (and now too) I regret(ed) that course of action, I should have asked him to kindly save the match, calm myself for a day (and ofc I wouldn't have suicided myself after) and win the match. Even without playing a day and a half from the first 7 I could still have in 121 perfect Shakhti with 7 reds (instead of 8, so yes I went berserk because of "losing" one) and I'm +90% sure be both agree I would have won probably. He played a good game, took 3 lvl6 externals but from what I remember (I don't have the game/saves anymore) his kirre had no air/earth at all. Thanks for the game Gee Gee

05.04.15 Bison (red, Ramp, Киррь, Киррь) lose Mukti (blue, Cove, Cassiopeia, Cassiopeia) JC 123
We got completely wrecked. At first everything seemed fine: two external dwellings of horses, a Fireborn Phoenix Tower and a Factory next to it. But the respawn turned out to be very compact, I only found 2 Dragon Fly Hives and 2 Dragon Utopias, the rest were mansions and such. Киррь developed quite normally, but no Earth magic came up, which, I believe, decided everything. On day 112 I take the Bear from the refugee camp. On day 115 I break the level-1 Factory. I lose this Giant due to a misclick. I pick up the external dwellings of horses on the first week. On day 121 I fight Battle Unicorns guarding a Pandora's Box and a Tower. In the Pandora's Box there are 25 Grand Elves. On the same day I upgrade the rest, totaling 49 of them.
The Fireborn Phoenix Tower is level two, I take it. From the Black Tower I pull an artifact for +4 attack and decide to fight ГО on day 123. And it was in vain: from the Grand Elves, 2 birds, the Bear, and 11 Grand Horses, only 4 horses remain.
Thanks for the game

05.04.2015 R@sIM (red, random, Stronghold, Terek, Gunnisson) def EGIPET (blue, Stronghold, random, Gundula, Gundula) Jebus Cross 131, hota
Opponent spent all resets, I had 111-reset. The spawn was beautiful, saw lots of gold on day 1, a Red Tower, a Pandora's Box with artifacts, and an external dwelling of bears with 10-19 upgraded pit fiends, and I entered Gunnisson's folders. By week 1's end and the start of week 2, I captured 5 Dragon Fly Hives — all minimums — 24 wisps, 2 external dwellings of behemoths, 2 Dungeons also — I Town Portal'd there. On day 124, I took 2 home Dragon Utopias — full control + a Cornucopia and КЗ and +2 speed (one max roll, the other a 2). On day 125 with Sided Heroes, there should have been 11, but 1 died in a Dragon Utopia, another I didn't buy from the external dwelling, and I broke through the ГО. And next to it was a neighboring Dungeon ГО — I broke through to it too and sent in a scout hero, while I ran to capture the center, since according to the scout view (Gunnisson had both Air and Earth magic), the opponent wasn't there yet. My stats by week 2 were already monstrous, Attack just under 40 and morale was all good. On day 127, the opponent jumped on my respawn — there were 8 utopias and 4 Sided Heroes in the army — I Town Portal'd to my secondary, put on the Cape of Life and the Bracers, and killed the opponent easily with no losses. Thanks for the game! :D :D