Posts from "The Newbie-2015. Winter" tournament.

I had two re left behind me. Fast roads. Ivor +9 guys, Gunnar, adjacent zone grass mummies, +right next to the castle beyond the evil eyes a lift to another zone, 5 heroes, nothing else. On the 2nd Ivor ran to the castle, scouted an external dwelling of horns + a quest for 100+ orc chieftains. Dwarf Cottage near the castle and some free stuff. Decided to play. In the tavern Crag Hack is lit up — brutal! Dwarf Cottage 20 with Grand Elves, -3 Grand Elves -25 Centaurs, about 10 left, thankfully there isn't really anything else to fight, on the first week horses in the castle + belt.

In the adjacent zone I found a chest guarded by 50+ Waspwings, decided to start with it, the 2nd week, and break it with Ivor who had leveled Mass Haste, but take Kyrre who has Earth magic, on 124 I enter the treasure zone and immediately Pandora's Box and external dwelling of Devils, behind 100+ Waspwings, they give all Earth magic, Wisdom was there, then Dragon Fly Hive +8 and a library, another external dwelling of Devils, +a chest for 10k experience, Kyrre unexpectedly decided to level Mysticism and Scouting well.

Simultaneously with Ivor on a Devil I take the Necropolis town, and Kyrre into the castle for stables and mana, then from the Necro into the treasure zone, I take the library, pass the turn and immediately Crag Hack shows up, takes a chest for 100+ gr Serpents and attacks

Crag Hack 14 4 4 31 mana 6 Angels 6 Dragons 4 Horses 42 Marksmen 6 Swords a few Pikemen

Kyrre 11 14 11 93 mana +1 speed 3 Devils 8 Dragons 5 Horned Demons 39 Grand Elves a few Centaurs

from Crag Hack's Mass Haste the Devils and 28 Grand Elves fall, I cast Mass Haste kill some Dragons with a return strike and in the next round Implosion -5 Angels and bought off. On his turn the opponent surrenders.

The 2 remaining treasure zones were very far away and on sand, and there was nothing much left to catch.

thanks for the game!

Tant entered and got the amulet +5%, a trap, on the second turn consa-maxi lands on the respawn, on the third I go into an Inferno treasure and bring out 30+ ducks.
I break ГО and on 141 "sadly" take the opponent's dungeon. Sadly because due to wasting the timer on ГО I don't have time to enter with a pawn and buy up the growth, nor do I have time to drive away the pawns with meat circling around. In general, a fail.
The opp goes into a treasure far from me and eats 3 Dragon Utopia there, for stats and the earth book. Meanwhile, I crawl through two other treasures, no idea what to catch there, just wasting time, accumulating bones with the main hero, dumping bones with pawns.
On 214 Miner exposes himself, I attack with Tant. The opponent has no army: 3 angels, 3 thunderbirds and a stack of 30+ medusas. But he has кз, sp 25 and mana 200+. I have 4 angels, 4 birds, 36 ducks, 600 bones, mass haste/slow and a wave retrained from Septiena for 100+. In the end, I kill an angel and catch an imp at -32 ducks. Buyout.
Attempt number two, now Miner attacks and something goes wrong.
Thanks for the game.

Lately, there hasn't been much activity. Just a reminder that on April 23rd, technical decisions will be made for all unfinished games, and no further arguments will be considered!

First, I merged on the angel dwelling after 2 angel morale boosts. I take a rest. After they started playing on turn 112, I break through Gunnar's dwelling of horses, get another morale boost, all the archers are killed, but I destroy 3 horses. I upgrade the spearmen, and get another dwelling. The city isn't built because there are no stones. On turn 121, Kiryu merges on the hobbits, losing 2 horses. I think about writing GG, but I decide to struggle a bit more, and on turn 122, my opponent surrenders.

Thanks for the game, good luck further.

A very long game, both in game time and real time.

I don't remember what happened with the restarts anymore, but I played a surrender with a stable and boots on the respawn. + there were a couple of Dwarf Cottages and 5 heroes on 111. There was no more money on the respawn, and the Dwarf Cottages were all large.

In the end, on 117 I took an external dwelling of birds and built it and a Citadel. Though the timer was at 0 — I didn't even have time to buy the birds. One adjacent zone through markers (Tower), and the second Rampart through no-road.

On 121 I beat a club +5 and went into the snows. There were 2 boxes for meat and a Dragon Utopia deep in the snows. Nothing to do — went into a treasure zone in the underground. There was a Dragon Fly Hive with 4 ducks and a KZ behind 19 ghouls. I didn't have Slow at that point — beating them was not an option. The opponent meanwhile is collecting cans and takes the Rampart. Nothing to do — I run through the snow into a treasure zone on rocks. There were 30 ducks from 4 hives + a box of wolves + 2 boxes of money. I build a Town Portal in the Tower, but Crag doesn't have Wisdom. Again I realize I'm falling behind. Nothing to do — I dive into the Dragon Utopia. There they give a Hat 4-4, a Shield 3-3, and Sandals. No control. I take the KZ. Implosion deals 1350 damage. I realize there's nothing more to skill up on the map, so I go on the attack. On the second turn after the KZ, I take the Castle on the opponent's adjacent zone, and the next day I run to his main, where he brought all his power.

In the final, Crag 22-12 with 90 mana vs Clavius 12-12 with 56 mana.

I have 33 ducks + 65 dogs + 10 ogres + 20 birds. And a few singles of birds.

The opponent has 650 skeletons + 12 necro horses + 7 angels + 20 mages + 20 liches. In the end, through a wait on the angels, an Implosion flies in for 6 pieces. In response, an Implosion on 9 ducks. Then a Mirror Image on the skeletons and a Meteor from me. Turn 3 Implosion on the horses.

In the end, I misplayed a little with the timing of the breakthrough. They killed the birds that I was supposed to use to clear the retaliation from the skeletons. I resurrect the ducks and crash into the skeletons. The ducks carried.

A GG from the opponent follows.

Thanks for the game.

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Billy Bones is away. Can't come to an agreement with Kost.

We got rekt... played whatever we got... Moandor shows up in the tavern right away... I see many weak guards... I decide to level necro... one road to the adjacent zone... I run along it... there's an external dwelling of lizards and basilisks by the road... on 114 grade lizards... I burst into the secondary grass... I see gloves... bones already close to a hundred... thinking about necro-ing a bit more and running through the zombies to the opponent... but the opponent said GG... a loss in a max gnome pit... thanks for the game)