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I still don't understand who won, whether it was Masha, or the collective mind, or Masha talking about herself in the first person, then in the third person :D ;)
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I'm playing with transes) My ex-girlfriend is helping:smile28:

I play with transvestites. My ex-girlfriend helps:smile28:

So, he is a transvestite after all... :eek:

I still don't understand who won, whether it was Masha, or the collective intelligence, or Masha talking about herself in the first person, then in the third person :D ;)

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I am very impressed with the results!!!;)
A person who plays 1 game a month, without participating in seasonal tournaments and other competitions:confused: And such results :smile26:
And they will also win a tournament based on experience:smile01:

I play with transsexuals. My ex-girlfriend helps:smile28:

Is she playing or helping? :confused: ;)

Do you have some kind of special competition for writing comments here?:rolleyes:

Rich starting zone, many early skells. Could take 2 topes week 2 and the 2nd one gave earth book and air book. Then things went fast, i cleared one t-area, stole opponents town, ran up the road and saw hack with only t-birds on, found fast scout and attacked. Had shackles. Thanks for playing.

W/o any shances this time, GG

Here, the situation was the opposite compared to the game against Maretti.
With 2 village connections and a computer connection, the computer dies quickly. I found a Scroll of Dimension Door and teleported to my tower on turn 2. On turn 127, I pushed the main opponent back and then cleared the map with Luna and Moner. By the end of week 3, I allowed the Incarnate to build up to 12k+ and by the beginning of week 4, there would have been about 15 of them.
At the beginning of the week, I received a message about the surrender because there were no other options.
Thank you for the game.

I saw everything from the overview, what the opponent was doing, but I simply had nothing to counter the full control on turn 2 :eek: I didn't get enough harpies and didn't have time to hide with a flyer.)
Thank you for the game!
P.S. The Barbarian performed well, anyway.

Due to the CIS tournaments, the schedule is shifted by one week.

Very old save, but I remember getting Gosha when opponent was out of restarts. Had hard start but at the end of the week I could make a lot of skells at least. We met in scout wars at the start of week 2 and I moved Gosha to the hive area after getting log and pf and was ready to make a lot of skells and wyverns. Opponent didnt have much luck and when I took his main town with a scout he gave up. TFP.

We agreed with Maretti to start tomorrow at 12:00 Moscow time. I will try to do a stream.

I managed to pull it off by some miracle!
We started right away without restarts.
I spawned on the surface, there are 4 roads, a Griffin Conservatory, a hero with troglodytes and harpies, and Haste in the guild. Gotta play. The heroes aren't very lucky, though — no Death Knights at all, Nagash is a mage, but still one of the best. In the end, he remained my main.
On the first turn, I was frantically trying to set up OBS for the stream (XSplit catastrophically conflicts with my video card, and I didn't risk using it when it crashed the video adapter twice in 10 test minutes — the second time the system couldn't recover it and the computer completely froze), so I didn't watch the tavern. As a result, Galtran's happy face was only noticed on turn 114, when it was already too late.
On turn 112, I broke into the underground, where I found a second Griffin Conservatory and a Conflux village. There was also some gold there.
On turn 113, Nagash gets Expert Necromancy and Basic Logistics! That turned out to be incredibly awesome. I took the Conflux village, moved the troops to the other side, and broke through a portal — there was grass there, but I didn't want to fight the orcs. So I headed to another underground area.
Turn 114 — scouted the dungeon a bit, broke through to the Necro computer's passage. I blundered and was afraid to use Nimbus on a fairy to take a village with 5-9 centaurs, even though it would have been an easy win (the shooter dealt decent damage). Freed the Griffin Conservatory, broke through in the last direction, where I found a bugged passage to the brown Inferno computer. Eliminated one of his heroes. Skeletons — 185.
Turn 115 — checking the Griffin Conservatory. Two with Ghost Dragons. Clavius with Offense would have already gone in, but with a mage, I need to build up more troops. I grab the Inferno, run along another road, and hit a dead end with orcs.
Turn 116 — with liches, I take a Rampart village, return Nagash to the Griffin Conservatory, set up a chain to deliver a few more skeletons.
On turn 117, everything comes together nicely, and 250+ skeletons easily dismantle 100 griffins. In one spot, though, I messed up by not noticing that Haste had worn off my skeletons. Took an extra hit and unnecessary losses.
Week's result — 278 skeletons, 2 angels, and knights in the citadel without much money to buy them.
On turn 121, I take the second Griffin Conservatory, which luckily turns out to be a level 3. Took a bit of damage from morale here, but overall fine. Vidomina with knights (only managed to buy 4) and liches is sent to kill the Necro computer and does an excellent job with the first week's growth. Nagash starts splitting.
On turn 122, I lost Inferno. The computer popped up and captured it. In principle, there was an opportunity to split there and try to find the opponent, but now it was too late. So I head to the underground treasure zone. And right at the entrance, I get the Cloak of Negation, Cape of Speed, and a Pandora's Box with 30 magogs. Finished off the Necro computer completely, it left me a power-up as inheritance.
On turn 123, Vidomina's troops return, and I take Inferno again. Nagash finds Boots of Speed in the treasure zone.
On turn 124, I gather a bunch of gold (15k at the end of the turn), preparing to invade the snow area with Nimbus and an army, and to buy out Nagash in some newly captured village. Nagash spends the night in the tavern.
Turn 125 — invaded. Nimbus grabs a Tower village, and Nagash reaches the former city of the Barbarian computer, where he stays for the night. I scout in all directions, spending almost all my money.
On his turn, Galtran shows up and blocks my retreat by standing in the portal. He also took a Griffin Conservatory along the way, which I could have grabbed but thought there was definitely no one there anymore...
Turn 126 — nothing to do, I attack, first thinning out the opponent's single-unit stacks with mages.
Nagash (6-3-8-8 (160)), Basic Armorer, +2 Speed, 484 skeletons, 1+1 goblin, 5 black knights, 9 vampires, and 1+4 angels.
Galtran (5-11-5-9 (62)), Expert Armorer, Advanced Offense, Basic Resistance, 10 mighty liches, 366 skeletons, 40+3 upgraded skeletons, and 4 angels.
The opponent immediately cast Mass Shield, making his troops nearly invulnerable. In the first skeleton exchange, it was something like -150 vs -40. As expected. So from the very start, my expectations for the battle weren't too rosy. I blinded the angels, then cast Mass Slow. In the second round, the angels dispelled and flew forward. I blinded them again, intending to kill them, but even without Shield, my full skeleton stack only killed two of them. The opponent hasted his skeletons, and they reached mine, wreaking havoc. At the start of the third round, I finished off the angels, cast Mass Slow again to gang up on the skeleton stack without retaliation, but there was Resistance! I took damage on my angels, but surprisingly, only two of them died too. Then I hasted my skeletons and started trying to run from the opponent's stack. Along the way, I took out the liches. However, I made a quick mistake and lost another -100+ of my skeletons. Only 34 left :D. The opponent had nearly 200. I still had 9 vampires. And then it turned out Galtran's mana was running out. There was also convenient terrain on the right side of the field that let me run around for a couple of rounds. In short, I ran around, throwing Lightning Bolts for 210 damage, which took out 30 enemy skeletons each time. In the end, they couldn't catch me, and I fully capitalized on my mana advantage. After a couple of shots with my last mana, I had 3 skeletons left :). After my last bolts, there were 4 skeletons left on his side :). And I still had 9 mana for 2 more shots. Galtran flees!
For the battle, I immediately get 150+ new skeletons, so I clearly have the advantage. I take out two more heroes and recapture the Tower village.
On turns 127-131, I run towards the enemy capital. However, it turns out to be very far, and only on turn 132 do I approach the walls. I'm met with emptiness. There are many unbought troops, but the knights and liches have been taken away, and there are no heroes in the area.
Turn 133 — chasing the opponent in unwalkable terrain is hopeless, so I stop to split forces and think about the best place to meet him.
Turn 134 — by combining the map view and the template scheme, I realize the opponent will most likely be underground, to the right of the Barbarian town. I head there, gathering more skeletons along the way, who number nearly 300.
Turn 135 — and indeed, there they are, the blue ones! I ignore the Griffin Conservatory, run to a village, send out scouts — and there's Galtran. No mana and only about a hundred skeletons. Nagash catches up, GG.
Thank you for the game!

Thanks for playing, 1-0.

Thanks for playing, 1-0.

Got Gosha and decided to play. Never showed him in tavern the first 2 days to avoid the restart. I only had one road out and it was very long, and I had no speed at all. Still I was confident. Opponent took 2 of my Towns and I decided to aproche. Probably I should have waited a bit, but he was running me over with massive speed and heavy numbers of heroes (gold).

FB was very close. 1 Major resistance made me think I would win it, but I ran out of mana. Just needed 3 more to win it clearly. Also I made a couple of mistakes.

After the battle I played on, but had no chances with no speed vs boots plus log. TFP.

Very old save, but I remember getting Gosha when opponent was out of restarts. Had hard start but at the end of the week I could make a lot of skells at least. We met in scout wars at the start of week 2 and I moved Gosha to the hive area after getting log and pf and was ready to make a lot of skells and wyverns. Opponent didnt have much luck and when I took his main town with a scout he gave up. TFP.

I don't even know what to write :).
Three times Laura in the tavern, 1 time Ufre tin came with Laura, another time Pikedram, 2 times out of three Shakti ended up with one stack. There was one successful generation with an external dwelling of Minotaurs and a Griffin Conservatory, but Maretti took a restart either 112 or 113, I don't remember. In the end he deals out Shakti with one stack, but at least without Laura and thank goodness for that I guess, complete poverty, Strelki blocks, adjacent zones delighted me immensely, in one zone there were mines and that's it — i.e. absolutely everything Castle+mines, in the second Castle+mines and a Sword +3 — that's it, absolutely everything.
On the other hand, Galtran with 111, who I think showed up in every deal, the Griffin Conservatory wasn't even built at home, an external dwelling of Liches and such. In short, I was demoralized from the first day of restarts.
Classic Maretti.

Thanks for the game!

Added 4 hours 23 minutes later
I couldn't find the deadlines anywhere, I think the deadlines were 05.05.2015 for the winners' semifinals and losers' quarterfinals. Is that right?
p.s. found it in a large table, question withdrawn.

We have a game in progress on a saved file; our friend Fish doesn't have much time, but we'll try to finish it in the coming days.

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Classic Maretti.

i'm honored :)