Posts from One for all and all for one - 3

To avoid arguments – regarding the opponent's use of technical means in yesterday's final (because messages are already being sent even in private messages).

Teapots vs Pure Draw
first round game 2-1

I had to win twice for one victory, because in the first match everything was going well, but on 117 I wanted to run past the shifted passage guards with a peasant, and then I realized that it's probably not allowed here, although I thought I had done it before; I informed my opponent, checked my saves, and it turned out that I had bypassed the boys with a father using own power. I remember thinking for a long time whether to fight so as not to lose MP or save the centaurs 8. Anyway, I told my opponent that I broke the rules, he half-forgave me, meaning I was playing for a draw. At the beginning of the second week, I had the advantage, but the opponent also failed in max cons.

In the second match, neither of us used crypts, and the opponent was no worse, but thanks to magic I carried the first FB, followed by a buyout for 20k, and at the end of the game in the third guild I got Dimension Door and reached Galtran while speeding.

Thanks for the games.

P.S. it is very difficult to concentrate on the game when you are rocking your son to sleep between turns, and sometimes even during a turn.

Game 1

Tant + mana + skeleton resistance decided the outcome.

Thanks for the game!

Noobs vs Clean Draw
third round, 1-0

Thanks for the game.

Teapots — Pure Draw
semifinal, 3rd round

opp chose all red, I still had 111 left
they get Castle, Valya and Ivor in the tavern, archers built
there's a Necro there, but I relied on starting issues without Gosha and Tanta
I was wrong, but when opp's guild showed Gosha on his turn, it was already too late :)
at least there's a Dragon Utopia under the castle, then I found stables and a Griffin Conservatory on the adjacent zone
on turn 1 I took a ramp neighbor, the browns were completely insane -- 15 ears and nearly fifty Centaurs viciously terrorized my noobs, taking out the Money and Gem ones, and, most importantly, there were no chains for a return, otherwise Tyris would have gone with wood for an external dwelling of angels in the far corner of the spawn))
Valya takes an external dwelling for wood and I build them as meat for the Dragon Utopia, Earth magic came to her and Ivor, Sraker was dug up, but the Necro stubbornly doesn't move, and I also took a Log from them :o
on 121 I combine the money, brown dies, Valya, having bought a spellbook from him, runs through the stables to the Griffin Conservatory, frantically trying to expert Earth magic (for this I refused Offense) and there's just enough experience right before the Griffin Conservatory itself
maximum, I left the horse, half the wood, and a few pikemen
then with the angels I beat all the evil passages I hadn't touched, to avoid losses before the Griffin Conservatory -- a lift into the treasure zone for 17 Cyclops Kings, nearly fifty eyes for a teleport to the center, behind it a horde of Harpies and immediately ~50 Energy for Necro boots
I managed to fend them off, but not take them, 3 angels are carried to Valya in the treasure zone, the Castle money travels by chain to an external dwelling, and Sraker with an angel and chaff blocked the passage
there he was received and chased off by Gosha, in the Necro army there are 5 horses, 300 skeletons, 5 liches, and a few vampires
... and he remained blocking the teleport
actually, the decision is debatable, since the rest of the army with archers should have been wandering somewhere, and Gosha had neither Haste nor Tactics, and the skeletons would most likely have been shot down even with regular Slow
but it turned out even simpler, Valya was nearby, Gosha, having shot at the Marks, ran out of mana, and the main thing was to kill as much as possible before he could buy back
and he could have killed them all, since he attacked 2 rounds in a row after waiting, but morale/luck (which were given to Valya after the Griffin Conservatory for 3 expert slots) didn't come through, and Galtran escaped on 1 skeleton and a vampire, 30 skeletons died from the counterattack after finishing off the angel
remembering how control was withheld in the late game of the previous semifinal games, I decided to cut off part of the map from opp, reducing his chances for control, which had reached even the preflop))) I run to the Necro spawn, but at the fork I turn, as it turned out, towards the former green Conflux
but, even if I had guessed correctly, I couldn't have prevented him from slipping into the corner treasure zone anyway, and that's where Gosha went
Valya, on the other hand, via long slow roads, reaches the blue Conflux, next to a box behind a horde of Cave Dwellers, she has enough movement to take it and sit in the town
I was hoping for Conflux-meat for the Dragon Utopia, but it turned out even cooler -- the entire 4th! :eek: and, as if butter before the Griffin Conservatory, on the river after the fight with the Cave Dwellers, Advanced Wisdom reaches Valya)))
then the noobs take 3 villages, Ivor also picked up a Town Portal scroll -- Gosha was standing right next to him before turning around on Sraker
money for angels, Grinya took 3 or 4 Naga banks, Valya takes the Griffin Conservatory
on 141 Valya with a pack of angels and feed from Sraker and 2 Necro villages + demons from the box takes the home Dragon Utopia (+7 to all stats) and in the Conflux artifact shop buys boots, then Rosik from the prison with Mass Haste takes a Dragon Utopia in the swamp -- there's a blue cap and a teapot, you can pay a courtesy visit to the blues))
I could have hopped there earlier, but I stupidly forgot to build a mage tower in the village for Rosik, who had teleported there from the Dragon Utopia :confused:
so Valya did the hopping, who never managed to expert Air magic before the end of the game, the next day, having devoured another Dragon Utopia with Casting Order and picked up Shackles of War, we run into the corner village of the blues, where we had previously put a fort
Gosha was standing nearby on the rampage and was being killed by a pack of Archangels even on a noob, but he didn't scout in that exact direction, he was busy taking the external Dragon Fly Hive at home with noobs and didn't have enough timer
overnight, Galtran takes, apparently, the only Dragon Utopia of the game, but he has nowhere to go, and first Rosik with SP~20 and a Fire Sphere thins everything out with Armageddon, after which about 600 skeletons remain (thanks to a fur coat and a coffin in addition to the stolen boots, opp traditionally accumulated about 1K)))
I attack the remnants with Shackles and all the money led by 15 Archangels, opp types GG

thanks for the games, good luck on the streams :)

ps: after the game I wanted to watch the recording of the 1st final episode -- for the commentary, I was most interested in the moment of not having enough money to buy back)) alas, there was no sound on the recording :( Twitch, the bastard, thus saved my ears from unrighteous content aka the musical background of the streams
just wondering, is this problem solvable, or are recordings doomed to be silent in the future?

Newbies vs Maniacs
first round

Seemed like a good draw, got Galthran, air elementals built, have an external market, lots of roads...but many ranged guards, in the end didn't necro anything and only built birds in the fort, at the start of the second week we could already fight the opponent but both went to other sides, I took a couple of Dragon Fly Hives and two Griffin Conservatories for 6 angels. At the start of the third week I ran out of roads, aside from going to visit the opponent, I decided to play off-road and at that same moment the scout hero finds an entrance to the treasure zone, the previous treasure zone revealed by scouting was empty. I rush into the treasure zone, it's on sand but I immediately find a Dragon Utopia in which I get the Air spell book, with Dimension Door I rush into another treasure zone, there's another Dragon Utopia with the Earth spell book, I consider ambushing the opponent in his treasure zone and move towards him. But on the turn I was supposed to ambush him, I get distracted by another revealed Dragon Utopia, because I doubted I was going exactly where his army was, as a result I gave him a day and he grew a lot in stats. The plan changed, I started to pressure his towns, on 147 I see him leaving the treasure zone, I run up to him and see that I have very little mana but his stats and army scare me, what if he has the Orb of the Firmament then I would lose since I decided to attack with Shackles of War. I attacked anyway and won purely due to mana, if there was the Orb of the Firmament or even the Magic Resistance Cloak I would have lost.
Thanks for the game.