Posts from OFB-9

Will there be a table showing which castles players have used? It's getting hard to keep track:cool:

Will there be a table showing which castles players have used? It's getting hard to keep track:cool:

Will there be a table showing which castles players have used? It's getting hard to keep track:cool:

Will there be a table showing which castles players used? It's getting hard to keep track:cool:

I went red again on spider and took a castle. The first deal looked decent; on 112 after several shooter blocks, I decided to take a rest anyway. The second deal gave chocolate; I colored the native green opponent on the second day and got a rest from the opponent. The third deal gave medium roads, so I didn't think much about angels. On the respawn, external dwellings of monks and griffins. I kept thinking about building monks with the external dwelling, but at the end of the week, reason won, I built cavalry, and didn't take the external dwelling. True, for the sake of construction, I had to dive into a max crypt in the swamp, after which little survived. Oh well, cavalry with griffins in the fort, that's still good. An orange necromancer with an amplifier was captured.

In the second game, I took a pair of Dragon Fly Hives, a box for first-level magic, a mini-Griffin Conservatory. I grabbed several villages and a blue ramp (the road to it wasn't laid for the opponent for some reason). At the end of the week, I bought Tanta, gave him a necromancy amulet, and took the external dwelling of monks. Monks built in the Citadel.

131 Gunnisson bursts into the treasure zone. There's a Dragon Utopia nearby, but I don't risk diving in. No armor (and it never gets given), little meat, almost no defense. I run further, took a pair of Dragon Fly Hives and several boxes, in one of them all of level five. I break into a village, replenish mana in the well, and run to the Dragon Utopia. A triple Dragon Utopia, I took quite a lot of meat, everything died except 15 ducks, and that was thanks to Earth summoning. It gave a sword and shield from the Titan's set. On 137, angels are being built at home in the Citadel; Gurni boosts at home on an angel, next turn I plan to burst through the mountains and take the enemy main. Tant slowly necroed 200 bones; in one of the villages, a Mage Guild level 4 with Chain Lightning, which will kill Tazar at the end of the game.

141 I take the Dragon Fly Hive on the respawn, upgrade 19 monks, and burst into the opponent. A red-rush of Might and Magic, I sit in the town, and nothing there has been bought out for more than two weeks! 8 ducks, 15 cows, 30+ snakes, and everything else. Only the Basilisk are bought out, and Tyraxor is running nearby with a good stack of them.
142 Tyrax on his turn takes a triple Griffin Conservatory so I don't get it. I attack, kill the angels and half the Basilisks; Tyrax buys back with 25 Lizardmen and 22 Basilisks. I take the enemy village at the bottom of the map. From the tavern, I see that Tazar took the Dragon Utopia and was given a hat for lots of knowledge.
143 I made many actions but didn't manage to cast two Dimension Doors with Gunnisson at the end, which left Gurni near the swamp. Unexpectedly, this was very convenient. On his turn, Tazar runs in and stops not far from the swamp.
144 I check — there are 10 angels and small fry, but 300 mana. I upgrade 30 Wyverns and decide to attack.
Tazar 13 18 12 300+ 10 angels 22 greater Basilisks 4 regular Basilisks 17 Gnolls 8 Wyverns 25 Lizardmen
Gurni 26 17 7 ~60 19 monks 30 greater Wyverns 3 angels 19 flies 26 griffins 47 pikemen 41 greater archers
The plan was a burst with Mass Haste, explosion 800+, Golden Bow for archers and ballista, and basic but still magic resistance.
In the first round, the flies, angels, and ballista died from Meteor Shower (but the ballista managed to kill an angel). I cast Mass Haste, kill the ducks with ducks. The angels slice the griffins.
Second round — Implosion into the angels, I hit with Wyverns, two remain. The opponent boxes the angels in a corner and resurrects four.
Third round — archers and Implosion kill the angels, Wyverns move to the top and hit the greater Basilisks. The opponent summons Earth Elementals. I have 8 mana, zero gold (a mistake, of course; I could have not spent so much).
Fourth round — archers kill everything except the Earth Elementals, Wyverns wait. Implosion flies into them, magic resistance doesn't save me, two remain. Honestly, if I had even enough gold to ransom the hero, I could have fled, leaving 4 Lizardmen, and killed them with shooters on the same turn, but I had zero gold. So I flee, leaving the Earth Elementals. Both heroes head to the tavern.

Income 10k, in the swamp a bunch of unbought meat, Tant on the other side of the map with cavalry and skeletons getting ready to take the Griffin Conservatory, so the position looks better than the opponent's. On his turn, Tazar runs under the swamp with meat ransomed from the dungeon: 8 Medusas, 1+1+1+1+21 greater Harpies, 14 Evil Eyes.
145 I kill one harpy with a scout hero. Gurni ransoms in the village, learns Chain Lightning and immediately breaks nearby. Ransoms in a village next to a well, replenishes mana, and breaks into the swamp. I take 22+1+1+1 Lizardmen and three snakes. I wait with snakes, harpies also wait. I let the Medusas and Evil Eyes shoot, and on the Lizardmen's turn from wait, I cast Chain Lightning, killing all the harpies. A second Chain Lightning in the second round kills everything else.
Thanks for the game!

Average start, Kyrre leveled poorly, lost on 121, by the end of the week I took a Griffin Conservatory(2), then another Griffin Conservatory(3), shield +3+3, КЗ, wings, 2 all, with growth I went to take Dragon Utopias and thanks to the wings gathered a bunch of Griffin Conservatories and Dragon Fly Hives across the entire map, snatched 2 Dragon Utopias from under the opponent's nose and with dominant stats of 18 Archangels and 40 Monks killed the opponent, thanks for the game

Game of the first round, sorry I've already forgotten a lot.

Took 111 and GO. Shakti with 3 stacks along the way to the Griffin Conservatory 3-4, on the first week I painted the external dwelling of Manticores, Manticores with a portal at home. On 122 the Griffin Conservatory max, no Blessing minus Manticore and Troglodytes fell. On the same turn scout heroes picked up the Hive 8. On 123 I took the Cape of Velocity +2 from 5+ Bone Dragons, maybe I should have used the scout hero. On 124 Clavius on an Angel runs to necro, the scout hero breaks through to the computer and through the underground sees the blue scout hero, I turn around and transfer troops to Shakti. On 124 the blues do not appear. Strategically playing against Kyrre, I probably shouldn't have gone to kill the blues, 3 Angels (1 from Clavius), 10 Manticores, 8 Wyverns and 70+ Troglodytes, +3 speed and mass Haste. At least block the portal - set up an ambush. Alas, I just beat the Black Market from 5+ Bone Dragons again and +1 All. On 125 Kyrre runs out of the portal with native troops of the second week, kills the scout hero, though stats 15 13 against 8 7 for Shakti. She killed the scout hero, advanced a bit towards the crossroads, I already started to worry, I was standing on a speed boost with 3 Angels, but Kyrre turned around and ran into an unopened portal to another computer. The decision to chase Kyrre was not made again. Well, how to catch Kyrre? It turned out that Kyrre (without a spell book) was standing in the cell by the portal - alas. I went into super-three-week on 3, took a Dragon Utopia with КВ, ran to my secondary for a long time, combined troops for a long time. Then a long game with many saves. Shakti was constantly stronger in army and stats. Having received the Cloak of the Undead King, I understood that defeating Shakti was very difficult. Both took one Castle computer each, acquired Archangels, I also had Monks. On 217 I took a Castle computer from the opponent, and on 221 I took a village which turned out to be also a Castle with built Angels + 3 Angels and another external dwelling +1. I offered a draw, Shakti 32 47 25 28, against Kyrre 33 29 20 36, both have 25+ Archangels, about 100 Wyverns and 30+ Scorpions on my side. The opponent agreed.
Essentially, the opponent managed time better, earning an hour in the 1st-2nd week and successfully using it starting from 136, took more towns and villages, revealed more of the map, built up all the Swamp and Castle villages up to Wyverns and Angels, but Shakti was stronger, so the draw is somewhat fitting.
Thanks for the game!

121 opponent attacked my Geon with army. My army in that battle was much stronger (311 upg. skeletons, 100 skeletons, 7 liches, 2 vamps, 3 wraith vs 250 skeletons, 4 sharpshooters, 10 wraith). Unfortunaitly, there was collapse, we needed to remake the battle. It was very hard to do the the same things, so after some conversations Herolwy said "ok, gg". Thanx for playing!

I hid Gosha with three stacks in the tavern for the first two starting days, which affected the tempo. I was also short on gold — built liches in the fort. On the first week I moved into an adjacent zone with a Dragon Utopia and spent the entire second week hovering around it. I leveled Galtran, necromancy, took a Dragon Fly Hive with 8 Wyverns, a level-2 Griffin Conservatory, looted a club of +5 attack and a helm of +4 knowledge. I ignored the computers — it was too far to run. I also captured a prison for 80 gr of rags and got Laura with expert scouting, who revealed the opponent with a split army behind the mountains. On day 131 with doubled mana in a dungeon town, I take the Dragon Utopia — it gives Tome of Air and a crown of +4+4 spell power/knowledge, I cast Dimension Door and ambush Moandor with 450 skeletons and liches. I cast bolt on the liches, followed by gg from the opponent. Thanks for the game!

Spent rests on both sides. Dealt a level 1 conserve right under the table and a large respawn, with 2 Dragon Utopia and an ulika. On 111 I came out of the conserve with 20 bones and headed along the road to the computer. Had to run for 4 days to the metro; the road turned out to be very long. On 116 I reached the computer and went to the center, 100 bones and an angel are there, have expert earth, but no slow—didn't find it until the end of the game. At the start of the second, fought my way into the center, brought growth 5 horses + liches with bones and headed toward the village. The reds chose the same direction, but Luna with a level 12 spell, 2 angels, and 9 ifrits, after spending a day on scouting, turned in the direction of my very distant table. And while the opponent was slowly moving toward my Castle, I scouted necro boots, 3 conserves, and 4 ulika + 2 Dragon Utopia. Had 4 upgraded necros, took conserves and a couple of Hive, on 131 Dragon Utopia for stats, on 132 max Dragon Utopia with stats and КВ. Then headed to meet the reds, found another conserve 2 there, and in the end 11 angels, 700+ bones, and 20+ utok. ГГ.
Thank you for the game!