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

There's not much to say about the game: I fell for the rush strategy and didn't have enough money to defend.

Thanks to Cobra for the detailed "post-game analysis"! I will definitely use his advice in the future. Thanks for the game!

We started without rests. Stable under the Castle, scouting showed an external dwelling of angels, several crypts, a dwarf dwelling, a nagash dwelling and convenient exits to 2 secondary zones—the citadel and something on the mud. I hoped there was a dungeon on the mud, but it wasn't meant to be. Gurny and Moner fought over the papacy—the land went to Gurny. On the first [week] I took the citadel, bought a slow book there, scouted 2 Dragon Utopias, 3 hives and bracers in the treasure zone. Visited many upgrades with the main hero, ended up with about 13-5.
On 121 I took the external dwelling of angels and went to the "muddy" secondary for the console (turned out to be a one), while the losers quickly grabbed the money objects. Managed to set up 1-7 in the Castle on the second [week] and expert earth and tactics.
131—the first Dragon Utopia is a 2-// with a teapot and KV! Immediately flew nearby to the spring, got 220 mana and back into the treasure zone, through hives and boxes, toward the second Dragon Utopia. Took 3 fat hives for 32 ducks (after opening it turned out there were 13! hives for 102! ducks in this treasure zone), several experience boxes—took shooting and logy. On 134—the second Dragon Utopia is a 2-// with wings. Money and resources for archangels are available, stats are approximately 23-16-16. I decided to grab one more relic, the bracers, and break into the main zone to burst onto the opponent's respawn on 136. But his intuition told him to finish on 134 )
Thanks for the game.

Opponent without restarts, I had 1 left, decided to play the starting hand with a spread of 8 heroes, wings behind 100 dendroids and normal roads, despite the lack of cons of unicorns and external dwellings of bears. By the end of the week I found and took a couple of hives for 12 wyverns, 2 external dwellings of bears and cons 3-ka, at the beginning of the second I grabbed another 4 angels, collected the bears, took the wings and on day 124 Kirya with stats 10-10 without a spell book broke through the ГО of manticores almost without losses, the next second I see a helmet +6 all with a prison and resources behind 30 red dragons, without thinking I attack and almost lose - 4 bears out of 11 and 2 angels out of 7 remain - I take the center castle and return to the respawn for 3 uncollected hives and the bear growth, I find a Town Portal scroll, on day 131 I bought the spell book and already with oil I kill 70 bears in the center for chests - 15 monarchs and 20k experience, on the same turn on the way another chest for 15 wyverns behind 100 bulls, unicorns, cons, and КВ.
The center castle is swamp - I build the upgrade of wyverns and I have a stack of 45 monarchs - I take the Dragon Utopia, I see that the center is cut by mountains between me and my opponent, I break through simultaneously to 2 other respawns - Ivor level 30 from prison on 3 angels is sent to one, Kirya to the other, he turns out to be cit's, in parallel I built gm4 and by the end of the third I ended up with full control of 20 gray and a hundred monarchs - then for a week my opponent and I were taking castles from each other, and on day 212 I caught him, and he spent the night without his wyverns in the castle

Thanks for the game!

I'll clarify regarding the missing button.

30.08.2015 Faria (Red, Flax, Random, Fury, Nelka) def Makiavelli (Blue, Rampart, Kirr, Kirr) Jebus Cross 125

— Tell me, uncle, it’s no small feat,
A secondary Dungeon with an imba portal,
Given to Red Flax

They galloped straight to scout,
It was vexing, for battle they awaited,
The fire elementals grumbled
But soon they took external dwellings of phoenixes,
Seized cool artifacts,
And in the cube what they uncovered,
They found Dimension Door


The whole center melted under attack,
Only the timer annoyed from lack of time,
And there, right near the blue cap,
The enemies clashed

You’ll never see such battles
And a clot of wild tension,
Fire burned in their eyes
The earth shook! Through flying smoke,
Wyverns moved like clouds
And everyone shouts at us
There were fights with sharp fangs,
And horses with white horns,
Bristling before us...
They sweep and tear

We had Luna — a warrior tempered,
Mother of all fathers, a tough woman in the fray,
No small her attack,
She struck into battle
An explosion was heard, skills were rolled,
Firebirds got tired of pecking everyone,
And the center of Jebus Cross filled,
With clouds of bloody bodies

Then... the drums rattled,
And the Rampart fans retreated,
And Kirr without an army, without mana,
Only with blood from a mortal wound,
He drew GG

Plagiarism — "Borodino"

P.S.: didn't find the "New Report" button

Thank you for the game!

Thank you for your time!

17.09.2015 YaR (Blue, Rampart, Mephala, Mephala) def Faria (Red, Conflux, Moner, Moner) Jebus Cross 111

Well, I guess my late arrival at the end and the final match. A few words about the game itself: I lost because I was surrounded by my own incompetence (yes, Luna), but I had a decent map and played it safely, avoiding unjustified risks. For the general public, and for myself, I would have preferred to blame it on a bad generation of the map... but I realized that's not the case, and that's fine. If I were to do a retrospective, my objective would be to get out of the group, to be in the top three, even if I didn't think I deserved it... I was far behind - the domain and the early game. The most painful thing is realizing that my skill hasn't improved significantly, and that there are definitely people who deserve this place more than me. Perhaps the luck (Wizard can confirm) or the "cursed" blessing from Sam made miracles happen, but a more logical explanation is hard to find. Finally, I want to thank everyone involved in this tournament, especially those I interacted with; the excitement, the challenging atmosphere, and the emotions experienced have remained the most beautiful part of the tournament for me, and if it hadn't been for that, I don't know how I would have coped with the real time. I hope we have a super cool final, good luck to everyone, cheers!