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The red orb arrived just in time!
The game itself was tough; money was almost nonexistent at first, with creature banks only being a Griffin Conservatory double and 3 beehives for 16 ducks.
In the end, the army was like in a hota — all stacks don't fit into the hero, and there's no pronounced striking stack))) But the miner leveled up nicely and emerged into the sands somewhere around 14-16-10 and 280 mana, but there was no decent magic besides oil.
From the respawn, I saw a patch of grass to the right, so out of the two roads I chose the one leading down — guessed right! Otherwise I would have run into Kyrre with worse combat stats but magic stats near 20 + Impl from the hat! :eek: But as it was, the final happened only after picking up the GHP in the sands, taking a max Dragon Utopia, and sitting in town to ramp up (half the money from the max utopia went to hauling the loot from the broken miner out of the sands)))
My plan was to attack Kyrre, who was clearing the vicinity of the road where the miner had already skimmed the richest cream.
Or, if Kyrre dug into the wilderness, to buy off the noob back home, where there were 3 untaken Dragon Utopias, which with artifacts and growth could be taken by anyone)))
But Kyrre attacks on their own 131 (I managed to hide the miner's stats by buying the noob growth at home)))
Apparently there was also buying with delivery, but the miner's attack is 20 higher and defense 10 higher, so no chance.

GG, thanks for the game :)

12/16/2015 Dave_HUN (Red, Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre) def BISHOP (Blue, Castle, Valeska, Sir Mullich) 6lm10a 143

The start wasn't bad; I got 6 elves from the hero in the tavern, stables next to the road, but the map was a bit poor in gold. Still, I managed the first week, captured my elf dwelling, and built a citadel + unicorns. Early in week 2, I decided to clear my area (2 dwarven treasures, a heavily guarded unicorn dwelling, 2 cons, a couple of power-ups). At 124, I took 5x20 cons and then maxi cons with decent losses (only centaurs, dendroids, dwarves, and 1 unicorn). I went to the center afterward because I hadn't seen the treasure entrance yet and didn't want to wander in the desert blindly. At 131, I got exp earth on Grindan and checked with view earth where the treasure is, then went right there with the main hero. The first artifact there was wings, then the library, a couple of hives, 2 topes. The second tope gave me a level 5 hat. I built a level 4 MG in the tower but no TP, and the 3rd tope in my respawn also didn't give anything useful. Meanwhile, I saw the opponent has both DD and TP, and I didn't see other good areas to go to, so I decided to rush his town, hoping he's unprepared. He was right there in town, so I had no choice but to attack.
Kyrre 20 20 14 11, 56 mana | 8 angels, 44 wyverns, 17 war unicorns, 8 dendroids, 60 grand elves, 7+7 pegasi | expert archery, golden bow, +2 speed, tactics, orb of silt, 2, 2k implosion, earth magic
vs
Mullich 20 25 6 18, 180 mana | 7 AAs 46 wyverns 48 iron golems 10 magi 18 naga queens 8 griffs | expert armorer, tactics, earth magic, all earth and air magics, +1 speed

The battle looked really hopeless, mostly because of low mana for me (2 DD used previously). In the first round, after mass wait, I shot wyverns with elves; he cast meteor on me, and I cast implo on his AAs. He came forward with his wyverns, and I managed to kill them with all I had in 2 rounds, meanwhile getting chain lightning / meteor in my face. Later, he cast antimagic on nagas but didn't come out with them, so I kept shooting them down. When there were only 10 left, I used single haste on wyverns and hit nagas. The opponent kept resurrecting AAs, and I used magic arrows on them (resu brought back 2 AAs, arrow killed 1). In the end of the battle, we both ran out of mana; I had 40 wyverns, 8 unicorns vs 5 AAs, 44 golems. Thanks to +2 speed, he couldn't force a draw and make me retreat, so I won with 20 wyverns and 5 unicorns remaining.
Interesting game, vs full control; if I waste another day, I absolutely lose the game. This rush was my only chance, and it worked.
Spasibo za igru!

Everything was pretty dull, I barely got the horses into the fort and did a little necromancy. But there's some very pleasant news about a wipe in the maxi league.
Thank you for the game!

The start wasn't bad; I got 6 elves from the hero in the tavern, and stables next to the road. The map was a bit poor in gold, though. Still, I managed the first week, captured my elf dwelling, and built a citadel with unicorns. Early in the second week, I decided to clear my area (2 dwarven treasures, a heavily guarded unicorn dwelling, 2 castles, and a couple of power-ups). At level 124, I took 5x20 castles and then maxed out castles with decent losses (only centaurs, dendroids, dwarves, and 1 unicorn). I went to the center afterward because I hadn't seen a treasure entrance yet and didn't want to wander in the desert blindly. At level 131, I got experience from earth on Grindan and checked with "view earth" to see where the treasure was, then went right there with my main hero. The first artifact there was wings, then a library, a couple of hives, and 2 topes. The second tope gave me a level 5 hat. I built a level 4 magic guild in the tower but got no teleportation, and the third tope in my respawn also didn't give anything useful. Meanwhile, I saw that my opponent had both Dragon Dreams and Teleportation, and I didn't see any other good areas to go to, so I decided to rush his town, hoping he was unprepared. He was right there in town, so I had no choice but to attack.
Kyrre 20 20 14 11, 56 mana | 8 angels, 44 wyverns, 17 war unicorns, 8 dendroids, 60 grand elves, 7+7 pegasi | expert archery, golden bow, +2 speed, tactics, orb of silt, 2, 2k implosion, earth magic
vs
Mullich 20 25 6 18, 180 mana | 7 Archangels, 46 wyverns, 48 iron golems, 10 magi, 18 naga queens, 8 griffins | expert armorer, tactics, earth magic, all earth and air magics, +1 speed

The battle looked really hopeless, mostly because of my low mana (2 Dragon Dreams used previously). In the first round, after a mass wait, I shot wyverns with elves. He cast Meteor on me, and I cast Implosion on his Archangels. He came forward with his wyverns, and I managed to kill them with all I had in 2 rounds, while getting Chain Lightning and Meteor in my face. Later, he cast antimagic on nagas but didn't come out with them, so I kept shooting them down. When there were only 10 left, I used single haste on wyverns and hit the nagas. The opponent kept resurrecting Archangels, and I used magic arrows on them (resu brought back 2 Archangels, and the arrow killed 1). In the end of the battle, we both ran out of mana. I had 40 wyverns and 8 unicorns left, versus 5 Archangels and 44 golems. Thanks to +2 speed, he couldn't force a draw and make me retreat, so I won with 20 wyverns and 5 unicorns remaining.
Interesting game, against full control. If I had wasted another day, I would have absolutely lost the game. This rush was my only chance, and it worked.
Spasibo za igru!

Not a great surrender. Near the castle there's a Dragon Fly Hive and a Griffin Conservatory, and another Griffin Conservatory not far away. But the respawn is empty; I thought I'd see more further on, but it's basically a scorched field, a huge empty stretch. Pretty tough in terms of gold and army. Only by the 3rd week was I able to take the Dragon Fly Hive and 2 Griffin Conservatories, then 2 more Dragon Fly Hives. By that time, the opponent arrived and killed my scout hero, who had all my loot, GG

Thanks for the game

The game turned out to be quite tough; on 112, with 3 stacks of troglodytes on shakti, I barely managed to take the minotaur external dwelling behind the dwarves. On 113, I scouted the Book of Air in a treasure zone, then gathered 3 home hives by 117. Overall, it was a mediocre layout; there weren't even gloves + boots at the respawn, and the dragon external dwelling was impossible to take. Well, whatever, I thought, it's playable. In the second week, I went into a treasure zone and took 5 hives (only 44 vivs in total), a couple of Dragon Utopias for stats +3 +3+3 +3 in total; meanwhile, I used a fool with DD to snatch another treasure zone—the second Book of Air and a +5 all sword were there. Then I upgraded all the ducks (67 pcs) and headed toward the opponent; surrender followed. Thanks for the game.

Thanks for the game!