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Pit for LM

10 years ago

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Favorites, to battle! - 8

For the eighth time, we will compete for our favorite castle, prove its strength, delight viewers with interesting games and unconventional combinations. In this tournament, each player immediately chooses a faction that they will play throughout the tournament.
The first such tournament took place in 2008.
Conflux and Necropolis have twice celebrated victory; once, Fortress, Castle, and Rampart were the best.
What will happen now?

I. General questions.
1. Throughout the tournament, each participant plays as their chosen favorite faction.
2. Game version SoD 3.2 (4.0) + HD mod + HW_rules_mod patch. The latest stable version is currently available: as of early December 2015, HD mod 4.0 RC33, HW_rules_mod 1.38.
3. Color in bracket tables – for the initial seeding. Colors change after each SUBJECTIVE restart.
4. The choice of template is made by crossing out one from the list of 9 templates: 2SM4d(3), Balance, skirmish (at 200% difficulty), Jebus cross, Mini-Nostalgia, Diamond, 8mm6a, 6LM10a, and Spider. The player marked with blue in the table starts eliminating a template.
By mutual agreement, it is permissible to play on any other template. This issue must be discussed beforehand with the tournament judges.
5. If there are two identical factions in a match, then the template is chosen from the list: 2SM4d(3), Balance, skirmish (at 200% difficulty), Jebus cross, Mini-Nostalgia, Diamond, 8mm6a, 6LM10a, Spider, mir_diamond and mir_h3dm1.
In this case, players bargain for the right to choose the starting hero. Players take turns (first, the one marked red in the table, then - blue) crossing out one undesirable hero from the full list; then, the players inform each other how much gold they are willing to transfer to their opponent for the right to make the first choice among the remaining heroes. The player who offers the larger amount chooses the hero first and transfers the gold to his opponent.
On the mir_diamond and mir_h3dm1 templates, each player has one subjective restart at 111.
Also, on the mir_diamond and mir_h3dm1 templates, players negotiate over color. The player who offers the larger amount chooses which color he will play as and transfers the gold to his opponent.
6. Standard rules apply.
The default timer is chess clock style, with parameters specified in the rules.
Any changes to the game rules are allowed by mutual agreement of the players, except for changing the Favorite Castle and the Fair Play rule.
Additional rules for templates:
Mini-Nostalgia. The participant marked with blue in the table begins choosing computer opponents' castles. When the color changes, the selection is not repeated; the castles chosen by the player remain his secondary choices.
Diamond. The participant marked red in the table removes an extra (ninth) castle. If the favorite castles are identical, then red first removes one castle, then blue - a second.

II. Organizational questions.
1. This tournament is official and regular.
2. Tournament goals:
- to play as your favorite faction and try to prove its strength,
- to gain valuable experience and improve your gameplay.
3. The tournament is held according to the Rules for organizing, conducting, and participating in tournaments.
4. Players listed on the Blacklist and Penalty Bench are not allowed to participate in the tournament.
5. Tournament hosts and judges: Pit for LM (ICQ: 471401475) and
KobRa_RR (ICQ: 286406830).
If it is impossible to resolve a controversial issue independently, the judges will seek help from the AC.
The host has the right to make any changes to the regulations and rules during the tournament if necessary.
6. For each played match, participants must submit a report and confirmation in this thread, created automatically.
Saves of all matches must be saved until the end of the tournament and presented upon first request by the tournament host or any member of the AC.
7. Information about the progress of the tournament is updated as needed and is located at the beginning of this thread.
8. All games of the tournament go into the seasonal rating. The list of tournament reports is also located at the beginning of this thread.
9. The winner of the tournament and players who took 2nd and 3rd place will be awarded Medals under their avatar:

Award authors: RAPER and ColdRain.

III. Deadlines.
All participants in the tournament must strictly adhere to the announced deadlines:
1. Immediately after the start of the next stage or round, contact your opponents for preliminary arrangements for the games. Agreeing means reaching an agreement after negotiations and discussion. An offer without a response will not be considered an agreement.
2. Any temporary problems (with internet access, travel plans, personal matters) must be reported to the tournament hosts.
3. The preferred time for tournament games is daytime (12-24 Moscow time) on weekends and evening (19-24 Moscow time) on weekdays. If a participant cannot play at this time, the absence of a game result will be interpreted by the host in favor of his opponent.

Registration - October 25 – November 24, 2015.
Approval of the list of participants - November 25-29, 2015.
Bracket generation - November 30, 2015. The bracket will be generated taking into account the declared faction and the player's skill level based on the results of other tournaments.
Start of the tournament - December 1, 2015.

IV. Regulations.
The regulations will be determined after the end of registration, depending on the number of participants.
A standard format is planned: group stage and Full Double Elimination.

Winners of previous "Favorites, to battle!" tournaments:

"Favorites, to battle! - 1" (2008) - Dudge (Necropolis) - Tournament history
"Favorites, to battle! - 2" (2009) - Pit for LM (Conflux) - Tournament history
"Favorites, to battle! - 3" (2010) - Satir (Fortress) - Tournament history
"Favorites, to battle! - 4" (2011) - Maretti (Castle) - Tournament history
"Favorites, to battle! - 5" (2012-13) - GoD (Rampart) - Tournament history
"Favorites, to battle! - 6" (2013-14) - Pit for LM (Conflux) - Tournament history
"Favorites, to battle! - 7" (2014-15) - Pit for LM (Necropolis) - Tournament history

In the application, you must indicate the faction that you will play as.

In reply to Yostairs

Amster

10 years ago

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They recruited my Goshon again) Started on the surface, have a market at the Castle and a Griffin Conservatory on the respawn 2-4. On turn 1, horses in the Citadel. On 117, I took the swamp from orange where there were already nice +2000. Didn't have enough movement to take it and the green Necromancer. On 121, I take it — there are vampires + rags in the Citadel, a Dragon Fly Hive, a mini nagabank tier 3. Tant becomes stationed at the Griffin Conservatory. Meanwhile, the scout hero scouts along the road: blue's Pyre. In the tavern, the strongest hero with all that power — 40 Gogs, 12 Demons, 4 Pits, etc. I burn all the timer on chains, etc. I take the tier 3 Griffin Conservatory without losses and cover the Pyre with the scout hero, kill almost everything there, ransom. Next, another tier 1 Griffin Conservatory on the swamp. Angel from Vido runs to the second purple Necromancer — there's an army in the Castle, can't take it no matter what, since Tant with the scout heroes headed to the central village where the blues had come from. I also reclaimed some boots on the swamp with ducks. Tant became perfectly leveled — 8 slots, has Earth, Wisdom, Log, Defense, Offense, and Tactics. There are also two huge super-treasures which I left for later, aiming to first eat the opponent's treasure on the mud near the conflict village. Then the blues got pretty strong in the tavern — even a blue flag in terms of troops. Found nothing on the mud (a couple of tiles short to scout 2 boxes and a Dragon Utopia). On 131, I broke out from there and, through stables, dove into my underground super-treasure where I devoured 3 boxes: 15k experience, 15 gold, and 330 peasants))) Meanwhile, the opponent, having no clear advantage, went on the attack, took the conflict zone, and went further to the Necromancer. He broke into the tavern, refilled mana in the well nearby, then into the Necromancer, and attacked with 800 skeletons, 9 horses, 3 angels, 30 vampires, and 12 liches. In the Fireball fight, no contest — the skeletons under Haste wiped out all of Tant's stacks with Animate Dead.
Thanks for the game!

ICQ-685884492

Amster

Faction Некрополь / Necropolis

Start Hero Тант / Thant

Main Hero Тант / Thant

Победа / Def

flate

Faction Инферно / Inferno

Start Hero Мариусса / Marius

Main Hero Галтран / Galthran

Map Template: Spider
Game Length: 133 days
Game Date: 1/6/2016
Reported: 1/6/2016 5:41 PM

Amster 1865 → 1866 +1 ↑

flate 1460 → 1459 -1 ↓

Rated Sep 28, 2022

Accepted by opponent on 1/6/2016 6:18 PM

In reply to Amster

flate

10 years ago

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Amster

They recruited my Goshan again) Started on the surface, have a market at the castle and a Griffin Conservatory at respawn 2-4, on the 1st horses in the Citadel on 117 I took the swamp from orange where there are already nice +2000, didn't have enough tiles to take green necro too, on 121 I take it, there are vampires + rags in the Citadel, Dragon Fly Hive mini naga bank 3, Tant becomes at the Conservatory, scout hero meanwhile scouts along the road Pyre of blue, in the tavern the strongest hero with all his power 40 gogs 12 demons 4 pits etc, I burn all the timer on chains etc, I take the Conservatory 3 without losses and cover Pyre with the scout hero, kill almost everything there, buyout, then another Conservatory 1 in the swamp, angel with Vido runs to the second purple necro, there's an army in the castle I can't take it any way, since Tant with scout heroes went to the central village from where the blues came, also took back boots in the swamp with ducks, Tant leveled up perfectly into 8 slots, has earth wisdom loga def off and tactics, also have two huge super treasure zones which I left for later with the goal of first eating the opponent's treasure zone at the mud near the conf village, then the blues got pretty powerful in the tavern, even blue flag in troops, didn't find anything in the mud (didn't have a couple of tiles to scout 2 boxes and a Dragon Utopia, on 131 I crashed from there and through the stables dove into my underground super treasure zone where I ate 3 boxes for 15k experience, 15 gold, and 330 peasants))) the opponent meanwhile without having a clear advantage went on the attack, took the conf and ran further to the necro, crashed in the tavern, refilled mana in the well nearby then in the necro and attacked with 800 bones 9 horses 3 angels 30 vamps and 12 liches, in FB no contest the bones under haste killed all stacks with Tant's Animate.
Thanks for the game!

At the time of my "Great" campaign, the opponent still had 400 bones, in the final there were already 800 :D In general, I should have eaten my treasure zone, after breaking Tant's army, we would have played on. Because going into contact against Tant with 120 Mana, that many skeletons and Animate, without having strong Magic or Artifacts against Animate is suicide. And it doesn't matter that at the start of my turn I was stronger in Army (6 Angels, 7 Efreeti, 27 Ducks, 13 Demons, 4 Pits and Imps :smile51: ). Actually, for 2 days I was ahead in army strength - that's why the opponent retreated from my treasure zone and didn't attack the Main - he saw that in Army I was already ahead of him. Before that, Amster fed me a lot of meat on the scout hero, in total I lost about 23 Demons (if converting imps and Gogs by HP) and 4 Pits. I made a very stupid mistake - lack of knowledge of the template showed :D I also made a mistake with Demoning when I took the Ballista with me and in a case when you make one mistake, you immediately make a second, especially when the Timer is already less than a minute :smile27: - I fed 4 Pits in the Maxi Hive, instead of skeletons) Amster had a better feel for the template, the strength of his Castle and the Hero on it, and consequently controlled the game better, while I in this component turned out to be an unskilled noob. Laughed out loud when I opened the save and realized the stupidity of my campaign (70 mana of Galtran - nothing against 120 Mana of Tant), but I clearly could not account for 330 Peasants - Freebie Freebe :smile52: Nevertheless, even against 500 I would have had huge problems. So Globally speaking - I still have a lot to learn - Thanks to Amster for choosing a non-standard template and a Good Game! :smile20: GL in the playoffs! :cool:
PS: Also on 132 I found a Town Portal scroll, the guild was only level two though, because the resources went to trade, that's what it means to execute control like a dad :smile52:

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Iamsamstan

10 years ago

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We played without restarts.
On 111, [I] took a 5k experience box with thieves, immediately picked up Earth and Log, but the other box was blocked by 19-19 Diamond Golems. On 113, [I] ran to it, got another 5k, leveled up Earth, but scouting showed the respawn was empty - an external Dragon dwelling, Unicorns, and Elves were completely blocked by a box with 20-49 Cyclops Kings. [I] saw a GO on 114, was happy to see Griffin Conservatory Minotaurs there, probably the only GO I could break; the secondary gave Slow, [I] lit the Golden Bow. The external Roc dwelling was guarded by 20-49 Medusas; [I] thought for a long time about what to do with it, and in the end checked it with a scout hero. There were 24 Medusas; [I] attacked with a scout hero: 1 Green Dragon, 2 Rocs, 13+14 Centaur logs, and Dwarves. [I] lost 14 Centaurs because the Medusas were in 4 stacks. On 117, Ivor was at the Griffin Conservatory. On 121, with a full trade, [I] bought all the Unicorns and Elves, but forgot to pick up another 13 Elves from the scout hero, so [I] took the Conservatory with 7 Unicorns, 14 Grands, and 1-stacks of Centaurs. With Oil, [it] went with a loss of 4 Elves because the Grand stack moved first. On 122, [I] crashed, broke the Library, scout heroes broke the Dragon Fly Hive; Mini, of course, put the Chain on the Golden Bow, gathered the Wizard's Well) 2 parts were lying on the respawn, one from a chest. When the Elves started shooting, [I] was very surprised at the number of Minotaurs being killed; it turned out [I] had again forgotten 13 Elves on the scout hero, WTF! But the Minotaurs didn't get morale when they shouldn't have, and only a Unicorn was lost. Then in the center, [I] broke the Prison, with Vidoma at level 10, an experience box for Grand Bulls; the opponent checked with a scout hero on his turn, and luckily for me, [he] crashed at the Conservatory with another scout hero; that was my only chance. Thanks for the game! Good luck in future games!

435-191-039
Discord Iamsamstan#6087

Iamsamstan

Faction Оплот / Rampart

Start Hero Ивор / Ivor

Main Hero Ивор / Ivor

Победа / Def

ЯR

Faction Подземелье / Dungeon

Start Hero Шакти / Shakti

Main Hero Шакти / Shakti

Map Template: Jebus Cross
Game Length: 124 days
Game Date: 1/6/2016
Reported: 1/6/2016 8:13 PM

Iamsamstan 1262 → 1289 +27 ↑

ЯR 1581 → 1554 -27 ↓

Rated Sep 28, 2022

Accepted by opponent on 1/6/2016 8:19 PM

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ЯR

10 years ago

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Iamsamstan

Started playing without restarts.
111 took a box for 5k experience with rogues, immediately grabbed earth and log, but the other box is blocked by 19-19 diamond golems. On 113 I ran to it, got another 5k, leveled up earth, but scouting showed the respawn was empty - external dwelling is dragon, uniques, in elves it's completely blocked by a box with 20-49 cyclops kings. ГО saw on 114, was happy to see gr minotaurs there, probably the only ГО I could break through, in secondary I got slow, lit the golden bow. The external dwelling of rogues was guarded by 20-49 medusas, spent a long time thinking what to do with it, ended up checking with a scout hero. There were 24 medusas, attacked with a scout hero 1 green dragon, 2 rogues, 13+14 centaurs wood and dwarves. Lost 14 centaurs, because the medusas were in 4 stacks. On 117 Ivor was standing on the Griffin Conservatory. On 121 with a full trade I bought uniques and elves, but forgot to take another 13 elves from the scout hero, so I took the conservatory with 7 uniques, 14 grand elves and 1-stack centaurs. With oil it went through with a loss of 4 elves, because the gr. stack moved first. On 122 I crashed, broke through the library, scout heroes broke through the Dragon Fly Hive, mini, of course, put a chain on the golden bow, assembled the wizard's well) 2 parts were lying on the respawn, one - from a chest. When the elves started shooting, I was very surprised at the number of minotaurs killed, it turned out I again forgot 13 elves on the scout hero, WTF! But the minotaurs didn't get lucky morale when they shouldn't have, and only one unique was lost. Then in the center I broke through a prison, with Vidoma level 10, a box for experience behind gr bulls, the opponent on his turn checked with a scout hero, and to my luck he lost in the conservatory to another scout hero, that was my only chance. Thanks for the game! Good luck in future games!

Thanks for the game!

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MuLLIyTa

10 years ago

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the opponent didn't succeed.

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MuLLIyTa

Faction Цитадель / Stronghold

Start Hero Крег Хак / Crag Hack

Main Hero Крег Хак / Crag Hack

Победа / Def

Browser

Faction Башня / Tower

Start Hero Сольмир / Solmyr

Main Hero Сольмир / Solmyr

Map Template: Diamond
Game Length: 113 days
Game Date: 1/7/2016
Reported: 1/7/2016 4:16 PM

MuLLIyTa 1694 → 1700 +6 ↑

Browser 1450 → 1444 -6 ↓

Rated Sep 28, 2022

Accepted by opponent on 1/7/2016 4:28 PM

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Browser

10 years ago

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MuLLIyTa

His opponent didn't succeed.

Thanks for your time.

324183776, browser32 (skype)
Играю почти всегда - пишите =)
Мой twitch канал https://www.twitch.tv/browser32

Весна-осень 2011.

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silenthill

10 years ago

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No restarts left. My opponent played well, and I felt like he was relying on luck. My starting hand wasn't great, but my heroes leveled up nicely. My opponent didn't have a good game and lost on turn 47 after I completed a quest for a +2 attack sword. Thanks for the game.

silenthill

Faction Оплот / Rampart

Start Hero Кайри / Kyrre

Main Hero Кайри / Kyrre

Победа / Def

Socrat

Faction Некрополь / Necropolis

Start Hero Галтран / Galthran

Main Hero Галтран / Galthran

Map Template: Jebus Cross
Game Length: 112 days
Game Date: 1/7/2016
Reported: 1/7/2016 7:48 PM

silenthill 1444 → 1472 +28 ↑

Socrat 1795 → 1767 -28 ↓

Rated Sep 28, 2022

Accepted by opponent on 1/7/2016 7:54 PM

In reply to silenthill

Socrat

10 years ago

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silenthill

There were no restarts left. My opponent restocked all the good items, and played relying on luck. It started poorly, but my heroes leveled up well, as it turned out. My opponent didn't succeed and lost on turn 47 after I got a quest artifact that gave +2 attack to my sword. Thanks for the game.

Thanks for the game.

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shameonyou

10 years ago

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Thank you for playing.

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The hardest battles are fought in the mind

shameonyou

Faction Сопряжение / Conflux

Start Hero Random

Main Hero Крег Хак / Crag Hack

Победа / Def

Socrat

Faction Некрополь / Necropolis

Start Hero Клавиус / Clavius

Main Hero Клавиус / Clavius

Map Template: 2sm4d(3)
Game Length: 134 days
Game Date: 1/7/2016
Reported: 1/7/2016 8:05 PM

shameonyou 1744 → 1759 +15 ↑

Socrat 1754 → 1739 -15 ↓

Rated Sep 28, 2022

Accepted by opponent on 1/7/2016 8:07 PM

In reply to shameonyou

Socrat

10 years ago

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shameonyou

Thank you for the game.

Thank you for the game.

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In reply to silenthill

Noom

10 years ago

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silenthill

07.01.2016 silenthill (Blue, Rampart, Kairie, Kairie) def Socrat (Red, Necropolis, Galtran, Galtran) Jebus Cross 112

+2 attack sword.

I recommend Socrat to request a rematch - judging by the report, they were playing HMM5.

Стримы HMM5 на полных картах мод TE:
ru.twitch.tv/noom11

Alex_nv - draw - Vovan112013 летос 236

alex_nv wrote: Наконец то нормальная игра с открытием половины карты.

In reply to Iamsamstan

Iamsamstan

10 years ago

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I won on the Lake map, my opponent ran out of time and made some mistakes, so there weren't many chances for them! Thanks for the game, and good luck in the remaining matches!

435-191-039
Discord Iamsamstan#6087

Iamsamstan

Faction Оплот / Rampart

Start Hero Ивор / Ivor

Main Hero Ивор / Ivor

Победа / Def

Aiwe

Faction Башня / Tower

Start Hero Сольмир / Solmyr

Main Hero Клавиус / Clavius

Map Template: Diamond
Game Length: 126 days
Game Date: 1/7/2016
Reported: 1/7/2016 10:39 PM

Iamsamstan 1284 → 1316 +32 ↑

Aiwe 1761 → 1729 -32 ↓

Rated Sep 28, 2022

Accepted by opponent on 1/8/2016 3:52 PM

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SVAROG

10 years ago

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It spawned a huge respawn on a third of the map probably, and long middle roads. Goshran came. From the respawn 2 roads, didn't guess the direction, went down a long corridor and hit a block of 50-99 gr. lizards behind an artifact right at the exit to the underground, losing the first week. On the second week, took 2 confluences 1+2, took a village, and in the treasure zone took 2 beehives for 16 wyrms. At the respawn, took an external dragon dwelling, on the 2nd built them in the Castle. On the 3rd, took the computer's town, scouted several confluences; the confluences turned out to be fat, collected 15 angels in total, gave them to the noobs, even lost 3 when capturing the computer Dungeon town. Jedite with Lightning Bolt and 75 mana in the castle bit very hard. - 3 angels and a dragon. On the 4th week, the blue player came through wasteland and was killed. Thank you for the game and good luck further.

SVAROG

Faction Оплот / Rampart

Start Hero Мефала / Mephala

Main Hero Галтран / Galthran

Победа / Def

Kashchei

Faction Некрополь / Necropolis

Start Hero Клавиус / Clavius

Main Hero Эйслинн / Aislinn

Map Template: 8mm6a
Game Length: 146 days
Game Date: 1/8/2016
Reported: 1/8/2016 9:10 AM

SVAROG 1498 → 1521 +23 ↑

Kashchei 1707 → 1684 -23 ↓

Rated Sep 28, 2022

Accepted by opponent on 1/8/2016 9:14 AM

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Kashchei

10 years ago

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SVAROG

It spawned a huge respawn covering about a third of the map, plus long middle roads. Goshane arrived. From the respawn there were 2 roads; he guessed the wrong direction, went down a long corridor and ran into a block of 50-99 gr. lizards behind an artifact right at the exit to the underground, losing the first week. On the second week, he took the 2nd Griffin Conservatory 1+2, captured a village, and in the treasure zone took 2 hives for 16 Wivs. On the respawn, he took an external dwelling of dragons; on the 2nd, he built them in the Castle. On the 3rd, he took the comp, scouted several Griffin Conservatories; the Conservatories turned out to be fat — he gathered 15 angels total, handed them out to weaklings, even lost 3 while capturing the comp-dungeon. Jedite with lightning and 75 mana in the castle hit very hard — 3 angels and a dragon. On the 4th week, the Blue came through rough terrain and were killed. Thanks for the game and good luck going forward.

The opponent lured Goshane to himself three times; it's unclear who's playing Necrom ) + on top of that, it spawned a one-way lane; 2 built guilds gave no control; the one-way lane exits directly to the opponent, no chance
thanks for the game

icq 353013187