Posts from [TOURNAMENT-HotA] Second Snow // 2nd Snow

Started at -1700. We played without a respawn, although on 112 I realized I was completely blocked in 2 directions, I thought for a long time about taking a respawn, but because of Gunnar I couldn't do it, plus a Griffin Conservatory was visible behind the block and a factory near the town. On 117 giants in the castle.

I took the dungeon computer and scouted his 2nd Conservatory, which Aislin took with a 200+ meteor and 60 mana on 122. On the same day I attacked 50-99 corsairs in the dungeon's treasure zone with Gunnar, for +1 Perception and a mini Dragon Fly Hive, where the angel and giant died (the angel could have been saved). I still had moves left to run along the road, gain a bit of experience, and then another 50-99 corsairs were waiting, blocking the village. I decided not to pick a fight with them, but instead to break one of the blocks on the respawn and take the computer's castle. On 127 I got angels with the castle.

On 132 I burst into the castle treasure zone, which turned out to be small but contained 2 Dragon Fly Hives of size 18, 2 chests of 25k experience, a +12 Shield, and KZ. At the same time, Aislin on serpents destroyed a GO into the super-treasure-zone elevator of giants without GS. On the other side were mighty liches; I didn't touch them but rode further towards the Conservatory and the computer's info. Gunnar teleported to the liches. In the treasure zone, he immediately activated a Control scroll — Dimension Door and rode to the end. The road wasn't very long, but the treasure zone was big; there was a choice on 136 to capture the opponent's capital or delve deeper into the treasure zone. I thought for a long time and eventually chose the first option, even doing a double mana and spending the night at his place — after all, there was KZ, an explosion of 1.5k with the orb, 200 mana. On 137 I picked up a Dragon Utopia in the dungeon treasure zone, with KV, KSh, and ChSh. I made 7 archers and spent the night there. On my turn, the opponent surrendered.

P.S. Took the boots on the last day.

We captured all the rest dwellings, decent surrender, with a logistician (though Cobra also got Kyrre). Decent amount of gold, 3 prisons (though all the meat units are different). 3 Conflux villages allowed us to break through to the computer's dungeon with a bunch of magic upgrades. There was a KV fight for hydras, but it was tight on meat objects. Artyom loses with 76 Fire Elementals and the Gate Key for the external dragon dwelling. Thanks for the game.

Quite a poor map in terms of creature objects. On the first week I built Giants in the Castle, clearly ahead of the opponent in development, but in the middle of the second week he appeared in the zone of my neutral town with a Fort. I thought he was trying to rush, especially since he was revealing a Breastplate of +6 Defense, but he didn't go through.
I went into another treasure zone, and from there I ended up in the opponent's swamp treasure zone, where I scouted a scroll behind 50+ Snipers and grabbed it at the start of the third week. I boosted my hero, and on the opponent's turn he attacked. A series of buybacks on my turn, then the same on his turn, but the main thing was that I stole Dimension Door.
By the end of the third week I built Titans, captured the Big Manufactory and the Golden Bow, and went for the opponent.
I captured his Fort-Citadel and saw Solmyr on 4 Genies at a Watering Hole.
I jumped in to kill him, but there was a +2 Speed Cloak, so I got -2 on the Titans.
On the next turn, the opponent boosted Pyre in a village in the swamp on my plane.
On his plane, in that zone, I found a Dragon Utopia and decided to try to trap him there.
I trapped Pyre in the village; she had no Air Magic, and after Mass Slow and all the Capes of Negative from the Titan shots, the opponent surrendered.
Thanks for the game.

Please update the table. How many players are left in the tournament, who is playing against whom, etc.

We cleared all the respawns and off we went, a crooked respawn with a quick exit through the efreets with GS, next to the main there's a fat Pandora full of pits that was taken apart on 113, where instead of experience they stuffed 35 stone statues, which came in handy of course, but experience-magic would have been better, on 117 I took the Conservatory a triple, on 121 I grabbed a double with chains, stocked up on some artifacts at the merchant, and Solmyr went without checking ГО to break on 121 with Mass Haste and 6 spell power, naturally the army got torn apart in 3 places, -3 angels and a ton of meat, only the gremlins remained untouched, but that was just the beginning, the center turned out to be completely overblocked to the brim, guarding boots of resistance + an Aetheric Crystal were Greater Basilisks, which whacked us no less, then 50+ Monarchs and 50+ Scorpicores and everything had to be fought! I had to split up and restore mana before the Monarchs, luckily I managed to snatch a couple of Hives on 12 Vivi, and in the box they gave 4 Chaos Hydras behind the Monarchs, I ate a couple more Hives and the Scorpicores fell for a Pandora of all fire and a level 20 hero who then sat in the central town, picking up a cleared Factory single along the way! so the Lizard didn't take the central town (400 movement points away from the Factory) and ran back, it turned out there was a similar situation with neutrals, but instead of meat they gave full control, but Kostya messed up a bit losing a couple of turn moves and seeing that I had occupied the central town, he surrenders, the autopsy showed that the fight could still have been continued, but alas... thanks for the game.