Posts from CIS 2016

On day 111 I fought off the attack with 96 Pikemen, killing the air elementals, the Fish, and 30 Faerie Dragons with a morale boost. Money was tight and the army was weak; I built dwellings 1-4 in the Citadel with a thousand gold and at the end of the week took an external dwelling of Air Elementals, and with an upgrade I got 12 Storm Elementals. There were 2 nearby Conflux towns, which I fully captured by the end of the second week. There were no Dragon Fly Hives or Conservative, so by day 127 the best unit was the Storm Elemental :smile04:
But by the end of the second week I built the Mage Guild, which had a Captain's set of Water Walk, Counterstrike, and Fish :) Upon scouting, I found a good treasure zone underground and started farming it from day 131. By day 131 I took a level 2 Dragon Utopia with 3 Angels, 8 Titans, 35 Phoenixes, 8 Earth Elementals, and 70 Pokemon. Stats were 13-16 + Stone Skin.
Auto-combat showed a loss, but I won... the Angels and half the Phoenixes survived. They gave me KB :smile20: :smile12: :smile20:
In Conflux, on the 3rd try I got Town Portal, bought Gurnisson and Kyrre with Air Magic, and had a full team!
On my turn, Clava came to one of the villages without control, with lower stats but 36 Monarchs. I decided not to risk the fight, killed all his Peasants around, captured the capital, and on day 141 attacked with overwhelming force.
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Moon is awesome!
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I'll start with the backstory... The draw was entrusted to Alex, or rather he was to pull the cards. I no longer had a chance of taking 1st place, but there were 3 people with 4 points, and I could play against the 3rd SNG champion, so I was shouting something like "give me Gelu" and I got him )

The next day, when I woke up I realized I was sick, I felt really awful (and not because of alcohol, strangely enough). After every turn I went outside to cough, and in general I was trying with my last strength to pull myself together and do at least something.

Not long after the start of the game, Lizard won his pair against Mizrael.
That is, if I won, Lizard would become the champion after this round. At that very moment, everyone started rooting for Gelu, even those who had bet that he wouldn't be the SNG champion ) And honestly, I myself was rooting for him a little bit )) But I decided I wouldn't throw the game, unlike someone ) I'll play as best I can. Now about the game:

The random gave me Ivor with 10 elves and 1 native hero in the tavern. Without thinking long, I sent Kyrre in one direction on grand centaurs, and Ivor on grand elves in the other. Ivor hit a block, but scouted 2 Dragon Utopias in the corner treasure zone. At home, horses in the citadel. On turn 2 of week 1, I decided to switch to 0, hoping for fast yolo Dragon Utopias.

On turn 2 of week 2, I took the 1st Dragon Fly Hive, then 2 Griffin Conservatories (3+1) on the opponent's respawn. Since there were 3 external dwellings of dwarves, I decided to go to the Dragon Utopias by the start of week 3. On turn 2 of week 3, Kyrre died — I went to the Dragon Fly Hive next to the Dragon Utopia, took it, and there was another box with 50 dwarves — 130 total )))
There was no earth magic, there was water and air; in the Dragon Utopia I fed meat, but I think I took it without major losses — they gave me a cap of +5. Next, another 2 Dragon Utopias — they gave absolutely nothing, well, wings at least.

Since my condition was deteriorating exponentially, I decided to go at the opponent, grabbing one more Dragon Utopia along the way (max with nothing).

I set up choke points to prevent Gelu from taking my Castle via Dimension Door with scout heroes.

It seemed that 20 minutes of timer would be enough, but no )) I went only with angels — recaptured 3 castles, scouted, mowed down scout heroes, could have used a scout hero with 2 Dimension Doors to bring the main army, but from the timer I realized I could only break Kyrre and pass the angels, hoping Gelu wouldn't reach them.

On the last second I unequip the Cape of Silence, but I didn't have time to put on the +5 hat.

Gelu attacks, thinking I have the Cape of Silence with 12 mana. After a small exchange, he retreats. After that, he attacks with a scout hero mage with mana. I only have Summon Water Elementals: we kill each other.

Time to dig with Kyrre, I have 60k — let's go. Surprisingly fast, in about 10 heroes I dig it up, bring the meat, and see Gundula's folder with Shackles of War — gg.

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It was a fun game where everyone got their own computer, and my computer-loving friend found boots and gloves on the respawn point. I had to come and punish him, but thanks to his incredible speed, he managed to deal 3 losses to me before I destroyed him. After that, his "Dess" unit, with 3+ movement points, tore through everything it could. It was a struggle, but I managed to place bears in the fort in both cities and, with oil, take the "Maxi-Cons" on day 122. I immediately decided to rush the opponent, but due to a number of circumstances (no scouting, lack of money, a somewhat buggy treasure), I didn't gain a total advantage and had to take some risks. However, Pandora, set to full attack, helped a lot. In the end, on day 127, I didn't guess the direction correctly and failed to take one of Eugene's cities. On his turn, he also made some mistakes while gathering his army and didn't manage to attack. So, after maneuvering and reinforcing my units, the final stage went quite confidently. After that, we tried to replay the previous day, without my reinforcements, but the sacrifice of a "Viv" unit for angels decided the outcome there as well. Thanks for the interesting game.

A Necromancer came, leveled up well. He gathered 6 angels and a few skeletons near the Dragon Utopia, took it, and got some stats. The opponent didn't come to the center, eating their own corner; I saw from the tavern that they had fewer stats and one less army, so I went on the attack. Vokial took the final objective in the Castle, thanks for the game.

A lot of cash, placed efreeti in the Castle on the first week, on day 1 week 2 with 6 efreeti, pits and meat took Griffin Conservatory 2, cleared 3 Hive nests for duck 16 via chain, and on day 2 week 2 took Griffin Conservatory 3, moved towards the opponent (he was fighting with Orange, and I had scouted Orange) along the way took another 2 Hive nests and another Griffin Conservatory 3, the Moneer had Expert Air, then spent over a week trying to find the opponent, took his main, and caught up in the third week.

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In the first game, I gathered artifacts for stats; there were no objects. The horses and resource exchange were set up. In the second game, Solmir arrived on a spectral dragon and with a chainmail, dealing 380 damage. I drove him away at the cost of 45 mages from a box and all the skeleton units. The castle for ransom was nearby, and Vanya, using fast roads, ran to me again. He scouted the consulate and shackles, which were nearby. The consulate turned out to be a level 3 unit. I gathered the shackles and killed Solmir with all his artifacts. After that, we ran around a bit more, and I gathered 6 more winged creatures and some ducks. Vanya surrendered.
Thank you for the game!