Posts from "only XL-3"

We agreed to play without the library; I sold the citadel for 1500 and the color for 900.
The start gave me a good hero, clues and stables at the Castle and many roads. By the end of the week, I leveled up Zhabarkas perfectly, scouted another 3 Hives and 2 Dragon Utopias, but lost a bunch of caps on ranged blocks. On 117, I saw how Gomunguls painted the bear external dwelling + he captured the dungeon computer. Suddenly felt pretty down.
On 121, I took the level 2 stables where more than half my caps were humiliated, partly due to morale, partly because I'm a noob; gathered previously scouted Hives + 2 new ones, shackles, visited 2 libraries and snatched a Dimension Door scroll.
On 131, I take 2 minimal Dragon Utopias, they give stats, I break the same one to replenish mana. On 132, I noob out and run out of the Castle before building GM4 where Town Portal was given. Somewhere around 133-134, Kreg takes a Dragon Utopia in my corner treasure and stays within reach (with TP!) for 5+ grey ones. But there is no TP; for half a turn (timer to zero), I frantically think about how to bring the army to the right castle, but nothing works. I split the army and clear one treasure with Zhabo, and the second with Kirry. On 136, I stand to defend the main opponent, because if his bear growth isn't cut, there's no point being here. And Gundula is camping there with 9 grey ones, 20 ducks and 8+ single unicorns. I have 130 caps, 10+ mages, 46 ducks, 4 angels and 7 nagas, stats are much higher + impl was for 2k. But there's an orb; we fight, caps with mages deal almost one bear per turn, but bears have 12 speed and I can't reach them on easy. But at the right moment, the bears crap themselves (!), because there was -1 morale; I wait for some reason (idiot), because apparently they didn't kill the whole stack in one hit and the last single horn blinds my ducks! I actually tilted and made a mistake immediately, letting the angels be killed and exposing the caps. But even so, I managed to win, about 20 ducks left.
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Took 2 restarts, got a spawn with stables near town, mullich and a Griffin Conservatory + respawn in the corner and decide to play. Gold-wise it was fine, but there wasn't much to level on... have 2 native AI towns, enter the portal and then ran along the corridor all the way to day 121 to native town... at the respawn I encounter an external dwelling of grand elites and an AI with a decent army... one day's march from town and it would've been sad if he entered the Citadel, since capturing it would have been tough, but day 121 was favorable, the AI ran into the respawn, I visit the stables near his town and sit in the empty Citadel... then max buying and army back urgently, because the opponent was very close... all circumstances push towards needing to go rush and take a risk with the Griffin Conservatory, which is 3-4 and on the grass... in short on day 123 I enter and there's max stats, things got really bad, since I only managed to level Tactics, Archery, and Logistics... I cast Haste on 39 grand elites and on the gr stack... then there was a tough fight where, as I see it, the outcome was decided by Blindness on a full stack from the wonder creatures))... then I back myself into a corner, the grand elites cut down 20 griffins each and endure it all... in the end I came out with 10 gr pegasi, 10+ Centaur, and all the grand elites... on day 124 I go for the Tower where many of the opp's heroes had gathered and on the last move I reach the capital with Crag Hack... managed to win!
P.S. If I hadn't attacked on this turn, who knows what would've happened on the next, because the opponent had a Necromancy Cloak with 111 from the graveyard near town and Crag Hack with Logistics, Boots of Speed, and Expert Air Magic.
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It turned out to be a very tough match!
I got 2 starting heroes and an artifact +1 speed, Mephala and the griffin conservatory are practically by the town, there is quick access to the treasure room and judging by the location, a decent adjacent zone to look for money. But I had doubts about restarting, as it was risky playing against double swamp... On day 113, I use Solmir to kill 24 elves for 2 experience stones and give him Earth magic while Mephala gets Logu, and I decide to play. I leveled up well and successfully caught the computer on day 117.
There is nothing more on the objects. On day 123, I enter the conservatory and it's a maximum! I break it losing 6 harpies, Solmir runs to replenish mana, and urgently to the center! I bring 2 "loshkos" (low-tier units) to the portal for active actions and prepare Mephala for the same. On day 124, Tazar rushes out with strong stats and a very powerful army consisting of 7 angels, 23 utopkas, 44 groups of lizards, and single flies. The situation is very difficult, but there is one way out... I sell everything I had, exchange resources and upgrade spirits, attack with a "loshko" with singles, and with 30 mana it's possible to remove a decent amount of points... then Mephala was defeated and delivered another 3 spirits to Solmir... I attack with him using singles... in the end, I leave 7 mana and kill 4 utopkas with flies...
and the FB (fight back/battle) begins, in which:
Tazar: 7 angels, 44 gr. lizards, 1 fly, and 19 utopkas 5 12 6 3(7)
Mephala: 4 angels, 5 Naga Queens, 140+ caps, 18 gr. golems, 8 mages
16 8 4 4(40)
Both have +3 morale, first round is slow on slow and then I deal maximum damage... after the FB only angels remained for me; Satyr buys his way out with 9 vivs, all other armies for both perished.
Then again small skirmishes of "loshkos" near the central portal... I don't go to rush since it's far and kind of pointless, I run into the treasure room and find boots there. I see that tempo is being lost and have to check the dragon utopia; it turns out to be a minimum, I break it with 4 angels, 3 nagas, caps, and other army after buying up, having previously killed several dragons with Solmir—they give wings! And starting from day 132, every day in the same way I killed one dragon utopia and as it turned out they were all minis... after 6 utopkas for control there were only wings; there is a TP scroll but I couldn't find resources for GM, ran around and in a lucky treasure room found Pandora's box for the whole 5th level + resources for GM.... then with control we went to retake towns, I get another 8 angels from 2 conservatories, buy more titans and with 3900+2 Dimension Door wanted to retake 4 hives and somehow go on the attack, but a surrender followed because the opponent lost all artifacts upon being defeated.
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Congratulations to Vanya and Vitaly on making it to the finals:smile20: I think many will agree with me if I say that a lot of people would like to see your game live. So, a big request to you - please do some streams, and we are ready to provide any help and support in this matter if you need it.

Congratulations to Vanya and Vitaly on making it to the finals:smile20: I think many will agree with me if I say that a lot of people would like to see your game live. So, a big request to you - please do some streams, and we are ready to provide any help and support in this matter if you need it.