Posts from "Two Seasons: Winter-Spring 2017". Online games for rating (reports, discussions).

Some necro-battle took place. The opponent dug up 2 necros in the first tavern and went into necrodemontology. The layout turned out to be very tempo-oriented, even though all my treasure zones ended up in the sands and snow. I managed to find DD early and enter the center treasure zone in time. Vitalya had to make do with his own treasure zones, where he didn't really find anything useful for pairs. Having 5 upgraded supports, I began taking over the blue cities while simultaneously clearing out treasure zones. After I snatched the Dragon Utopia with the cap right from under Straker's nose, Vitalya surrendered. Straker had superiority in terms of one-on-one meat, but lacked off and def, and the difference in combat power was very large; therefore, a possible finale this turn—with AOTD for the blues and a red ball for me—would have been won by Klava in a landslide. Thanks for the game!

Caught the main hero and a stack of blue creatures with the main army using shackles while they were on the move, and then bought my way out through an external tavern. Although the final battle between Brogh with his entire army and Marusa, with roughly equal armies, also favored the red side due to higher magic damage. Thanks for the game!

Got the magic rebound, Gosha came, took the maximum crypt, ramped up, placed birds on week 1 in Citadel, buffed the skeletons, took Griffin Conservatory level 3, with a scout hero somehow got 350 skeletons, on day 131 took a Dragon Utopia, got a Sword and a Hat of Intuition, then took a second Dragon Utopia, got a Chalice and a small Shield, stats at +25, was gathering Elixir and Well, the opponent saw the stats and Goshan and surrendered, in any case thanks for the game

Bargained for about 3500 for the blue Stronghold. Restarts were spent, early scouting showed that the respawn was a bit tricky. On one road there was a block of 5-9 horsemen, the second clearly led to the exit and there were many boxes there, but behind shooter guards. There were also golem guards a bit off the road. Bought 6 heroes, took a chest with Crag Hack and got Attack-Artilery. I thought that if I take Attack now, then later they'd give me some crappy choice, and the ballista already came, so maybe it would help a bit. The calculation paid off, in the skeleton I got +4 chain, I farmed the golems without losses by maneuvering around the ballista, then I managed to break through the horsemen, sacrificing only the Gnolls. Then it got interesting, I saw a nest of birds, cleared it killing 90 guards, then I saw golems 50-99 guarding a box. I set Crag Hack to clear it on day 121. It turned out to be 15000 experience. At the same time, a scout showed that my respawn was enormous, about 1/3 of the map, there were 4 Dragon Utopias on the respawn. Since there wasn't much point in running to the GW, I settled on the respawn. On day 122 I took a level-1 Dragon Utopia and got a letdown, there was only a Captain's Hat. But I managed to upgrade 6 bears. Then I took another level-3 Dragon Utopia. There was a Book of Air, +6 cap, and +4 shield. I sacrificed all the Barbarian meat, but it was okay. Then I jumped to double the mana and saw 2 more bear nests. I took them, saw that the opponent had approached with a not-so-large army (up to 50 Wyverns, no Angels). I brought meat from the Rampart, upgraded 2 more bears and took 2 more Dragon Utopias. They gave some nice stuff too, but didn't give KZ and KSh. But then there was nothing left to do on the respawn, on day 131 I broke through the GW and captured the opponent's Castle. There was no Tavern, but there was a Guild. I stayed there overnight. On day 132 I took the Dragon Utopia the opponent had skipped, and it didn't give anything worthwhile. On day 133, scouting showed the opponent was holed up on a neighboring respawn, I jumped, killed 3 Loshk's, but his Tazar turned out to be in the Castle. I inspected Tazar and saw he had less mana than I did. In the Castle there were only 50 Ducks and some meat. The opponent immediately cast Slow for some reason. I thought I'd cast Inferno, since I had a Sphere. I cast it, and Inferno killed 18 Ducks per cast. Then the opponent attacked the Angels, I didn't understand. As a result, I cast another Inferno on those sitting in the Castle and slaughtered the Ducks under Shield. It turned out the opponent didn't have powerful battle magic.

Thanks for the game!