Posts from NEW YEAR!

Thank you for the game!

Thanks for the game!

A good start, easily took one of the opponent's towns on 114, opponent surrendered!
tfp

Thank you for the game!

2 bear dens + 3 cons on the respawn point, not every Jebus can boast about that.

the layout is quite normal, but along the roads it was total chaos and madness!
I captured the 1st town only on turn 121, and even then I took it from the opponent, spending a fair amount of timer that day, but got the shield +6 and a Griffin Conservatory-3
next turn I could have crushed my way to the home Dragon Utopia, which I would have taken using the box of 60 pixies with their two caches and expert Shield with expert Offense-Armor (the hero was already level 13)
but the Dragon Utopia was unchecked, and there would definitely have been problems at max level
so I started covering the map
the opponent, on the other hand, bet on a fast Citadel, which he was building in a frontline town, but when finishing the game, he forgot that his main hero hadn't taken Wisdom on level-up, preferring Logistics instead
as a result, when I broke in with a Behemoth to his town via Town Portal, and with the hero to the zone with Griffin Conservatories and Dragon Fly Hives, the blue main hero, who had run off to the backwoods, turned out unable to relearn Town Portal to smack the Behemoth in the face! as a result, the blue position fell apart and the opponent says GG

thanks to Yura for the game, good luck in tournaments and real life! :)

posted at the request of the opponent without rating right after the respected jury's message that semifinals also count for rating!...
correcting this...))

blue started winning due to necromancer, but the opponent had as many as 2 necromancers, with Gosha at the helm! :eek: but Nagash with tactics, having learned 2nd level. in a village with Light and Blind and doubling mana, jumped on almost fifty Greater Basilisks in the swamp, and not only recaptured the boots but also broke a path to the red player's Fortress, which the opponent decided to defend with Gosha
had he built a Castle there — I wouldn't have even attacked))
but red couldn't resist the temptation to put birds in the 2nd main Conflux, as a result stormed the Citadel, Gosha has a devastating shooter, but mana runs out there, and thanks to the mages it was possible to clear everything behind the walls with cheap shooting, about fifty Skeleton Warriors survived!
but the opponent wasn't thinking of giving up, the tavern was showing red's army power was greater! :eek:
then Nagash went for a couple of cons on respawn, along the way lohs scouted approaches to the opponent, Jaehar from the prison was burning on flies, running through SP boosts
Nagash's comeback happened at the end of the week and on day 126 he makes the last move into the recaptured swamp, which the opponent had taken a week ago
nearby Clava with power and decent stats, I defeat/buy out Jaehar, and he manages to hit a couple of times with Light for 210, killing a bird and an angel — the opponent writes gg

thanks for the game! :)

herolwy thought, that semi finals results are reported without rating, i agreed, but the actual rules make to correct this one...

opp had got a pair of necromancers with Gosha against my single necr
but his mistake was to stay by Gosha in the city to def it against Nagash, who was a powerful mage that time
so Gosha died, but opp had got angel and firebirds on another necr
i didn't run towards him immediately, but took a pair of conses and gathered resouses for the guild in the tower
at the end of the week Nagash took back my former fortress citadel and noticed Clava besides
then i have bought a good support mage and attacked to reduce the red troops, so opp gives up

gg, thanks for the interesting game! :)

opp offered a final bo1
since I had a lot of deadlines looming over me, I agreed*
we took all the rest — when something playable came up, opp didn't want to play, while I got some stale positions, which is more of an exception for a random map
in the mandatory game it wasn't great either, but on the 1st day I broke out with as many as 7 heroes for the first time in all my games! :)
and I went with 3 Conflux mages, the main one became Enakin, and on the other front, where contact later occurred, Brissa in a heavy fight with almost fifty zombies secures a prison — killed almost the entire timer, but got a girl with shooting!
in the middle of the week, checking the turn revealed red movement up top
I build a Citadel in my ramp and put Ciele there — opp doesn't make it, but cuts off the noob
next turn, with great effort and grinding, I traded crystals for pegasi and attacked the Taverov income — I kill all the wizards and sit back in the Citadel with a fort — blue color rules!
then the magic girls chase away the reds, Brissa runs and takes their ramp village, and on 117 spends the night in the snow
at the start of the week, father Skywalker with a week-1 Inferno army wastes time on crap like clearing crypts on mud to buy back ramp income and a couple of heroes to bring to Brissa; opp decided to defend his capital without a Citadel, but you can't really fight against full mana and pegasi

gg, thanks for the game :)
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*) but I warned that if the judges don't accept the shortened final, we'd have to play another game.... or two)))