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Written on 2019-02-15 19:00:33

Confirmed by Tussell

Written on 2019-01-06 12:30:29

Confirmed by Ezekiel

Written on 2019-01-05 19:51:13

This epic game came to an end in turn 96!

As I said, Jean and me decided to meet at neutral ground and do the fight, here is the video of the 2 fights. Highlight of the fight must be my leader soloing 3 Dreadreaprs before he went down to 6hp and fled the battle.

I think after i successfully managed to take Eskilds northern cities as well as Fist's cities, it was only going to be 1 outcome. I could then convert all the cities to Dwarfs and finish the monoculture, get cheerful cities and very good mana, research and cp.



I had a very good staring position, bottom left corner in the under ground. Surrounded by lava and mountains so hard to attack, even though Eskild came relativly close before he aborted his mission. By the way, it was a good battle with Eskild mid game when he was super strong after taking all Tussels cities.



Thanks for the game everyone, was nice to experience truly end game battles and spells!
Here is some screens of the scores for those interested:

And why you still didn't report for this session?
This site is working correctly, if the host reports a result.

Oh yes, you've got into own trap But I was lucky that this common trap for you slammed shut earlier 
From my side it was foolhardy to leave enemy spies behind my back. 
And I have counter question - how did you get 3 Node Serpents?  

Ah, that explains it. Smart move!
Fun fakt: I was the one who triggered the appereance of that rogue myself by taking that chest. Isn´t that irony ?

You are right - at this situation you made a big mistake
Indeed, all three of your armies were close together. But .... May be you did it automatically, without thinking.
Anyway, during my turn I found that only one of your armies (where was your leader) guards the Watchtower.
And this Watchtower was under your control. So I didn't attack your army with the leader.
But I've attacked the Watchtower and the army of your leader was forced to do this battle  
Though this fight was not for me without significant losses. I lost one of my Warbreed
But at the next turn you killed both of my Bone Dragons :'(  (both were with gold medals )

I´ll try to explain what i meant with my question.
I had three stacks with three theocrat heros and you were approaching my domain. I guessed it would be a good idea to get that shrine with nice buffs before you can catch it, so i moved my troops up there. But i couldn´t reach it that turn without splitting my stacks, so keept my stacks close together with the hope to reach it next turn.
Somehow i did a mistake or i don´t fully understand the combat rules, because you managed to pick out one stack in your turn without attacking the other two stacks, although i thought they were in adjacent hexagons.
That was the meaning of my question.

"but we cannot see any questions he wrote here"
Yes of course, he asked me at AoW3 (not at Steam or this site).
As I have understood him, he asked me how I was able to defeat his armies.
Probably he thought that his armies were undoubtedly stronger than mine. However I do not think so. Although military score surprised me.
But it is unclear for me, how and where he could get 3 Node Serpents at our small map His leader was Theocrat, not Sorcerer.
And one of this Node Serpents already had a gold medal    . 
These flyers were not dangerous for my armies in battle in manual mode. But at the auto-combat they could cause great damage to my armies :'(

Hi guys, 
Sorry i am Not at home at the Moment. Gratulation skuns. Funny how things go sometimes. I'll write tomorrow when i am back at my pc.
Jonny

No but I mean, you write " I'll try to answer the question that you asked." but we cannot see any questions he wrote here.

"Talking alone"? May be
I thought, Jonny would be interesting to discuss ending this session. Apparently, I was wrong.   Or may be he is busy.
In any case, I'm not mad. If it would be interesting to someone else on this site, I will be only too glad.
P.S. I sent few messages, because I could not fit in a single message by the number of symbols  It seems that too many thoughts I have tried to convey 
P.P.S. Messages are stretched in a long string because of screenshots are on this page. It's hard to read such message. So I've decided to transfer sentences to the next line

@Skuns: is it me or are you talking alone?

Anyway, congratz for the win! Pretty strange to win thanks to independents by the way!

P.S. I'll try to answer the question that you asked.Honestly I do not quite understand the essence of your question ))
If you meant the battle, when your leader has gone into the void, then everything is obvious there.
It was a battle with the superior forces of my armies.
If you meant the battle by 1 turn after that,
then I think it was suicidal move with a single purpose - to send my leader into the void.
And you've achieved the desired result. It was clever and brave decision And it was tactically the right move.
However, I have my doubts about that, what exactly did you want to achieve when you've disposed your armies into the open space (outside of the city).

For this session I was very lucky. This continued throughout the second half of this session.
And especially it was shocking result  .
I agree, ceteris paribus you are more experienced than me. And most likely you would have won in this session.
Still, luck was on my side I wish you victories in the next rounds.
Good luck.

Hi. It was strange, sometimes hard, but very interesting session with a big potential for both of us .
I'm already afraid to report on the results of the game. Because I want avoid unexpected errors on this site.
So I hope that you will do it yourself.

It's strange, but i had won
Both of our leaders were gone to the void :'( . A strong army of the opponent was at the threshold of my capital  .
But Jonny have lacked just a little bit. When I have pressed the button "Click to end turn" this session was over and I've won.
I think it happened because very powerful army of neutral Rogue (or Theocrat, I have already forgotten  ) attacked Jonny's capital .
This army was created during cosmic event for 1 turn before it happened.
When I approached the border Jonny's lands, I was afraid of exactly such  situation.
That when my leader would be into the void, my capital would be defenseless before attack by such army of neutral leader.
There are all screenshots: 1)Window of My Victory, 2)Total score, 3)Knowledge score, 4)Military score, 5)Maximum of military score, 6)Domain score.

Written on 2016-01-14 12:55:46

This settings are OK. I'll join to this session in the evening

Written on 2016-01-14 11:35:16

Hi Skuns,
sorry, i came back yesterday very late. I set up the game with the following settings:
name: round2: tourneygame 5#
pw: battlefield

Written on 2016-01-14 11:30:41

Written on 2016-01-12 13:28:31

Ok, Jonny
Will see you tomorrow

Written on 2016-01-12 10:44:33

Jonny, did you send your class / race to a judge?

Written on 2016-01-12 09:40:10

Hi Skuns,
i am not at home today, so i will start the match tomorrow.
See you there

Remark:

Written on 2018-03-14 20:28:25

thanks to you, you too have played very well and we gave up because now we had no more hope, it would have been just an agony for us

honor to the winners

Written on 2018-03-10 11:29:22

Thrilling game, lot´s of fights and tactics, would have gone on a few turns but our opponents surrendered quite surprisingly.

Written on 2018-03-05 15:22:30

Confirmed by Fistandantilus

Written on 2018-03-04 23:06:56

This was a very fun game, and I think it would have gone on longer had Hawk and Fist not surrendered. Despite what the charts show, I felt like Jonny and I had a slight advantage for most of the game. Jonny and I won most of the empire quests, including me building a palace which helped me summon a bunch of eldrich horrors late in the game.

Jonny and Hawk both develped large armies of cavalry in the mid game, but jonny won most of the major engagements with his mobile and powerful eagle riders. Fist killed my leader in the midgame, and jonny and I were both worried about a counter attack from fist, but it never came.

Eventually I got an invisible stack of horrors and bone dragons with my leader. I was able to start capturing Hawk's cities and with my invisibility and mobility was able to pick of Hawk's units.

Hawk and Fist played very well. Good game I hope to play you again soon.

Written on 2018-03-04 22:57:33

Match has been reported, please confirm!

And why you still didn't report for this session?
This site is working correctly, if the host reports a result.

Oh yes, you've got into own trap But I was lucky that this common trap for you slammed shut earlier 
From my side it was foolhardy to leave enemy spies behind my back. 
And I have counter question - how did you get 3 Node Serpents?  

Ah, that explains it. Smart move!
Fun fakt: I was the one who triggered the appereance of that rogue myself by taking that chest. Isn´t that irony ?

You are right - at this situation you made a big mistake
Indeed, all three of your armies were close together. But .... May be you did it automatically, without thinking.
Anyway, during my turn I found that only one of your armies (where was your leader) guards the Watchtower.
And this Watchtower was under your control. So I didn't attack your army with the leader.
But I've attacked the Watchtower and the army of your leader was forced to do this battle  
Though this fight was not for me without significant losses. I lost one of my Warbreed
But at the next turn you killed both of my Bone Dragons :'(  (both were with gold medals )

I´ll try to explain what i meant with my question.
I had three stacks with three theocrat heros and you were approaching my domain. I guessed it would be a good idea to get that shrine with nice buffs before you can catch it, so i moved my troops up there. But i couldn´t reach it that turn without splitting my stacks, so keept my stacks close together with the hope to reach it next turn.
Somehow i did a mistake or i don´t fully understand the combat rules, because you managed to pick out one stack in your turn without attacking the other two stacks, although i thought they were in adjacent hexagons.
That was the meaning of my question.

"but we cannot see any questions he wrote here"
Yes of course, he asked me at AoW3 (not at Steam or this site).
As I have understood him, he asked me how I was able to defeat his armies.
Probably he thought that his armies were undoubtedly stronger than mine. However I do not think so. Although military score surprised me.
But it is unclear for me, how and where he could get 3 Node Serpents at our small map His leader was Theocrat, not Sorcerer.
And one of this Node Serpents already had a gold medal    . 
These flyers were not dangerous for my armies in battle in manual mode. But at the auto-combat they could cause great damage to my armies :'(

Hi guys, 
Sorry i am Not at home at the Moment. Gratulation skuns. Funny how things go sometimes. I'll write tomorrow when i am back at my pc.
Jonny

No but I mean, you write " I'll try to answer the question that you asked." but we cannot see any questions he wrote here.

"Talking alone"? May be
I thought, Jonny would be interesting to discuss ending this session. Apparently, I was wrong.   Or may be he is busy.
In any case, I'm not mad. If it would be interesting to someone else on this site, I will be only too glad.
P.S. I sent few messages, because I could not fit in a single message by the number of symbols  It seems that too many thoughts I have tried to convey 
P.P.S. Messages are stretched in a long string because of screenshots are on this page. It's hard to read such message. So I've decided to transfer sentences to the next line

@Skuns: is it me or are you talking alone?

Anyway, congratz for the win! Pretty strange to win thanks to independents by the way!

P.S. I'll try to answer the question that you asked.Honestly I do not quite understand the essence of your question ))
If you meant the battle, when your leader has gone into the void, then everything is obvious there.
It was a battle with the superior forces of my armies.
If you meant the battle by 1 turn after that,
then I think it was suicidal move with a single purpose - to send my leader into the void.
And you've achieved the desired result. It was clever and brave decision And it was tactically the right move.
However, I have my doubts about that, what exactly did you want to achieve when you've disposed your armies into the open space (outside of the city).

For this session I was very lucky. This continued throughout the second half of this session.
And especially it was shocking result  .
I agree, ceteris paribus you are more experienced than me. And most likely you would have won in this session.
Still, luck was on my side I wish you victories in the next rounds.
Good luck.

Hi. It was strange, sometimes hard, but very interesting session with a big potential for both of us .
I'm already afraid to report on the results of the game. Because I want avoid unexpected errors on this site.
So I hope that you will do it yourself.

It's strange, but i had won
Both of our leaders were gone to the void :'( . A strong army of the opponent was at the threshold of my capital  .
But Jonny have lacked just a little bit. When I have pressed the button "Click to end turn" this session was over and I've won.
I think it happened because very powerful army of neutral Rogue (or Theocrat, I have already forgotten  ) attacked Jonny's capital .
This army was created during cosmic event for 1 turn before it happened.
When I approached the border Jonny's lands, I was afraid of exactly such  situation.
That when my leader would be into the void, my capital would be defenseless before attack by such army of neutral leader.
There are all screenshots: 1)Window of My Victory, 2)Total score, 3)Knowledge score, 4)Military score, 5)Maximum of military score, 6)Domain score.

Written on 2016-01-14 12:55:46

This settings are OK. I'll join to this session in the evening

Written on 2016-01-14 11:35:16

Hi Skuns,
sorry, i came back yesterday very late. I set up the game with the following settings:
name: round2: tourneygame 5#
pw: battlefield

Written on 2016-01-14 11:30:41

Written on 2016-01-12 13:28:31

Ok, Jonny
Will see you tomorrow

Written on 2016-01-12 10:44:33

Jonny, did you send your class / race to a judge?

Written on 2016-01-12 09:40:10

Hi Skuns,
i am not at home today, so i will start the match tomorrow.
See you there

Remark:

Written on 2018-02-21 21:05:50

Very interesting game.

Rrrookie mentioned that mobility got him captured - that and turn of events at the naga dwelling. Before that match-up his leader was out adventuring while I managed to attack and conquer his domain with two fronts - one around the middle of the map and another further east with my main armies (with king serpents).

This was one of the better skirmish battles in the middle with summons against a hero and scoundrels:



5 turns later I was pushing around the naga dwelling to complete a good quest (which rrrookie could have prevented - perhaps he didn´t as doing so would put him in risk of a counterattack) getting a matriach plus a baby serpent as reward. These units and some well-ranked shamans shortly after catched up with Bob the leader in an area of wetlands.





Meanwhile AlX had been tracing Johnny´s movements in the UG so we knew that he was eventually going to show up at our doorsteps close to the contested harbour town of Ramenesr - my former vassal. He did that 5-6 turns later. Here he is - before making land fall when AlX and I had quite a discussion regarding if he would spread ice with his frostling ice queen and allow for a swift attack:



Around the same time he was trying to set my leader up close to rrrookie´s former domain - but in the UG where he dwelled. Luckily my leader had cave crawling and barrens running allowing for moving far in the UG without compromising safety to scout out a well-placed trap:



I didn´t bite on that trap, but stayed on the surface to clear more sites and gain strength while performing the planned joint attack as Johnny´s stacks disembarked - it was all or nothing at this time and turned out quite good.



A few turns later Johnny surrendered. Here you go with some screenshots of his superheroes:



..

Written on 2018-02-21 15:34:51

Nice game, grats to the winners, they did well. I got a nice armor, at least i was the player with the most stylish clothes  ;-)

Written on 2018-02-21 12:21:16

Confirmed by AlXStormrage

Written on 2018-02-20 20:51:01

Match has been reported, please confirm!

And why you still didn't report for this session?
This site is working correctly, if the host reports a result.

Oh yes, you've got into own trap But I was lucky that this common trap for you slammed shut earlier 
From my side it was foolhardy to leave enemy spies behind my back. 
And I have counter question - how did you get 3 Node Serpents?  

Ah, that explains it. Smart move!
Fun fakt: I was the one who triggered the appereance of that rogue myself by taking that chest. Isn´t that irony ?

You are right - at this situation you made a big mistake
Indeed, all three of your armies were close together. But .... May be you did it automatically, without thinking.
Anyway, during my turn I found that only one of your armies (where was your leader) guards the Watchtower.
And this Watchtower was under your control. So I didn't attack your army with the leader.
But I've attacked the Watchtower and the army of your leader was forced to do this battle  
Though this fight was not for me without significant losses. I lost one of my Warbreed
But at the next turn you killed both of my Bone Dragons :'(  (both were with gold medals )

I´ll try to explain what i meant with my question.
I had three stacks with three theocrat heros and you were approaching my domain. I guessed it would be a good idea to get that shrine with nice buffs before you can catch it, so i moved my troops up there. But i couldn´t reach it that turn without splitting my stacks, so keept my stacks close together with the hope to reach it next turn.
Somehow i did a mistake or i don´t fully understand the combat rules, because you managed to pick out one stack in your turn without attacking the other two stacks, although i thought they were in adjacent hexagons.
That was the meaning of my question.

"but we cannot see any questions he wrote here"
Yes of course, he asked me at AoW3 (not at Steam or this site).
As I have understood him, he asked me how I was able to defeat his armies.
Probably he thought that his armies were undoubtedly stronger than mine. However I do not think so. Although military score surprised me.
But it is unclear for me, how and where he could get 3 Node Serpents at our small map His leader was Theocrat, not Sorcerer.
And one of this Node Serpents already had a gold medal    . 
These flyers were not dangerous for my armies in battle in manual mode. But at the auto-combat they could cause great damage to my armies :'(

Hi guys, 
Sorry i am Not at home at the Moment. Gratulation skuns. Funny how things go sometimes. I'll write tomorrow when i am back at my pc.
Jonny

No but I mean, you write " I'll try to answer the question that you asked." but we cannot see any questions he wrote here.

"Talking alone"? May be
I thought, Jonny would be interesting to discuss ending this session. Apparently, I was wrong.   Or may be he is busy.
In any case, I'm not mad. If it would be interesting to someone else on this site, I will be only too glad.
P.S. I sent few messages, because I could not fit in a single message by the number of symbols  It seems that too many thoughts I have tried to convey 
P.P.S. Messages are stretched in a long string because of screenshots are on this page. It's hard to read such message. So I've decided to transfer sentences to the next line

@Skuns: is it me or are you talking alone?

Anyway, congratz for the win! Pretty strange to win thanks to independents by the way!

P.S. I'll try to answer the question that you asked.Honestly I do not quite understand the essence of your question ))
If you meant the battle, when your leader has gone into the void, then everything is obvious there.
It was a battle with the superior forces of my armies.
If you meant the battle by 1 turn after that,
then I think it was suicidal move with a single purpose - to send my leader into the void.
And you've achieved the desired result. It was clever and brave decision And it was tactically the right move.
However, I have my doubts about that, what exactly did you want to achieve when you've disposed your armies into the open space (outside of the city).

For this session I was very lucky. This continued throughout the second half of this session.
And especially it was shocking result  .
I agree, ceteris paribus you are more experienced than me. And most likely you would have won in this session.
Still, luck was on my side I wish you victories in the next rounds.
Good luck.

Hi. It was strange, sometimes hard, but very interesting session with a big potential for both of us .
I'm already afraid to report on the results of the game. Because I want avoid unexpected errors on this site.
So I hope that you will do it yourself.

It's strange, but i had won
Both of our leaders were gone to the void :'( . A strong army of the opponent was at the threshold of my capital  .
But Jonny have lacked just a little bit. When I have pressed the button "Click to end turn" this session was over and I've won.
I think it happened because very powerful army of neutral Rogue (or Theocrat, I have already forgotten  ) attacked Jonny's capital .
This army was created during cosmic event for 1 turn before it happened.
When I approached the border Jonny's lands, I was afraid of exactly such  situation.
That when my leader would be into the void, my capital would be defenseless before attack by such army of neutral leader.
There are all screenshots: 1)Window of My Victory, 2)Total score, 3)Knowledge score, 4)Military score, 5)Maximum of military score, 6)Domain score.

Written on 2016-01-14 12:55:46

This settings are OK. I'll join to this session in the evening

Written on 2016-01-14 11:35:16

Hi Skuns,
sorry, i came back yesterday very late. I set up the game with the following settings:
name: round2: tourneygame 5#
pw: battlefield

Written on 2016-01-14 11:30:41

Written on 2016-01-12 13:28:31

Ok, Jonny
Will see you tomorrow

Written on 2016-01-12 10:44:33

Jonny, did you send your class / race to a judge?

Written on 2016-01-12 09:40:10

Hi Skuns,
i am not at home today, so i will start the match tomorrow.
See you there

Remark:

Written on 2017-11-16 12:31:42

Good evening, guys. It's about time I told you about the match. Though it officially ended by score and (what a pity!) had no big fights (3 vs 3 would be lovely), the game was intense and interesting. At least for me.
As Melciar has been playing really bad in his last bf games (spoiler: this one turned out to be no exception XD), I decided to let him take the class he wanted to play and felt himself comfortable with. It was sorcerer - a very solid choice for the midgame as the combination of apprentices and phantasmal warriors allows to easily clean the objects and later form a full floating stack of units. In case he fails, I was to cast summons to his towns to help him and that's why I took druid.
 
In early game we were definitely better in scouting: both central dwellings became our vassals. Fairies and Dragons. A perfect combination. Underground was my responsibility this time and I managed to examine it very well. One of the scouts came really close to Jonny's town:


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This is how the map looked like at that time:
Surface.



And underground


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Unexpectedly to all players Jonny's town was soon razed and that was no doubt a huge success for our team.




Another Jonny's town was soon attacked by neutral forces and I understood that he wasn't doing well at that time. So I figured out that I shouldn't be afraid of a powerful rush. And left my domain to explore new horizons.�


Still better safe than sorry, you know. So I kept a defensive army.


And soon produced some Sun Guards in order to tackle a possible cavalry rush.
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Suddenly Melciar made a very pathetic fight against neutrals (in my opinion one shouldn't attack if he isn't sure =)




He lost 2 almost elite apprentices

And soon lost a town to neutrals. Not a very good start for a sorcerer.

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He became very upset and I understood I would probably have to fight alone in the match. So I studied the map very carefully and figured out I could get a huge advantage in research points. I made a very good route for my army. The idea was to visit this:


And this. Why not?



Damn, Melciar, you should keep your flying scouts on the water to avoid this.



He had big problems with neutrals, I had to make them follow my unit and tried to keep them as far as I could from Melciar's towns.



Soon a huge part of the whole map was opened. Have a look at this:
Surface


Underground


Melciar went to capture a huge elf town and soon found Rookie's scouts there. I warned Melciar to be very careful and asked him to scout a lot.
But it was Rookie who made a perfect scouting this time. He wasn't greedy to lose trained units because scouting was always more important. And he was absolutely right.�





Having lost 2 hunters, Rookie continued to scout near Melciar. This time it was an elite fairy.

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I was a bit worried but Melciar had already got a floating stack so I presumed he would keep himself safe going to the water/rapids if necessary.
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But he failed to scout and went blind to take a tavern where he was caught by Rookie >_<


And the game for my teammate was almost over.
He lost his army, heroes, the elf town and still had problems in his domain. With neutrals.



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I understood I had to help my teammate now but that wasn't easy as I found Jonny slowly heading to my part of the map.


He was leveling up elems and it was dangerous. Another surprise was to come out soon:




A tier-3 Naga and some charmed units. Like a draconian flyer.
 
The good thing was that, having scouted all this in advance, I was prepared and managed to approach him with my defensive army. I wasn't able to win this, of course, but could easily block him here by building a fortress. 



And that was a perfect plan.


At that time I spotted another danger: Rookie was building a lot of towns, faster than me (as a human), I didn't want him to get monoculture and great morale bonuses so I prepared a sudden attack. Here.


Rookie's army was fighting with Melciar, Jonny's - leveling up elems. I was pretty safe but had to come quickly.



When I reached the town and captured it Jonny had already finished his floating tier-3 elem stack. He even made his leader fly! I was impressed. 
I found his army here.




He soon went back to the town captured by me. And was standing nearby with another stack.



I had to leave immediately but the town was razed and the goal achieved.

Where to go? - I asked myself. And I created a very good plan that worked and, in my opinion, brought us victory.
I decided to rush here.











Using haste berries and leaving Jonny long behind myself. I was finishing researching t4 at that time and was well prepared to fight Rookie on the surface. The only problem was Jonny. I had to find a way not to let him go directly to my domain. And I created an illusion of an attack. My fairy found Jonny's scout checking the north path to his empire.




So I took my defensive army which already had almost 3 stacks in it and started to go to Jonny through the north. The scout could perfectly see me.



Once the scout flew away I turned around and went back.�

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And Jonny got into the trap. His main army went to meet me near the borders of his domain but never met anyone there.



And that was the gravest mistake. It gave me plenty of time.
My scouting was really good at that time and I'm proud of that ^_^


I found out Rookie had some problems too. He lost his leader (probably in the dungeon) and one of his towns due to rebellion (it wasn't a good idea to build human cities on volcanic). 
So he didn't rush Melciar after he defeated his army but captured the elf town and started to recover from losses. He later caught Melciar on another mistake: my teammate should have kept a wyvern near the dragon dwelling all the time but started to scout nearby and simply forgot to return it back. So Rookie took advantage of the moment and captured it on manual.





And that was a pretty bad fight on his part.
I was running there as fast as I could and managed to prevent vassalization of the dwelling.

With the first paragon t4 in my army.

Rookie had to leave to the water where he started to kill Melciar's scouts and slowly go to his domain.



He killed my invisible scout with a shaman so we lost sight of him for several turns.


Later we spotted him near Melciar.


Melciar's army was very weak at that time so I advised him to go after me to the center of the map. Jonny was still pretty far away from my domain in the underground so we had time to go to Rookie's empire. 
The route to Rookie was very rich in objects.



He probably should have taken these sphynx temples himself, now I got them and boosted my research points and gold.
I was able to kill Rookie's scout and prevent him from entering underground.


But I couldn't counter his attack on Melciar's towns.



Jonny went to my domain with his floating stack.



He built a very good town here stabilizing his economy but it was me who finally took monoculture.



Rookie took Melciar's towns but wasn't able to take the throne city with many archers inside.


Melciar's morale was very bad, we had to leave volcanics as soon as possible. Fortunately for us, we were close to Rookie's empire.


And Jonny was closer and closer...


Just have a look at his leader.






The best leader among us for sure.
�
The judges announced we had to finish the game by score very soon. So the task for both teams was to get as much score as they could. 
I managed to attack Rookie's town before Jonny got there to help.



But had to leave the town for 1 turn not to split my army. The sphinx guys were slow in forests.




Melciar was near me.



The plan was to take Rookie's towns one by one and go further leaving them to Melciar who would guard them.
Rookie sent some troops to my goblin city but wasn't able to take it. The defense was pretty good there.

�
And now Jonny:



The bad thing for Jonny was that he had just one stack. I could never capture it on lava but I could easily defend my towns. Not all of them, of course. But once Jonny took my town he had to immediately run back on lava (otherwise I would have attacked him), so I was able to take the town back on my turn. 
My defensive army was pretty solid:






I had another stack in my throne city. I have to admitt I missplayed here: I should have built more mystics as they could easily counter elems. But I was so happy to spam shamans that I forgot about it =( 

So we had a kind of stalemate. And it wasn't working good for Jonny who had to capture at least something for the score.
He tried to come to the fairies.


At that time I understood how powerful my opponent was.
At that moment I tried to take one of Jonny's towns with a small diversion but failed.


�
In Rookie's domain we found out that Jonny went to defend one of the towns.



So we decided to go south and take Rookie's vassal. From there we could head to his throne city.
As we had just 1-2 turns left before the end of the match, I advised Melciar to take his defensive army and approach one of his towns.


Rookie immediately went there to defend.


But was that a good idea? The armies were like these:
Melciar's troops:




The chance of winning this was pretty low. But we just needed to kill the leader.
Melciar attacked him on his turn and...lost. Though Rookie went into the void!
Suddenly my t2 scout took Rookie's throne city which was undefended. 


So we managed to defeat our opponent on the last turn of the match XD Pure luck, I say.
The final situation in the underground was like this. Still the stalemate.

Written on 2017-11-14 19:55:25

Confirmed by Jonny Thunder

Written on 2017-11-12 22:40:32

Confirmed by rrrrookie

Written on 2017-11-12 20:23:35

Match has been reported, please confirm!

|

And why you still didn't report for this session?
This site is working correctly, if the host reports a result.

Oh yes, you've got into own trap But I was lucky that this common trap for you slammed shut earlier 
From my side it was foolhardy to leave enemy spies behind my back. 
And I have counter question - how did you get 3 Node Serpents?  

Ah, that explains it. Smart move!
Fun fakt: I was the one who triggered the appereance of that rogue myself by taking that chest. Isn´t that irony ?

You are right - at this situation you made a big mistake
Indeed, all three of your armies were close together. But .... May be you did it automatically, without thinking.
Anyway, during my turn I found that only one of your armies (where was your leader) guards the Watchtower.
And this Watchtower was under your control. So I didn't attack your army with the leader.
But I've attacked the Watchtower and the army of your leader was forced to do this battle  
Though this fight was not for me without significant losses. I lost one of my Warbreed
But at the next turn you killed both of my Bone Dragons :'(  (both were with gold medals )

I´ll try to explain what i meant with my question.
I had three stacks with three theocrat heros and you were approaching my domain. I guessed it would be a good idea to get that shrine with nice buffs before you can catch it, so i moved my troops up there. But i couldn´t reach it that turn without splitting my stacks, so keept my stacks close together with the hope to reach it next turn.
Somehow i did a mistake or i don´t fully understand the combat rules, because you managed to pick out one stack in your turn without attacking the other two stacks, although i thought they were in adjacent hexagons.
That was the meaning of my question.

"but we cannot see any questions he wrote here"
Yes of course, he asked me at AoW3 (not at Steam or this site).
As I have understood him, he asked me how I was able to defeat his armies.
Probably he thought that his armies were undoubtedly stronger than mine. However I do not think so. Although military score surprised me.
But it is unclear for me, how and where he could get 3 Node Serpents at our small map His leader was Theocrat, not Sorcerer.
And one of this Node Serpents already had a gold medal    . 
These flyers were not dangerous for my armies in battle in manual mode. But at the auto-combat they could cause great damage to my armies :'(

Hi guys, 
Sorry i am Not at home at the Moment. Gratulation skuns. Funny how things go sometimes. I'll write tomorrow when i am back at my pc.
Jonny

No but I mean, you write " I'll try to answer the question that you asked." but we cannot see any questions he wrote here.

"Talking alone"? May be
I thought, Jonny would be interesting to discuss ending this session. Apparently, I was wrong.   Or may be he is busy.
In any case, I'm not mad. If it would be interesting to someone else on this site, I will be only too glad.
P.S. I sent few messages, because I could not fit in a single message by the number of symbols  It seems that too many thoughts I have tried to convey 
P.P.S. Messages are stretched in a long string because of screenshots are on this page. It's hard to read such message. So I've decided to transfer sentences to the next line

@Skuns: is it me or are you talking alone?

Anyway, congratz for the win! Pretty strange to win thanks to independents by the way!

P.S. I'll try to answer the question that you asked.Honestly I do not quite understand the essence of your question ))
If you meant the battle, when your leader has gone into the void, then everything is obvious there.
It was a battle with the superior forces of my armies.
If you meant the battle by 1 turn after that,
then I think it was suicidal move with a single purpose - to send my leader into the void.
And you've achieved the desired result. It was clever and brave decision And it was tactically the right move.
However, I have my doubts about that, what exactly did you want to achieve when you've disposed your armies into the open space (outside of the city).

For this session I was very lucky. This continued throughout the second half of this session.
And especially it was shocking result  .
I agree, ceteris paribus you are more experienced than me. And most likely you would have won in this session.
Still, luck was on my side I wish you victories in the next rounds.
Good luck.

Hi. It was strange, sometimes hard, but very interesting session with a big potential for both of us .
I'm already afraid to report on the results of the game. Because I want avoid unexpected errors on this site.
So I hope that you will do it yourself.

It's strange, but i had won
Both of our leaders were gone to the void :'( . A strong army of the opponent was at the threshold of my capital  .
But Jonny have lacked just a little bit. When I have pressed the button "Click to end turn" this session was over and I've won.
I think it happened because very powerful army of neutral Rogue (or Theocrat, I have already forgotten  ) attacked Jonny's capital .
This army was created during cosmic event for 1 turn before it happened.
When I approached the border Jonny's lands, I was afraid of exactly such  situation.
That when my leader would be into the void, my capital would be defenseless before attack by such army of neutral leader.
There are all screenshots: 1)Window of My Victory, 2)Total score, 3)Knowledge score, 4)Military score, 5)Maximum of military score, 6)Domain score.

Written on 2016-01-14 12:55:46

This settings are OK. I'll join to this session in the evening

Written on 2016-01-14 11:35:16

Hi Skuns,
sorry, i came back yesterday very late. I set up the game with the following settings:
name: round2: tourneygame 5#
pw: battlefield

Written on 2016-01-14 11:30:41

Written on 2016-01-12 13:28:31

Ok, Jonny
Will see you tomorrow

Written on 2016-01-12 10:44:33

Jonny, did you send your class / race to a judge?

Written on 2016-01-12 09:40:10

Hi Skuns,
i am not at home today, so i will start the match tomorrow.
See you there

Remark:

Written on 2017-08-31 17:34:27

Ricky and Jonny are in position 2 for the Report. Please correct.

Written on 2017-08-15 20:46:52

Great game from Darkrider, i could not withstand that amount of elementals.

Written on 2017-08-15 19:41:59

I guess in ffa people are busy. It was too late when johny and rickyroo came.

Written on 2017-08-14 17:30:25

At least one wizard was killed, me.  

Written on 2017-08-14 07:43:58

Great game Darkrider.  A well deserved win.

Written on 2017-08-14 05:46:50

So nobody died and you won with 2 Beacons?

@toher 3 players: how come you didn't manage to at least capture 1 Beacon?

Written on 2017-08-14 00:34:28

Match has been reported, please confirm!

And why you still didn't report for this session?
This site is working correctly, if the host reports a result.

Oh yes, you've got into own trap But I was lucky that this common trap for you slammed shut earlier 
From my side it was foolhardy to leave enemy spies behind my back. 
And I have counter question - how did you get 3 Node Serpents?  

Ah, that explains it. Smart move!
Fun fakt: I was the one who triggered the appereance of that rogue myself by taking that chest. Isn´t that irony ?

You are right - at this situation you made a big mistake
Indeed, all three of your armies were close together. But .... May be you did it automatically, without thinking.
Anyway, during my turn I found that only one of your armies (where was your leader) guards the Watchtower.
And this Watchtower was under your control. So I didn't attack your army with the leader.
But I've attacked the Watchtower and the army of your leader was forced to do this battle  
Though this fight was not for me without significant losses. I lost one of my Warbreed
But at the next turn you killed both of my Bone Dragons :'(  (both were with gold medals )

I´ll try to explain what i meant with my question.
I had three stacks with three theocrat heros and you were approaching my domain. I guessed it would be a good idea to get that shrine with nice buffs before you can catch it, so i moved my troops up there. But i couldn´t reach it that turn without splitting my stacks, so keept my stacks close together with the hope to reach it next turn.
Somehow i did a mistake or i don´t fully understand the combat rules, because you managed to pick out one stack in your turn without attacking the other two stacks, although i thought they were in adjacent hexagons.
That was the meaning of my question.

"but we cannot see any questions he wrote here"
Yes of course, he asked me at AoW3 (not at Steam or this site).
As I have understood him, he asked me how I was able to defeat his armies.
Probably he thought that his armies were undoubtedly stronger than mine. However I do not think so. Although military score surprised me.
But it is unclear for me, how and where he could get 3 Node Serpents at our small map His leader was Theocrat, not Sorcerer.
And one of this Node Serpents already had a gold medal    . 
These flyers were not dangerous for my armies in battle in manual mode. But at the auto-combat they could cause great damage to my armies :'(

Hi guys, 
Sorry i am Not at home at the Moment. Gratulation skuns. Funny how things go sometimes. I'll write tomorrow when i am back at my pc.
Jonny

No but I mean, you write " I'll try to answer the question that you asked." but we cannot see any questions he wrote here.

"Talking alone"? May be
I thought, Jonny would be interesting to discuss ending this session. Apparently, I was wrong.   Or may be he is busy.
In any case, I'm not mad. If it would be interesting to someone else on this site, I will be only too glad.
P.S. I sent few messages, because I could not fit in a single message by the number of symbols  It seems that too many thoughts I have tried to convey 
P.P.S. Messages are stretched in a long string because of screenshots are on this page. It's hard to read such message. So I've decided to transfer sentences to the next line

@Skuns: is it me or are you talking alone?

Anyway, congratz for the win! Pretty strange to win thanks to independents by the way!

P.S. I'll try to answer the question that you asked.Honestly I do not quite understand the essence of your question ))
If you meant the battle, when your leader has gone into the void, then everything is obvious there.
It was a battle with the superior forces of my armies.
If you meant the battle by 1 turn after that,
then I think it was suicidal move with a single purpose - to send my leader into the void.
And you've achieved the desired result. It was clever and brave decision And it was tactically the right move.
However, I have my doubts about that, what exactly did you want to achieve when you've disposed your armies into the open space (outside of the city).

For this session I was very lucky. This continued throughout the second half of this session.
And especially it was shocking result  .
I agree, ceteris paribus you are more experienced than me. And most likely you would have won in this session.
Still, luck was on my side I wish you victories in the next rounds.
Good luck.

Hi. It was strange, sometimes hard, but very interesting session with a big potential for both of us .
I'm already afraid to report on the results of the game. Because I want avoid unexpected errors on this site.
So I hope that you will do it yourself.

It's strange, but i had won
Both of our leaders were gone to the void :'( . A strong army of the opponent was at the threshold of my capital  .
But Jonny have lacked just a little bit. When I have pressed the button "Click to end turn" this session was over and I've won.
I think it happened because very powerful army of neutral Rogue (or Theocrat, I have already forgotten  ) attacked Jonny's capital .
This army was created during cosmic event for 1 turn before it happened.
When I approached the border Jonny's lands, I was afraid of exactly such  situation.
That when my leader would be into the void, my capital would be defenseless before attack by such army of neutral leader.
There are all screenshots: 1)Window of My Victory, 2)Total score, 3)Knowledge score, 4)Military score, 5)Maximum of military score, 6)Domain score.

Written on 2016-01-14 12:55:46

This settings are OK. I'll join to this session in the evening

Written on 2016-01-14 11:35:16

Hi Skuns,
sorry, i came back yesterday very late. I set up the game with the following settings:
name: round2: tourneygame 5#
pw: battlefield

Written on 2016-01-14 11:30:41

Written on 2016-01-12 13:28:31

Ok, Jonny
Will see you tomorrow

Written on 2016-01-12 10:44:33

Jonny, did you send your class / race to a judge?

Written on 2016-01-12 09:40:10

Hi Skuns,
i am not at home today, so i will start the match tomorrow.
See you there

Remark:

Written on 2017-07-17 18:55:42

Good game to the other team. Very good game to Jonny Thunder. He was a man among boys in this one. 

Written on 2017-07-14 21:58:08

Confirmed by xlnt

Written on 2017-07-14 17:13:47

Confirmed by Skuns453Lirik902

Written on 2017-07-14 16:33:58

Match has been reported, please confirm!

|

And why you still didn't report for this session?
This site is working correctly, if the host reports a result.

Oh yes, you've got into own trap But I was lucky that this common trap for you slammed shut earlier 
From my side it was foolhardy to leave enemy spies behind my back. 
And I have counter question - how did you get 3 Node Serpents?  

Ah, that explains it. Smart move!
Fun fakt: I was the one who triggered the appereance of that rogue myself by taking that chest. Isn´t that irony ?

You are right - at this situation you made a big mistake
Indeed, all three of your armies were close together. But .... May be you did it automatically, without thinking.
Anyway, during my turn I found that only one of your armies (where was your leader) guards the Watchtower.
And this Watchtower was under your control. So I didn't attack your army with the leader.
But I've attacked the Watchtower and the army of your leader was forced to do this battle  
Though this fight was not for me without significant losses. I lost one of my Warbreed
But at the next turn you killed both of my Bone Dragons :'(  (both were with gold medals )

I´ll try to explain what i meant with my question.
I had three stacks with three theocrat heros and you were approaching my domain. I guessed it would be a good idea to get that shrine with nice buffs before you can catch it, so i moved my troops up there. But i couldn´t reach it that turn without splitting my stacks, so keept my stacks close together with the hope to reach it next turn.
Somehow i did a mistake or i don´t fully understand the combat rules, because you managed to pick out one stack in your turn without attacking the other two stacks, although i thought they were in adjacent hexagons.
That was the meaning of my question.

"but we cannot see any questions he wrote here"
Yes of course, he asked me at AoW3 (not at Steam or this site).
As I have understood him, he asked me how I was able to defeat his armies.
Probably he thought that his armies were undoubtedly stronger than mine. However I do not think so. Although military score surprised me.
But it is unclear for me, how and where he could get 3 Node Serpents at our small map His leader was Theocrat, not Sorcerer.
And one of this Node Serpents already had a gold medal    . 
These flyers were not dangerous for my armies in battle in manual mode. But at the auto-combat they could cause great damage to my armies :'(

Hi guys, 
Sorry i am Not at home at the Moment. Gratulation skuns. Funny how things go sometimes. I'll write tomorrow when i am back at my pc.
Jonny

No but I mean, you write " I'll try to answer the question that you asked." but we cannot see any questions he wrote here.

"Talking alone"? May be
I thought, Jonny would be interesting to discuss ending this session. Apparently, I was wrong.   Or may be he is busy.
In any case, I'm not mad. If it would be interesting to someone else on this site, I will be only too glad.
P.S. I sent few messages, because I could not fit in a single message by the number of symbols  It seems that too many thoughts I have tried to convey 
P.P.S. Messages are stretched in a long string because of screenshots are on this page. It's hard to read such message. So I've decided to transfer sentences to the next line

@Skuns: is it me or are you talking alone?

Anyway, congratz for the win! Pretty strange to win thanks to independents by the way!

P.S. I'll try to answer the question that you asked.Honestly I do not quite understand the essence of your question ))
If you meant the battle, when your leader has gone into the void, then everything is obvious there.
It was a battle with the superior forces of my armies.
If you meant the battle by 1 turn after that,
then I think it was suicidal move with a single purpose - to send my leader into the void.
And you've achieved the desired result. It was clever and brave decision And it was tactically the right move.
However, I have my doubts about that, what exactly did you want to achieve when you've disposed your armies into the open space (outside of the city).

For this session I was very lucky. This continued throughout the second half of this session.
And especially it was shocking result  .
I agree, ceteris paribus you are more experienced than me. And most likely you would have won in this session.
Still, luck was on my side I wish you victories in the next rounds.
Good luck.

Hi. It was strange, sometimes hard, but very interesting session with a big potential for both of us .
I'm already afraid to report on the results of the game. Because I want avoid unexpected errors on this site.
So I hope that you will do it yourself.

It's strange, but i had won
Both of our leaders were gone to the void :'( . A strong army of the opponent was at the threshold of my capital  .
But Jonny have lacked just a little bit. When I have pressed the button "Click to end turn" this session was over and I've won.
I think it happened because very powerful army of neutral Rogue (or Theocrat, I have already forgotten  ) attacked Jonny's capital .
This army was created during cosmic event for 1 turn before it happened.
When I approached the border Jonny's lands, I was afraid of exactly such  situation.
That when my leader would be into the void, my capital would be defenseless before attack by such army of neutral leader.
There are all screenshots: 1)Window of My Victory, 2)Total score, 3)Knowledge score, 4)Military score, 5)Maximum of military score, 6)Domain score.

Written on 2016-01-14 12:55:46

This settings are OK. I'll join to this session in the evening

Written on 2016-01-14 11:35:16

Hi Skuns,
sorry, i came back yesterday very late. I set up the game with the following settings:
name: round2: tourneygame 5#
pw: battlefield

Written on 2016-01-14 11:30:41

Written on 2016-01-12 13:28:31

Ok, Jonny
Will see you tomorrow

Written on 2016-01-12 10:44:33

Jonny, did you send your class / race to a judge?

Written on 2016-01-12 09:40:10

Hi Skuns,
i am not at home today, so i will start the match tomorrow.
See you there

Remark:

Written on 2017-07-11 21:39:10

I could lvl quite fine in the beginning until i lost my leader cause i am stupid - then i get rolling and cleared some high lvl sites and thought it may be a good idea to go for Fist´s not so well defended home cities. I took 4 cities but the damage was not too big cause i canceled razing the capital again due to stupidity. Then i realized that 6 stacks were after - and in front of - me, so i was trapped and at least managed it to move into a canyon where any attacker had to fight 2 stacks against 1. So for the second half of the game i was trapped there and doomed to be rather passive. When Tass made his mistake and lost his leader and Rrrookie his throne i thought maybe we can turn the game but Fist was incredible strong and far ahead of us, i had nothing against his earth elementals which could only laugh at the dmg cannels i could offer.
At the end of the day, what i will remember about this game is Tass fucking cool city names, up the Irons ;-)

Written on 2017-07-10 21:11:27

Good match to fist and tass. There were a few moments that I recognize as key turning points in the match:

1. Jonny and I both got off to great starts and were positioning ourselves for good early map control, with lots of vassals and cleared sites. Around turn 17-20 I attacked a Tigran themed dungeon with my leader, my rogue hero I got turn 1, and some exalted. I had quickly evolved martyrs to exalted, and was getting into our opponents side of the map in the UG. Basically, my rogue hero got pounced 2 or 3 times in one turn and was killed immediately. I realized I had no shot in this fight and tried to retreat my army. Only my leader escaped alive. I did not yet have resurgence stack. I continued with my rush to try and support Jonny but it was of little consequence for our opponents. This killed our momentum across the map and set Jonny to basically fight 1v2 in the midgame (of which he did a very good job). 

2. in the mid/late game Jonny and I were moving one stack of his with 2 of mine into what we believe were the lightly guarded lands of Tass. Due to a miscommunication, Jonny moved his stack too far for mine to keep up with. Tass took advantage and took out Jonny's lone stack, however Tass' leader died in the battle. That was very unlucky for Tass as he had at least 2 full stacks against Jonny's lone stack. My 2 stacks were pretty strong and were able to beat Tass' troops back to his throne. It was now Jonny and I vs Fist.

3. Fist had snowballed out of control however. He had summon earth elemental. With Jonny's leader dead (this was quite the story in itself), Fist attacked Jonny's throne. Fist was outnumbered, but had a quality advantage with his leader and earth elemental in the battle. It was a close one, and if Fist had lost his leader I may have been able to quickly end the game. Fist won and his leader lived, so it was a 1v1. I was much weaker than Fist and he made quick work of me. 

Good game to everyone involved. I rated it 2 but it should really be a 1. Tass and Fist played great and Jonny too. I let you down Jonny. 

Edit: does anyone have a picture of the trap you guys had Jonny in for the entire midgame?

Written on 2017-07-10 20:16:43

Match has been reported, please confirm!

And why you still didn't report for this session?
This site is working correctly, if the host reports a result.

Oh yes, you've got into own trap But I was lucky that this common trap for you slammed shut earlier 
From my side it was foolhardy to leave enemy spies behind my back. 
And I have counter question - how did you get 3 Node Serpents?  

Ah, that explains it. Smart move!
Fun fakt: I was the one who triggered the appereance of that rogue myself by taking that chest. Isn´t that irony ?

You are right - at this situation you made a big mistake
Indeed, all three of your armies were close together. But .... May be you did it automatically, without thinking.
Anyway, during my turn I found that only one of your armies (where was your leader) guards the Watchtower.
And this Watchtower was under your control. So I didn't attack your army with the leader.
But I've attacked the Watchtower and the army of your leader was forced to do this battle  
Though this fight was not for me without significant losses. I lost one of my Warbreed
But at the next turn you killed both of my Bone Dragons :'(  (both were with gold medals )

I´ll try to explain what i meant with my question.
I had three stacks with three theocrat heros and you were approaching my domain. I guessed it would be a good idea to get that shrine with nice buffs before you can catch it, so i moved my troops up there. But i couldn´t reach it that turn without splitting my stacks, so keept my stacks close together with the hope to reach it next turn.
Somehow i did a mistake or i don´t fully understand the combat rules, because you managed to pick out one stack in your turn without attacking the other two stacks, although i thought they were in adjacent hexagons.
That was the meaning of my question.

"but we cannot see any questions he wrote here"
Yes of course, he asked me at AoW3 (not at Steam or this site).
As I have understood him, he asked me how I was able to defeat his armies.
Probably he thought that his armies were undoubtedly stronger than mine. However I do not think so. Although military score surprised me.
But it is unclear for me, how and where he could get 3 Node Serpents at our small map His leader was Theocrat, not Sorcerer.
And one of this Node Serpents already had a gold medal    . 
These flyers were not dangerous for my armies in battle in manual mode. But at the auto-combat they could cause great damage to my armies :'(

Hi guys, 
Sorry i am Not at home at the Moment. Gratulation skuns. Funny how things go sometimes. I'll write tomorrow when i am back at my pc.
Jonny

No but I mean, you write " I'll try to answer the question that you asked." but we cannot see any questions he wrote here.

"Talking alone"? May be
I thought, Jonny would be interesting to discuss ending this session. Apparently, I was wrong.   Or may be he is busy.
In any case, I'm not mad. If it would be interesting to someone else on this site, I will be only too glad.
P.S. I sent few messages, because I could not fit in a single message by the number of symbols  It seems that too many thoughts I have tried to convey 
P.P.S. Messages are stretched in a long string because of screenshots are on this page. It's hard to read such message. So I've decided to transfer sentences to the next line

@Skuns: is it me or are you talking alone?

Anyway, congratz for the win! Pretty strange to win thanks to independents by the way!

P.S. I'll try to answer the question that you asked.Honestly I do not quite understand the essence of your question ))
If you meant the battle, when your leader has gone into the void, then everything is obvious there.
It was a battle with the superior forces of my armies.
If you meant the battle by 1 turn after that,
then I think it was suicidal move with a single purpose - to send my leader into the void.
And you've achieved the desired result. It was clever and brave decision And it was tactically the right move.
However, I have my doubts about that, what exactly did you want to achieve when you've disposed your armies into the open space (outside of the city).

For this session I was very lucky. This continued throughout the second half of this session.
And especially it was shocking result  .
I agree, ceteris paribus you are more experienced than me. And most likely you would have won in this session.
Still, luck was on my side I wish you victories in the next rounds.
Good luck.

Hi. It was strange, sometimes hard, but very interesting session with a big potential for both of us .
I'm already afraid to report on the results of the game. Because I want avoid unexpected errors on this site.
So I hope that you will do it yourself.

It's strange, but i had won
Both of our leaders were gone to the void :'( . A strong army of the opponent was at the threshold of my capital  .
But Jonny have lacked just a little bit. When I have pressed the button "Click to end turn" this session was over and I've won.
I think it happened because very powerful army of neutral Rogue (or Theocrat, I have already forgotten  ) attacked Jonny's capital .
This army was created during cosmic event for 1 turn before it happened.
When I approached the border Jonny's lands, I was afraid of exactly such  situation.
That when my leader would be into the void, my capital would be defenseless before attack by such army of neutral leader.
There are all screenshots: 1)Window of My Victory, 2)Total score, 3)Knowledge score, 4)Military score, 5)Maximum of military score, 6)Domain score.

Written on 2016-01-14 12:55:46

This settings are OK. I'll join to this session in the evening

Written on 2016-01-14 11:35:16

Hi Skuns,
sorry, i came back yesterday very late. I set up the game with the following settings:
name: round2: tourneygame 5#
pw: battlefield

Written on 2016-01-14 11:30:41

Written on 2016-01-12 13:28:31

Ok, Jonny
Will see you tomorrow

Written on 2016-01-12 10:44:33

Jonny, did you send your class / race to a judge?

Written on 2016-01-12 09:40:10

Hi Skuns,
i am not at home today, so i will start the match tomorrow.
See you there

Remark:

Written on 2017-06-04 05:29:20

I finished uploading the videos, you can find them on the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playl... />
The strategic map can be seen on the video from turn 57 (the last turn), together with the scores.

Here is the description of each turn:
Turn 1
Explanations of the plans for the game for Hiliadan of team Phoenix Rising: bio-Dread i.e. getting Boar Riders with Riffles, and getting a lot of gold mines.
Hiliadan cleared 1 site, a Gold Mine and launched a Shrine (to be completed in 2 turns thanks to Mana Fuel Cell).

Turn 2
Hiliadan takes some risks in a Scroll site and has to sacrifice a Prospector to save his Leader and Boar Rider (fight displayed in the video), his Leader and Boar Rider end up pretty injured after the 2 fights this turn: a Magma Forge and the Scroll site. He makes contact with his closest Dwarf Outpost and then move opposite to it, to come back right for its Quest.

Turn 3
Nothing happens for Hiliadan this turn, who move his units and cautiously do not attack a Gold Mine to let his Leader and Boar Rider heal.
rickyroo meets his closest Frostling village and wins a fight.

Turn 4
Hiliadan clears a Gold Mine and a Magma Forge, Tara, his Rogue hero levels up twice and his leader fails to level up, lacking 3 XP to get Guardian Flame... The fight at the Magma Forge is displayed in the video and interesting for the use of a Spy Drone + getting the AI to attack 2 Prospectors to avoid getting a Boar Rider killed (by abusing its damage calculation mecanism).
rickyroo unfortunately skips his turn due to the 24 hours turn timer.

Turn 5
Hiliadan finishes to clear the site for his future outpost and has a fight against a Mercenary Camp illustrating perfectly technics such as splitting, retreating and blocking (shown on the video). He moves back toward the independent outpost that will give him a quest on turn 6. Research is launched on Engineer's tech.
rickyroo clears a site and loses 1 Ice Scaper.

Turn 6
Hiliadan clears a Gold Mine and buy the favour of the nearby Dwarf Outpost which becomes its Vassal (without proposing a Quest).

Turn 7
Hiliadan clears a Fire Node, losing 1 Prospector, and a Flowrock Quarry (shown on the video), selling the items for 280 gold.
rickyroo clears the Necromantic Circle he had approached the previous turn.

Turn 8
Hiliadan clears another Flowrock Quarry (shown on the video) and start to research Dispel after completing Produce Engineers, in order to try to get Solid Engineering in his research book.
rickyroo clears a Scrolls site.

Turn 9
Hiliadan impatiently attacks Ancient Ruins that may be too difficult for his army at that point (but to which he would never return later due to their location) and indeed pays the price of his recklessness, losing his Leader (shown on the video). He changes the building order at his ungarrisoned throne: 1 Engineer (rushed), then 1 Prospector then 1 Settler.
rickyroo gets a 2nd Mammoth but loses his last Ice Scaper.

Turn 10
Hiliadan does nothing, waiting for his Leader to come back from the void... 1 Fortress is built.
rickyroo clears a Spring of Life, getting a Toadstool Fairy as a reward.

Turn 11
Hiliadan stays cautious and position himself to attack a Creation Mana Node on the next turn. He starts a Settler, while his Engineer moves toward his army and his Prospector keeps his throne, his Leader coming back on turn 12.
rickyroo clears a Great Farm.

Turn 12
Hiliadan clears a Mana Node, completes a quest from his Dwarf Vassal, gets a Crossbowman as a reward and then absorb the Vassal and launches an Observatory there, with Mana Fuel Cell cast on it. His Leader, back from the void, moves toward his army to go finish the fights forsaken after his death.
rickyroo clears a Mana Node and a Watchtower and his Leader is level 5, his Warlord level 5 too.
rrrrookie or Jonny Thunder loses his throne to independent for 1 turn and it is revealed to Phoenix Rising.

Turn 13
Hiliadan kills a group of roaming Lost Souls, gets a Frostling Sorcerer as last choice for his 2nd hero, sends his Settler to settle the Fortress he upgraded to Stone wall earlier, and moves his army closer to the Necromantic Circle from where the Lost Souls spawned.
rickyroo clears a Bandit Hideout but gets his level 2 hero and his Toadstool Fairy killed by independents from his Vassal's Quest (who went 2 hexes out of the city's domain).

Turn 14
Hiliadan clears a Scroll site then a Necromantic Circle. At level 6, he chooses True Sight and Throw Net with his Dreadnought leader, and at level 7, he chooses Lesser Charm with his Rogue hero. He starts building a Fortress west of his throne.

Turn 15
Hiliadan clears Ancient Ruins but has to sacrifice his Engineer to keep his Boar Rider alive. He waits for his Sorcerer hero to attack the Inn.
rickyroo finds rrrrookie with a Cherub. He finishes his Vassal's quest.
rrrrookie is moving quite close to Hiliadan's cities with a Unicorn on the surface.

Turn 16
Hiliadan clears an Inn and then moves north with his army, between a river and a lava stream... He plans to later build a Bridge with a Builder or Engineer to cross the river.
rickyroo clears 1 Great Farm and 1 Inn and gets in contact with Jonny Thunder.

Turn 17
Hiliadan attacks a Crow from Jonny Thunder which reached his domain but the attacking Spy Drone dies and leaves the Crow with 1 HP because of Shooting Stars' Lucky factor. His Leader's army continue to move North while his Builder move in parallel on the other side of the river to build a bridge to facilitate crossing.
rickyroo clears 1 Gold Mine and 1 Mana Node, kills 1 Builder from rrrrookie who was building a Fortress and find his Vassal + another (built) Fortress.

Turn 18
Hiliadan loses a Spy Drone killed by roamers. He carefully moves back his Builder to avoid him the same fate, moves his Leader's stack up to the Lost Library but do not attack it, waiting for his Prospector. He launches a Shrine at Gathel to get more mana.
rickyroo clears 2 sites.
Jonny tried to move behind Hiliadan's lines and scout his throne but is countered by Hiliadan's newly summoned Spy Drone.

Turn 19
rrrrookie boldy moves 1 turn away from Hiliadan's throne with his level 7 Arch Druid leader, 2 Queen Spiders and 1 Elite Baby Spider and try to hide in the fog of war underground.
Hiliadan spots rrrrookie and try to organize a defense by canceling all building and launching the construction of 3 Prospectors and calling back his leader's stack toward his throne (3-4 turns distance). He also clears a Lost Library and kills Jonny's Crow (losing a Spy Drone in the process).
rickyroo clear 2 sites, including a Hall of the Forefathers where he loses his level 6 Warlord hero due to a misclick (melee instead of range attack).

Turn 20
rrrrookie takes Hiliadan's throne with 2 Spiders and his Fortress with a 3rd Spider then moves his Leader to Hiliadan's throne, probably starting to raze it.
Hiliadan's Leader stack continues ot move toward his throne and will be able to reach it in 3 turns.
rickyroo loses one of his Outpost to roaming Scoundrels and moves toward Hiliadan's throne.

Turn 21
rrrrookie stays on Hiliadan's throne with his 4 units, probably to finish razing it. He kills Hiliadan's Spy Drone in the throne's domain.
Hiliadan's Leader stack is now 1 turn away from taking back the throne and killing rrrrookie if he does not move. Roads have been built to accelerate the move of his Sorcerer hero.
rickyroo takes back his Outpost lost to independents and is 2 turns away from the Cave Entrance from which rrrrookie is likely to escape. In theory he should be able to cut him off as rrrrookie also needs 2 turns to reach the Cave Entrance.

Turn 22
rickkyroo moves toward the Cave Entrance on the surface and is ready to reach it in 1 turn, faster than rrrrookie.
rrrrookie finishes to raze Hiliadan's throne, raze the Fortress he took earlier and flees toward the Cave Entrance.
Hiliadan pursues rrrrookie in case he tries to escape through the water or move back.

Turn 23
rickyroo positions himself on the Cave Entrance and finishes the blockade of the underground's bottleneck to force rrrrookie to fight if he wants to escape on the ground.
rrrrookie decides not to retreat in the water and to try his luck against rickyroo's 3 Mammoth Riders, 2 Cherubs, 1 White Witch and 1 Leader supported by 1 Spy Drone from Hiliadan who block the bottleneck to escape from Hiliadan's lands. Despite his summoning of a Warg to support his 2 Queen Spiders, 1 Baby (Elite) Spider, 1 Gryphon and his Leader, he is defeated but only 2 Mammoths and the Leader of rickyroo stands. He falls into the void. He also take the Dragon Dwelling underground as vassal.
Hiliadan splits his army in two, one stack led by his Leader, and the other by his Sorcerer. He finds rrrrookie's remaining Halfling Jester hidden underground, ready to strike him in his back.

Turn 24
Hiliadan kills 2 and charm 1 roaming Scoundrels, clears a Gold Mine and clears a resource site (getting a useless Dreadnought's Foundry).
rickyroo converts (with an Evangelist) the Jester from rrrrookie and kills a Frostling Hunter from rrrrookie.
rrrrookie gets a new Vassal (his 3rd!): the Fey Dwelling on the surface.

Turn 25
Hiliadan clears Ancient Ruins but lose 1 Engineer and 1 Prospector, and a Lost Library, charming a White Witch. He launches the building of a Settler.
rickyroo regroups his troops.

Turn 26
Hiliadan loses his whole stack by the Icemage Sorcerer, butchered by 1 roaming  Reanimator with 4 Lost Souls... His Leader's stack clears a Haunted Boneyard. He spots a Warg of rrrrookie approaching his lands.
rickyroo moves north to build a Fortress and spots that rrrrookie just got the Archon Dwelling under his control.
rrrrookie acquire the 3rd of his Dwelling, out of 4 in total.

Turn 27
Hiliadan clears an Arcane Catalyst and charm a Baby Shock Serpent.
rrrrookie moves his Warg right below the Evangelist rickyroo moved to intercept it. He reveals the AD hero Shane, level 7, by attacking one unit sent as a scout by rickyroo. His troops seem to be near the Archon Dwelling.
rickyroo moves 1 Evangelist above the future location of the Warg, coordinating with his ally Hiliadan.

Turn 28
rickyroo moves recklessly toward the Archon Dwelling, kills the Dire Bear of rrrrookie and scan the area with his True Sight White Witch.
rrrrookie comes out of nowhere and butchers the split army of rickyroo (who had retreated from a fight where he converted 1 unit, preventing him from moving and re-organizing his stacks to avoid the split). He takes almost no loss and makes rickyroo pay dearly for his recklessness (moving close to an area under the control of another player without perfect scouting and splitting his own troops).
Jonny Thunder destroys the Fortress of Hiliadan west (that he had already rebuilt once), after it was left empty for just 1 turn.
Hiliadan rebuilts the Fortress once again after killing the Crow that stayed on the Fortress' previous location. He clears a Crystal Tree and a Magma Forge and starts moving back toward the Cave Entrance near Ghatel to intercept rrrrookie. He also spots an army of Jonny moving underground toward him (but still very far away).

Turn 29
Hiliadan moves back toward the Cave Entrance, to get there more or less at the same time as rrrrookie. He launches the building of Barracks at Ghatel to get 1 Axeman ready for the fight. 1 Settler rebuilds his throne.

Turn 30
rrrrookie embarks in two separate groups and enters the domain of the northernmost city of rickyroo, revealing himself, but concealing a King Shock Serpent in water. He positions himself at strike range of the city and sends a Halfling Adventurer recruited at an Inn (together with an Orc Shock Trooper) on land to scout his enemies' positions.
Hiliadan spots the Halfling and kills it with his White Witch, losing a Spy Drone on the fight (but decreasing rrrrookie's CP). He positions his army below the Cave Entrance, hidden below ground and ready to emerge and strike rrrrookie after he lands.
Jonny Thunder continues his journey underground toward Hiliadan's lands.

Turn 31
rrrrookie attacks the city of rickyroo and then conceals himself in the city's outskirt thanks to Velvet's Urban Concealment.
Hiliadan sends a Spy Drone to check the city and locates rrrrookie, who positioned himself perfectly to get attacked by team Phoenyx Rising as they will be able to attack the central hex of the city and fight 4 vs 1 while Jonny Thunder won't be able to engage Hiliadan while his armies wait for the support of rickyroo (who plays after Jonny Thunder and before rrrrookie). Hiliadan kills a Crow and position himself to launch the siege on the city now controlled by rrrrookie. Hiliadan reaches Racial Governance 2 for Dwarves and chooses the Economic boost (reaching about +200 gold/turn). He starts the building of the War Hall.

Turn 32
rickyroo moves his armies as planned and engages rrrrookie's forces, who get defeated but takes 1 Evangelist, 2 Crusaders, several Ice Scapers, 2 Spy Drones and 2 Prospectors with them to the grave. The siege fight is bugged and the AI seems to be blocked by some invisible obstacle on the map. rickyroo gets the Nightmare mount of rrrrookie as well as all his items.
Hiliadan is proposed a new hero: Rhialto the Shocking, level 4 Sorcerer for 250 gold but has only 210 so he decides to clear a Magma Forge in the domain of rickyroo, defended by 2 Fire Elemnental. He brings only his Leader, Tara and a White Witch (for the Frozen Flame) to the party and forget about the Sprint of Fire Elemental. Trying to save his White Witch from certain death, he loses focus and gets his Leader killed... After the defeat of rrrrookie, the chances of victory of team Phoenyx Rising falls back again.

Turn 33
Hiliadan moves back underground with Tara and her accompanying units, kill the roaming Scoundrels, Charming one Human Scoundrel during the fight, and then heading north to clear the Bandit Hideout and check if there is a good site to settle. The rest of Hiliadan's army stays defensively at his throne as his Leader is still in the void. He builds a Rider's Hall and a 2nd Dwarf Forge Priest.
rickyroo is proposed a level 4 Orc Rogue as a new hero and sends the Nightmare mount from rickyroo's fallen Velvet to his ally.
Jonny Thunder kills the units of the quest proposed to Hiliadan at the Giant Dwelling, revealing his location.

Turn 34
Hiliadan levels up his Rogue hero, Tara, who clears a Bandit Hideout and a Watchtower, getting the 10 points to choose Total Awareness. He keeps the rest of his troops at his throne to ward off a potential attack, as his Leader comes back from the void on turn 35.
rickyroo spots Jonny's army led by his Leader about 4 turns away from Hiliadan's throne. Team Phoenyx Rising prepares plans to fight back this 3rd wave of invasion.
rrrrookie sends Birgit, his new level 4 Theocrat hero, with a Mammoth Rider to take back the Fortress rickyroo took earlier, south of rrrrookie's domain.

Turn 35
Jonny launches a well orchestrated raid on rickyroo's Leader who was garrisoning a city alone. His 4 Elite Lesser Shadow Stalkers + 1 Lesser Air Elemental kill the reckless Leader, led by a level 10 Invisible Halfling Sorcerer. This raiding stack positions itself to be in range to strike rickyroo's throne the next turn. His troops continue to move UG toward Hiliadan's thone.
rickyroo thus pays the price of bad scouting, bad patrolling with True Sight units and bad movement of his Leader, who stayed alone in the most exposed of his city (south-west if his lands, exactly where a Crow from Jonny had been spotted a few turns earlier).
Hiliadan, left alone, sends his troops to kill the raiding stack, and then hopefully come back to fight back the invading UG army. He positions himself to be able to seize the cities of his ally immeditely after they become independent or fall in the hands of his enemies after rickyroo is eliminated.

Turn 36
Jonny defeats rickyroo by taking his Throne with 1 Lesser Air Elemental and 2 Crows, he also takes back the Frostling city captured by Hiliadan the previous turn and then conceals his army in a Forest at range of the Cave Entrance leading to Hiliadan.
Hiliadan takes the city of his former ally as planned with his White Witch and mass his armies below the Cave Entrance, preparing either to be attacked by Jonny or to catch him if he does a mistake. He continues to produce units at his 3 cities: Boar Rider, Forge Priest and Crossbowman. He migrates to Dwarf the 2 Frostling cities he controls (the one from his ally and the one captured again from Jonny) but they are likely to fall in the hand of Jonny again on the next turn.
rrrrookie somehow gets his Leader killed by independent (probably on turn 35).

Turn 37
Hiliadan destroys Jonny's stack of Elite Lesser Shadow Stalker led by Hastra the Illusionist, leaving one Air Elemental alive as he was stationed on the water. He moves back his troops toward his throne, unsure where the 2nd army of Jonny is. His leader, killed during the fight against the Lesser Shadow Stalker, goes to the void again. His 2 migrated cities (from Frostling to Dwarf) benefit from Mab's Boon and give him a lot of gold income.

Turn 38
rrrrookie loses his 2nd Frostling city to an independent stack led by a Titan Archon. His Leader comes back from the void. A stack of 1 Draconian Flyer, 1 Fire Wyvern and 1 Frost Wyvern moves at full speed toward Hiliadan's throne to take it before Hiliadan comes back from the void.
Jonny also accelerates and moves toward Hiliadan's throne, getting in the vision range of one of his Prospector with 1 Dire Bear and 1 Black Knight. His Lesser Air Elemental on the surface moves on the water toward the old thorne of rickyroo.
Hiliadan takes the old throne of rickyroo with his White Witch. He keeps 4 units to defend his throne and brings 1 stack + 1 Boar Rider in range of the future position of the 2 stacks of 2 and 3 enemy units moving toward him (with the help of the roads a Builder will build after it is completed at his throne). This stack + 1 might remain out of sight of the flying units (depending how they move). Tara and her units move back toward the throne, which they will reach 1 turn after the 2 enemy stacks spotted. A Theocrat hero (level 5) is not hired immediately to keep the 300 gold to recruit more units and build Barracks on the surface.

Turn 39
Jonny moves his Dire Bear and Black Knight to attack the throne of Hiliadan, unaware of the armies massed around the throne to defend it.
rrrrookie moves similarly and positions his Draconian Flyer and 2 Wyverns adjacent to Jonny, in a defensive position.
Hiliadan attacks the 2 enemy stacks with "Probably Victory" and defeats them but suffer heavy losses, with only 4 out of 14 surviving units. Tara is now 1 turn away from his throne and his Leader is back the next turn. He continues to build troops all over his 6 cities.

Turn 40
Jonny is sent to the void by independents.
rrrrookie takes back his 2nd city from the Archon Titan.
Hiliadan kills a lonely Ogre near his Throne and hopes it was not a tricky trap from his enemies (but he is relatively safe as Jonny is in the void + he has checked the area with True Sight + he has reinforcement concealed on a building). He launches the building of a Settler at Ghatel to settle a city with 2 potential MCU for Musketeers around turn 45 and also to achieve Monoculture and Heptatopia.

Turn 41
Jonny settles a new Halfling city, bringing its total to 3 and 1 vassal (or 4 controled cities).
Hiliadan moves toward the Giant Dwelling with 1 full stack and a stack of 4 units. He builds Siege Workshop at 2 cities to one-turn Forge Priest and reinforce the defense of his Throne/be able to 1-turn some units.

Turn 42
Hiliadan loses his Leader again, as he gets swallowed by a Glutton in a Lost City fight (shown on the video). In theory, he could have been rescued after the Glutton is killed but the beast is lucky and also eats a Boar Rider after the Leader, meaning the latter is sent to the void... Tara remains concealed on the Lost City, ready to retreat back to the throne, while waiting for the Leader to come back.

Turn 43
Hiliadan moves back Tara and her army toward his throne to make sure he does not get a nasty surprise, as his Leader is in the void. He rushes a Settler at his throne to get Monoculture on turn 46.
Jonny moves his Lesser Air Elemental in the domain of Ushalon, the northernmost Frostling city of Hiliadan.

Turn 44
Jonny retreats his Lesser Air Elemental out of sight of his enemy.
Hiliadan moves back Tara further toward his throne, launches the building of an Arcane Item Forge (2 turns), settle his 7th city (but the Settler is under threat from Lost Souls) and gets another Settler ready to go settle his 8th on the next turn.

Turn 45
rrrrookie achieves the Eternal City Empire Quest (his throne was the first to reach Metropolis size).
Jonny brings back his Lesser Air Elemental in Ushalon's domain and recruits 1 Dwarf Axeman and 1 Goblin Marauder at the nearby Inn.
Hiliadan kills the Lesser Air Elemental with his White Witch and a Spy Drone and takes Jonny's Watchtower near the Giant Dwelling. His Leader comes back from the void and he settles his 8th city, ready to get Monoculture on turn 46. His White Witch moves toward the Watchtower of rrrrookie near the Archon Dwelling and his troops stay on the defensive, while Tara gets ready to go on the offensive with the 3 Firstborns of the Monoculture EQ + 1 Forge Priest. She receives the Flying mount from the Leader.

Turn 46
rrrrookie moves one Dread Monkey in range of a Watch Tower of Hiliadan on the surface.
Jonny Thunder retreats with his Axeman and Marauder.
Hiliadan takes the Watch Tower of the Archon Dwelling, sends Tara forward toward the Giant and Dragon Dwelling and organize his troops to defend his lands. He starts forging a Life Drain and Elemental Slayer (for Shadow Stalkers) weapon at his newly built Arcane Item Forge, and sends his Head of the Dullahan (+2 Vision Range, True Sight, Inflict Despair), the reward of the Master Smith EQ, to Tara. Tara is accompanied by the 3 First Borns from the Monoculture EQ, achieved this turn.

Turn 47
Jonny Thunder moves near the Giant Dwelling with 2 full stack led by a new Sorcerer hero (level 5), he takes back the Watch Tower. Several of his units move scattered on the surface toward Hiliadan, one, the Dwarf Axeman, kills Hiliadan's Spy Drone.
rrrrookie moves with 10 units, including 8 with Artic Concealment, led by his Leader. His 1 Hunter, 2 Shamans and Leader move extremly fast on the Artic climate and can reach two of Hiliadan's cities in one turn. Other units are two turns from the cities.
Hiliadan discovers rrrrookie with his True Sight White Witch. He sets a trap for rrrrookie, with 1 Builder and 1 Engineer ready to build roads to reach his enemy's units if they move close. His armies stay far enough to remain out of sight except if rrrrookie moves very close. He destroys the Watch Tower on the surface which gave him sight of the incoming enemies. Tara moves toward the Dragon Dwelling.

Turn 48
rrrrookie moves his army cautiously and stops above the Cave Entrance with a strong stack of 6 units. He sends one Griphon toward the other Cave Entrance.
Jonny Thunder sets a trap for Hiliadan near the Dragon Dwelling, waiting for him with more than 12 units, including an Elite Fire Giant.
Hiliadan spots the trap with Tara and her very long vision range, he turns his back and goes back toward his throne. To fight back rrrrookie, he sends a first stack of 4 Boar Riders and 2 Forge Priest against the full stack of rrrrookie holding the Cave Entrance. All die but 1 Mammoth from rrrrookie is killed and the other severily injured, while 30 CP of the Leader are drained. A second stack led by Hiliadan's Leader butcher the remaining 5 units of rrrrookie while taking 2 losses. Then Hiliadan kills the remaining 3 units of rrrrokie with the support of units from his 2 close surface cities.

Turn 49
rrrrookie retreats with a remaining Spider, after having recruited a T3 Giant Beetle at the Inn near Ushalon. His Griffon kills Hiliadan's Crossbowman near the west Cave Entrance and razes the Watch Tower.
Jonny Thunder starts to move his army that stationed at the Dragon Dwelling toward the lands of Hiliadan, while trying to stay out of sight (futile against a 9 hexes vision range unit). He builds a road from the Giant Dwelling toward Hiliadan's domain, to move his army faster.
Hiliadan sends Tara on a sneaky raid alone toward the north, through the underground. She starts her journey on a subterranean river, to move on the other side of the Dragon Dwelling and try to take it with a few Spy Drones to be cast there. She will then continue north toward rrrrookie's lands, and hopes to catch him unprepared.

Turn 50
Jonny Thunder moves his army from the Giant Dwelling closer to Hiliadan's lands, building a road on his way. He is now 4 turns away from his enemy's thrones and 3 other cities.
rrrrookie adds a Dwarf First Born to garrison the Dragon Dwelling.
Hiliadan cautiously waits "The Impaler", the Life Drain & Elemental Slayer weapon he forged, with Tara (arrives on turn 51) and plans to then take the Dragon Dwelling. He clears a Tomb with his Leader and then moves as fast as he can toward his throne to defend it against Jonny. His troops are likely to arrive a bit late and might be outnumbered (especially since Jonny has 2 Fire Giants, including one at Elite rank). He will try to block Jonny at a choke point but might have a weaker army even for this strategy. His cities produce as many troops as possible to counter the incoming armies from Jonny.

Turn 51
Jonny Thunder moves his big army toward the west Cave Entrance but is not moving at full speed. He settles a 4th Halfling city.
rrrrookie moves his Griphon to scout at the Cave Entrance and ends up just near Hiliadan's troops.
Hiliadan kills the Griphon and blocks Jonny's Crow with a Spy Drone UG. He takes the Dragon Dwelling with Tara and a Spy Drone (vs a First Born and Bleak Warg), losing the Spy Drone but draining CP from rrrrookie. Tara starts to move toward the north and will receive the "Unstopable Dwarf" boots forged with Tireless on turn 53. Hiliadan builds 3 units in his 3 UG cities near his throne (except Drum which Produce Merchandise), to prepare to fight Jonny's invading army.

Turn 52
Jonny Thunder moves closer to Hiliadan's core lands. He positions himself exactly 4 hexes from the river separating him from the area where Hiliadan's throne is located, ready to build a bridge with the Builder he brought with him. He has 4 stacks of 6 units (at least), with 3 Fire Giants (including one Elite rank), 1 Shock Trooper, 1 Dwarf First Born, 1 Fire Elemental, his 2 heroes (level 7 Theocrat and level 5 Sorcerer), his level 13 Rogue Leader, etc.
Hiliadan moves back to avoid being attacked by Jonny but stays in range to counter-attack if his opponent makes any mistake. He starts moving his throne to Log Dhail (takes 3 turns), which is in theory unscouted by his enemies. This throne move should allow his Leader to participate in the final battle. He has almost 4 "welcome party" stacks ready to receive Jonny, though they are weaker than those of Jonny. His hero Tara reaches level 14 and chooses Scouting (40 MP) after clearing a Trading Post (5 units, including 2 Draconian Flyers) alone and is now 3 turns away from rrrrookie's throne.

Turn 53
Jonny Thunder takes Drum, which was undefended and moves cautiously with his 5 stacks in an unattackable defensive position.
Hiliadan screws up completely and loses Tara by doing a series of mistakes (failing to take into account that Life Drain doesn't work on Incorporeal or that Static Electricity gives Static Shield to all units; using Sprint recklessly; moving in range of ranged fire and without possibility to regain HP...) as he feels overconfident with his very strong Rogue hero. He tries to save the day by recruiting an Orc Theocrat hero, Mira, to take back the items from Tara and pursue the quest of eliminating rrrrookie. His troops move in defense of his throne to face Jonny Thunder. He starts researching Advanced Sea Faring to get access to Advanced Logistics and try to outmanoeuver Jonny on roads.

Turn 54
Jonny moves with 4 stacks (having kept 1 behind) toward Hiliadan's throne. He brought 3 Fire Giants, 1 Fire Elemental, 1 Lesser Light Elemental, 2 Ogres, many Halflings T1, his three heroes, 1 Dwarf First Born... his army is impressive and stays in group of 4 stacks.
Hiliadan tries an attack as he doubts a better opportunity will appear later, one of the 4 stacks being clearly weaker than the other, and attacking 4 vs 3 being a better idea than letting Jonny attacks him 4 vs 3 (as he would on the next turn). He suffers a big defeat but manages to kills 9 units (including 1 Fire Giant and the level 7 Theocrat).

Turn 55
Jonny takes Hiliadan's throne and moves with 21 units toward his cities of Ghatel and Rhabad. One of his Halfling city is invaded by Undead roamers.
Hiliadan retreats in Rhabad with 2 full stacks, hiding behind its wall and its choke point, meaning Jonny can attack only with one stack at a time. He moves toward rrrrookie with Mira, the Orc Theocrat hero he recruited earlier, after having cleared the Vault of Knowledge where Tara died on turn 53. Mira kills a Sphynx at a Sphynx Temple then retreat. She may finish it next turn or moves directly toward rrrrookie.

Turn 56
Jonny cautiously waits and do not attack Rhabad, where the choke point would mean a 2 vs 1 (2 from Hiliadan, 1 from him).
Hiliadan completely screws up again, trying to push too hard to win because of the pressure of the tournament. He attacks a Hall of the Forefather without CP and gets killed by the Ice Queen and explosive Royal Guards... He rushes a Tireless leg gear at Ushalon to send it to his leader on turn 57 (and receive it on turn 58).

Turn 57
Hiliadan does a last suicide attack and then surrenders.
Post-match analysis and scores shown on this video.

Written on 2017-04-18 04:40:15

Confirmed by rickyroo222

Written on 2017-04-17 22:36:15

Nice match. I forgot to mention that Ricky and Hiliadan did not clear many of the animal spwan sites on their side of the map. Once I crossed over to their side of the map there were roaming animals everywhere. I was able to befriend a lot of animals which allowed me to keep the offensive pressure into the mid game.

Written on 2017-04-17 20:36:15

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And why you still didn't report for this session?
This site is working correctly, if the host reports a result.

Oh yes, you've got into own trap But I was lucky that this common trap for you slammed shut earlier 
From my side it was foolhardy to leave enemy spies behind my back. 
And I have counter question - how did you get 3 Node Serpents?  

Ah, that explains it. Smart move!
Fun fakt: I was the one who triggered the appereance of that rogue myself by taking that chest. Isn´t that irony ?

You are right - at this situation you made a big mistake
Indeed, all three of your armies were close together. But .... May be you did it automatically, without thinking.
Anyway, during my turn I found that only one of your armies (where was your leader) guards the Watchtower.
And this Watchtower was under your control. So I didn't attack your army with the leader.
But I've attacked the Watchtower and the army of your leader was forced to do this battle  
Though this fight was not for me without significant losses. I lost one of my Warbreed
But at the next turn you killed both of my Bone Dragons :'(  (both were with gold medals )

I´ll try to explain what i meant with my question.
I had three stacks with three theocrat heros and you were approaching my domain. I guessed it would be a good idea to get that shrine with nice buffs before you can catch it, so i moved my troops up there. But i couldn´t reach it that turn without splitting my stacks, so keept my stacks close together with the hope to reach it next turn.
Somehow i did a mistake or i don´t fully understand the combat rules, because you managed to pick out one stack in your turn without attacking the other two stacks, although i thought they were in adjacent hexagons.
That was the meaning of my question.

"but we cannot see any questions he wrote here"
Yes of course, he asked me at AoW3 (not at Steam or this site).
As I have understood him, he asked me how I was able to defeat his armies.
Probably he thought that his armies were undoubtedly stronger than mine. However I do not think so. Although military score surprised me.
But it is unclear for me, how and where he could get 3 Node Serpents at our small map His leader was Theocrat, not Sorcerer.
And one of this Node Serpents already had a gold medal    . 
These flyers were not dangerous for my armies in battle in manual mode. But at the auto-combat they could cause great damage to my armies :'(

Hi guys, 
Sorry i am Not at home at the Moment. Gratulation skuns. Funny how things go sometimes. I'll write tomorrow when i am back at my pc.
Jonny

No but I mean, you write " I'll try to answer the question that you asked." but we cannot see any questions he wrote here.

"Talking alone"? May be
I thought, Jonny would be interesting to discuss ending this session. Apparently, I was wrong.   Or may be he is busy.
In any case, I'm not mad. If it would be interesting to someone else on this site, I will be only too glad.
P.S. I sent few messages, because I could not fit in a single message by the number of symbols  It seems that too many thoughts I have tried to convey 
P.P.S. Messages are stretched in a long string because of screenshots are on this page. It's hard to read such message. So I've decided to transfer sentences to the next line

@Skuns: is it me or are you talking alone?

Anyway, congratz for the win! Pretty strange to win thanks to independents by the way!

P.S. I'll try to answer the question that you asked.Honestly I do not quite understand the essence of your question ))
If you meant the battle, when your leader has gone into the void, then everything is obvious there.
It was a battle with the superior forces of my armies.
If you meant the battle by 1 turn after that,
then I think it was suicidal move with a single purpose - to send my leader into the void.
And you've achieved the desired result. It was clever and brave decision And it was tactically the right move.
However, I have my doubts about that, what exactly did you want to achieve when you've disposed your armies into the open space (outside of the city).

For this session I was very lucky. This continued throughout the second half of this session.
And especially it was shocking result  .
I agree, ceteris paribus you are more experienced than me. And most likely you would have won in this session.
Still, luck was on my side I wish you victories in the next rounds.
Good luck.

Hi. It was strange, sometimes hard, but very interesting session with a big potential for both of us .
I'm already afraid to report on the results of the game. Because I want avoid unexpected errors on this site.
So I hope that you will do it yourself.

It's strange, but i had won
Both of our leaders were gone to the void :'( . A strong army of the opponent was at the threshold of my capital  .
But Jonny have lacked just a little bit. When I have pressed the button "Click to end turn" this session was over and I've won.
I think it happened because very powerful army of neutral Rogue (or Theocrat, I have already forgotten  ) attacked Jonny's capital .
This army was created during cosmic event for 1 turn before it happened.
When I approached the border Jonny's lands, I was afraid of exactly such  situation.
That when my leader would be into the void, my capital would be defenseless before attack by such army of neutral leader.
There are all screenshots: 1)Window of My Victory, 2)Total score, 3)Knowledge score, 4)Military score, 5)Maximum of military score, 6)Domain score.

Written on 2016-01-14 12:55:46

This settings are OK. I'll join to this session in the evening

Written on 2016-01-14 11:35:16

Hi Skuns,
sorry, i came back yesterday very late. I set up the game with the following settings:
name: round2: tourneygame 5#
pw: battlefield

Written on 2016-01-14 11:30:41

Written on 2016-01-12 13:28:31

Ok, Jonny
Will see you tomorrow

Written on 2016-01-12 10:44:33

Jonny, did you send your class / race to a judge?

Written on 2016-01-12 09:40:10

Hi Skuns,
i am not at home today, so i will start the match tomorrow.
See you there

Remark:

Written on 2017-02-03 11:53:34

Good game, i had a slow start and had my main army far from home when Jean started invading Roookie and me with a big undead army. We could manage a counterattack and take his cities but he managed to come with a lot of giants against us there. He had 2 necro heros and lots of bards to do the charming, we were just overwhelmed by numbers of high tier units.

Written on 2017-02-02 18:46:07

Good game. Best of luck to you two in the rest of the tournament. 

Edit. Whoops. I thought 4 was a good rating but it is not. haha

And why you still didn't report for this session?
This site is working correctly, if the host reports a result.

Oh yes, you've got into own trap But I was lucky that this common trap for you slammed shut earlier 
From my side it was foolhardy to leave enemy spies behind my back. 
And I have counter question - how did you get 3 Node Serpents?  

Ah, that explains it. Smart move!
Fun fakt: I was the one who triggered the appereance of that rogue myself by taking that chest. Isn´t that irony ?

You are right - at this situation you made a big mistake
Indeed, all three of your armies were close together. But .... May be you did it automatically, without thinking.
Anyway, during my turn I found that only one of your armies (where was your leader) guards the Watchtower.
And this Watchtower was under your control. So I didn't attack your army with the leader.
But I've attacked the Watchtower and the army of your leader was forced to do this battle  
Though this fight was not for me without significant losses. I lost one of my Warbreed
But at the next turn you killed both of my Bone Dragons :'(  (both were with gold medals )

I´ll try to explain what i meant with my question.
I had three stacks with three theocrat heros and you were approaching my domain. I guessed it would be a good idea to get that shrine with nice buffs before you can catch it, so i moved my troops up there. But i couldn´t reach it that turn without splitting my stacks, so keept my stacks close together with the hope to reach it next turn.
Somehow i did a mistake or i don´t fully understand the combat rules, because you managed to pick out one stack in your turn without attacking the other two stacks, although i thought they were in adjacent hexagons.
That was the meaning of my question.

"but we cannot see any questions he wrote here"
Yes of course, he asked me at AoW3 (not at Steam or this site).
As I have understood him, he asked me how I was able to defeat his armies.
Probably he thought that his armies were undoubtedly stronger than mine. However I do not think so. Although military score surprised me.
But it is unclear for me, how and where he could get 3 Node Serpents at our small map His leader was Theocrat, not Sorcerer.
And one of this Node Serpents already had a gold medal    . 
These flyers were not dangerous for my armies in battle in manual mode. But at the auto-combat they could cause great damage to my armies :'(

Hi guys, 
Sorry i am Not at home at the Moment. Gratulation skuns. Funny how things go sometimes. I'll write tomorrow when i am back at my pc.
Jonny

No but I mean, you write " I'll try to answer the question that you asked." but we cannot see any questions he wrote here.

"Talking alone"? May be
I thought, Jonny would be interesting to discuss ending this session. Apparently, I was wrong.   Or may be he is busy.
In any case, I'm not mad. If it would be interesting to someone else on this site, I will be only too glad.
P.S. I sent few messages, because I could not fit in a single message by the number of symbols  It seems that too many thoughts I have tried to convey 
P.P.S. Messages are stretched in a long string because of screenshots are on this page. It's hard to read such message. So I've decided to transfer sentences to the next line

@Skuns: is it me or are you talking alone?

Anyway, congratz for the win! Pretty strange to win thanks to independents by the way!

P.S. I'll try to answer the question that you asked.Honestly I do not quite understand the essence of your question ))
If you meant the battle, when your leader has gone into the void, then everything is obvious there.
It was a battle with the superior forces of my armies.
If you meant the battle by 1 turn after that,
then I think it was suicidal move with a single purpose - to send my leader into the void.
And you've achieved the desired result. It was clever and brave decision And it was tactically the right move.
However, I have my doubts about that, what exactly did you want to achieve when you've disposed your armies into the open space (outside of the city).

For this session I was very lucky. This continued throughout the second half of this session.
And especially it was shocking result  .
I agree, ceteris paribus you are more experienced than me. And most likely you would have won in this session.
Still, luck was on my side I wish you victories in the next rounds.
Good luck.

Hi. It was strange, sometimes hard, but very interesting session with a big potential for both of us .
I'm already afraid to report on the results of the game. Because I want avoid unexpected errors on this site.
So I hope that you will do it yourself.

It's strange, but i had won
Both of our leaders were gone to the void :'( . A strong army of the opponent was at the threshold of my capital  .
But Jonny have lacked just a little bit. When I have pressed the button "Click to end turn" this session was over and I've won.
I think it happened because very powerful army of neutral Rogue (or Theocrat, I have already forgotten  ) attacked Jonny's capital .
This army was created during cosmic event for 1 turn before it happened.
When I approached the border Jonny's lands, I was afraid of exactly such  situation.
That when my leader would be into the void, my capital would be defenseless before attack by such army of neutral leader.
There are all screenshots: 1)Window of My Victory, 2)Total score, 3)Knowledge score, 4)Military score, 5)Maximum of military score, 6)Domain score.

Written on 2016-01-14 12:55:46

This settings are OK. I'll join to this session in the evening

Written on 2016-01-14 11:35:16

Hi Skuns,
sorry, i came back yesterday very late. I set up the game with the following settings:
name: round2: tourneygame 5#
pw: battlefield

Written on 2016-01-14 11:30:41

Written on 2016-01-12 13:28:31

Ok, Jonny
Will see you tomorrow

Written on 2016-01-12 10:44:33

Jonny, did you send your class / race to a judge?

Written on 2016-01-12 09:40:10

Hi Skuns,
i am not at home today, so i will start the match tomorrow.
See you there

Remark:

Written on 2016-11-24 17:36:50

Nice game

Written on 2016-11-24 17:34:03

Confirmed by Mr. Hawk

Written on 2016-11-17 14:27:01

Confirmed by Warlord Keldon

Written on 2016-11-17 13:57:14

I think Jonny`s maneuver started on 15-20 turn brought us victory. Then many people in our team believed this maneuver is suicidal, and even I shared this point of view. But in the end, thanks to Jonny, we can strenghten our positions in the North West of underground and take all seals in this area. Since Jean lost control of seals on the surface, these underground seals decided the fate of this game.

Written on 2016-11-16 17:04:36

Nice game, i was not of much help though. At least i could take a sneaky little revenge after Tasselhof razed my throne. Long live the goblin rogue ;-)
GG

Written on 2016-11-16 16:45:25

Confirmed by Jonny Thunder

Written on 2016-11-16 14:03:54

I have quite a few screenshots and videos of the match, i guess best is to start from the video in turn number 30, where you hatched the plan

Will try add a few more interesting ones later on.

Written on 2016-11-16 12:28:35

I hate seals and towers victory condition, but we made some big mistakes in the early game.

See you guys.

Ciaone :-)

Written on 2016-11-16 11:39:30

Confirmed by Fistandantilus

Written on 2016-11-15 23:28:40

A nice game, I'm gonna edit the report tomorrow, now it's 2 a.m. at my place! Many interesting battles in the game, I hope other players share some screenshots and thoughts as well!

And why you still didn't report for this session?
This site is working correctly, if the host reports a result.

Oh yes, you've got into own trap But I was lucky that this common trap for you slammed shut earlier 
From my side it was foolhardy to leave enemy spies behind my back. 
And I have counter question - how did you get 3 Node Serpents?  

Ah, that explains it. Smart move!
Fun fakt: I was the one who triggered the appereance of that rogue myself by taking that chest. Isn´t that irony ?

You are right - at this situation you made a big mistake
Indeed, all three of your armies were close together. But .... May be you did it automatically, without thinking.
Anyway, during my turn I found that only one of your armies (where was your leader) guards the Watchtower.
And this Watchtower was under your control. So I didn't attack your army with the leader.
But I've attacked the Watchtower and the army of your leader was forced to do this battle  
Though this fight was not for me without significant losses. I lost one of my Warbreed
But at the next turn you killed both of my Bone Dragons :'(  (both were with gold medals )

I´ll try to explain what i meant with my question.
I had three stacks with three theocrat heros and you were approaching my domain. I guessed it would be a good idea to get that shrine with nice buffs before you can catch it, so i moved my troops up there. But i couldn´t reach it that turn without splitting my stacks, so keept my stacks close together with the hope to reach it next turn.
Somehow i did a mistake or i don´t fully understand the combat rules, because you managed to pick out one stack in your turn without attacking the other two stacks, although i thought they were in adjacent hexagons.
That was the meaning of my question.

"but we cannot see any questions he wrote here"
Yes of course, he asked me at AoW3 (not at Steam or this site).
As I have understood him, he asked me how I was able to defeat his armies.
Probably he thought that his armies were undoubtedly stronger than mine. However I do not think so. Although military score surprised me.
But it is unclear for me, how and where he could get 3 Node Serpents at our small map His leader was Theocrat, not Sorcerer.
And one of this Node Serpents already had a gold medal    . 
These flyers were not dangerous for my armies in battle in manual mode. But at the auto-combat they could cause great damage to my armies :'(

Hi guys, 
Sorry i am Not at home at the Moment. Gratulation skuns. Funny how things go sometimes. I'll write tomorrow when i am back at my pc.
Jonny

No but I mean, you write " I'll try to answer the question that you asked." but we cannot see any questions he wrote here.

"Talking alone"? May be
I thought, Jonny would be interesting to discuss ending this session. Apparently, I was wrong.   Or may be he is busy.
In any case, I'm not mad. If it would be interesting to someone else on this site, I will be only too glad.
P.S. I sent few messages, because I could not fit in a single message by the number of symbols  It seems that too many thoughts I have tried to convey 
P.P.S. Messages are stretched in a long string because of screenshots are on this page. It's hard to read such message. So I've decided to transfer sentences to the next line

@Skuns: is it me or are you talking alone?

Anyway, congratz for the win! Pretty strange to win thanks to independents by the way!

P.S. I'll try to answer the question that you asked.Honestly I do not quite understand the essence of your question ))
If you meant the battle, when your leader has gone into the void, then everything is obvious there.
It was a battle with the superior forces of my armies.
If you meant the battle by 1 turn after that,
then I think it was suicidal move with a single purpose - to send my leader into the void.
And you've achieved the desired result. It was clever and brave decision And it was tactically the right move.
However, I have my doubts about that, what exactly did you want to achieve when you've disposed your armies into the open space (outside of the city).

For this session I was very lucky. This continued throughout the second half of this session.
And especially it was shocking result  .
I agree, ceteris paribus you are more experienced than me. And most likely you would have won in this session.
Still, luck was on my side I wish you victories in the next rounds.
Good luck.

Hi. It was strange, sometimes hard, but very interesting session with a big potential for both of us .
I'm already afraid to report on the results of the game. Because I want avoid unexpected errors on this site.
So I hope that you will do it yourself.

It's strange, but i had won
Both of our leaders were gone to the void :'( . A strong army of the opponent was at the threshold of my capital  .
But Jonny have lacked just a little bit. When I have pressed the button "Click to end turn" this session was over and I've won.
I think it happened because very powerful army of neutral Rogue (or Theocrat, I have already forgotten  ) attacked Jonny's capital .
This army was created during cosmic event for 1 turn before it happened.
When I approached the border Jonny's lands, I was afraid of exactly such  situation.
That when my leader would be into the void, my capital would be defenseless before attack by such army of neutral leader.
There are all screenshots: 1)Window of My Victory, 2)Total score, 3)Knowledge score, 4)Military score, 5)Maximum of military score, 6)Domain score.

Written on 2016-01-14 12:55:46

This settings are OK. I'll join to this session in the evening

Written on 2016-01-14 11:35:16

Hi Skuns,
sorry, i came back yesterday very late. I set up the game with the following settings:
name: round2: tourneygame 5#
pw: battlefield

Written on 2016-01-14 11:30:41

Written on 2016-01-12 13:28:31

Ok, Jonny
Will see you tomorrow

Written on 2016-01-12 10:44:33

Jonny, did you send your class / race to a judge?

Written on 2016-01-12 09:40:10

Hi Skuns,
i am not at home today, so i will start the match tomorrow.
See you there

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