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Re: [ТУРНИР-HotA] Diamond: Survival

I'm sorry the finals took so long, thanks for the patience. I am glad the games were interesting to the viewers. I think 8 minutes timer would have been better, with 6 minutes the chances for mistakes were much higher. Of course I know that time management is important skill in this game, but 6 minutes felt like blitz diamond to me. A quick summary from my point of view:
The first game didnt start very promising, as I had poor army and poor start zone. With split armies I managed to spread into many directions though and quickly gathered a lot of money, Gurnisson developed nicely, I took fire magic on lvl4 because I saw fire tome. I saw a couple of hives, and many of them were maxi early, so army quickly grew, and I had blue hat. After gaining some stats, full control and expert fire, I decided to rush opponent in his main town. I was pretty confident with expert berserk, I could use it on all of his important stacks, but mephala with expert intelligence and earth elemental spam was still superior. I tried to kill opp's units with arma and retreat, but he had shackles. No resurrection on mephala though, so both heroes died. I played on because I still had air book and couple good heroes, developed dessa and took air book pretty soon, then got stats too but then Gurnisson showed up in opponent's tavern and it was over.
I don't remember much of the second game, I think I had good pace but opponent showed up on 133 with 122 wyverns and huge stats, which was kinda scary. I had a chance to beat him with armageddon and big spell power on Malekith but I didnt expect +3 speed on Aislinn, and with blitz timer it didnt even occur to me that firebird will not go first vs angels on grass. Money was pretty tight, so building phoenixes was questionable, given how I didnt even build firebirds at that time. But nevertheless, this mistake cost me and got caught soon afterwards.
In 3rd game I think I quickly ran out of restarts because I got 2 necro starts and one tower piquedram, then with no restarts left I got necro straker. And then opp took restart . Final map was not very good, I got inferno which pretty much saved my chances, because my whole map had 2 pickets way offroad even though I scouted almost everywhere. So only way to get army was via demon farming, and 2 pike dwellings helped a lot. Artifacts were decent, blue hat and +5all allowed me to take topes fairly quickly, tower guild have resu, and tp after research. First 2 topes weren't very good, black orb, blue hat, crown of dragontooth and water book. 3rd tope was mini but gave titan cuirass. Once more we had control fight, I had a couple good secondaries but seeing opponent's only powerstack is 30+ cyclopes, I decided to go for final battle. Gundula tried to summon earth elementals but expert berserk + black orb did the trick.
In decisive game I took big risk playing necropolis vs fortress drakon, I was even going to take 112 because grindan is awesome, but it would still be risky to play it. Then I spotted boots, a cons, and decided to play on. I took box guarded by 80 battle dwarves and got 20 corsairs, this helped a lot because I didn't have money to buy full army 121. Timer was also problematic because I did too much thinking week 1. Cons was mini, but I think that was beneficial because in bigger cons my timer would have ran out and I lose 2000+ movement points. I picked up +5all on 122, and started taking hives, meanwhile built up necro guild. Uland with 2 black knights scouted another zone and spotted earth tome at the end of it. I quickly went for it and took tope the same day with orb of silt, +4all. Opp was about to steal 2 of my towns with scout Ignissa and I decided to defend against it by putting Grindan in nearby flux. Then surprisingly he attacked me with Elleshar and about 55 monarchs. He killed 11 wyverns, I imploded 36 monarchs and surrendered. I kept rebuilding lvl5 in necro, and got literally every spell before I got DD. I was inferior in army strength, but better in stats. I managed to assemble Elixir, and found shackles in lava. All the rebuilding kinda screwed my financial situation and I could not sustain control wars for very long, so I went all-in and tried to attack opponent's main. In one turn his timer was very low and tp-d to close town, which I found. 120 earth elementals per spellcast were too much.

Thank you for the games!
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