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Arcax
Promising
Famous Hero
Its quite hot inside...
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posted May 10, 2010 12:19 AM |
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I only enjoyed the 2nd one - I think it was the most fair. Rest was either too imba luck or stats or I just couldnt cope with love to some experimental builds. Congrats Bania, good luck in next tourneys. It was my last participation, Im moving out to such a countryside that I even had no connection to the internet. Take care Primus, Mohik, Azagal and Elvyk.
Oh, and remember about...
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Azagal
Honorable
Undefeatable Hero
Smooth Snake
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posted May 10, 2010 01:34 AM |
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Too bad Arcax you will be missed! Drop by from time to time.
Oh and Mohi if you're in the mood we could play for third place .
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Mohikanin
Adventuring Hero
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posted May 10, 2010 05:14 PM |
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Sure
just tell me when you're aviable
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Zenithale
Promising
Famous Hero
Zen Mind
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posted May 10, 2010 05:44 PM |
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Arcax, I will miss you. 
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Elvin vs Zenithale
5th game: Inferno vs Necro (for me). This time I had a very good ATB, and the Mass Haste vs Mass slow fight was at my advantage dispite his 25% magic resistance. Archliches casted powerful Decay with my 2 Sar Issus Artifacts.
6th game: Academy vs Sylve (for me). The usal quick victory for the Sylve.
7th game: Haven vs Dwarf (for me). Very poor Mights stats for me (attack 4, Defense 7 vs 15 and 19) but a nightmare for Elvin with -4 Moral (1 instead of 5 with Retribution  ) and -3 Luck (-3 instead of 0) for his whole army! I'm lucky enough to play with my Blackbears before his Fanatics and Immateriality worked 2 times in a row (vs Fanatics and Archangels). My flamming balista was not bad too.
Now the score is Elvin 4 - 3 Zenithale.
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Mohikanin
Adventuring Hero
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posted May 10, 2010 06:43 PM |
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Take care Arcax
See you on Heroes 6
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Elvin
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Endless Revival
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posted May 10, 2010 06:49 PM |
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Please change that avatar before you go, I cannot bear to see you like that
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SKPRIMUS
Promising
Supreme Hero
The One and the Prime
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posted May 10, 2010 07:15 PM |
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Arcax, I shall shed tears of sorrow...thanks for the music [that thread in VW has gone & I didn't see any tablecloths]
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Hope defeats despair - "a blatant clue"
too many idiots in VW
"to lose is to win, and he who wins shall lose"
bashing orcus 
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veco
Legendary Hero
who am I?
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posted May 11, 2010 10:08 AM |
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Bye Arcax, when you get your interwebz back don't forget to drop by
Oh and incidentally - my cat finally shared my habbit of watching H5 replays. It especially loved all the Torpors and Chain Shots in Zen-Elvin game 4
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none of my business.
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Elvin
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Endless Revival
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posted May 11, 2010 12:15 PM |
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That's why I'm the mastermind beastmaster.
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Towerlord
Promising
Supreme Hero
Hero of Good, Slayer of Evil
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posted May 11, 2010 01:13 PM |
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Finally an Academy loss  ... I hated how imbalanced that town was on this map, seeing them lose vs. Sylvan was a delight. Stats were not that rocket high though!
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Azagal
Honorable
Undefeatable Hero
Smooth Snake
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posted May 12, 2010 09:52 PM |
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I'll be looking for you tomorrow evening Mohi, I hope I'll find you^^.
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Zenithale
Promising
Famous Hero
Zen Mind
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posted May 13, 2010 01:46 AM |
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Elvin versus Zenithale
8th game: Academy vs Haven (for me). Interesting and close one. Once again -4 Moral and -3 Luck for him! He used Storm wind + Wall of Fog and me Supress light + Fire protection. The funny thing is that his Hero mana pool reached bottom before mine.  But Regeneration was a pain, once again...
9th game: Inferno vs Dungeon (for me).  A battle without interest, as usual between this 2 factions. I couldn't got Swift mind, but I had Defense, a strong Spell Power and Meteor shower with the Slippers (more than 1400 damages  ). Even with Light magic, Master of wrath (with the 2 spells) and Storm wind the Inferno army was slaughtered quickly.
Score now: Elvin 4 - 5 Zenithale
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Towerlord
Promising
Supreme Hero
Hero of Good, Slayer of Evil
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posted May 13, 2010 11:57 AM |
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Nice game Haven vs. Academy, Zenithale played very well, and got some lucky strikes and events, and Elvin didn't played bad, but found himself surprised by Zenithale's arsenal. Phoenix was a mistakes and I think land mines were placed at the wrong time ...Generally with the kind of defensive spells Elvin possesed and the stats, game should've been his, but the inquisitors forward and the Deflect trampled his plans badly.
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Zenithale
Promising
Famous Hero
Zen Mind
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posted May 13, 2010 11:29 PM |
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10th game: Dwarf vs Academy (me). We both had the -2 Moral and Luck artifact. Finally it was not an interesting battle, I just tried to survive till the end  , sorry for the time wasted...
Score: Elvin 5 - 5 Zenithale 
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Elvin
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Endless Revival
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posted May 14, 2010 01:06 AM |
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Edited by Elvin at 01:06, 14 May 2010.
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I kinda expected to prevail with academy. I think my main mistakes were the phantom forces on golems - I must have expected them to block the path - and first regeneration on titans. I'd have cast it on the phoenix but I hoped it would not waste double the mana on titans. In the end I couldn't make good use of decay or call lightning due to paladins and of course zealots proved especially pesky with soldier's luck.
Dwarf game was lost for certain halfway through, I was pretty confident I could survive a couple of phoenixes with fully buffed army and some remaining resurrection runes, mass cleansing and summons just delayed the inevitable. Also his mana was rather limited.
Btw I had forgotten how useful dwarven luck was vs mass cleansing, I just took it as a precaution vs dark/destructive.
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Zenithale
Promising
Famous Hero
Zen Mind
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posted May 15, 2010 12:03 AM |
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Elvin vs Zenithale
First challenge (best of 10): 5 - 5 DRAW
11th game: Academy vs Inferno (me). Once again very good and close battle. But once again Mass Decay with the Emerald Slippers and huge SP killed my army.
12th game: Orcs (me) vs Academy. Seriously you should not watch this replay... I was pathetic with my experimental build...
13th game: Dwarfs vs Dungeon (me). Here I picked Might&Dark hero which crushed Elvin's dwarf army! 
Second challenge (first to 10): Elvin 7 - 6 Zenithale 
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Zenithale
Promising
Famous Hero
Zen Mind
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posted May 15, 2010 08:59 PM |
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Elvin vs Zenithale
14th game: Dwarfs (me) vs Inferno. Fast battle with Rune of battlerage and mass RM.
15th game: Academy vs Dungeon (me). A very chaotic battle, with my T4 with 12.1 Init playing after Elvin's hero and even Rackshasas . I thought that game was lost from this very bad beginning (Rage on them... then Pupett master etc). But my last spell (Phantom force) gave me the victory, killing the 6 Titans in one strike.
Second challenge (first to 10): Elvin 7 - 8 Zenithale
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Azagal
Honorable
Undefeatable Hero
Smooth Snake
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posted May 15, 2010 10:10 PM |
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Some interesting games. Eventhough the Academy Inferno one was so painful to watch oO. That's why I hate playing (against) Academy they turtle like no tomorrow. Still nicely done refreshing to see Temptresses and Overseers too bad you never got of that explosion eventhough the teleport was sweet^^. Magical Immunity might have turned it arround for you but no such thing... Not quite sure whether I agree with your Vermin just chilling arround I think they could have done more on the battlefield since your Pit Lords should have had enough mana to spam fireball after the first few drains. Oh and weren't slippers abolished in the map? Or is this a new version?
Oh and the Dungeon Academy match was refreshing. Academy usually being the bane of the Dark Elfs... was nice to see the wizards be put in their place. And yeah the atb really screwed you, Riders can 1 hit any stack really with luck, even without luck their damage is redonkolous.
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Elvin
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Endless Revival
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posted May 15, 2010 10:52 PM |
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Edited by Elvin at 22:52, 15 May 2010.
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The map we are playing has fewer bans and includes relics. Inferno tactics were great, I applauded the way zenithale handled them.
Now dwarves vs dungeon.. I was aiming for machines, mentored them away, had fire resistance but could not get master of blessings, when I saw offensive build I felt like walking naked into battle 
The latest I really messed up but amidst all this chaos go figure, it didn't even seem possible to lose. Horrible atb haunted zenithale from the very start and it continued to do so until his last casting action where Lady Luck decided to give him a hand. I had titans acting shortly after with call lightning yet phantoms played first Certainly consume would have been the correct action but it all looked like there was little risk. Concerning my build I had a powerful arsenal of light but with given atb I couldn't resist the temptation of dark. Had I used mass haste instead of that resisted frenzy it would have been better, likewise if I started with puppet on raiders but I feared the possibility of vampirism
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Azagal
Honorable
Undefeatable Hero
Smooth Snake
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posted May 15, 2010 11:00 PM |
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I'm not saying that Zen didn't play great with Inferno, I'm just saying that he could have used his Vermin better the way I see it since a) it was obvious that he would never be able to drain your berserk mana pool and b) the Pit Lords had a good mana pool after a few drains. He could have cleared the Cats earlier with help of the gated ones (if he had moved his devils to clear the path they wouldn't have gotten into the decay field either) and his real stack would have helped on the front lines.
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