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Hello people, welcome to my newest Battle Report! I haven't posted any BRs for quite some time now (2 months if memory
serves but frankly, I wouldn't be too surprised if it didn't) due to some... emotional problems that arose in my mind as a result of my last girlfriend leaving me... in short, if you were wondering where I was these last month or so, let's just say I am having a bad month... which already lasts for 3 months. Enough said about my life, let's get to the point: this BR is the story of two players: MijatV (me) and Black-Sun (my old friend, all the way from Karamba.ru illegal servers that arose during the beta and probably the best AT partner I'll ever have) against other two players who were actually level 7 (and we were level 1 at the time :P). The resulting battle was long and very fucked up for both sides... it was also, dare I say, as epic as WC3 battles get. And the BR of this battle stands before you, as always, you can expect to find lots of crappy humour, lots of huge pictures (although I made them as small as possible this time) and even bigger bunches of crappy humour, I hope you enjoj yourself as much as I enjojed making this. 'Nuff said, let's get to the actual report!

I present you:

Further thanks go to:
Black Sun - for being the best damn AT ally I ever had.
Dvorf - for giving me so much laught in my argues with him
and for making the best Serbian WC3 forum (and the only one when
you think of it, well, the only = best ;)).
Mulepton - for writing those awesome BRs that I learned so much from.
Obsidian - for making my first BR what it is today.
twotasty - for giving me moderator status on RoW and my own RoW webspace.
My on line buddies - Rincewind, Raxor, Ared, Paranon, Drvodelja, Ora,
horde.curupt, Strike_Odin, Strike_Death and Strike_Muslim., cfo, mrmajesty.
Thanks also go to all who sent me support e-mails about my BRs and WC3 Page,
they really gave me a motivation to go on.
Also, thanks goes to all the best sites: junk.co.yu, Tauren Totem and
of course: BattleReports.com

This game was our first AT on Azeroth so logically, we were a level 1 team. As luck would have it, we got to fight a level 7 team as our first oponnents. Obviously, this was very demoralizing and we were absolutely positive we were facing some hardcore cheese users (caster massing, etc.).

As it was, the map we played on was Lost Temple, I don't really see a reason to bother explaining what LT is like since probably everyone already know that. Then again, who knows, so I'll just give a short overview of this lovely map:
Starting Locations: There are 4 player locations: in upper middle a bit to the left, upper right middle, lower middle a bit to the right and lower left middle. Unused starting locations are protected by a stone golem and three forest troll berserkers.
Natural Expansion Gold Mines: There are four natural expansion gold mines, they are set clockwise from every starting location and are protected by a team of trolls (two berserkers, one tracker and one priest).
Err... Unnatural Expansion Gold Mines: There are four "unnatural" expansion gold mines, one of them in upper right corner and another in the lower left corner. Both are protected by an exacly same group of creeps (a stone golem, a troll priest and a troll berserker). The other two "unnatural expansion mines" are in lower right and upper left corners of the map, isolated from the rest of the map by water and only accesible to flying units (therefore, in order to expand there you'll need a zeppelin). These two gold mines are both heavily guarded (a Granite Golem and two Red Drakes) and are an excellent source of experience points.
Shops: There are four shops on this map, two Goblin Labs, set in diagonal from upper left corner to the lower right corner and both protected by a tought group of Ogres (two normal ogres, one ogre lord and one ogre magi). The other two shops are two goblin merchants, set on a diagonal from upper right corner to lower left corner of the map. Both are protected by a stone golem, two forest troll berserkers and one forest troll priest.
Fountains: There is a single fountain of health in center of the map, it is protected by a group of strong gnolls (two overseers, two assassins and two magicians (those guys who cast purge, I can't remember their name :P)).
Other Creeps: In the middle "temple" there are two groups of trolls (a berserker, a tracker and a priest) set in the same diagonal labs are set, two groups of combined creeps (a gnoll poacher, a gnoll brute and an ogre mauler) set in the same diagonal goblin merchants are set and four groups of weak gnolls (two poachers and a gnoll brute) which are set at all entrances into the "temple".

All players use some rather usual Build Orders (in future text: BOs), MijatV first builds a Crypt and a ziggurat and two acolytes, as soon as he got 300 gold he began summoning an altar as well. Cudgel makes a farm, a barracks and an altar somewhat slowly and Black-Sun and i8.food both begin making an altar and a burrow, as mentioned above, rather usual BOs.

All four players however have a single thing in mind: rush & harassment combined with relatively quick teching. Soon enough, all four players begin making their main heroes...

Some time passes and quickly, all four heroes are out. Just a few moments before Black-Sun's Far Seer comes out of the altar, his peons notice a single peasant spying on their base. The newborn FS gives a chace but peasant manages to get to MijatV's base where he is abruptly death coiled! First blood to MijatV!!!

As soon as their heroes were ready, i8.food and Cudgel amass their forces and move toward Black-Sun's base, probably considering it an easier target. Obviously, the late peasant managed to see the upgrading Necropolis in MijatV's base so the two attackers decided to risk a battle with blue burrows rather then face MijatV's "Teh Big Cannon". Their armies consit of four footmen, a grunt, a FS with feral spirit and an AM with water elemental.

Just as MijatV began exterming creeps at his natural expansion site the enemy hit Black-Sun's town. Quickly, the attackers focused their attacks on the rising barracks rather then assault the two burrows that were quickly filling with peons.

After killing a troll tracker the green DK and five ghouls Town Portaled into Black-Sun's base. Unfortunately for Cudgel, very fortunately for MijatV, Death Knight and his ghoul pets are teleported around the dark-blue Archmage and quickly reduce him to pieces, poor old man never even managed to summon a water elemental.

I bet you were all wondering where Black-Sun's Far Seer is at the moment and why doesn't he come to aid his city. Well, he had more pressing bussines: massacring Cudgel's peasants. As you can see on the picture below, the two spirit wolves have some bloody fun with gold mining peasants after they killed most of the builders. During this act blue Far Seer was heard to shout: "BWAAAHAHAHAHAH!!! Who's fucking up who now!?! MUAHAHAAH!!!!"

Realizing a good part of their workers were being gnawed upon i8.food and Cudgel leave Black-Sun's base and run to aid their own. As he was attempting to catch up with fleeing footmen, the teal FS gets swarmed by MijatV's ghouls. The Death Knight mercilessly rans him thru and at that single moment he realizes what he does the best: kills heroes, his obvious happines at the discovery is aparent from a single sentence he muttered during the whole battle.

1:0 for MijatV and Black-Sun.

Deciding it's time to "push-the-advantage" MijatV sends five lumber-gathering ghouls from his base towards Cudgel's headquarters. Death Knight and his ghouls also move toward the dark-blue base and also stop to kill a fleeing grunt on their way north.

In the meantime, Black-Sun's FS has amble problems with hero-killing militia and a single teal grunt who came to Cudgel's aid. Quickly thou, the three footmen who fought at the failed attack on Black-Sun's base get back home and join the chase.

The dark-blue magic-grandpa is finally ressurected and just as he was close to killing the fleeing FS the Undead attack from south. This time, probably remembering the lesson hard-learned at Black-Sun's base, he decides to flee instead of staying and getting swarmed by grass-ghouls and their mounted leader.

Now, MijatV's forces are alone against a few footmen, a water elemental (yeah, the archmage finally remembered he has that spell! He must be senile or something...) an angry senile AM and two grunts. Just as they were getting owned the five ghouls who, quite-some-time ago, began their trek from MijatV's base to the battlefield at Cudgel's town, finally join the fray but don't manage to tip the balance as the i8.food's FS and another grunt come to Cudgel's aid.

Realizing that all is not good, the DK musters his remaining ghouls and they run away as fast as possible. One brave ghoul decides to sacrifice his (un)life by remaining to singlehandedly fight the enemy army in order to buy time for his bretheren and the DK to run away. His sacrifice will not be forgotten... for the next 5 minutes...

Just as all combatants thought the battle was over, something thrououtly unexpected happens, the blue FS is back! He passes thru dark-blue army and proceeds harassing the opressed peasants. This time however, he doesn't manage to get away (although he almost managed but decided to run back into opposing army for no apparent reason... that guy is retarded...) and for a short period of time joins his ancestors.

Since this is no true victory for either side (Cudgel is crippled as well as is i8.food but so are both MijatV and Black-Sun) we'll remain at the old status: 1:0 for MijatV and Black-Sun.

Now, something completely different:

Yupp! I bet you never expected to see one of those in my BRs ;).

After these two big battles, methinks it would be excellent time to add an update on the situation. As you can see from pictures, MijatV is summoning his second hero, a Dreadlord and his main hero, a hero-killing DK is level 3, his skills being a level 2 unholly aura and a level 1 death coil. Black-Sun is almost finished summoning his second hero, an orkish samurai-wannabe aka Blademaster. His main hero, a FS, is currently dead so we lack any information about him but I think he's level 1... humph... Cudgel and i8.food aren't summoning any additional heroes since they lack money for such an investiment. However, unlike MijatV's main hero, both of their heroes still have their scrolls of town portal. Cudgel's Archmage is level 2 and has a level 1 WE and a level 1 Brilliance Aura. i8.food's FS joined the fray too late to gain a level so he's still level 1 with level 1 feral spirit as his only skill.

MijatV's economy is as good as it can be after fighting two battles and not having any respite between them at all: he has 231 gold, 200 wood, 33/40 food which obviously meens he's still in no upkeep. His Halls of the Dead is being upgraded into the Black Citadel and his base consists of a single crypt, two ziggurats, a haunted gold mine, an altar and a graveyard. His army is composed of 5 ghouls creeping in the middle with DK and two ghouls gathering lumber in his base.

Black-Sun's economy is near-intact except for the facts he will soon have to pay for ressurecting his FS and that his barracks got destroyed during the battle in his base. He has 405 gold coins, 235 lumber, 14/30 population and his base is consisting of two spirit louges... longues... launges... I can't for the life of me spell it right >=(. Anyway, his stronghold is being upgraded into a fortress, he has two burrows in his base, an altar and a warmill.

i8.food's situation is not as good as Black-Sun's. He has 335 gold and 640 lumber (note: lumber is amassed because he didn't have time nor money to actually build something in his base as he spent most gold on making grunts and raising his FS in order to help Cudgel defend his base. His population is 31/40. His town is not all-so-similiar to Black-Sun's as you'd expect, he has a barracks, 3 burrows, a spirit thingie-in-building, an upgrading stronghold and an altar of storms. Yeah, he lacks a warmill. i8.food's army consists of two grunts and a FS.

As you probably expected, Cudgel is currently in a worst situation since he's still in tier 1 after most of his peasants getting slaughtered by blue wolves. He has 539 gold, 162 wood, a population of 22/30 and his crippled town consists of 3 farms, an non-upgraded town hall, an altar and barracks. He is also in possession of 6 footmen who Cudgel proudly calls his "grand army".

Anyway, some more time passes without any incidents but eventualy, Cudgel and i8.food once again amass their tier 1 army and go towards Black-Sun's base. However, on their way there they stumble upon Black-Sun's newest champion, a blademaster whose first skill is mirror image.

The blademaster was on his way to join MijatV's creeping party. Seeing his ally's hero under attack, MijatV sends his DK and ghouls forward to help the green samurai who, very illogical, is painted blue... I'll have to ponder that... Anyway, MijatV also sends his newborn hero (a DL with vampiric aura) and five ghouls from his base to support his creeping party fighting combined armies of Cudgel and i8.food, as fate would have it, Black-Sun still lacks anything that can remotely be named "an army" unless you count 2 (or was it 3?) witch doctors an army... however the trip from MijatV's base to the battlefield is quite long and it is aparent they will get there too late to make any real difference.

In short time, Black-Sun's BM is killed before being able to get a single XP point, not long after, i8.food's Far Seer also bites the dirt and goes to WC3 hero paradise... or wherever dead WC3 heroes go...

Some time passes and five ghouls finally reach the battlefield, just as predicted, they are late as most of their bretheren is already slaughtered and MijatV has only his two heroes posing a real threat for the enemy who still has few footmen, a pair of grunts, an archmage and water elementals.

During the course of the battle, one of Black-Sun's Witch Doctors places a sentry ward on the battlefield, an awesome addition to MijatV's army, don't you think? [hardcore_homer_simpson_like_sarcasm]THANKS EVER SO MUCH BLACKIE!!![/hardcore_homer_simpson_like_sarcasm]

And the battle still rages, quickly thou, the ghouls are losing the battle and enemy warriors get to the blue FS, sevearly wounding him and forcing him to withdraw from the battlefield. Now it is MijatV's heroes and a couple of surviving ghouls fighting against overwhelming numbers of hostile infantry (wow, my warcraft speech is really improving, doesn't it ;D).

Few seconds later the dreadlord was running away like a rabbit, his health periliously low, the Death Knight however decided to play a badass and fight a bulk of Cudgel's footmen all by himself. At least this time, WC3 logic makes sence and the green DK turns red... errr... dark red, bloody... in short: he goes to a late grave (since he's a Death Knight we presume he's partialy already dead so its appropriate to say late grave).

The situation after this battle, which is a victory for Cudgel & i8.food is: 1:1

And the battle is over!

Emerging victorious, yet crippled, from the battlefield, Cudgel and i8.food begin creeping the middle of the map while MijatV, whose forces are reduced to 3 ghouls and a sevearly wounded level 1 Dreadlord, decides to take it easy for a while and rebuild his army. In the meantime, Black-Sun raised his BM and trained some more Witch Doctors.

Some time passes peacefully as all four generals amass their forces and so some creeping. After some more time, another battle takes place, now, let's have a mini-update before we resolve to the battle:

MijatV has 7 ghouls, a level 1 DL, a level 3 DK.
Black-Sun's army is formed of a level 1 BM, a level 2 FS and 4 witch doctors (three surrounding the heroes, one incoming).
Cudgel's situation is a lot better, he has 6 footmen and a level 4 Archmage whose skills are level 2 water elemental and level 2 brilliance aura.
i8.food is a proud owner of 4 grunts, a level 1 tauren chiefant whose only skill is endurance aura, and a level 2 FS whose two skills are chain lighting and feral spirit, both skills are at level 1.

The two armies clashed as MijatV and Black-Sun attempted to kill the ogres guarding the upper goblin laboratory (the one near Cudgel's base), the problem however is that Black-Sun's units ran into the combined armies of Cudgel and i8.food who happened to had the same idea concerning massacring the above-mentioned creep group just few seconds ago.

And the battle of a thousand dead wards commences!

At first, Black-Sun's forces were quickly withdrawing toward the bulk of MijatV's army, during their flight the blue Far Seer decided to show his disgust for the enemy by irritating them with a chain lighting into a group of grunts! Shit it seems you only made them even more angry!

And the four armies clash! For now, Cudgel & i8.food have an advantage of heroes of a higher level and a supperior number of melee forces. However, MijatV and Black-Sun are bound to make a living hell for them by using master witch doctors to good effect. At this very battle, the awesome micromanagement of Cudgel and i8.food shows its full power, they effectively destroy any stasis traps and healing wards Black-Sun is able to create. To make the matters worst, witch doctors and grunts from i8.food's base begin joining the fray as soon as they are trained.

This battle lasts very long and is very hard for all combatants as the armies seem to be evenly matched but micro certanly doesn't. Quickly enough, Black-Sun has to withdraw his BM because of the severe wounds the green-blue samurai suffered. This quickly leaves green dreadlord and teal tauren chiefant facing each other. Then an awesome duel that lasted for quite some time but never finished by a death of either of the two combatants, began and lasted for quite some time.

Just as the Death Knight was going to run away out of a circle formed by a water elemental, the archmage and some footmen another hero joined the battlefield. A level 1 mountain king with storm bolt attacked the DK from the left and quickly killed him. With his main hero dead, MijatV's already crippled army of ghouls, gets even more fucked up and the battle quickly goes into Cudgel and i8.food's favor.

In the next seconds, both Black-Sun's heroes get owned by the shortie king. The cuban vampire-demon decides to sound the full retreat and the two armies of MijatV and Black-Sun flee south, back toward their hometowns. The winners remain on the field, probably reveling in the sight of so many dead enemies...

2:1 for Cudgel and i8.food...

If we look carefully at the 6 ghouls that were close to getting to the battlefield (reinforcements that, as usual, got to the battle too late), the level 2 DL (with Carrion Swarm level 1 and level 1 vampiric aura), then if we take a look at the 5 or so blue witch doctors that fled the site of the battle we may come to a conclusion that MijatV and Black-Sun might have even won this battle had they stayed. I wonder what was on their minds... OH I KNOW, THEY'RE RETARDED =D

Whatever it is, the situation is as it is, back to the report...

All combatants return to creeping, MijatV decides to boost his dreadlord a bit before the DK gets back to the world of living. He clears his natural expansion site and manages to forget Gauntlets of Ogre Strenght +3 next to the unused gold mine... what made MijatV oversee such a simple thing we shall never know, perhaps it was a mere I-don't-give-a-shit-enough-to-completely-concentrate-on-this-game, or was it the stress after losing an important battle... as mentioned above, we shall never know...

The next minutes pass peacefuly, with all sides creeping around, MijatV and Black-Sun creep the lower goblin shop and the lower left expansion site and then move to the lower gobbo lab and kill the ogres there. At this point, MijatV's DK picks up the ankh of reincarnation, this is an important moment.

Soon after, the two armies of Cudgel and i8.food pass thru the place where the last major battle took place and get noticed by a sentry ward Black-Sun left there. MijatV decides to be sly and urges Black-Sun to attack the enemy armies while they're fighting the creep group at the upper goblin shop, therefore, getting an important advantage. Black-Sun concurs with MijatV's idea and they quickly move towards the enemy armies. Another major battle is about to commence.

Before the battle, we'll take some time to put in a little update since you are probably unaware of the army/resources/base/hero situations of the four players...

First off: I wont bother to give you the economic situation of all four players, its mostly the same and not at all interesting (in short: none of the four combatants has any large sum of cash/lumber (except MijatV thanks to his ghouls)) so let's not bother, shall we?

MijatV's Scourge consists of 13 ghouls and 3 gargoyles. Only 5 are with heroes while the remaining 8 are in MijatV's base, ready to be summoned to battle. MijatV's hometown is consisted of 2 crypts, one graveyard, a black citadel, 5 ziggurats and an altar.

Black-Sun's Horde is probably one of the most spirit-addicted trollish tribes in the world as it is formed of 10 witch doctors and a single tauren, standing still in Black-Sun's base. Speaking of his base... it is compromised of 4 burrows (spikes researched), two spirit longues (yeah, I still can't spell it =P), an altar, a warmill, a tauren totem and a bestiary... you'd think he'd have a more versatile army but logic doesn't rule the world, doesn't it?

Cudgel's grand legion is formed of 7 footmen and 4 priests. His capital city is build out of 5 farms, a castle, a barracks, a single guard tower, a mill, an arcane sanctuary, an altar and a gryphon aviary in-construction.

i8.food is a proud leader of a mixed tribe of orcs and troll witch doctors. He has 5 of the big mean green roughts and 6 long-noses-carrying-sticks. On the other hand, his camp consists of 5 burrows, an altar, a barracks, a spirit louge and another spirit thingie in-construction.

Now, after the little update I'm certain you are well aware of the present situation of all players, let's get to the actual battle...

And the battle commences! At first a few ghouls attack an elven priest who was standing farthest from the main bulk of the army. And quickly, Black-Sun's army and the main force of MijatV's undead scourge plunges itself into the tight-packed armies of Cudgel and i8.food. All the creeps are dead just 2 seconds after the ghouls engage with with the elven priest so MijatV's sneaky plan of forcing the enemy into fighting on two fronts is effectively destroyed.

Quickly, MijatV realizes an error in his plan as the enemy army suddenly gets the +2 armour bonus thanks to a protection scroll bought from the nearby Goblin Merchant. This time, the battle is fairly packed and its a whole lot harder to destroy all the stasis traps and healing wards that pop among the combatants. The result of this is that more then two stasis traps manage to go of, stunning both sides.

However, Undead lack of competent spellcasters once again shows as MijatV and Black-Sun slowly started becoming the losing side. During the conflict, the blue blademaster gets himself gutted and the dreadlord, being low on health, runs out of the front lines. He is followed by the archmage, two level 3 water elementals, two footmen and a MK. There he witnesses the death of Black-Sun's far seer at hands of footmen. Quickly enough, the DL is chased down and slain by the same team that killed the FS. MijatV did have a short satisfaction of casting a carrion swarm into the group of his pursuers... at least he died happy...

Seeing that the battle is lost, MijatV decides to save what he can and he decides not to risk a dangerous run-by-the-storm-bolting-MK with his last hero, the DK, and he performs a very stylish escape. I will say no more, pictures say it all...

3:1 for Cudgel & i8.food...

After this grand battle and another grand loss for MijatV and Black-Sun, despair gripped these two players. At this point, they knew for certain that they are going to lose and no matter how much do they try, an utter destruction of their forces was inevitable.

In the next minutes of the game gold mines started running out of gold and all four players started thinking about building an expansion. Quickly enough, they began clearing all the expansion spots and building their expansions. Cudgel took his natural expansion mine, Black-Sun went for the lower left corner expansion mine and i8.food decided to take the upper right corner expansion mine. None of the players bothered to build any static defence for their new town halls...

As you see, MijatV hasn't started building his expansion just yet as his gold mine ran out of gold just as the other players began building their new town halls...

Then MijatV asked himself a single question: "Where the hell am I goin' to expand?!", there were two options: either at i8.food's natural expansion site, you'll agree its certanly not such a good idea as his oponnents would be able to easily attack his expansion while he would have a tough time getting in time with his army to help it... Natural expansion mine site on the other had one big minus: that was the first place anyone looking for MijatV's gold mine would look at.

Probably at a loss for a solution MijatV did sent 4 of his 5 acolytes to i8.food's natural expansion mine and only one to his own natural expansion site. After seeing that the trolls at i8.food's natural expansion mine are still alive and healthy, MijatV decided to expand at his natural expansion site after all and sent the four acos back while starting to summon a haunted gold mine at his natural expansion gold mine. Humph... I was using the word "expansion" quite a lot lately, haven't I?

As ever, luck is fickle and just as MijatV's gold mine was summoned and he regained his income, Black-Sun's creeping party encountered the two armies of Cudgel and i8.food. The armies were obviously checking for any expansions to trash. As they haven't found any on Black-Sun's natural expansion site they went to MijatV's natural expansion site... swines >=(

The two bulks of units approached MijatV's gold mine and he quickly retreated his forces back to his base, then approached the enemy units from the right, ready to attack should they move on the gold mine with Black-Sun somewhere close to help. At this point MijatV's army is quite small so he wouldn't matter much (let this be a lesson for you kids: you should expand before your starting gold mine rans out).

Since Black-Sun was too far away and the enemy force was way too massive to be defeated by a ragged band that MijatV and Black-Sun call their armies, MijatV decided to unsummon his gold mine and save what could be saved. Now he was as certain as certain could be that the battle was lost. However, since he's a crazy Montenegroan bastard who loves to take as many other people to death with him he began upgrading all the ziggurats in his base to make a hot reception for the enemy, once they move on his main.

Realizing that MijatV was unsummoning his gold mine and that his forces were no match for them, i8.food and Cudgel moved on the gold mine only to find it almost unsummoned and the five acolytes (who even attempted to find a way by the enemy but quickly realized they're cornered so they returned back to their precious building) shouting wet insults (something concerning their moms and sisters, who'd know...) at them.

In one final act of heroism, the acolytes gave a good account of themselves as they fought the attacking armies and although they failed to kill or even noticably wound a single enemy unit, that act was one of the finest presentations of bravery ever to happen in a BR...

4:1 for Cudgel & i8.food...

Contrary to the expectations Cudgel and i8.food didnt' advance at MijatV's base but went straight for the lower left gold mine aka Black-Sun's expansion. This gave MijatV more time to finish all the preparations for his plan. He started unsummoning buildings in his base (at first he sold both crypts and the altar) careful not to sell the graveyard before upgrading all his ziggurats into spirit towers.

Black-Sun predicted his expansion is about to be attacked and he took his army there. On his way there, now notice this, it is a very important moment: he bought 2 wands of negations and a protection scroll. Don't mind the scroll, its WoNs that'll be important in the upcoming battle.

And the grand finale begins! Before writing about this grand battle, I'll do a little update on the current situation of the four players:

MijatV has his army formed of two level 5 heroes, 3 gargoyles and 6 ghouls (or was it 7... damn, I hate when I forget those things >=( ).

Black-Sun is in possession of a lot more warried army then his ally: 5 witch doctors, a shaman, two taurens, a kodo beast and one wyvern. His heroes are, if memory serves, (the situation with their levels changes very soon anyway) a level 5 FS and a level 3 BM... or was it level 4? A who gives a shit, please don't make me look for it now ;)

Cudgel leads a lot bigger army: 4 footmen, a level 6 archmage, two gryphons, 3 priests, a level 4 MK and his AM also has 2 healing wards in his backpack. A top all this, he also has level 3 WE.

i8.food has 3 grunts, a level 4 TC, a level 4 or 5 far seer (again, I'm too bored to look for it, it doesn't matter anyway as you'll soon see), 3 shamans and 6 witch doctors.

Now that this little update is finished we can get to the actual FINAL STAND OF MIJATV & BLACK-SUN!

Seeing that Black-Sun's expansion is the next target of Cudgel and i8.food, MijatV TP-ed to Black-Sun's expansion, determined to fight to the last. Black-Sun's attempts to set a stasis trap for the incoming army failed as one of dark blue priests approached and cast a dispel at it. This was enough for Black-Sun and MijatV who were determined to make enemy bleed as much as possible.

And then the unexpected happened! Just as the four armies closed on each other, i8.food left the game!!! Without any arguments, without lagging (he wasn't disc-ed), he just left the game, leaving MijatV and Black-Sun in confusion! Grabbing the chance, Black-Sun and MijatV pushed this advantage by attacking Cudgel's army, now in chaos.

Before Cudgel could arrange his forces and forces of his ally the enemy was upon them. With an awesome efficiency the green DK, ghouls and the green DL disposed of the teal far seer. Then the battle began in earnest.

On the ground, ghouls & two taurens supported by healing wards, war drums, level 3 vampiric aura, a level 2 endurance aura and a level 3 unholly aura, were fighting the bloodlusted grunts, footmen and casters who were boosted by level 2 endurance aura, level 2 brilliance aura, inner fire and healing wards. Heroes were likewise busy, both Undead heroes and the Blademaster were chopping the enemy forces that were within' their reach. Dark Blue MK and teal TC were likewise bussied.

The air wasn't so crowded but it wasn't boring either, the three gargs were fighting the two gryphons supported by inner fire. The gargs managed to take out the gryphons without much trouble, probably because the big pigeons were throwing their mauls at the ground instead of defending themselves from the giant green bats.

And then Black-Sun began spamming dispel. Quickly indeed, magic of Cudgel's spellcasters was utterly negated and quickly, MijatV and Black-Sun began gaining an advantage. The ghouls were mostly killed but the battle was going in defenders's favor.

Realizing that he was going to lose this battle, Cudgel focused his fire at the DK, after a storm bolt and a lot of focused fire by bloodlusted water elementals the DK was near dead. Just moments before he would be killed, teal TC bit the water (well, this battle WAS MOSTLY fought in the river...). Mere seconds later, the DK was falling on the ground but before he died he managed to cast a single death coil into the enemy... contrary to what you expected, that death coil wasn't important whatsoever on the further course of the battle, except for sevearly wounding one of the enemy casters it did nothing truly useful. At the spot he died an ankh was standing above his corpse.

Seconds after the DK died for the third time, dark blue AM was ripped apart after being gnawed upon by the two shadow wolves... nasty doggies...

And the DK was soon back on his feet... errr... I meen, on his horse's back, his horse was back on his feet... I meant hoves, he didn't have feet but hoves (the horse, not the DK) which meens he was on horseback when he was reincarnated (the DK, not the horse).

And quickly the battle was over, the last Cudgel's unit standing, an elven priest, was quickly dispoed of. The only survivor of Cudgel's army was a sevearly wounded MK who was already quite far away, running as fast as his short legs could carry him...

And the almost-certain-to-be-lost battle was won by Black-Sun and MijatV!

MijatV & Blackie : Cudgel = 2:4

Okay, methinks its time for an update, a hardcore action is about to commence:

Sincere apologies from me, I lack a Black-Sun's BM info and I really lack a nerve to watch the replay again (even on 8x speed) only to get that small bit of information, besides, I watched the replay about 10 times :( please forgive me... If memory serves the BM is level 4 and has a level 2 Mirror Image and a level 2 Critical Strike. His inventory doesn't have anything important so who gives a shit.

MijatV has only his two level 5 heroes standing, they're soon to gain level 6 so he isn't overly worried about that. His base is in a lot worst condition, being reduced to three ziggurats, two spirit towers, a black citadel, a graveyard and a single acolyte. His economic situation is also a lot worse then any other player's, he has only 304 gold, 11/60 population and 2858 lumber, GO GO GHOULS!

Cudgel, now in charge of i8.food's units and buildings as well as his own, also lacks a real army but is pumping one out quickly enough. His base is composed of a castle, a blacksmith, a gryphon aviary, a lumber mill, an arcane sanctrum, 6 farms, a barracks, a guard tower and an altar. He has a gryphon in making and is also making footmen and priests. Also, his tresuary is by far the biggest since he has 1795 gold, 1045 lumber and 29/60 population. Teal orkish base has two shamans protecting it and is composed of 2 spirit longues, a fortress, a barracks, five burrows, an altar and a warmill. Also, there are two intact expansions, one human and another orkish so Cudgel has a steady income although he cannot easily gain the information of orkish current resource situation (he has to click the townhall first methinks).

Black-Sun is perhaps in a best situation of the three, he has two spirit logunues, a tauren totem, a bestiary, a fortress, an expansion, four burrows and a warmill. He also has most units (as most of his guys are ranged fighters so they weren't really the first to get stomped in "The Final Stand") and these are: 5 witch doctors, a shaman and a kodo beast. Considering neither Cudgel nor MijatV have an actual army apart from their heroes, this is very good.

Back to the slaughter!

And MijatV does what he does the best: gets extremely aggressive after a victory and quickly launches a counter attack. This time, at Cudgel's human expansion. The first guy to get to the expo is Black-Sun's FS who summons two shadow wolves and quickly prevents the guard tower in-construction from reaching maturity. Quickly enough, MijatV's two heroes and blue army gets into the fight.

Contrary to MijatV's expectations (he either expected Cudgel not to react at all at the fight around his expansion or to come running from his base) Cudgel TP-es his MK and a few footmen, priests and a gryphon in a desperate attempt to defend his expansion. As could be expected, the attack is a desperate one indeed and as such, quickly neutralised by three opposing heroes and an army of orkish casters... and a kodo... In this battle, both MijatV's heroes level up to level 6 and get their ultimates.

And the greens and blues continue leveling the town hall.

Another point for MijatV and Black-Sun, 3:4 now!

Seeing that his plan concerning upgrading his ziggurats into spirit towers and taking a lot of enemy unit with his buildings to death in the final battle, was not going to be of any use now, MijatV began selling his buildings in order to gain enough money and build an expansion at his natural expansion site.

He has to sell his graveyard and a single unupgraded ziggurat in order to be able to start pumping out acolytes.

And while Black-Sun's army moves to the upper right expansion mine where the teal orc expo is located, MijatV decides to try his luck with Cudgel's main base. He launches an attack only with his three heroes. However, he knows that his DL has Inferno which meens there'll soon be another mighty warrior on the battlefield.

The attack is a short one, at first, the two heroes ran on the base from right side, once they noticed the single guard tower, the DL decides its best to have an infernal as these guys tend to rape buidlings hard. And quickly enough, a burning stone falls from the sky right next to the guard tower. In the next few moments MijatV sat in wide eyed astonishment as his infernal got out of the grond about 8 in-game meters to the south-east of where it was supposed to arise. This meens the infernal is not next to the guard tower and will have to pass around the lumber mill and the two farms to actually get to the guard tower and attack it.

Quickly MijatV realizes Cudgel has a lot more army then he expected as his heroes and good ol' burnin' pile'o'rocks are attacked by two footmen and two gryphons as well as ressurected archmage.

As you would have it, MijatV's heroes and infernal take a run for it. Although humans attempted to pursue, DK's unholly aura made it possible for both the DL and the infernal and the already very fast DK to run away relatively uninjured.

Current result: 3:5 for Cudgel.

Black-Sun had a lot more luck then MijatV did. Quickly after the fail of green's assault on the dark blue city, he attacked the teal expansion. After quickly destroying it, Black-Sun slaughters the fleeing peons. Not one of them ever made it back home! MIJATV'S ACOLYTES HAVE BEEN AVANGED!!!

4:5 for MijatV and Black-Sun.

After realizing that human base is a too tough nut to crack, MijatV decided to invade teal orc base with his two heroes and the infernal. They came at it from south (after first checking for an expansion on teal's natural expansion site) and started raping closest spirit lunguie (I still cannot spell the damn thing >=( ). Quickly they were noticed by nearby orcs (shamans, doctors and a couple of grunts). After massacring a few of the casters and having the infernal suffer sevear damage, MijatV saw another threat, the TC is back & alive!

Just as MijatV decided to flee, Black-Sun's BM entered the battlefield. Then, a horde of taurens, orkish casters and a few wyverns entered the battle and quickly killed the TC. During the battle, the orcs focused their fire at the DK, being certain that he was going to die, the DK quickly used his ultimate, bringing back to life a single grunt and two witch doctors... all without skills... an ultimate indeed...

And just as teal orcs were almost destroyed (MijatV and Black-Sun already began destroying the buildings and were attacking the altar in order to prevent it from raising teal FS, a strange thing happened. Few moments ago, a single footman attacked Black-Sun's expansion in the lower left corner. Now a whole army of Cudgel was there, attacking the expo, apparently, the AM has mass-teleported to the footman... sneaky swine...

Contrary to his expectations, both MijatV and Black-Sun had another TP scroll in their inventories and Cudgel's army is quickly forced to withdraw by another mass teleporting, this time into teal orc base where they quickly disposed of the two animated witch doctors and a single zombie grunt. Apparently the animated boys were slaughtering the surviving peons who were franticaly working on restoring the altar until the FS is raised.

In the next moments, the AM and the orc shamans and witch doctors moved back to Cudgel's base. However, the shortie, who was probably last in line or somehow stopped or didn't get in mass-teleport range or whatever, got attacked with his pants down (read: health low) by Black-Sun's army. And just as he was screaming in fear while running away from the blue BM he realized he could easily stop his pursuer by storm bolting him. Apparently, this was the last hammer that shortie king threw as Black-Sun's FS thought the exacly same thing, this time regarding chain lighting instead of storm bolt...

And what about MijatV? Well, this guy was effectively pumping out gargoyles at his expansion. Yeah, apparently, after selling half his base and then managing to build an expansion after all, he began creating gargoyles from the two newest crypts and upgrading them from a graveyard. Needless to say, many acolytes were quite confused by merchant skills of their master, selling your buildings at half the price and then building exacly the same ones at double price from the one you sold old ones for was never a good idea...

And Black-Sun and MijatV finally get back to destroying the teal orc base. This time, the AM & Co quickly mass teleport in. Also, the teal FS is quickly raised from the dead, just before the altar is leveled by MijatV's heroes. Strangely enough, the DL and the DK decided that their skills are best used by bashing at the fortress... they spent most of the battle doing this.

The FS is the first of enemy heroes to die as he was sevearly mauled by Black-Sun's troops.

Quickly realizing fight is futile, Cudgel decided to get his army out ASAP by mass-teleporting them back to his base... this plan never worked at the AM was slain just a moment before he could cast a mass teleport! And Black-Sun & MijatV quickly begin destroying the teal base once and for all.

5:5 for MijatV and Black-Sun.

Realizing that its over, Cudgel surrendered, and MijatV & Black-Sun are victorious!

And the stats are before us!

Overview: this is where MijatV leads, Cudgel is right behind, Black-Sun is at far third place and i8.food is quite far away on the fourth place but considering he actually left the game this is alright.

Units: Black-Sun is the leading force here, although he didn't kill the most units he certenly had the largest army, produced most units and destroyed most buildings. i8.food is next which is impressive considering the fact he left the game, his largest army is smaller then Black-Sun only by a single unit. MijatV is the third, his largest army was 6 soldiers smaller then Black-Sun's and five soldiers smaller then i8.food's. Those orcs really mass a lot, don't they? However, MijatV is second in a number of killed units and buildings razed. Cudgel is the last on units overview, his largest army was only 45 yet he has the biggest kill count and also is second in a number of produced units. He is also the only guy in his team who actually razed a building... probably MijatV's gold-mine-in-unsummoning.

Heroes: Absolutely my favourite, MijatV leads here with two level 6 heroes, by far most gained experience points and relatively much killed heroes and obitained items. Cudgel is next, having a level 7 AM and a level 4 MK. Black-Sun's heroes are second to Cudgel's only by a single level, apparently, the blue far seer was level 6 and blue BM was level 4, so there's only one level of difference between Cudgel and Black-Sun... better luck next time... i8.food is last, having neither of his heroes gain their ultimates, his TC was level 5 and his FS was level 3 and he gained a lot less experience then any other combatant... bad luck...

Resources: Black-Sun leads here, being the only one who never had his expansion leveled. Strangely enough, i8.food is the next... come to think of it, it ain't to strange after all, he had his expansion almost as long as Black-Sun as it was destroyed only before the end. As expected, Cudgel is number 3, he isn't much worse then i8.food, being only 260 gold coins or so far from second place. MijatV is, as expected, last, which is quite understandable, after all, he was the last to have an expansion and had to sell most of his buildings to actually do it...

And there it is!

I hope you enjojed my BR as much as I enjojed making it. I am truly sorry for not taking all of this thru a spellchecker but circumstances and laziness prevented me from doing it... I s'pose its perfectly readable as it is and I hope you won't be repulsed from the BR by some of that bad english... (I intently did it wrong on a few occassions thou, let's see if you realize which occassions those are ;)).

You can download this replay from this link. As chance would have it, Blizzard made those two damned patches (1.04c and 1.05, ugh) in two days that made 1.04 replays unviewable at version 1.05... therefore, you will have to get one of those universal replay viewers in order to watch this replay which is version 1.04... I am sorry to say, but I don't know where you might find one such program :( but take a look around the internet, you'll find it easily methinks...

One last thing regarding my last BR, the thing about paying in the end was a big joke of mine. By clicking on those paypall icons you would be taken to a page where Bob the Ghoul would sing a christmas song in his own interpretation! There would also be a special, a bit rude, message for all those who actually thought about paying for any of those things. I write all this just to show people I'm not some jerk-off who would take money for such things, it was a joke, obviously, it failed to work as it probably seemed too serious...

That'd be it, I want to say that all who are interested in my other BRs, my replays or my articles should vicit my WC3 Page which will soon enough be moved to a new link: http://giga.realmofwarcraft.net/ (note: this link ain't active just yet). Also, if you want to write to me or give me suggestions or whatever, feel free to mail me at ksaber666@hotmail.com . Also, I'll use this moment to promote a special fantasy world created by my mind, World of Ardor can be found here...

And that would be all, I hope you liked my BR, also, stand fast as my next BR is already hatching within my head and will be named: The Bob's Show

With this I leave you >:)...

P.S
BTW, here's a small apel, if you happen to have double copies of SC or a spare SC:BW CD Key, I'd really be grateful if you'd give it to me, I'd really like to play SC:BW on B.net once again...

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