Nagash got a couple of expert Necromancers on day one. Relying solely on intuition, he decided to play using them. EVERYTHING else was bad.
Leaving the starting area (!) is blocked. There are no air creatures. No ore.
There isn't even one decent hero in the starting area. No money. No mercury. The birds won't appear – no matter what. He wandered around, cutting down skeletons in the starting area, 1-6 in the fort. By the end of the first week, he managed to reach a stash of Psychics. And only at the beginning of the second week did he leave the starting area... Was it a hopeless situation? No! :smile27:
Can one Necromancer outweigh all the circumstances against you?
The autopsy showed that it couldn't. :D
By the time they met, at level 133 / final level 134, the opponent already had full control, and in the final battle, Ciel attacked Nagash, who was holed up in a border rampart-castle, wearing a blue hat, with a mana pool of 340 and speed of 9, against a mana pool of 140 and speed of 9, combat stats of 8-9 against 9-5. He had an implant of 950. I had the strongest bolt at 235, and in general, only garbage above level 2 spells.
In terms of total HP, his army is ~4000, mine is ~5000, and I had absolutely nothing to defend against his 32 ducks. But the final battle was one of those that makes you love the game.
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To be honest, the game was hopeless. Even considering that I managed to find the only chance in the final battle, before that chance, the opponent made a series of unnecessary mistakes to give me that chance.
TFP
It's frustrating – you can play the whole game like a pro, but you only need to play like a complete noob for one turn, and everything is over. You can say that after work, playing badly happens, you can say that a tight schedule happens, but a loss is a loss.
For the game – Ciel level 14, Shachti (level 15), Grindan (level 9) – all can use full control in level 132 – re MG (2 times level 4 + 2 times level 5) – can take the whole map (there are 100 ways to win this game), but he wanted to finish the game quickly and made a fatal mistake. TFP