[Tournaments-HotA] Game of Thrones

The color was handed over for 1700. I played the first week briskly, killed all the computers, in the Rampart I placed 1-4 at the Citadel, in the Castle 1-4 at the Citadel + an external dwelling of Swordsmen, in Inferno 1-5 at the Citadel, on Conflux a pox. Well, as per tradition, the main is leveled through Fire. I have nothing against Expert Logistics; the map turned out to be very poor, so the skill came in handy to the fullest. I assumed that at level 8, Nimuse would offer Fire again (I checked later - that was the case), so instead of investing in Demonology right away, I had to buy Earth (to break the block into the central treasure zone of 20 Serpents, and other interesting blocks on Mini-Nost, unreachable without Earth), and 7k on a poor map means essentially minus 2 turns. To top it all off, I also forgot to buy a spell book for the main - that seriously affected things later. Essentially, I only started demonizing properly, due to a lack of money, towards the end of the second week, and I also had to upgrade Pegasi to break through mass ranged blocks... In short, a sorrowful mess. On all 4 respawns, there were 2 Hives: both mini. I went into the treasure zone out of necessity, because due to a lack of money I had to trudge to the only relatively spacious and rich respawn of the Rampart, and then consequently into the swamp treasure zone; besides the block of 100+ Pirates, which were fought with heavy losses for me, I found nothing. The town was blocked by these shooters, I had to turn around; another treasure zone had virtually nothing there (a cyclops dwelling with 8 Cyclops Lords couldn't be taken in time according to the tempo). I decided to go to the central treasure zone, but the opponent ran there on the same turn; I tried to grab something in the center, but didn't pick up anything worthwhile from the boxes; the opponent would have covered it on his turn, so with a clear conscience, given the lagging stats and army (almost 100 Demons, 8 Draconians, 50+ Magogs, 23 Pit Lords against the opponent's half a hundred Cyclops, 2 Angels, 3 Giants, 8 Draconians) - I surrendered on my turn in the central treasure zone. A hopeless game for me. Oh well :smile32: This is despite the fact that from Castle, due to the lack of money, meat wasn't brought out at all (42 Pikemen = 12 Demons, 27 Swordsmen = 27 Demons, 27 Marksmen = 7 Demons, 27 Griffins = 19 Demons - totaling another 65 Demons on top). But even with the possibility of buying all this stuff back, I would have been shot down without much effort :smile05:
Thanks for the game.