[Tournaments-HotA] Game of Thrones

I gave up the color for 1700. I played the first week vigorously, killed all the computers, in the Rampart I placed 1-4 in the Citadel, in the Castle I placed 1-4 in the Citadel + an external dwelling of Swordsmen, in the Inferno I placed 1-5 in the Citadel, on Conflux I placed a Pox. And, as per tradition, the main is leveled through Fire. I have nothing against Expert Estate; the map turned out to be very poor, so the skill came in handy to the fullest. I assumed that at level 8, Nimuss would be offered Fire again (I checked later – that's what happened), so instead of investing immediately in Demonology, I had to buy Earth Magic (to break the block into the central treasure zone from the 20 Aspids, and there were other interesting blocks on Mini-Nost, without Earth Magic it's unreal), and 7k on a poor map is essentially a loss of 2 turns. To top it all off, I also forgot to buy a spell book for the main – that also seriously impacted things later on. 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 the Pegasi to break through the mass ranged blocks... In short, it was a total downer. On all 4 respawns, there were 2 Hives: both miniature. In the treasure zone I went to out of necessity, because due to the lack of money I had to trudge to the only somewhat spacious and rich Rampart respawn and then subsequently into a swamp treasure zone, and other than a block of 100+ Pirates, which I fought with heavy losses, I found nothing. The town was blocked by those archers, I had to turn back, another treasure zone, essentially there was nothing there (I couldn't take the cyclops pen with 8 One-Eyed cyclopes in time due to tempo), I decided to go to the central treasure zone, but the opponent rushed 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 them on his turn, so with a clear conscience, given my lagging stats and army (almost 100 Demons, 8 Ducks, 50+ Magogs, 23 Grand Elves against the opponent's 50-something Cyclopes, 2 Angels, 3 Giants, 8 Ducks) – I surrendered on my turn in the central treasure zone. It turned out to be a hopeless game for me. Oh well, what can you do :smile32: And this is despite the fact that from the Castle, due to the lack of money, I couldn't even bring out the meat (42 Pikemen = 12 Demons, 27 Swordsmen = 27 Demons, 27 Archers = 7 Demons, 27 Griffins = 19 Demons – that's another 65 Demons on top). But even with the possibility of buying all that stuff, they would have shot me down without much effort :smile05:
Thanks for the game.