Favorites, to battle! - 10 - The Battle of Favorites! - 10

I bought red for 1100. First week was scouting, Nimus logia, air. Many objects for the future - 2 nagash-dwellings, 3 cyclops-dwellings. Took the external dwelling of pits with some difficulty, and gogs. And then the second week: IFRITS +5; I spent a bit too long buying them, though. While moving off-road, I saw a passage to my computer from the overview; I hesitated whether to go this way or get back on the road, then fought through the road and saw the opponent's loh, chased him away and decided not to risk it and give him C. On the way to the computer, I took a 5k experience box, poorly beat dendron soldiers for a refuge and a mercury flask with the loss of gogs and pits for ~15 demons, but they gave me a Gold Dragon in there. One cons, and 3 cons + at the respawn by the computer + 2 utopias. Took a box of 80 troglodytes before the computer's castle. Built GM up to 126; they gave fly, but Nimus's wisdom was maxed out only at the end of the third week, and there wasn same much knowledge - double mana at 40. At the beginning of the third week, I started heavily rebuilding GM 4; for this, I brought my power home, farming lohs on cyclops-dwellings and nagash-dwellings hoping for earth/air, but no luck, they all get fire. On the 5th try, I rebuilt TP, went to take the computer's utopias, shook down 90+ demons; in total, I lost meat worth 25 demons due to stupidity) 8 angels from cons, and 8 ducks from 2 hives. With 5 GM I got really lucky, relearning fly as late as the 4th week, rebuilt DD on the first try. At the end of the 4th week, all the good stuff started running out, so I decided to squeeze the castle computer for archangels; sent a loh from the castle and found a close passage to another swamp computer, and there Shakti is standing near a hive, either on fly or DD. On the way, there's another broken hive; I enter it - not taken, and a big one too... But there are no moves left for important heroes. Next turn, Shakti takes 2 hives and a cons, cuts down a good Fiona (logia, wisdom, earth) and I realize that I am already losing in power. The second month began, I took the last cons near the castle computer, doubled my mana, stocked up on stables, leveled Gunnar (earth, wisdom) - recovering 2 quest artifacts, placed angels by the computer. On their turn, Shakti kills my Gunnar in the swamp castle with a TP scroll and a +4 hat, and upgrades their 60+ weaves there; it's no longer +1, but +3 speed :eek: I decide to use reinforcements and a recovered Armageddon scroll for 800~. Here the gold dragon helped; I managed to armageddon twice and buy my way out. In fb my 18 pits, 8 angels, 4 sultans of 2 each, 95 demons and 8 ducks against 2 angels and 45 monarchs stats 25 12 and 24 16, mana 100 to 60. Mana and number of stacks decided it. Thanks for the game!