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

Bought red for 1100. First week scouting, Nimue logistics, air. Many objects for the future - 2 nag dens, 3 cyclops stockpiles. Took external dwelling of pit fiends barely, and gogs. And then second week EFREETI +5, bought them up for a long time though, went out through wasteland, saw from scouting vision a passage to my own town, hesitated whether to go this way or hit the road, then broke through along the road and saw the opponent's scout hero, chased him away and decided not to pick a fight, give him the Castle. On the way to my town took a 5k experience treasure chest, broke through poorly dendroids soldiers for a refuge and a vial of mercury losing gogs and pit fiends for ~15 demons, but got a Gold Dragon inside. One Griffin Conservatory, and 3 cons plus at the respawn at the opponent's town plus 2 Dragon Utopias. Took a chest with 80 Troglodytes in front of the opponent's Castle. Built Mage Guild on 126, got Fly, but wisdom Nimue leveled up only at the end of third week, and not much knowledge - double mana at 40. At the start of third week started rebuilding Mage Guild 4 heavily, for that returned money home, leveling scout heroes on cyclops stockpiles and nag dens hoping for earth/air, and nothing, all fire spells. Rebuilt Town Portal on the 5th try, went to take the opponent's Dragon Utopias, spawned 90+ demons, in total lost meat for about 25 demons due to a dumb play) 8 angels from Griffin Conservatories, and 8 wyverns from 2 Hives. With Mage Guild 5 I got really lucky, relearning Fly as early as 4th week, rebuilt on the first try and Dimension Door. At the end of 4th week all the good stuff started running out, so decided to push towards the Castle opponent for archangels, sent a scout hero from Castle and found a close passage to another swamp opponent, and there Shakti is already either on Fly or Dimension Door standing near a Hive, along the road another Hive already cleared, I enter it - it hasn't been taken, and a big one at that... And moves on important heroes are gone. Next turn Shakti takes 2 Hives and a Griffin Conservatory, kills a good Fiona (logistics, wisdom, earth) and I realize I'm already losing in terms of power. Second month started, took one Griffin Conservatory near the Castle opponent, doubled my mana, loaded up on wyverns, leveled Gunnar (earth, wisdom) - by recovering 2 quest artifacts, equipped angels at the opponent's town. On my turn Shakti kills my Gunnar in the swamp Castle with a Town Portal scroll and +4 cap, and upgrades his 60+ Wyverns there, now not +1 but +3 speed :eek: I decide to use the power-up and the recovered Armageddon scroll for ~800. Here the Gold Dragon saved me, managed to cast Armageddon twice and buyback. In the final battle my 18 pit fiends, 8 angels, 4 efreet sultans at 2 each, 95 demons and 8 wyverns against 2 angels and 45 monarchs stats 25 12 and 24 16, mana 100 vs 60. Mana and the number of stacks decided it. Thanks for the game!