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My opponent used up all their restarts right away, while I played without any rests. I got two native heroes, good deployment, scouting on the first day. And overall I got good heroes — Tyraxor, Labetha, Solmyr, then Gundula. All in all it looked promising, even though I didn't find any external dwellings.
I fought my way to the computer, though with losses, since there were 4 shooter guards on the way to the computer — rampart, I lost some goblins. But then everything went well, I found a cyclops external dwelling in an adjacent zone, built them up, built the birdies, found the hands of the legion for birdie growth. I also captured computer towns — swamp and dungeon (I portal-ed the cyclops). I broke through everywhere using Tyraxor's tactics, and he quickly got Earth and Logistics, so I made him my main, and he didn't disappoint. I also leveled Armor, Ranged (for cyclops), and Air. After that I went into my treasure zone at the end of the third week, where I spotted a couple of Dragon Utopias and Dragon Fly Hives. And the further I advanced into the treasure zone, the more vast it seemed. 7 Dragon Utopias, many beehives (though all small ones), 5 red dragon external dwellings. In short, I got bogged down there for 1.5 weeks collecting all the loot. I didn't lose the army, I collected almost all the Dragon Utopias (just didn't take the distant one) — they gave control, a bunch of stats, and Recanter for protection against Armageddon (and Grandmaster Ifrits were showing in the tavern), I collected all the Dragon Fly Hives, jumped into the swamp, upgraded the Wyverns and started planning how to successfully attack my opponent. The first time I almost jumped to their main, but scouted the road to it and returned back. Coronius jumped to the opponent's village on grass — it turned out to be a Castle, where the opponent wanted to build Archers. Near the Castle I caught Grindan with 9 Angels and 25 Ifrits. I clipped him, losing some summoned creatures, killed 9 Angels and 7 Ifrits, the opponent bought them back. The next day I finally jumped Tyraxor to the opponent's Inferno castle and camped there, also doing some scouting. I saw him moving his army to the mini-treasure zone. The next turn I jump there, he hadn't brought some of the Ifrits to Shakti, I clipped those Ifrits (27 of them), and even knocked off the Bracers. And with the Bracers I attacked Shakti, who had 20 Ifrits, 56 Wyverns, and 15 Master Genies. Shakti 24 27 13 13
I had Tyraxor 38 37 23 22 with 27 Roc birds, 46 Wyvern Monarchs, and 25 Cyclops.
I think even if the opponent had combined the Ifrits, I still would have won the final, either the cyclops or the wyverns would have sealed it with these stats.
Thanks for the game!
I confirm, though I was slightly off on the number of Ifrits, but it doesn't matter.
I had 3 Ifrit external dwellings on the respawn, I took 2 with Shakti (who later became my main) on week 1 and built up the castle, the growth was insane, I could only get the third external dwelling on week 2 because there was a strong block. Good scouting, there was always somewhere to run and sometimes I even lacked heroes to send to a particular direction for scouting, since all heroes were busy. At the end I didn't play cohesively, which is why I was short MP for transferring troops and made the wrong choice of where to run with my main (I should have gone for the 2 Dragon Utopias rather than the mini treasure zone, but the choice was difficult, since there were many Pandora's Boxes and beehives). In the end it was decided by the fact that the opponent found the path to the super treasure zone, and I didn't.
Thanks for the game!
I attached 2 screenshots (for memory), the first — Shakti at the moment of the opponent's attack, the second — if the army had been fully on him.