At the beginning of the second turn, with a little meat left, I broke through the maximum Utopia, at the cost of giants, an angel, and half of the wyverns. I had little mana, and the only magic I used was Animate. Then, I was met in the center with a bunch of archers, with funny stats, but they were quite easy to defeat with the Earth Book, which was surprising, as 200 MP with SP 4 wasn't taken seriously. But it turned out that even 4 SP is enough to get wrecked. I had to dig in, buy ghosts - luckily, there were three of them! I gathered 16 cyclops, found a KV and then a KZ by taking detours, and on the last maps, I grabbed a +6 teapot for a hefty 120+ nixes. Well, and I started to feel more confident. The opponent got tired of all this, and seeing that artifacts were being snatched from under his nose, he went for a fight. This time, the fight was won calmly by Gennady.
Thanks for the game.
(Second round, HotA)
