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Tough start, excellent beginning, Pandora for experience, boots, +1 speed, and 2 Rock Golems. Thanks to all this, I started taking castles early, quickly got Oil, and was planning to break some infantry stronghold with 30 Cyclops, but, as always, there were Lich Kings... and there's no meat besides the Cyclops, a few Rock Golems, and 0 gold. That's when things started to go downhill. I had to scrape together resources from the corners, the chain wasn't working, and the timer started to put pressure on. In the end, I decided not to gather more meat and instead hit the stronghold with a +7 shield. The result: 11 Cyclops. I was very lucky that during the exploration around the city, I found 3 castles and +10 to all stats; otherwise, everything would have been lost... In the end, I met my opponent in the center. There was an Astral, I checked – 170 + mana and 13 spells... Forget it, I ran around, killed a leveled-up Miriam, and then there was an attack with an explosion and resurrection... No money. The exchange was bad – 20 Cyclops and 2 Angels for my entire army (43 Cyclops, 6 Thunderbirds, 4 Ducks, and some others...). But I managed to hold on thanks to the stats and defended, but I didn't have time to pick up the loot. My opponent couldn't do anything about it either. Then I upgraded my passive fight and, using the rough terrain and Knowledge, I gained the upper hand due to my control and my opponent's lack of it. I snatched the Wings right under his nose, sacrificing the rest of my army in an attempt to defeat a level 10 Demon from the dungeon and get 5 all stats... but I didn't really lose much. I summoned a home-grown Utopian, and then in the Treasury, I got a Colossus. The next turn, I took both cities and attacked my opponent with a lot of mana and summoned Earth Elementals. He blew up my 6 Thunderbirds and ran away without an army... Then I completely controlled the central (Flax's) city, gathered a bunch of Pandoras for meat, and Vasya was sitting at home, not knowing what to do. Seeing 7 Phoenixes in my army, he surrendered... (2-1) Victory! Thanks for the interesting and intense games! :smile49: