[Tournaments-HotA/SoD] Mirrors - 3

It was a tough map; I was losing to my opponent in terms of tempo from the first week to the fourth. The turning point came after I received teleportation in the guild.
However, looking at the game, I'd say luck played a bigger role in my favor.
Thank you to my opponent for the game and for their patience regarding my internet connection.

There were a lot of disconnects + desynchronization in one of the important battles, but we still finished the game after many attempts. In general, I was developing my Necromancer, Charn. I progressed better than my opponent, captured more cities in the first week, conducted better scouting, and explored more areas. But at one point, I fell behind in terms of chain lightning, and my opponent caught up and even overtook me. Then I broke through to my opponent, captured 2 cities, and tried to end the game, but I ran into Grindan and was without mana. He defeated me – without mana, I couldn't carry the game, but we both weakened each other quite a bit. But he didn't attack me. He tried to pressure me with archmages, but he was repelled. Then came a period of fighting for 2 villages, which changed hands several times. There was a second final battle, in which, even considering my opponent's magic advantage, I still had a chance – but it turned out he had antimagic – I had no chance. We started running around and getting stronger, but with my opponent gaining control, I no longer had a chance. There were more final battles, and that was it. Thank you for the game.

When my opponent tried to pressure me, he made several mistakes with his mages – sometimes I punished him for them, and sometimes I made mistakes myself. In general, both of us had chances at many points.

I built a lot of Guild Masters, but they didn't give me slow, I only got it in one village towards the end of the game. I also couldn't find a shield, and I only managed to get slow as a very late skill. I built Guild Masters in a Necromancer village, hoping to raise undead, but I didn't get that, nor did I get control. Of the normal offensive spells, I only got meteor shower and a chain lightning scroll, but I had little mana (80). Without key spells and magical elements, it was difficult to break through, but I tried to be clever and maintain tempo throughout the game as much as I could. I don't like long games, but the viewers enjoyed it, and that's the main thing