Final Battle - 12

HotA. On turn 112, I took a minor consul and the tempo was good. On turn 122, I finished building the Mage Guild, and after rebuilding, I got (3) and (4) resistance and Town Portal. I took 4 Dragon Utopias, then another 2. Dimension Door wasn't given in information until the last attempt. In the end, I also got a level 5 item from 2 Dragon Utopias, gathered many powerful items there, Aenain found all air artifacts in the treasure zone (Viv Air didn't give them 3 times), discovered the location of Labeta and Dess with 4180 movement points and 2 Dimension Doors covering it, Armag, finishing blow, and goodbye :smile15:
Thank you for the game!

I also built my tower quite quickly; Town Portal was on turn 124 (with 1 rebuild), resistance from Alamar, who arrived on turn 121. But Dimension Door was also given to me very late, on the 7th attempt, when the game was already decided. The difference is that I had to erase the flight that Ivan received immediately. This made a big difference because during the flight, Dess took away a strategically important dungeon (my companion's) at the worst possible moment, and from there, 2 of my important heroes were killed, including Alamar. And 4 Dragon Utopias with 2 stat-boosting artifacts (+2all and +4all) - this is very bad for HotA. In terms of stats and army, I ended up losing badly; the consul gave him a lot, plus high-quality demonization. Autopsy showed my only theoretical chance – a rough magical rush with Labeta on turn 121 along the barbarian road. That’s not great even for me... Thank you for the game, good luck in the semi-finals!

p.s. The quote in the signature is topical :).