SoY-2: Online Tournaments "Seasons of year" - "Seasons of year" - Autumn Season 2007

Sage (Castle: Valeska, Valeska) VS Kamikaze (Stronghold: Gurnisson, Gurnisson). Map: One & One. Sage lost on 3-4-3. In general, the game was long – six and a half hours. I saw the map for the first time and had the map editor open. I chose a strategy focused on developing cavalry because the map wasn't very large, although it was swampy. Blue had a slightly better starting position and began clearing the dungeon first, but his hero with 1 goblin (who was clearing the dungeon) soon died at the hands of Valeska. In principle, I was a little faster at claiming territory. Around the middle of the second month, the first encounter between Valeska and Gurnisson took place. Valeska had to pay a ransom after almost her entire army was destroyed, leaving the enemy with 3 upgraded monsters, 1 thunderbird, and about 30 upgraded orcs. Then, Valeska, with a two-week growth advantage, attacked blue again, who, in turn, with the remnants of his army and 2 phoenixes bought at the outpost, went to attack red. However, they missed each other in the dungeon. I should have attacked, but I decided that blue would only have about a week's worth of growth in his castle, so on the 7th day, the castle was stormed. I didn't pay close enough attention to the number of defenders, and as a result, the battle was lost without a chance of winning. Valeska fled the battlefield. Gurnisson went to the red castle, not bothering with the mines, but was defeated (paid a ransom of 1 monster and ten upgraded orcs) by Valeska. Then there were a couple of weeks of truce (you can't really move around much in the swamp). On 3-3-1, another battle took place in the swamp: Valeska 10-8-8-6 60 mana _______________ Gurnisson 15-6-5-6 60 mana Combat skills: expert leadership, water magic, archery, ______??? ordinary slow, lightning, bless initial armor. Bless, ice arrow 210 damage. 89 archers..............................................10 cyclops kings 54 crusaders..........................................59 wolf riders 3 archangels...............................................105 orc chieftains 25 fanatics.............................................6 ancient beings 13 champions.............................................21 thunderbirds 76 royal griffins............................343 hopgoblins 35 grand elves.........................................55 ogre shamans Valeska attacked in open territory. Gurnisson was forced to pay a ransom of 16 ogre shamans. Valeska had 33 crusaders left. However, after losing the battle, blue won the war because, about a week later, he arrived with a superior army (about 1-1.5 growth advantage) and stormed the red castle; the cyclops kings broke down the gates, after which the defenders' resistance was quickly suppressed. What else can I say? I couldn't implement the strategy for the map due to too reckless actions in the second month of the game. I had as many as 3 heroes with the +350 gold specialty. Therefore, I didn't build even 2000 gold in the castle for a long time. There were no slow or haste spells in the first guild of mages. The opponent had slow. It turns out, Kamikaze dug up the Grail, and I somehow missed that moment (obelisks have become part of the landscape for me, I don't even remember when I last dug up a Grail). Thank you, Kamikaze, for the game.