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Thank you for the game!

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The whole match was a brutal carry for me. Classic center-response, completely in the mountains, and on top of that with a snail, 3 piles of gold and one chest.

In my memory, Spider wasn't such a poor template, so I confidently bargained for the artifact, although, to be honest, I don't know how to play Tower. As a result, I was running around with 3-4 heroes until the second week...

After the suffering of the first week, in the middle of the second week I dive a scout hero into a monolith and encounter 20-49 gr. Basilisk nests behind a Hive, and behind it a free purple dungeon with a Castle. Well, you get it... The Basilisks, of course, stared on turn 1, hit the Gremlins, and as a result on 124 I have no army at all.

And the whole game was like that. By 137 the opponent came to attack, I with Summon Elementals, Chain Lightning and 99 mana go for a rush on Gargoyles. I manage to break a large part of the army; in the end I buy back to double the mana. I had to spend about 10k to break the army that was on the other side of the map, against the computer, and stuff it into the main, because the Portal of Summoning was there, and I couldn't give it up. The opponent attacks on 141, but after one round decided to buy back, because I had more army, and he was out of mana.

Total army count on 141: 8 cats in different parts of the map, 9 ducks and about 30 Evil Eyes. Crazy army, of course. I decided to train some skills a bit, ran through the underground, where Griffin Conservatories 3 and 4 awaited me. Overall, weeks 141-211 were the most useful of the whole game; I built Control, Schooled Town Portal from the captured enemy Jeditte. At level 16, Solmyr got Earth Magic, and only by level 20 was I able to Expert it.

During the following week I went into the treasure zones, used scout heroes to pick up a few more Angels (10 total), took two Dragon Utopias, and on 216 I saw the opponent holed up in a town. 100 less mana, but slightly higher stats, plus army advantage = decided to attack.

Luck (12.5%) was on my side: first the Pegasi screwed up at 15 speed, so the first turn was mine. Anti-Magic on the Angels and off we went. After several Chain Lightnings on 1600, the opponent decided to start summoning. I could only counter with Air Elementals, so I slowly started too. After about 30 minutes of struggle, the opponent set up two stacks of Pikemen under a Meteor Shower. In the end I managed to carry the whole thing. GG.

P.S. We played, it seems, for about 11 hours, and that's considering we played up to 124 a week ago.