[ТУРНИР-HotA] Hard Choice-2

I'll write about the second one too.

At first glance, everything looks nice — a good stack of skeletons on week 2, a scroll of Animate Dead, a level 4 box. However, the swamp adjacent zone increased the time needed to set up control. The most basic lack of Conflux played a role not so much in slowing the pace of map coverage, but mainly in slowing the development of the main hero and supports respectively. Lumber was available to only one support. As for boots/gloves, one could only dream.

But even that would have been fine if I had found an Utopia in at least one explored zone.
Stats and gold — all of it would have come in handy.

The only thing that was "exciting" in this game was taking the Cyclops! I tore through them with Armageddon and after resurrecting Giants.

Dimension Door became available only from week 6, on day 136, but Red left no chance and wiped me in a computer-generated dungeon with stats three times higher than mine. A thousand skeletons without modifiers is, as we know, cannon fodder.
Although, perhaps I could have still fought back if I had stayed on Vision rather than on Sorrow. I could have double-backed before it was too late and tried not to die with Berserk up my sleeve...
But something tells me that even that wouldn't have saved me: I still didn't have first speed, and Anti-Magic stripped me of any ability to resist. Moreover, the opponent could easily buy me out at any moment and confidently out-might me in the late game.

Thanks for the game!

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