«SM-masters II»

A very long and sweaty game, where I wanted to give up several times, but in the end I managed to pull off a victory.

A decent start with Moner, on 111 vampire lords from the refuge, map control advantage (my opponent insisted on playing without freshmode), a confident build-up towards psychos, I didn't even try to build birds. And everything was going well until on 121 I went into the Griffin Conservatory with 2-4, it's max, Moner retreats in shame. The second attempt to assault this Griffin Conservatory also didn't succeed, in the end I only take it on 131.

On the third week I went down into the treasure zone, there were some goodies, but with quite scary guards, and I was without Earth magic (by the way, I never maxed it out by the end of the game). Among other things, I had to ignore a box behind titans and a shield +4 all behind bears. With a supply drop on 141 I took the book of Air from unicorns, then further Griffin Conservatory and Dragon Fly Hive, and things seemed to be getting better, but on 144 my opponent breached the town gate and was about to give me a thrashing. In response to my Dimension Door, he had Town Portal in his arsenal, so my attack didn't succeed, and for the next week and a half I made full use of the advantages of the blue color — I attacked on my opponent's turn, cast spells, wore him down, made him waste mana, and then sat in the town with full mana during his turn.

There were several assaults on the town, sweaty trades to zero. Trying to deprive me of magical trump cards, my opponent sent Labetta on an expedition for Recanter on my secondary hero, but I managed to twist my way out and kill her, I took Recanter with me.

At some point my opponent also showed Dimension Door, and things got really depressing. But for some reason, right after that the pressure eased, and I managed to clear the swamp respawn in 3 days — three Griffin Conservatories, Dragon Fly Hive, and the missing part of the Angel of the Dead. The sixth week of the game arrived, and with a fresh batch of birds, 8 angels, and Angel of the Dead under Recanter, I suddenly found myself in a leading position. Then there was a bit of cat and mouse, where Moner twisted and turned as best he could to be everywhere at once (I didn't have Town Portal), on 226 I took my opponent's main town, there was no guild there, on 227 the entire enemy crew is hanging out in my underground. I kill Labetta and Clavius, but I don't have enough moves to reach Tamika.

On 231 I watch Tamika go into my incompletely cleared treasure zone, fight the titans for the box, and then the bears for the shield +4 all. But after all the trades, Tamika turned out to be unable to defeat them.

Thanks for the game, it was sweaty and interesting, like it hasn't been for a long time.

Nominally 1-1, but my opponent announced his withdrawal.