Gorbunak
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Morgoth sold the necromancer for 4000 and the color for about 1000. Well, playing as Nukromancer on the first week with rollbacks is a total nightmare, of course. But in principle, maybe it's worth limiting yourself to one computer and on the second week beating the second one and going into the treasure zone. On one hand, Tower gives a great Mage Guild and with a rollback it builds decently. But the presence of a tough ГО almost completely excludes contacts on 121. Even considering that I had to buy off the computer with 23 skeletons, it was still easy to take the max Dragon Utopia at the start of the third week. I think it's worth driving the necromancer up hard to 8000+ in the negotiation. I also noticed that building the Mage Guild here is so-so. Because after developing a bit, there are many Dragon Utopias in the treasure zones and relics just lying around, control there is more about just farming them.
Anyway, I started playing because the citadel worked out. Even the presence of a second Castle for the opponent on 112 didn't stop me. I gradually captured the Dungeon computer's castle and aimed to break through to the second one. And then the computer came back to recapture. To transfer the army, I decided to beat it in the field, which was a big mistake. 60 skeletons with archery couldn't overcome 60 Troglodytes, 10 Harpies, and 7 Evil Eyes under a Damacon. I had to buy off and build a Citadel. I should have just built the Citadel and skipped the turn. I had the face of Liches; instead of plans to finish off the second computer, I should have used the citadel to take the face of Liches on 117. In general, with the remnants of the army, I broke into the second computer's area, having 3 Liches and 20 skeletons, and built a Citadel there, otherwise it could have easily been a GG from the Ramp. Anyway, by 121 it looked so-so, but I transferred everything into skeletons, raised some Dwarf Cottages, doubled my mana, and went into the Griffin Conservatory. There were already 200+ skeletons; with the double, it probably even took the max. So, in general, in terms of priority for buying castles after the necromancer, it's probably Dungeon. And Tower, while it gives a good Mage Guild, the penalty really ruins things, and relics in treasure zones, while 6LM on the other hand, getting control there is not rare in the Mage Guild.
Before taking the Griffin Conservatory, I also set up an upgraded Isra for splitting, and then bam, the opponent covers Isra with a leveled-up Grindan on 2 Gargoyles. Well, I thought either he built Fly or got a Fly scroll with a level 5 Mage Guild. And it turned out to be Fly. Another setback was that if Ramp had pushed me out, I would have been left without the Mage Guild. A mini-treasure zone spawned for Ramp on the Tower; he was building the Mage Guild there. In principle, the chains were for defense. I got a bit lucky that when I took a prison, I freed a leveled-up mage and relearned Death Wave for him. And he was placed for splitting. Grindan was 1600 movement from the Ramp. I built Pegasi and used Death Wave level 30 to blast Grindan. He was apparently just scouting there and thinking he'd buy off cheaply into the castle, and he took Isra like that. Well, I figured losing such a mage at the start of the second week would be a disaster, no doubt. My plans to capture the Conflux were slightly ruined, but it might have even worked in my favor; the Conflux castle was far away, and the roads to the Conflux were generally slow and long. I went as a Titan into the treasure zone with 2 Angels and 250 skeletons. Just at the castle, I raised skeletons and got a mana hat. I doubled my mana, transferred the skeletons, and went to take the Dragon Utopia. The max Dragon Utopia fell easily; it gave КВ and something else useful. Then I slowly started building the Mage Guild further, swapped artifacts for resources. There were also max Cyclops in the treasure zone. Town Portal wasn't dropping; it probably only dropped from the 4th rebuild. I teleported into the opponent's treasure zone, lots of Dragon Utopias there, in the first Dragon Utopia a КЗ. I skipped one Dragon Utopia to run for the towns. By then it looked like a GG. In a mini-treasure zone near the Ramp, there was a guard of 140 Diamond Golems; I leveled up Vidomina on them. She levels up decently compared to Isra because she's a mage. Though, in the end, I couldn't fully get expert Necromancy. Then I captured the treasure zone directly from my Conflux and farmed the central treasure zone a bit. Ended up with 5 treasure zones against 2.
Thanks for the game!
Anyway, I started playing because the citadel worked out. Even the presence of a second Castle for the opponent on 112 didn't stop me. I gradually captured the Dungeon computer's castle and aimed to break through to the second one. And then the computer came back to recapture. To transfer the army, I decided to beat it in the field, which was a big mistake. 60 skeletons with archery couldn't overcome 60 Troglodytes, 10 Harpies, and 7 Evil Eyes under a Damacon. I had to buy off and build a Citadel. I should have just built the Citadel and skipped the turn. I had the face of Liches; instead of plans to finish off the second computer, I should have used the citadel to take the face of Liches on 117. In general, with the remnants of the army, I broke into the second computer's area, having 3 Liches and 20 skeletons, and built a Citadel there, otherwise it could have easily been a GG from the Ramp. Anyway, by 121 it looked so-so, but I transferred everything into skeletons, raised some Dwarf Cottages, doubled my mana, and went into the Griffin Conservatory. There were already 200+ skeletons; with the double, it probably even took the max. So, in general, in terms of priority for buying castles after the necromancer, it's probably Dungeon. And Tower, while it gives a good Mage Guild, the penalty really ruins things, and relics in treasure zones, while 6LM on the other hand, getting control there is not rare in the Mage Guild.
Before taking the Griffin Conservatory, I also set up an upgraded Isra for splitting, and then bam, the opponent covers Isra with a leveled-up Grindan on 2 Gargoyles. Well, I thought either he built Fly or got a Fly scroll with a level 5 Mage Guild. And it turned out to be Fly. Another setback was that if Ramp had pushed me out, I would have been left without the Mage Guild. A mini-treasure zone spawned for Ramp on the Tower; he was building the Mage Guild there. In principle, the chains were for defense. I got a bit lucky that when I took a prison, I freed a leveled-up mage and relearned Death Wave for him. And he was placed for splitting. Grindan was 1600 movement from the Ramp. I built Pegasi and used Death Wave level 30 to blast Grindan. He was apparently just scouting there and thinking he'd buy off cheaply into the castle, and he took Isra like that. Well, I figured losing such a mage at the start of the second week would be a disaster, no doubt. My plans to capture the Conflux were slightly ruined, but it might have even worked in my favor; the Conflux castle was far away, and the roads to the Conflux were generally slow and long. I went as a Titan into the treasure zone with 2 Angels and 250 skeletons. Just at the castle, I raised skeletons and got a mana hat. I doubled my mana, transferred the skeletons, and went to take the Dragon Utopia. The max Dragon Utopia fell easily; it gave КВ and something else useful. Then I slowly started building the Mage Guild further, swapped artifacts for resources. There were also max Cyclops in the treasure zone. Town Portal wasn't dropping; it probably only dropped from the 4th rebuild. I teleported into the opponent's treasure zone, lots of Dragon Utopias there, in the first Dragon Utopia a КЗ. I skipped one Dragon Utopia to run for the towns. By then it looked like a GG. In a mini-treasure zone near the Ramp, there was a guard of 140 Diamond Golems; I leveled up Vidomina on them. She levels up decently compared to Isra because she's a mage. Though, in the end, I couldn't fully get expert Necromancy. Then I captured the treasure zone directly from my Conflux and farmed the central treasure zone a bit. Ended up with 5 treasure zones against 2.
Thanks for the game!
