Week 1 was not so good. I couldn't build Firebirds, but Brissa had duel for elementals and lots of resources except mercury! On 121 I took AI (Tower)+AI (Fortress). Started building MGs. On 125 my opponent showed up with Mulich as a scout. On 127 with Firebirds and rest of my army I defeat my opponent second best hero - Labetta. That gave me an advantage. On 131 Tower gave me DD from MG. On 132 took rampart village + 12 wiverns and 2x6 cyclops stockpiles. On 134 I got TP from the 3rd rebuilt. On 135 Brissa attacked Shakti. I had lots of spells and better army that easily defeat my opp. army. GG has followed. Thanks for the game!
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It was a lucky draw — I got a parade of strong heroes and terrible roads, managed to capture the native AI Castle by the end of the week via a no-road route, and at the start of the second week I took a 3rd-tier Griffin Conservatory. On 131 I built full control. But the stupid loss of Labetta (I thought she would survive until the second round), whom I could have bought back with the army, hit my tempo hard. Since my other heroes — Shakti, Gunnar, Mulich — were under-leveled and had no mana pool. I tried to find army objects but only found Dragon Utopias. There weren't many options, so I decided to try taking the opponent's Tower before he built control, but it was too late — he also got full control and battle magic. Thanks for the game!