Reports on online games and their confirmations (Winter 2008 season).

Oh yes! Tazar isn't just a tank — he's a super tank! I had completely different plans towards the end of Week 2 and the start of Week 3, but out of the corner of my eye I see a Griffin Conservatory on a Necro respawn where the blue scout heroes were popping up, and I think I can take mine in time, and I can't leave it for the opponent — so I attack — I enter the Griffon Conservatory — maximum size (not 3 as in the report) — but Tazar with 5 Hydras and over 50 Lizardmen loses only about half a hundred Gnolls and maybe a couple of Wyverns there. Plans for my own spawn are canceled — I see an entrance to a cave — I go in — and there's a gold mine with a blue flag, open doors to a library, and a Book of Water behind a hundred Archmagi — expert Tactics and Speed +1 — I take it easily. I see in the distance around the corner both a Dragon Utopia and Crag Hack at the entrance from his side of the cave... As it turned out, the Dragon Utopia was right next to the Dungeon, and also maximum size — apparently the generator crammed all the dragons into it, because the explored map showed only 2 Dragon Utopias, with the second one in the middle of nowhere. It takes me 2 days to reach the Dragon Utopia — Crag Hack takes 1. That's the whole math. I also moved the scout heroes off the direct path to the capital, positioning them for maneuver to take the Dragon Fly Hive when transferring troops. Air Show revealed I had nowhere to find something to oppose Crag Hack. I took the Necklace of Dragon Teeth there and then headed home, because Crag Hack had already appeared there with Dimension Door and Flight. But the chain with the Angel through the swamp was short by exactly a couple of hexes. Although the fodder there already didn't make a difference.
Thanks for the game.
Got revenge for yesterday's loss — I'll write now how it went.