The opponent kindly let me play as Conflux while he took blue Inferno. It's clear right away that the guy just plays for fun, not for the win. Respect. As for me, between Rampart and Conflux, I chose to play Conflux, because you rarely get to play it)).
I didn't take any restarts, while the opponent used both. On the third generation, I immediately saw an external dwelling of birds and decided not to take a restart, although I later regretted it: there was only one road to the GO. On the first, I couldn't find mercury for the birds, so only Imps in the Stronghold. On the second, I took the external dwelling of birds, but couldn't build them in the castle that same week :mad:, couldn't even buy a single one, because I had absolutely no money and nowhere to get any in the foreseeable future. I broke through into the underground (near which there was a conservatory with 2-4 angels), took a secondary Inferno town, and scouts revealed that it was adjacent to the opponent's main castle, with Rakshasas in between. I break through from the underground back to the surface, and so money starts coming in. I shook down two trees, visited a library with 90+ gold golems, and teleported home to pick up the conservatory and head towards the opponent through the secondary. Teleported—took the conservatory—teleported—and I'm standing in front of the Rakshasas, having previously taken a Naga bank. I see Pyra, who is hanging around near my castle and stealing my treasure chests that I never got to. He also already has some angels and a couple of Efreets. Pyra moved towards my castle, so I chained-ported to my castle and attacked:
Moner 12-6-7-5, expert Haste, expert Offense, advanced Defense; 5+5 birds, 8 Imps, 8 Wyverns, 29 Storm Elementals, 2 angels, 24 Ice Elementals. Pyra 8-7-5-3, expert Slow, 3 angels, 5 Efreets, 21 Elves and 4 Demons. 10 birds couldn't kill 3 angels, so in response came Pyra's Slow and the killing of my 3 birds by Efreets and angels. In the second round, instead of retreating on the Efreets' turn, the opponent moved them and they died after a mass Haste. I checked the save—retreat wouldn't have saved him, because on turn 147 I would have killed him in his castle, and if I hadn't reached it, my ranks would have been reinforced by another 7 birds, and then it would have been definitely GG.
Thanks for the game!