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

invisible (red, Tower, Neela, Neela) def loi (blue, Castle, Valeska, Valeska)145 2sm4d(3)
We picked castles as we wished. I felt like training the Tower faction, which I don't usually like. We took all the restarts. In the end, two native heroes in the tavern, two external dwellings of gremlins next to the castle, and another one a 4-day march away. The respawn was so poor it made me want to cry. First mage guild in the citadel. There was basically no gold, no crypts, no nagabanks. On the second week, I captured one secondary Inferno town and ventured into the wilds with Neela, but there was no gold to transfer back to the tavern. So I barely cleared the second week with low-tier troops, while Neela gathered resources bit by bit :) . With incredible effort, by the second week I built everything except giants in the castle. By the end of the second week, Neela was level 6 :) . I felt like surrendering, but I wasn't in a hurry. There was one interesting moment. The secondary town was guarded by ice elementals and silver pegasuses. I broke through the pegasuses with just gremlins and a screen, intending to send a couple more heroes for gathering. But no — the ice elementals wouldn't let them through. I had to take them out with just gremlins too. In the end, I lost 50 gremlins. One thing cheered me up — Neela had Slow and basic Earth magic. Just needed to level it up. The third week was active — Neela level 14, picked up an Earth Elemental sphere in the treasury, a shield +3/+3 attack/defense, a Pandora's Box with 15k gold, freed Shiva from a level 10 prison, who then took a single conservatory with 2 angels. On the third week, I built the Capitol and giants, and plan to break ГО in the middle of the fourth week — a horde of cavaliers, along the way taking a conservatory on Valeska's respawn that the opponent for some reason never took. At 145, I break through 80 horses, take the conservatory (turned out to be a tier 3 one) and set up next to the opponent's castle. On the next turn, he surrenders. He had lost twice and had nothing to fight with in the final battle. His situation was simply golden: three external dwellings of marksmen, an external dwelling of angels right next to his castle.
Thanks for the game!