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vbn (blue, Castle, Ingham, Gunnar) def invisible (red, Rampart, Aeris, Alagar) 2sm4d(3) 1-4-4.
It happened! I never even dreamed of winning against Vitalik in this game, since I only started playing from week 3. There was one Griffin Conservatory with 3-4 angels, an elf external dwelling, 2 dwarf external dwellings, pegasi and horses, which I found on week 3 and took immediately. I only took the elves on week 1, and didn't have enough money for the rest. The slow roads really annoyed me. Anyway, I was planning to beat the GO and go on the attack, when suddenly Gunnar breaks through himself and goes the other way towards the swamp, while I was standing at the starting line. I attacked and was stunned by the number of angels. I was hoping for the speed buff and the way Vitalya positioned himself on Tactics near the elves :D, but then I still checked who had the first speed and retreated away from them. I couldn't do anything against 9 angels, 130 archers, and 30+ zealots.
Thanks for the game!
invisible (red, Castle, Valeska, Gunnison) def Dekontaminator (blue, Fortress, Tank, Tank) 236 2sm4d(3)
An interesting, long game both in game time and real time (about 10 hours). We started without restarts, had decent money, two Griffin Conservatories with 3-4 angels each, a Dragon Utopia two days' travel from the castle, 2 hives. In the first three days I already had 7 heroes, broke through to a secondary Conflux, broke into the Treasury (which later turned out to be a lifesaver), but there was a block at the entrance, so I went further. I got into another Treasury, there were 4 hives (though one behind a hoard of wyverns guarding a Book of Water, and another behind phoenixes), a library, a +3 shield, and a mercenary camp. On day 122, I bought 2 firebirds from the camp and started shaking trees. 20 ducks dropped, Valeska got Tactics as her third skill, so I decided to try leveling Gunnison to get Defense for the Dragon Utopia after all. But he immediately got Wisdom :). I grieved a bit, then decided to keep leveling Gunni — the ballista still helped a lot. I planned to take 2 Conservatories on month 3, then the Dragon Utopia. On day 131 I took the first — maximum, I had no spell book. I lost some shooters and a couple of wyverns. The second one on the third month, I didn't make it to the Dragon Utopia on the third day, but I wasn't upset, because the angels were freely recruited even without it. On day 142 I took a level-2 Dragon Utopia, they killed, the bastards, 1 angel, but gave a sword +5 to all stats, a cap +4/+4 Knowledge/Spell Power. Day 144 — I break 23 grizzly bears and take Tazar's empty castle, capture the enemy's secondary Tower, which had 4 levels of the mage guild built plus a library, and I only noticed this a week later :) . Tankosaurus was nowhere to be found, a week passed — he wasn't there. During this time I took another couple of hives, a shield, learned Dispel Magic to Expert Earth in the tower, and waited patiently, controlling all 4 castles with chains. The second week passed, I deprived him of two growths, and he didn't surrender — for a reason, I thought. And then he appeared in all his glory — the incomparable Tankosaurus, who could already run, jump, crawl, and fly; in short, he took his castle back from me, killed his own 2 growths, and I teleported to my castle and took a stand at the starting line. But Tazar didn't even think about attacking; he was frolicking, jumping, teleporting — in short, complete chaos, I thought, since it was already 3 AM and I'd be chasing him until morning. I suggested we make a final stand, but he just laughed in response. :mad: It's worth noting that during the game there was one clash of the main heroes, but about two dozen fights between our secondary heroes, who fought each other on different fronts for the secondary towns, and Valeska with archers and Gelar with sharpshooters helped me a lot in this; Gelar really didn't like Ciele. They kept sending each other to the tavern in turn, shooting it out with their archers :)
Anyway, I thought and thought, bought out the growth and went into that passage I didn't go into on the first week because of the block. I left a few troops to guard the castle, next to which Ciele was standing with flies. With difficulty I sent her to the tavern, which, in fact, saved me, because it gave me two days of respite. I trudged into the Treasury (they never gave me Logistics until the end of the game, but I had Expert Scouting :) ). When I entered the Treasury, which had a Pandora's Box for the entire 4th level right there, and a Dragon Utopia a day's walk away, I realized what a slowpoke I was. I was wandering God knows where when there was so much good stuff here. I stood not far from the Dragon Utopia, when I saw Tazar not far from my castle with his entire army. The next turn I take the level-3 Dragon Utopia. It gave a shield +4 to all skills, a red orb, and something else. I portal home. Tazar didn't expect to see me and DDs away from me. I couldn't build archangels due to a lack of resources. I immediately bought 4 peasants (Tazar killed half of them together with Ciele), and they quickly went to the Treasury to collect resources. But then Tazar couldn't stand it and attacked my castle:
Finale: Tazar 17-19-11-10(67) level 23, Expert Earth, Water, Air, Armorer, Ballistics, Golden Bow, 11 angels, 49 wyvern monarchs, 47 greater basilisks, 18 mighty gorgons, 14 scorpicores, 31 greater flies, 85 greater lizards.
Gunnison 24-21-22-18(180) level 18 :smile43: Expert Earth, Air, Offense, Artillery, 15 angels, 2 firebirds, 99 griffins, 36 zealots, 42 crusaders, 37 wyvern monarchs, 22 horses.
My first turn: Dispel Magic on the angels, and my opponent made a mistake and cast Mass Weakness, which cost him the victory. I used the angels with wait to hit the scorpicores; the 2 survivors paralyzed my angels :mad:; Tazik's wyverns hit my griffins, and not only killed half of them but also poisoned them. Oh, I got so angry that I cast Armageddon, which made Tazar's eyes pop out. In the second round, Tazar cast Dispel Magic on his wyverns, but there were few of them left and I finished them off manually, while the rest died under Armageddon in the third round.
Thanks for the interesting game!