We took all the restarts, and in the end I'm in the underground, while Gunnar is up top enjoying life. There were only two roads — one leading to ГО, the other to my native secondary :smile23: . On the first week, only liches in the citadel, three entrances to the treasury were breached: one to snow, another to swamp, the third to sands :mad: But there was a little Dragon Utopia sitting pretty at the edge of the sands, so I ran off to gather more skeletons for the Dragon Utopia. On the second week, cavalry in the castle, liches with nothing in the secondary. On the third week, I set up cavalry in the secondary and spent the whole week screwing around, running back and forth, not knowing what to do. I thought about taking the Dragon Utopia on week 137, then thought, forget it... since I didn't even have enough gold to buy all the cavalry, let alone meat. The only gold-producing building I took all game was the dwarven cottage for 100 gold :( I took the Dragon Utopia on week 142 — it was tier 2, gave me a sword +5 attack and a hat +4 to spell power and knowledge. I saw three more Pandora's Boxes down below, but I didn't feel like running across the sands, so I beat it, refilled my mana, breached ГО, and went on the offensive. I had 20 ghosts (from a Pandora's Box), 27 liches, 14 cavalry, 450 skeletons, 80 zombies, 28 vampires. For combat magic, only ring of fire for 200 and frost wave for 135. I was glad I picked the right direction at the fork, took the opponent's castle, but Gunnar wasn't home. I ask Zhenya, where's the owner? And then Gunka attacks my main town with very few troops: 5 scorpicores, 30 medusas, 30 Evil Eyes, a few Troglodytes, and 1 angel. Well, I think, I'll go beat him now and retake my castle. I doubled my mana in the dungeon, but then I start thinking: how did Gunya get to me without me even noticing?? There was one unbreached pass leading to the ghosts, but they're intact :smile32: Then it starts dawning on me, and on the next turn I see Gunka flying all over the map with the Wings of the Night. Few troops, but Gunnar with wings against a necro without control, even without logistics — it's just a nightmare. My spirits sank. Zhenya killed all my horses, persistently controlling my secondary necro (I had already retaken the main). But then I pulled myself together a bit, released new horses in different directions to reclaim the secondaries: one headed for my native secondary on scorpicores, another went for the barbarian secondary with the ghosts, and the meat from the dungeon headed for Inferno. After thinking it over a bit, Zhenya surrendered. Though a Dragon Utopia and a Griffin Conservatory were scouted, there was nothing to take them with, and I couldn't recapture my growth in time.
Thanks for the interesting game!