Only today I was able to access the forum, so it's a bit belated, but we agreed to leave it here too... :-)

Dust (Sorka, Barbarian) def Catch (Necro, idk) Magician battle 1 4 1

Had a great time relaxing on the weekend! We wanted to do it again the next one, but only managed to this Friday. :-) Catch suggested playing on his map, one he drew a long time ago. I, of course, gladly agreed, because it's interesting to play something new - one, got tired of the old ones - two, and I also wanted to see Catch's artistic creation - three! ;-)

We played diagonally. Decided to go old school with a Sorka vs. Nark confrontation, turned out quite entertaining. The map itself is ordinary, drawn on a "square-diagonal-symmetric" principle ;-)), but quite technical, little in the way of freebies, guards are strong, you can't play sloppily - you'll get punished right away, the same goes for the AI, though we didn't buff them with anything special. ;-) Anyway, we had a good game. On the first map I barely took out the Unicorns, and I needed to trade for 1000 gold and 1 gem at the market. Meanwhile, while holding a chain to visit the computer, I bought up the army, turned in resources for money, bought all the Horses, Druids, and some Elves (not greens). With this I first broke through my own tasty guard, then the passage to the computer (a pack of Unicorns - those bastards bit a lot of Elves, because 1 Horse blinded the Druids at a bad time), then it was a choice: either continue straight to the computer - the Warlock, which I really wanted, and build dragons at his place, since I had collected a bunch of sulfur, but had only 8 Mercury... But, at the turn start, the Warlock with all his buddies was leisurely hanging out on the road to the castle, there was plenty of fat meat, and heaven forbid if magic was involved, then it's a one-way ticket. :-) So I decided to take out his town and break through his tasty guard to trade for Griffins. As soon as the looting and chest leveling were done, this same Warlock hero came galloping and hit me with Cold Ray for 120, saying 'what are you doing wandering around my respawn!' :-)) Result: -3 Horses -2 Druids, well, I didn't care, I told him, paying extra gold. Ended up at home on 1 2 7, sped up with the Phoenix I finally built, though I had to sell off all resources to zero and then barely scrape by to buy back those Birds, especially the Mercury shortage was annoying. Oh well, I picked up my +3 defense artifact, leveled up a bit more, and stood sped up at the passage to the second computer, guarded by Skeletons. At that time, terrible shouts from Catch could be heard from the neighboring respawn, he was also getting hit by a Bolt to the head from the Computer-Wizard. In short, revenge on these rampant AI bots was needed. I transfer the army, i.e., 4 Birds, Druids, and Horses, break through these 8 Black Dragons with them, but greed got the better of me - I lost a bird because I was reluctant to sacrifice the Druids. I ran further down the road. A day later I'm standing near the Wizard's castle, battles are already happening there, and Necromancer heroes are visible. At the turn change from 1 3 7 to 1 4 1, the mega-lord of the respawn - the Wizard with a decent army almost attacks me, which greatly frustrated Sir Catch. Although I would have won that battle, probably losing half the Horses and Druids, since my Barbarian's stats were around 10 8 in primary skills, but the Wizard didn't reach me by one square! But Catch couldn't resist finishing off my last scout hero in the chain to the GG, but he ended right on that square himself - R.I.P :-))). On my turn, I transfer the army along the chain, fortunately set up without any mistakes. The last hero was supposed to pass to the scout at the very spot where the evil Catch - the killer of other people's scout heroes :-)) - ended his last turn. We ride the main hero there, transfer the army, and attack on the last square. I split the Phoenixes 2 2 2, because I want to give the enemy hero no chance to escape (he's standing without new growth, apparently low on gold or had no chain, even though he was the host), but 4 Liches, even after the Destruction Ray, withstood the attack of 2 Phoenixes with 10 Attack - the damage spread was terrible. But even so, it was over, because the Barbarian's stats left no doubt about the outcome. Thanks for the game. :-)

By the way, I edited this map in my spare time, and I think it will be a pretty good alternative to the overplayed Teleporters, Winterlands, Hot Spots, and the like. I'll definitely include it in the upcoming joint online tournament, which is just around the corner. ;-) And I also recommend everyone try playing on it for a change.