Pandora (Death) lost to ZYbr (Death) - Heartwinter (Expert, 6 min), 213
Here's how it went for me:
I didn't get any Poison spells, which I wasn't prepared for, and it slowed me down in the beginning, causing me to lose precious vampires. But still, in the first week, I took the second Castle, got the Gloves, built the fourth level in my first Castle (devils), and captured a dwelling (bone dragons). Realizing that I wasn't having much luck with the artifacts, I got discouraged and started losing momentum. While there were still a few decent artifacts, I didn't expect to get a Castle of Might, there were no Dark Champions, and the spells in the guild for the Order mage were not very helpful: there was no Slow, Blind, or Forgetfulness (which I was really counting on because of the green creatures in the third Castle). Instead, I got general Accuracy, when I don't have a single ranged unit in my army... All of this naturally made it harder to clear the map and led to a defeatist playstyle. Plus, my heroes scattered across the map and remained underdeveloped by the final battle.
The biggest mistake was playing too passively. But I couldn't do anything about it anymore; morale wasn't recovering)).
Yan, thank you for the game :)
And! During the game, I had a question: if someone wants to restart, does the game start over, or can the player who wants to restart do it unilaterally?