We haggled and haggled, and finally settled on Heartwinter and Lezkandra. Lu chose Heartwinter, and that was a good decision, because I like it more than Lezkandra :) . I got Death again, and I decided to let her have Nature. That's how we decided. At the beginning of the game, I got Tactics and also bought a Runner. Fortunately, the Runner leveled up very well. On day 5, he was already a Grand Master. Skeletons are slow, I only got Gloves on day 4, but the Devils were already in the stable on day 5. I took the second Castle on day 6. I bought a Sorcerer and immediately turned him into a Wizard at the nearest altar. While he was leveling up, the main army with 2 Devils and 2 Vampires went to clear out the northwest, while Tactics and the Runner leveled up. As a result, the Runner was already a Grand Master on day 8. I bought another Sorcerer and also turned him into a Wizard at the university. On day 123, I decided to buy Champions of the Dark, and as a result of the attack on the dwelling, I lost 2 Devils and 3 Vampires, but I still killed one Champion. The next day, I bought a Devil, a Vampire, and the nearest Wizard, and finally bought 2 Champions. On day 126, I took out the birds at the mine and lost another Devil. I didn't buy any more of them. I ran east, and at the same time, I bought 2 more Sorcerers. While they are running around the level-up spots, I cleared everything around the third Castle. The Sorcerers arrived, and the third Castle was taken on day 135. Then I ran to the first Castle to learn Forgetfulness and to destroy the remaining neutrals with the nasty archers. On day 141, I was already thinking of attacking the portal guard, but I decided not to rush and fly to the island, I wanted to level up the Wizards. And I ran. After returning from the island, I visited the only tree and went to crush the guard. On day 214, I defeated one guard. On day 215, the second, I ran to the tree on Lu's territory, and on day 216, I attacked.
My army:
Death Knight 16 (Tactics 5555)
Wizard 15 (Grand Master Order with the Book of Order)
Wizard 15 (Grand Master Order, Spell Steal, Hypnosis)
Fire Elemental 14 (Grand Master Chaos, Armageddon, Chain Lightning)
Fire Elemental 14 (Grand Master Chaos, Armageddon, Chain Lightning)
Fire Imp 16 (Grand Master Runner, Grand Master Scouting, Expert Chaos)
5 Champions of the Dark.
Lu's army:
Archer 11 (Grand Master Combat, Grand Master Melee)
Bard 11 (Grand Master Runner, Expert Nature)
Wizard 7 (Advanced Chaos and Order)
General 8 (Tactics 4120)
Druid 5 (Expert Nature)
5 Phoenixes
3 Manticores
In the final, Lu kept trying to kill one Wizard with Phoenixes, who was constantly scratching his bald head, but I sent the Phoenixes back, strangled the Manticores, removed the spells from the heroes, hit the last Phoenix a couple of times with Chain Lightning, hypnotized it, and finished it off with the heroes :)
Lu, thank you for the game ;)