Neoandy (red, swamp, Tazar, Tazar) def RetroFM (blue, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) 2SM4D(3), 126

I took all the rests, my opponent was left on 113.
111 - lizardmen not built. Building flies. 2nd hero in tavern is a Necromancer. Starting army: 15 lizardmen and 41 gnolls. An external dwelling of lizardmen is revealed. External dwelling of flies, Griffin Conservatory, Medusa Den, Boots behind the Centaur horde, and a Pandora's Box with 20-49 Dendroid Guards are revealed. 5 heroes bought.
112 - too early to attack the Centaurs, waiting for building and upgrade of lizardmen - gnolls will still be useful... I spend the day fighting dwarves and visiting a +1000 experience pillar, getting Expert Defense and Basic Earth Magic. Building lizardmen. Dragon Utopia and an external dwelling of gnolls are revealed. I plan to take a risk on the Pinocchios - there can't really be 49 of them, right!?
113 - upgrade of lizardmen, now 32 of them. Buy a 6th hero with a ballista. Scout gathers gold, finds a Dragon Fly Hive, a couple of crypts, a cave, and positions to deliver gnolls from the external dwelling next turn. Boots taken from the Centaur horde with the loss of just 1 gremlin. Could have attacked the Dendroids on 113, but decided not to scare the opponent with a long turn, to avoid provoking a re133. But by this time the opponent already had 3 money heroes, a stable was revealed, external dwellings of pikemen and archers, a Griffin Conservatory, a Dragon Fly Hive, and many roads - I don't think there would have been a rest.
114 - 32 Lizard Warriors, 54+1 gnolls, a ballista, and 4 flies attack the Dendroids - there certainly weren't 49 of them, only 48 :smoke: But upgrading the lizardmen wasn't in vain and the battle was certainly scary with the morale of the logs and the presence of an upgraded stack, but when a couple of stacks were killed, the morale decreased. The Pandora's Box gives 10k experience! And Tazar wakes up at level 10, with Expert Defense, Earth Magic, Archery, and Advanced Tactics. The fast roads and Boots gave excessive confidence, which almost cost me the game. Built Wyverns to take the crypt (just in case).
115 - Tazar beats everyone without problems, including water elementals with an upgraded one on the grass and everything encountered. Level 12, Basic Attack added. Built Basilisk dwellings. Bought Bron as the 7th hero. In perspective: another Pandora's Box with 20-49 Minotaurs and a more distant one with 10-19 Bone Dragons.
116 - empty Conflux captured and Tazar builds a mage guild with the last wood, to take the Naga Bank on 117. We stay the night in the Conflux.
117 - Naga Bank in sight. I would wait for the delivery of reinforcements the next day, but then I'd be spending this day on practically nothing - I attack - maximum. Mana 20, Spell Power 4. 2 Wyverns, 32 Lizardmen, about 50 gnolls, and butterflies 1+1+1. Maybe I could have played it better, but Defense is defense and Attack was lacking, and when mana runs out, 1 full Naga and a singleton remain, which quickly finish off 4 gnolls and a Wyvern and then go for the lizardmen. That's how sadly it could have all ended. They didn't let me auto-combat, and why would I - what a handicap! I re-buy back home. Thankfully I had gathered plenty of gold.
Well, after that everything is simple, the scout heroes found another external dwelling of lizardmen in a remote area, Tazar goes to the Conflux (no point in buying back there since the army is at home and there's no Chain) so we run in Boots to finish off the Naga Bank, giving the army to the scout heroes to break the external dwelling of lizardmen. Broke through griffins into a cave and lizardmen, visited the Arena there, killed Blue's scout hero the next turn. Meanwhile, my hero was already being hunted by Valeska, who, sensing news of the wipe, was rushing to finish off what she thought was a wounded Tazar. Meanwhile +12000 gold from the Naga Bank, buy back at home, Griffin Conservatory for just 1 Angel, upgrade of Wyverns and Basilisks, and an attack on Valeska rushing towards the swamp capital.

The FB ended before it began - the setup with Expert Tactics and Mass Slow convinced the opponent.

Thanks for the game!