invisible (blue, Rampart, Kyrr, Gunnar) def. Dubrovin Pavel (red, Castle, Valeska, Terek) 2sm4d(3) 214
I lost units 3 times during the game and was about to surrender because there was absolutely no tempo. From the start: 16 elves, an external dwelling of wood and centaurs, 2 experience crystals that all the scrubs failed to check properly. Guna showed up in the tavern, so I decided to level both him and Kyrr. On day 115, Kyrr thought she was hot stuff and attacked 20+ swordsmen. As expected, there were 48 of them with an upgraded stack. Total wipe and a complete financial pit, but Kyrr redeemed herself since she was already level 5 with Earth magic. End of week one: horses in the citadel, upgraded centaurs and elves. On the second week, Guna breaks into the underground with just the horses, losing one horse to thieves :(. The underground is as quiet as a grave, fighting for every piece of gold. At the native respawn, I spot a conservatory (3-4), another one in the underground, and a Naga Bank nearby. On the second day, dumping all resources to zero, I built a castle and bought everything on day 131, took the Naga Bank for 20 Nagas (the Nagas had 7 morale, I thought it was game over), and rushed into the conservatory without even checking what it was. There was Mass Slow, but only enough mana for one Slow and Shield cast. It turned out to be a level 3; moral griffins bit my Grand Elves to death. I escaped with 6 horses. I split up in my native town, refill mana, and run to the second conservatory; meanwhile, my noob heroes are chain-farming money. While taking a Medusa dwelling with a noob hero, I saw another conservatory and decided to send Kyrr there. She was a decent secondary hero, level 7 with advanced Earth magic, but no spell book. Guna takes the max conservatory but loses 2 horses and an angel, sad... Kyrr takes the second conservatory, which turned out to be a mini :(, then finds and takes an external dwelling of Pegasi and another one of centaurs. Guna galloped to a Treasury, where from the scout view I see a couple of Hives, a gold mine, a Pandora's Box, and a Library. When breaking the guard of the Pandora's Box, I was offered a choice between Artillery or Fire Magic. I took Fire, and the box gave me all Fire spells :smile12:. Found a Dragon Utopia, took it — minimal level, gave Titan's Armor. I split up to a secondary hero and run to the second Treasury, where I took a couple of Pandora's Boxes (experience and 50 zombies) and discover a level 3 Dragon Utopia, which gave +8 all stats and Wings. Then I see Pasha going on the offensive: a flock of Archangels :eek: :eek:, hordes of marksmen, etc. I think it's over, split up to the main hero and wait for the attack. There were 11 Archangels, almost 200 pikemen, 100+ marksmen, close to a hundred griffins. I planned either Expert Berserker or summoning elementals right away and then Armageddon, but Pasha had so much meat that I might not have survived until the end of the next round. He cast Mass Slow, I cluster near the unicorns (plus I have Expert Resistance), and Armageddon-death for 2200 damage. All my 12 horses and 20 Pegasi standing near them survived. Pasha had only 2 Archangels left, one of which was finished off by a horse. Capitulation.
Thanks for the game.

By the way, a question for those who know: Pasha had a Black Sphere... So why did my Resistance work?! I know it behaves differently, but please remind an old man with a maiden's memory))