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As part of the "Best of the Best" tournament:
denden (blue, Orc, Tilshek) def. A.Matrix (blue, Inferno, Deleb). 2-3-3.

Generated a large map without an underground. By agreement, they played with random races. 6 minutes.
Seeing Deleb on day 1, on day 2, he found a suitable counter in the tavern. He was still somewhat wary of rushing on this map. The neighboring zone was sand. The city zone he went to was also sand. He tried not to stray too far from the roads, but he couldn't resist some of the creatures and the Orcish sword. After exploring his own area, he cleared the next city – an Inferno city, but Deleb was nowhere to be seen.
He considered whether to attack (it was only day 5), but then he suddenly saw Deleb rapidly advancing in the tavern, ahead by 5 parameters. Treasure guessed it was Tilshek.
In the magic castle, he built +2000 and an artifact shop, where he couldn't resist buying an Orcish shield to add to his collection.
He then headed to the treasure, clearing a resource along the way (there was no one there either). He crawled for a week. He was very afraid of a massive clearing of the treasure.
When he entered, he soon saw a Utopia and didn't even think it might not have been cleared. But... there were plenty of artifacts scattered around.
He obtained: a dwarven helmet and chainmail, a ring of dragon and initiative 20, a pendant, and boots of speed. He had also previously obtained a ring of morale -2 (he sold the dragon ring), a ring of morale +2 and luck +2, and boots of speed. He also obtained a staff of Sar-Isri and a skull of Markel for sale.
There was one funny loss – the last black knight – 1! He reached it, drained 100 health, and died on the return. It was 4*10.
He quickly rose from 18th to 23rd.
On day 7, Deleb appeared in the distance. He broke down the artifacts for sale, bought everything, and went into battle.
The battle was clearly in his favor, so I won't even post it.
He developed his machinery to the fullest (plate armor-machine gun, and even though he saw an Overseer without a mod, it was still impressive), his racial units to the fullest, attack up to Overseer with tactics, defense 2 (resistance-evasion), and anti-magic 3 with weakening, which he didn't end up using. The Imps were somehow not as good as they should have been. And he never saw the Darkness he was afraid of (Deleb had no mana in the battle).

Thanks for the game, it was nerve-wracking on day 5. IMO, Matrix didn't capitalize on his excellent early clearing of the treasure. And even the Utopia, which apparently hadn't been visited, didn't help. Good luck in future battles.

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