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I also don't know how to play Stronghold and I don't like it (my least favorite town!). How do you even play it??? Orc shooters are bad, like lizards - second level, they have a penalty in melee... Ogres are slow, Haspids are fragile, you might not even manage to build bears... Cyclops are even harder to build than bears... IMO, this whole Stronghold relies on the bird! :) What if the bird gets killed? That's it...

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SEM_56 (red, Rampart, Ivor, Ivor) def Hermit (blue, Castle, Valessa, Valessa) 2SM4d(3), 227!!
Took all the resources and off we go, Ivor starts with 20 Elves, around the castle, within 4 days, 4 Dwarf Cottages (need to build dragons)....
111-117 Centaur and Dendroid huts, scout takes Necro secondary, 2 crypts (mini), 1-6 in the castle...
121-127 took three Dwarf Cottages with Ivor and 1 scout, Inferno secondary, on 127 got the Dragons!!!
131-137 Conf secondary, thought I'd take the opponent's secondary (since it was native), but ended up in other lands, scrounged up 2 Elf huts in the middle of nowhere....
141-147 a couple of Pandora's Boxes, artifacts, 2 Dragon Utopias, where I lost 14 Unicorns....
211-217 wanted to go take another Dragon Utopia, but the opponent was already there. I decide to go for the capital through the secondary, bypassing the GO. I take the capital, the native secondary, buy Angels there, take the Griffin Conservatory with scouts, upgrade the Angels....
221-227 the opponent heads to my lands, I hit the GO and get wiped out in Necro. The opponent has no castles and he attacks me, Expert Water + Water book, Expert Magic Resistance and Boots of Resistance, a bunch of Vova's mistakes and 119 Grands + clones, they shoot down 8 Angels, 61 Crusaders, almost 180 Archers, and an inevitable victory. Thanks to Vova for an interesting game!!!

P.S. we played on 6-minute timers, which sometimes were barely enough for me. Thanks to Lebron for the valuable advice, my chain is gradually becoming battle-ready, and thanks to the chain (I calculated), I saved about 3 weeks of time...

I confirm. I lost because of my forgetfulness, Valessa refilled mana at the well not in a cap, but in a hat... :smile35: :smile35: :smile35: :smile35: :smile35: :smile35: :smile35: I cursed myself for a long time when I discovered it in the Treasury. Without mana, the hat was useless, I couldn't use the Door to Dimension and had to grab whatever was simpler there and hoof it back through the sand to the well, and by then Ivor was already waiting in Necropolis... I revealed the area with a scout and see - there's no one in Necropolis, I approach and Ivor is at the gates with 1-4 Archangels. I was happy - now you're done for, Ivor, attacked without positioning, without equipping the Red Orb, and he's sitting there in the town with his whole army. :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: Anyway, I would have won the battle if it weren't for the 30% resistance :( :mad:

But the reason for the defeat, of course, is only the hat :mad: :mad: :mad:

Other than that, the odds were more in my favor. Only one secondary town, but a native one!
It's my own fault for losing, I need to be more focused and not lose my cool! :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :smile35: :smile35: :smile35:

Thanks to Roma for the game!

P. S. And yes, there were mistakes... I was counting on killing Ivor with the Archangels, but as soon as I saw what was there - my hands just dropped...