| | Uff!.. It was a long game, but it could have been even longer... Well, I'll tell you in order, as I remember...
We started playing, and the starting location seemed small, with only one road leading to the secondary town, and another to the main town. I was going to take the starting town on day 113, but then I saw a snake lair, and next to it, a pile of sulfur. I remembered the saying, "Sulfur on the swamp means hydras on the first day," and decided to continue. I cleared a path to the secondary town, but I couldn't take it because silver pegasi blocked the road... and then, a cartographer! The saying turned out to be true, and hydras appeared in the citadel. By the end of the day, only a few wooden and ore resources remained... And next to the snake lair was a passage underground, which turned out to be the path to the opponent's secondary town. Tazar cleared it, fearing to fight many ogres underground, but there were only 21 of them, albeit with a buffed stack... and Ciel unexpectedly quickly found the opponent's Necropolis, captured it, and started to establish order there... I revealed two utopias: one on my starting location, one on the opponent's secondary town, and then another one on my secondary town. On the second day, I defeated the utopia guard on my starting location, took the smallest Hive, which was guarded by exactly 100 gnomes. Then I rushed to the Inferno starting location, defeated the silver pegasi there, losing 11 lizards and a vivienne! I'm amazed by myself!.. Then, a minimal conservation, then another one, and after gathering a small army, Tazar went randomly through the underground treasury to the utopia on the opponent's secondary town... I was afraid that I would end up in Moner's hands, but he didn't come to that starting location, and that was a mistake! A big mistake!!! I brought the army to Tazar, who had already leveled up to level 15 in the treasury. I was afraid to go into the utopia, but I took it quite easily (special thanks to the cow, I'm glad I built a resource depot and upgraded them). Then I hired a normal army and took the utopia on my starting location, and then on my secondary town. I took all three utopias on the fourth week. Then I waited until I had enough sulfur to upgrade the hydras. Tazar, for the most part, wasted the first week of the second month (running around for upgrades). Finally, I upgraded them, built a Veil of Darkness over the Necropolis, sneaked in, and treacherously captured the red capital on day 217! But the red player didn't need it, and in vain Tazar built a capitol in it (made it his) and sat there waiting for Moner. The opponent, it turned out, was building two secondary towns at that time. Realizing that sitting calmly in the Dungeon would not lead to anything good (scouts at a great cost revealed that the opponent already had archangels), Tazar rushed to his native swamp and rushed to the treasury to grab hives and pandoras while it wasn't too late - it wasn't too late yet. He gathered some viviennes, learned all the fire spells. It was starting to become difficult to continue - we had been playing all day, and I suggested that the opponent have a Fight Battle, and he agreed. Tazar had 24 combat strength, 153 mana, explosion, resurrection, and earth expertise. And so the battle began. I looked, and Moner had only 1 mana point. I thought, "I'll win this without any losses." I wanted to immediately destroy 10 archangels with an explosion, but no, it turned out that Moner had a red spell... I got scared, I had to go forward, even though the opponent had an artifact +2 to speed. And so the hydras, basilisks, cows, and viviennes flew, and the archers followed, waiting for the attacks of Moner's castle army... But they approached successfully and pinned everyone in the corner. The basilisk and cow defended well against the archangel. The basilisk turned him to stone, and this allowed the hydra to fight the crusader first, and then the halberdier and champions through the narrow passage, and then the cow also did a good job, and in general, somehow, we managed to win the battle, in which it seemed there were no chances, especially after the archangel destroyed all the lizards in the first round.
Thank you for the game! | |
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