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Pavel Dubrovin (Red, Castle, Valeska, Mephala) def gen (Blue, Fortress, Korbac, Bron), 2sm4d(3), 2.1.6.
A swamp is a swamp, and even with Visions on week 1 (without Castle/Citadel) and 2 towns (Rampart), due to the native respawn being poor, development was nonexistent. There was absolutely nothing: no income-generating buildings, no Griffin Conservatories/Beehives; from native structures, only a distant, useless Lizard Pond and a Gnoll Hut. This — specifically the lack of gold with a strong army (had a few money buildings appeared along the way, I would have taken them all) — was the main reason for the loss, even though I had the army, and with 3 revealed Dragon Utopias...
Unlucky random. Since all possible restarts had already been used, I didn't ask to give the opponent another rest (thanks, he did give a couple of autosaves though).
Overall, the gold problem loomed over me the entire game. That's why on 2/6-2-7 I rushed toward the opponent, only to be met there by 10 upgraded Knights. He chased off both my heroes (bought them back), and my economy was ruined on 2/7: 3.5k for the ransom, +5k to recall the heroes before the start of the week (I had to exchange almost ALL resources on the markets) — I could have surrendered then. But I didn't.
Then — I broke the Elementals for the 3rd town (Conflux), where (HURRAY, finally) there was one (!) Griffin Conservatory, which I took on week 3...
3 Angels, 1 I give to Tazar from Dungeon to clear Crypts. 2 — to Loh, who goes to the main town. For the chain.
Again, comparing with the abundance of all this on the opponent's side — in a word, random.
On 3/6, the opponent breaks through a Dragon Utopia (on his side), exits through a portal onto my Dragon Utopia — a horde of Black Knights, he flies around it, destroys an excellent chain — on 4/1 GG I was heading for 1 Dragon Utopia with spawn from the town (there were also cows for the Dragon Utopia and Hydras)... He takes my town (with those very 2 Angels).
Then we ran around a bit. For fun, I took a minimal Dragon Utopia with zero army and surrendered. That's all, Kisa :)
Thanks for the game, in the future I'll think very hard if the respawn is this poor.