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Predator Russian (Red, Stronghold, Deesha, Luna) def Laner (Blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) 2smd4(3), 124

:-) My first victory on this forum, not counting complete newbs (I didn't leave reports when I won against them).

Decent spawn. No caches, except for bears under guard — lots of snipers, but none else.

111. Got to the lookout, revealed a secondary Rampart with a passage blocked by many mummies. Deesha went the other way. Fought, collected money.

113. Took the secondary Rampart. Since Deesha was on the other side, Gunnar took the secondary; he broke the mummies first. Got a shield for +3.

113-117: bears in the Citadel (barely scraped together funds, fought with everything for all I could, then exchanged at the markets in both castles). In the Rampart, the Town Hall brings in money. The opponent had no secondary.

While Gunnar was bogged down in fights far from home and roads (that was the only place with money to build bears on), I passed the Machine from him down the chain to Deesha, who went to conquer some source of income, because their money was totally...

122-123. With two bears, 4 birds, about 15 wolves, and 19 goblin archers, I'm clearing the area just fine. Suddenly, Shakti appears in the teleporter. A nearby hero is killed, and I think Shakti won't reach me, and I'll kill him the next day, exchanging all resources to buy more units and pass them to Deesha down the chain... but Shakti reached me ((( He had 8 Manticores and about 60 upgraded Troglodytes. And it so happened that there was a ravine running the full length of the battlefield. That ravine and my ballista very conveniently cut off my 19 archers from the rest of my army. How frustrating it was to lose them all, defenseless.... I thought — it's over. Barely, over about 3 turns, I went around the ravine and made contact with the enemy, who up to that point had enjoyed many happy moments, slaughtering my archers with impunity. In the end, he had 8 Troglodytes left and I had 13 wolves, so I actually won, funny as it sounds... He either pays ransom or surrenders.

123. What to do? I go with the weak hero into that teleporter he came from and reveal his town within a day's reach. I quickly sell all resources, buy an army in Rampart (it's closer), and wanted to pass everything to the weak hero and go warm-like to the opponent.... Ran out of time, didn't get to move.... Do I need to mention that this weak hero was killed by the hero who came out of the opponent's castle and then went back inside to wait for me...?

124. Carefully, I buy more troops and officially (though with a weak hero — LUNA) knock on the opponent's door. He resisted admirably, but the lack of units played a fatal role. Victory!

Thanks for the game! I got my revenge!
ICQ: PREDATOR_RUSSIAN