Wlk777 (red, Swamp, Vistan, Kyrre) def Hermit (blue, Orrin, Orrin)
2smd4(3) 211
The game turned out interesting. After all the resets, two paths opened up — one to the Griffin Conservatory and one to the sharpshooters. The roads were slow, but I managed to capture a secondary town — Rampart, via cross-country movement. Result of the first week: 1-6 in the Citadel, Elves in the secondary town. On the second week, Kyrre appears in the tavern; I put her in the main hero slot, though I felt sorry — Vistan already had Tactics and Earth Magic... Didn't manage to do anything special on the second week, only scouted two Griffin Conservatories (3-4) and didn't reach one of the dwellings (all three Conservatories turned out to have 3 Angels each). I took the external dwelling of uniques and built them. On the third week, I captured those three Conservatories, losing a lot of troops there. I see my opponent has a Capitol — things are heading toward Archangels, so I can't stall. I took four Dragon Utopias (already on the fourth week). On turn 147, I set up a speed boost before the Griffin Conservatory. There was a huge risk of not making it to the opponent's capital, but luck was on my side, although the Conservatory gave me a beating (killed nearly 30 Angels without trouble, but 30+ Red Dragons bit hard). In short, I reach the capital — and there is already an upgraded Portal and 2 Archangels — beauty :smile01:.. I upgrade my Angels, sit in the castle — for Orrin, the game is already lost with no chance, although if I had delayed even a single day, everything could have been much harder (as the endgame showed, on turn 211 Orrin would have had an explosion of 2175, and that would have been enough for me). Thanks to Vladimir for an interesting game, and a huge separate thanks and respect for the patience with the unstable connection and autosaves (which were nonetheless non-game-related; otherwise I would have recorded this game as a draw or a loss for myself).