Favorites into Battle - 2

vbn (blue, Conflux, random=Luna, Neela) def Alone (red, Necropolis, Tamika, Galthran) 2SM4d(3) 2-2-4

Started without restarts.
Week 1 - one road to a snowy secondary dwelling for 20-49 Cerberi remained untaken; the second road leads to ГО, and it takes a WHOLE WEEK to get there from the capital :eek: It also takes a week to reach 2 adjacent secondary dwellings, which were also near ГО. The roads are average. If I had known this, I would have restarted 100%. In general, by 1-1-7, I managed to build the bird in the Stronghold. Oh, and a conservatory for 3-4 angels was spotted on the way from the capital.

Week 2 - well, here's where the stupidity begins; we waste an extra 1-2 days just to save up for buying birds, then even trade resources (at only one market :(), of which 50 pieces had accumulated, and then we clear 3 decent medusa nests. By the end of the week, it became clear that I was "screwed" with the respawn. Another conservatory near ГО, a hive, and a Dragon Utopia were spotted.

Week 3 - due to the "bugged" respawn and poor chain building, the first conservatory was taken only on 1-3-4, the second on 1-3-6 (Total: 6 angels), and the hive for 6 wyverns. There's nowhere left to go. On 1-3-7, I farm experience from ГО using 31 unupgraded hydras with a upgraded stack and position myself near the Dragon Utopia.

Week 4 - on 1-4-1, Neela takes the minimal Dragon Utopia with 13 birds and 6 angels with stats 9-4 (it didn't matter which utopia it was, as there was really nowhere else to go), where she loses 40 air elementals under the fire breath of the birds - the dragons moved first (they got a red orb in the Dragon Utopia, nothing more).

Further, there is simply nowhere left to go - we head toward the opponent.
On 1-4-3, the capital was taken without a fight (we immediately build the veil of darkness); right next to the Castle, painted external dwellings of skeletons, vampires, and dragons are visible :eek:. By 1-4-7, we take 2 of red's secondary dwellings, except for the last one. By this time, Galthran already had books of earth and air with expert skills in the corresponding magics. Neela, on the other hand, had expert water, air, earth, wisdom, literacy, then they gave her artillery and fire :smile52:... It was very disappointing that Neela wasn't given a single decent skill other than earth (I mean logistics and attack, especially given the specifics of FB).

Then Neela ran around looking for something tasty to pick up; a sentinel's shield was found. On 2-2-1, Galthran kills all the army that had been transferred to a level 1 pawn: 15 birds, 16 psychos, 6 angels, 22 wyverns, etc. :( I thought about surrendering, but decided to go until the end since there were many unbought troops in red's capital.

In general, on 2-2-3, greedy Neela chased after a bunch of wood and didn't make it back to the Necropolis :smile48: (she could have been destroyed, but there was nothing to buy them back with; in the end, I pulled all the power out of the Castle and retreated with Neela). And here we got lucky, which is what I hoped for - Galthran was 1 cell short of being able to hole up in the capital.

On 2-2-4, a confident Galthran attacks Neela in the Castle.

Galthran lvl 20. 12-12-12-161 mana with 3 angels + 38 wyverns + 9 horses + 651 skeletons attacks
Neela lvl 21. 10-24-11-110 mana with 7 necrodragons + 24 liches + 33 magmatic + 48 vampires + 60 ice elementals + 92 upg. zombies + 121 skeletons. The red orb decided the outcome of the match and allowed a win after total collapse.

Thanks for the game.