If you try to recruit troops from canned hives and capture utopias, even a tier 3 conservationist won't be able to manage this build order.

45-50 Marksmen + 50-60 Pikemen + 2 Angels + a few Griffons can capture a tier 3 town even without magic - Valeska with experience in ranged attacks (if without the book and necessary skills like defense and with weak stats, it will be difficult, but in real games, something like this usually happens).

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Okay, but 2 Archangels cost 50,000. + 20 resources each (or something like that). Since utopias can't be destroyed by this time, the strategy relies on free resources and buildings that generate income. Well, I don't know, I don't know:rolleyes:

In reality, it's even more expensive, and it's practically impossible to earn that much on a small map in the first and early second week (well, there can be one game out of 20 with incredibly rich resource spawns and a lot of income-generating buildings, but that's more of an exception), so on a small map, Angels are built very, very rarely in the first week (almost never) - and that's a fact (in reality, not theoretically)