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maksar (red, Barbarian, Haggash) defeated Flash_RUS (blue, demon, Alastor) 2 week 3 month

It was an unusually long game. Haggash was available in the tavern, so I leveled her. Everything went fine until week 6, when due to the 8-minute timer expiring, I couldn't transfer the army to Haggash in the center of the map (I only transferred the wyverns and some warmongers). As luck would have it, zero-level Crag immediately got attacked by a higher-level Alastor. Although the enemy had almost no troops, the berserker (on the centaurs) did its job. Only the cyclopes and centaurs remained from my army (and not even all of them), while the opponent lost very little. I thought about giving up (Flash_RUS talked me out of it). Upset, I ran wherever my eyes led me (thankfully, logistics and the boots + path of war allowed it). I expected the opponent to visit me any day, but he didn't come; he was hanging around the center. Over a couple of weeks of wandering, I plundered everything I saw, gathered artifacts, and reached level 30. After that, I gated home, picked up troops, and went to the opponent via GO. I was surprised not to see him in the castle (turns out he simply didn't have enough mana). After destroying 2 populations, I met Alastor a week later. I needn't have feared mind control and berserker — the opponent's army was far too small. Thanks for the game.