Favorites into Battle - 2

Mizrael(Castle, Caitlin, Vistan) def Piterius(red, Conflux, Kalt, Zubin) 8mm6 132

We used all restarts, generated a native computer, and Vistan also came with 3 stacks. The computer was nearby, I reached him on day 3, when breaking through I saved pokemons and marks, they nibbled the lizards for a penny. Killed all of green's heroes and started exploring the territory, but there was nothing to explore... Not a single crypt on 2 respawns, no caches either. Barely got to the horses in the home stronghold, planted swords at the computer's.
121 - I deflect a shield +4 from the dwarves, with 3 horses, crossbowmen, and pokemons I push through 80 archers with a grade in the metro, and at the exit there are grand elves... It got scary and time started running out - I rushed dad into the metro.
122 - brought in a horse and more meat, there weren't too many grands and they had no morale, they didn't hit hard. Broke through a teleport into the desert and hid behind it.
123 - Vistan with all the power flies out of the teleport and reaches the lookout, ohhh - red flags everywhere, but there seems to be little power. The mage with an arrow slashes the archers and flees, the red power heads to the lava.
124 - after killing Christian, who didn't manage to grab the morale artifact on the road, I march to the grass - there's clearly a Conflux respawn there.
125 - Vistan charges toward the capital, the chain to home is set up. But then Zubin with all the power aims to break my chain, or even break toward my towns...
126 - I thought it over, but finally decided at the last minute - bought everything from home, brought it up the chain to Gundula. Vistan gave artifacts and power from himself to her: battle number one. It was tough, Guni's stats aren't great, only mana for 2 shields, and Zubin has a ballista (Christian fezzed no doubt) - it was bloody, but worth it.
127 - power is with Vistan, he's marching toward the capital again.
131 - bought all the small stuff from 2 towns, brought it to dad and moved to assault, but didn't get close enough to the town. In the end, I was caught by a couple of kamikaze mages with 7 pixies, result - 1 archer left.
132 - after the mages, Zubin attacked with a pack of storm elementals and almost a hundred pixies, but thanks to armor and a horde of pokemons, Vistan pulled through. Thanks for the game.

Phew, I've only just barely recovered from such an outcome in the tournament fight. It was incredibly sad to be eliminated with three wins out of four, I've been walking around empty all these days. It's doubly unpleasant when victory was already in hand, but my own carelessness played a cruel joke on me.
Before the match in question, there was a completely different game, where I had 12 angels on the second, three Conflux on the third, a Dragon Utopia with the Book of Air on 137, the Book of Earth on the fourth, and by 212 I was already catching up with the main hero of blue with weaker power and lower stats.
But then I realize that from 141 I jumped 2 times instead of one according to the rules... It's a leftover Ba'ba habit of using two Dimension Doors and little experience playing by world rules on small maps. In horror I realize it's a loss, which I inform my opponent about. After a brief dialogue with Dirty, who seemed to agree with me, as did Mizrael, that 1 Dimension Door on 8mm6 is nothing, I confirm there aren't many ways out of this situation. Since the opponent wouldn't agree to continue, I propose a new one.
I get consent, for which respect to Mikhail.
But the game was already different. I probably programmed myself for defeat already at the stage of realizing my mistake and played as if hit with a bag. I can't explain the situation otherwise - why I didn't take the rest along the brown roads on 111, revealing my rotten respawn from the lookout and seeing that my opponent had a double???
I only came to my senses after 2 hours, but it was already too late.
I barely put the psychos in the fort, it was 6 days' travel to the nearest town - for some reason I lose all games with such a setup. I was a bit surprised by the blue rush on 123 with the so-called "all power" consisting of 13 archers, 65 pikemen, 4 horses, and 10+ pixies. Honestly, I thought he was going to his death, not finding any prospects for himself. Had the main hero been a few tiles closer, I probably would have wiped out that army with supply chains. This turn of events disheartened me so much that I even decided to send a freshly freed level 5 scout hero with an experience artifact to break the chain, having first killed 10 archers with my shooters, but Gundula with supply chains turned out stronger. Then Misha wrote it all. I bought everything I could afford and accepted the final battle.
Thanks for the game.

ps: imho, it would be fairer in such outcomes to assign extra games, rather than awarding based on rating. The time and desire to play was still huge. As it is, it feels like the Italian national team at Euro 2004.
Seems like I played well, but ended up with nothing.