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ekzekutor (blue, Horde, Haggeesh) defeated immortal (red, Mage, Ora) 2-4-5

Confirmed. It's not easy to keep up with an Orc, especially Haggeesh... On the 2nd level-up, I was offered machines - I decided to take them instead of logistics in the future, so as not to get bogged down on neutral territories. In general, I didn't get bogged down on them, but the lack of logistics was noticeable. I initially developed the hero in Chaos and Ice to protect myself from early encounters, and then in Darkness with the second-level magic. The adjacent territory was a Necropolis without roads, and it was too far to go to the second one, so I went to look for a path to the resource territory. In the middle of the 3rd week, I reached the resource territory - and there was snow :(. I mostly traveled along the road, but it still took a long time. I leveled up to 20, rushed to the city for artifacts, and at the beginning of the 5th week, I reached the center. I immediately saw a looted pyramid - I realized that the opponent had already cleared everything here, so I ran to another center through my resource territory, fortunately, the passage to it was only 1 day away. The second center was sand, but again without roads :(. I took several Dragon artifacts there, and a couple of magic towers - but they stubbornly didn't give me Darkness spells - they kept using Light and Summoning. In the city, only Blind was available, which was essentially useless. The nearest portal from the center led to a treasure, and I was already happy, but then I saw a blue flag there, guarded by a spider :(. I didn't want to encounter the Orc here anymore - he already had insane stats and all the meat was bought, and I only had 3 stacks and no Darkness spells. I went to look for the second treasure. I wasn't so lucky this time - I opened a lot of portals, and found the treasure in the second to last one - again snow and no roads :(. At least I took yellow boots from the center, but it would have been better to find green ones... I sent the spiders to the treasure. It turned out that this treasure bordered my city - what a coincidence :(. But the opponent didn't let me explore it - he went to my city. I managed to take only the Blood Temple, take the Tome of Chaos, and some other not very useful artifact, I don't remember which one. I teleported home. I had almost no artifacts, some slots were not even filled, I think if he had attacked the city, he would have taken it without any problems. But the opponent was afraid and besieged me, not letting me leave. He stayed there for about 8-9 days, while I slowly made my way from the center through the resource territory to his center. The only hope was to force my hero with Chaos and machines to return to the opponent's hero, and in the meantime, jump into the treasure and find spells and artifacts there (I really wanted the Staff of Sarai). The plan almost worked - I killed the only dangerous spider for me - a 16th-level Tilsac, reached the Orc's home territory, but I didn't summon the genies from the city in time - I wanted to do it on the next turn, I didn't think that the next high-level spider would be so close. It was a 10th-level Keegan with dancers - I had 3 Earth Elementals. I positioned my hero too late - the opponent managed to place all the dancers in such a way that it was impossible to kill even one of them. As a result, I was left with only 1 Earth Elemental. Next was a 10th-level Garuna with 2 druids and some other units, I had to pay to get home. There was nothing left to do here - since I couldn't leave the city... I just lost to the opponent's hero, Orai - there was no chance: the Orc has 17 skill points, I have 24, Armag with the Phoenix Cloak has only 700 damage, and 5 stacks resisted him out of seven :(. Thanks for the game.