Best of Heroes World.Отбор.

We agreed immediately – play to two wins, since 1 game in the playoff stage is not entirely fair.

Game 1.

Piterius (red, Stronghold, Gurnisson, Gurnisson) draw Captain (blue, Castle, Valeska, Grindan) SoD, 2sm4d(3), 216

The brown road turned out to be a long loop around the starting town, but I decided to play since there was a Dragon Utopia under the castle and something to do. I revealed three external cyclops dwellings but didn't flag any of them, ran far away with the main army, and it was generally inconvenient. I decided to put it off until the second week, especially since I spotted a Griffin Conservatory not far from them. I picked up a Dungeon secondary hero, built an Eye there, and at home 1-6 in the Citadel with an upgrade for the birds. Among the heroes, there was no clear leader; I thought about leveling either Neela or Jenova, settled on the latter when she got Offense and Defense in addition to existing Archery for the expected "horde" of cyclops :rolleyes: .
In the second week, I also took a Tower secondary, a single Griffin Conservatory, 2 cyclops dwellings, and… on day 127 I didn't dare to storm the Throne-adjacent Griffin Conservatory with Jenova having Expert Earth magic.
As it turned out, that was a mistake; it was a double dwelling, and the lost tempo of two days while the army went to take the third dwelling ultimately made the game much harder. Gurni and Eva level evenly – level 8 with nice skill trees.
On the third week, I took two Griffin Conservatories (2+2) and sent Gurni to scout the treasure zone – there were a couple of hives and I spot a Dragon Utopia + a Book of Air.
On day 136, an angry Mage Grindan with pumped magical muscles flys over the GO and heads in a direction I didn't want. On day 137, he apparently lacked a couple of tiles and camps on a Mana Doubler.
Day 141 – the chain brings the main forces, and Gurni takes the Dragon Utopia a couple of days later – junk + a Red Orb. It so happened that Gurni ended up in the more useful places, and as a result got better and more leveled.
They take my Stronghold and offer me to surrender with the intention of beating any army, and that only a Chupa Chups could save me :p
In short, I spent another week running around fattening up while they took all my castles, and in a time crunch I galloped to my starting town, where they attacked me, having first gobbled up my Dragon Utopia :( . Or rather, I attacked due to constant desync issues. 33 cyclops burned like crazy, and Blue had to retreat; I take my town, buy back the remnants, and now I'm on top. We saved, but then agreed to a draw so as not to drag it out and started a new one.

Game 2.

Piterius (blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) def Captain (red, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) SoD, 2sm4d(3), 125

So we swapped colors. I felt that my opponent wanted Valeska again, especially since I'd heard about such a preference in Kyiv). When choosing what to leave me – Dungeon or Rampart – they preferred to fight against Dungeon.
But Dungeon is a fairy tale, especially on the surface! Taking a restart together, we started – I get sky above me! Shakti with two stacks, next to a lot of dendroid guards for a Pandora – I take the risk, there are 21 of them :D , in the box 10k gold coins! The money problem is solved! I buy a bunch of heroes and they scatter in different directions. I take a Minotaur dwelling, then a single Griffin Conservatory, a couple of crypts, and by the end of the week, papa is level 8, got Earth and Scouting, at home 1-5 in the Citadel with mines in the portal.
Second week – there's a road to a Barbarian secondary down the river, there's a Throne-adjacent Griffin Conservatory, but I decide to run papa around the level-up buildings on an Angel, while the lackeys, having upgraded 16 Minotaurs on day 121, go to break crypts in a chain. After saving up some cash, I buy the rest and run further up to a revealed Naga Bank, then reveal the Watchtower and the native secondary! As much as the Teleport with a nearby Hive tempted me, I decided to rush, of course! Or rather, "blurush" :) Then I simply ran over and took the castle. On the same turn, Red surrendered – throwing away the Naga fight for a Book of Air.

1.5:0.5

Thanks for the games!