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Pit for LM (red, Conflux, random Lakussa, Lakussa) def Medium_HP (blue, Conflux, random Luna, Yog), balance, 124.
The opponent quickly chose restarts 111 and 113, then took a few more due to the lack of a road to the village (although it was much worse for me there). I took 111 and then one due to the lack of a road to the center (it was absolutely terrible there). We started after 4 hours.
Two water elemental specialists spawned, the third hero was also native, so there were quite a lot of troops. Roads are slow. The Stable is a day's journey from the castle via off-road. On 112, near the Stable, a dwarf hoard and a conservatory were found; near the city is an external market. The territory is quite rich, allowing for the placement of phoenixes. On 113, I took the native village. Nearby is an air altar. On 114, I take a cache, while Brissa fights through mummies to reach the secondary area and takes the Tower village. On 115, Lakussa gets attack, so I don't buy Kairi. I collect resources and money until the end of the week, on 117 I trade for phoenixes, buy them and mind elementals, and pass them to Brissa; she raids the dwarves (minimal hoard, unfortunately) and takes Pandora for 5,000 exp. I give the phoenixes to Axis so he can take the +4 shield from the lich hoard and +1 all armor from the griffon hoard. Lakussa is only level 3, but with attack, so it's fine. She is stationed at the Stable.
On 121, I buy phoenixes and a hero + a couple of air elementals and pass them to Lakussa; she takes the dwarf hoard, but it's minimal again... This led to a severe under-purchase of troops. On 122, I pass 2 phoenixes, artifacts, and some elementals to Lakussa, who goes to the conservatory—but it was also minimal, so troops weren't even needed. Logistics is granted. On 123, I take the dwarf hoard by the castle (finally 20 each) and make some money there; Lakussa goes off-road through a hoard of orc champions to reach the neighboring respawn. At the entrance there is a minimal conservatory—I take it immediately with 1 angel and 4 phoenixes. The road turned out to be nearby. On 124, I reach it, kill 14 champions to enter the center, reach the Necropolis on the penultimate cell, scale up there, build GM, and buy the book. Meanwhile, Yog was pecked to death by griffons in a maximum conservatory.
Thank you for the game.
111 was taken because of a very weak army and the absence of anything noteworthy within a day's journey along fast roads in both directions from the castle.
Then a couple of restarts due to the absence of a village. They were there, but reaching them in both cases was unrealistic. I admit the opponent might have had it worse, but the fact that he didn't use his 2 restarts suggests otherwise.
Then there was a restart by mutual agreement, as Pit doubted the presence of the GO. The reveal showed that the map complied with the rules, and the restart was clearly in my favor—the opponent would have had two native villages on 112-113, while I would have taken mine around 115-116, given that there were again no other roads except the GO.
Then Pit restarted on 111, and finally, we played.
Roads only to the GO and the village; in the second half of the week, I sent a "noob" with a goblin onto the stones via off-road, but he found nothing there but a few piles until the end of the game and never saw the secondary area. I cleared the home respawn to zero in the first week; not enough for phoenixes, psychs in the citadel, and fire and air caches. In the second week, the only plan worthy of attention was to take the conservatory 2-4 and try to reach the treasury for vivs from simple pits via the GO. Due to a lack of other options, I didn't even check the conservatory; I was only able to buy storm elementals, psychs, and 15 fire elementals with a full trade by 124. I would have easily taken a level 3, but it turned out to be max; I managed to take it normally only once out of five times after the game. Even after the reveal, I couldn't figure out how to resist here, as even a proper conservatory take and GO breakthrough left little chance against Lakussa with standard Conflux growth and 2 angels.
Thank you for the game.
P.S. I described the restarts in detail because I had a question. In what way is this Balance better than sm-ka, other than the fact that it's more fashionable now?