[/U]OUTLAW (red, Rampart, Ivor, Ivor) def Dubrovin Pavel (blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti), 2sm4d(3), 136
Thanks for the great battle and the series of mutual mistakes!

That's what happened.
In the first week, I spawned at the top (not a great location) with 2 stacks, not a lot, but enough – 114 Trogols. On the first day, I scouted with a Rogue, and on the second day, I took Papa Nyczka Minotaurs, aiming for 50 Outlaws in total, leaving a few Neutrals behind. Then, I lost over 10 Trogols on the 50-unit Griffin map (it took too long to get around), those pesky Lizards wouldn't attack the Neutrals. Next, I took the Boots of Swiftness on the 20-unit Griffin map with Storm Hawks, moved on, and took a secondary town. On day 7, I was undecided whether to take 20-30 Gnomish Mercenaries. While I was thinking, time started ticking down, and without deploying my Eye of the Storms, I entered the Gnomish Mercenaries town. Luckily, I made it to the 20-unit town, but unfortunately, Morale triggered twice for them. Back home, I summoned Mages in the Citadel and Portal them in.

In the second week, I took a mini Gnomish Mercenaries town and a Naga Bank, broke through to the Metro map, which turned out to be my own. I took the Consul-Dwelling there, then the 15-unit Gnomish Mercenaries town and settled in a secondary town, waiting to reinforce with troops via the Chain link to 1.3.1 and then move to the Treasury. But…

On 1.3.1, Igor broke through from somewhere below via the wilderness, managing to take the Amulet of Brilliance +3+3 Morale/Luck, and he disrupted the Chain link. I followed him, but seeing a Rogue with 10-19 Pegasi below, I sacrificed 12 Eye of the Storms, 20+ Harpies, and 60+ Greater Trogols from the secondary town to my Rogue and drove Igor's Rogue away. But further on, there was another of Igor's Rogues, who still managed to provide Ivor with reinforcements. I could only dream of my own reinforcements. Igor attacks Shakti with 20 Griffin Mages, 3 Simple Mages, and about 150 Trogols, led by 3 Angels and the First Cast right. I take a risk and move forward, hoping Igor doesn't have Earth Expertise. I guess right; my Angels are slow and are blocked by Grand Angels, preventing the Griffin Mages from reaching them. In response, the Griffin Mages attack the Angels (but don't kill them), after first healing my two Mages, who then block the Grand Angels. In the second round, I cast Mass Slow, but the Griffin Mage Captains resist. As a result, the attacking force of 150 Trogols is reduced by half... We fought some more, but since I didn't have any money, I had to retreat, losing 90 Trogols and 3 Griffin Mages. However, overall, considering that I hadn't yet bought reinforcements, I'm not discouraged, as we both took significant losses (Angels, 8 Griffin Mages, more than half of the Grand Angels). Ivor kills my Rogue with 60 Trogols, 12 Eye of the Storms, and 20+ Harpies, runs away, and takes my secondary town.

Here, I made a mistake that cost me the game, because I assumed that if I built something before the end of my turn, Igor wouldn't be able to build anything there... but... to my surprise, when I was happy, with Mana and 20+ Eye of the Storms, 13 Griffin Mages, 30+ Trogols, I was going to give Ivor a good beating with 2 Angels (he managed to steal them somewhere), 2 Griffin Mages, 17 Grand Angels, 11 Vivs, and the rest... (being confident that he didn't have any Mana), not one, but several Boltcasters flew at me... my morale collapsed) I didn't retreat; I died with faith in the bright future of my descendants...

Thanks to Igor for the interesting game!