New interportal.

Samurai (red swamp Broghild) def Javdet (blue, barb, Tiras) 144 8mm6a 1-0

A frustrating defeat; the layout was one of those that is more than playable, but the opponent only needed to execute their plan and not throw it away.
Bought Taras for 2600, received 1100 for color. The money paid off quickly, and by the end of the week, there were too many heroes to manage. At home: bears in the Stronghold, 2 naga birds and 1 bear painted. Dragon Utopia :))

From the 2nd week, consa is 3; Taras runs for the exit, while the losers are still dragging along the chain toward the Hive. Hive is maxed; meanwhile, Tarasik is thinking where to go and happens to hit a naga bank 3. Checked the 2nd of 3 passages—to the village. The direction to the opponent is clear—I'm heading for a visit without touching the likely passage to my own camp on the snow so as not to break the chains. But it turned out to be veeeery far. By the end of the week, I reached the village, bought a book, upgraded GM until getting mass haste, and headed home to take the Dragon Utopia.

131 I break the Dragon Utopia—2 swords and a necklace for +3 spell/knowledge. Sour(((. Brogh, meanwhile, catches control in his own same Dragon Utopia. Crashed back into that same village, and now with dreamed-of bears, I go visiting again. When I arrived, I didn't understand anything at all—Samurai's camp is running things there :eek: . Brogh jumps out of the darkness and takes my Castle, and there was quite a bit of uncollected growth(((.

Throughout the game, I couldn't pump scouting, even though I had nava and pasfight.. I took too many skills, but they were all very necessary... Further, there was hope to find something tasty in the direction where the swamp-dwellers hadn't prowled yet; got excited about a Dragon Utopia—but there was just another saber, a helmet for 12, and a fire book. I spot another Dragon Utopia and think I'm running toward it—but no—a dead end and boots with a prison. Since I ended up there, I take the boots, but I almost lacked enough move points to portal. I free the prisoner; one turn back Brogh was at the opposite end of the map, so I give away the army so they can take the Throng consa on the next turn. I didn't even split 2 angels, but that wouldn't have solved anything—further on, Brogh has a tasty treasure zone accessible only via DD. I was stunned when they attacked me, but it was for the best....
In short, all game I looked for a meeting and found ГГ:)
On this map, probably the only chance to get a grip is not to rush, but to kill your own camp and build up GM. If I'd known the hand, I'd be living in Sochi)).

Thanks for the game.

P.S. Looked at the saves; there was indeed a moment when I could have intercepted the swamp-dwellers, but for that, you'd either need to push non-standardly across the road or know that there is that decisive Dragon Utopia with the hat and water book)))