2010

Blackpoint (blue, Castle, Rion, Galtran) def Prodromalo (red, Stronghold, Oris, Gurnison) 236 2sm4d(3)

After all the restarts, there's a Goshan with just 1 stack of skeletons sitting in the Tavern. Oh well, into the folder he goes. On the first, I broke through to the secondary conflux and onto the snow zone. On the grass, I captured an external dwelling and placed them in the city; at home, horses in the citadel with griffins. I never even placed the archers, made 40 pikemen on week 1, day 1-1. The snow castle remained unbuilt until the very end of the game. On the second, at the start, I got bogged down in the snow for 3 days taking crypts and gnolls there. Then I passed all this mess (i.e., the power stack) over to the conflux, where there was an external dwelling of pixies for small giants. That's where I lost. Twice (!!). Thanks to my opponent for his noble autofights. Because they had 2 titans that threw all my plans off. I calculated that ice elementals under a buff killed 1 giant per shot. In short, after the loss, I lost all interest in the external dwelling and trudged on to clear my own respawn. Levels 4, 5, and 6 were added in the conflux. On the third, I took the Griffin Conservatory — a two-level one, finally cleared that accursed external dwelling, losing half my army in the process ((((( Rebuilt up to birds in the castle. Then I cleared 2 treasure zones, no sign of the opponent. Built up to level 5 in the conflux, found a scroll for summoning earth elementals. In 2 Utopias, I found a chalice, beads +3 to all stats, and 2 books — air and water. I caught the opponent in a siege, fought quite carelessly and nearly lost; luckily, I was bailed out by a 1000-power Chain Lightning, and the opponent had no strong offensive magic.
Thanks for the game.