Selection for FB-3.

Alessandro (blue, Castle, Valeska) def KoстяN (red, Swamp, Wystan) 212, panic TE-light 1800+400
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I hate this template, dunno how I scribbled it, considering it's my least favorite of all 5:confused: ...
I played poorly, keeping an eye on the short time control (often skipped a bunch of auxiliary actions with heroes and even building, to avoid time trouble - but by week 4 I still got in it:( ). I was very "lucky" especially with everything minimal: medusas at home, 2 Dragon Fly Hives in the so-called "treasure zone":D (a template without treasure zones as such - complete nonsense); also lucky with pass guardians: the exit to the dirt immediately behind 60+ crossbowmen (I wasted 8 out of 18 lizards and 3 out of 7 Bron's+4 home Vaseks on them, plus a bunch of others), and the fork further on was just "delightful" - sultans and 2 hordes of eyes (regular and upgraded). Tactics is not offered, and I also played flies somehow more ineptly than ever, either not delivering them, or losing them all where I should have taken them one by one (using flies correctly is IMHO one of the most important skills in playing Swamp...). On the plus side, there were 2 external dwellings of bulls and 1 of lizards, but I couldn't take any of them early on, because mainly I had no clue where they were, and most importantly, even with 15000 from the start - complete lack of money, and the economy this time was building up terribly for me... There was also a funny moment when I took the swamp wood on week 2 - I look, and further on the guardians are fairy dragons - WTF:eek: :smile04: :smile18: , the only way left was either through the sultans or through the gr. eyes again without Tactics, but I sent Brogh to the wood and he, with basic Scouting, saw a pass through the golems off-road and a box next to the golems as well (what a balance of pass guardian strength - golems and Wog dragons, nice, huh?:smile40: :smile40: :smile40: ). In the box 90 regular gnolls (apparently the nicest thing in the whole game:D ). Then, after rushing before another pass guardian, I was forced to crash into it and return to intercept Valeska before she killed all my weaklings, I caught her cell-to-cell - seemingly the only decent move of mine in the whole game:o, and fought apparently without major mistakes, though lightning with lots of mana and a decent spell was scary at first... Then I was clueless for a long time, afraid to go finish her off, because she had worn me down too, and Valeska relative to me is a powerful mage:) , and that didn't inspire optimism. The last week or so - moves were just the worst, and then time simply started running out. I couldn't figure out whom to dismiss for the needed manipulation of the chain, because in all the towns (and I had an advantage there - about seven definitely) someone was already sitting, and all the external scouts were important - either transporting something from dwellings, or they couldn't be replaced in the chain, in short I got tired of suffering - and surrendered. And I didn't find anything useful:smile32: ...
Thank you.