There was one restart during the match, I don’t remember the others anymore, since I played intermittently — 2 games with different opponents and both as Dungeon against Rampart.
In the first week, I remember I almost immediately found and scouted the smallest Conservatory. For Shakti, it’s taken right away and simply according to the articles, but I didn’t take the risk — I waited to build Evil Eyes and Medusas, and also luckily found a Medusa dwelling — after buying all of that, I decided to go in and killed the Conservatory with minor losses.
At the end of the first week — beginning of the second, I found and broke through a secondary town, and it turned out to be Dungeon too. There I also opened an external dwelling for Medusas and then for Evil Eyes. Seemed like a lot of army, but very little gold — in the home town I had the first five levels and the Portal of Summoning, while in the secondary I had the first four levels.
I was thinking about where to get money — income was only 2250, and my opponent already had a Capitol + 2000 in the secondary, but on day 131 we saved…
When we continued, Kyrre “helped” solve the money problem :( — with a one-time sprint she invaded and knocked out the secondary, killing part of the army resting there and taking unretrieved troops.
I had to urgently save the capital and gather troops from all over the remaining kingdom.
I moved towards him with Shakti and eventually managed to recapture my town (while he vanished somewhere), but almost immediately he ran out with his entire army, and angels also appeared… he ended up roughly midway between me in the secondary and my almost empty capital… I thought for a long time and finally decided to attack — swapped all my resources and attacked… the battle was very difficult.
Shakti 5-5-4-6
2 angels, 14 minotaurs, 39 medusas, 33 evil eyes, 34 harpies, and over 200 troglodytes (medusas and troglodytes upgraded).
Kyrre was 16-12-10-4
1 angel, 10 unicorns, 19 dendroids, 23 silver pegasuses, 40 grand elves, 13 dwarves, and 18 centaurs.
They didn’t let us set up tactically, and by speed it turned out that his elves moved before all my troops except, of course, the angels. After the first round, I realized I needed to close in on the elves in melee, but he already had them covered… however, I managed to break through and sacrificed 2 angels to kill more than half the elves, but not before getting shots into the minotaurs and his troops piling onto my troglodytes (about 100 of them died).
I also killed his angels, and now it was rational for me to retreat to artillery positions, which I started to implement, though I had to sacrifice the Evil Eyes to feed the Pegasuses, while the harpies delayed his unicorns. The remnants of my minotaurs and troglodytes escaped from his 19 dendroids and helped kill the pegasuses and finish off the shot-up unicorns.
But even then the battle didn’t end — the medusas ran out of arrows pretty quickly, and I only fired 2 volleys at the dendroids, after which I had to surround him and pile on. While I was preparing the assault, I took heavy damage from magic, which then ran out.
5 minotaurs, 33 troglodytes, 2 evil eyes, and 33 medusas — that’s exactly how many soldiers survived this great battle. Although the fight was won, the war was only beginning, and the fact that enemy troops consisting of 5 dendroids managed to escape only worsened my situation.
After running around for another 2 days, we saved again. Another continuation of the battle was shaping up — but bad news came… :(
I had broken a rule.
Before this great battle, on day 141 I bought troops in the secondary town, and since I was under the red flag — you understand…
…in short, I forgot about that moment in the heat of battle — let it be a lesson for future battles.