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Challenging (interesting) final battles.

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I watched the Galtaran vs. Tazar battle from the first post. As someone with extensive experience judging arena-style battles, I can say the following: If we consider this battle as an "arena," meaning a single battle with no opportunity to retreat at a convenient moment, then the battle looks like this: 1. Tazar has a very significant advantage in stats. 2. The units are roughly equal in strength. 3. Galtaran has significantly more mana. With this setup, Tazar is obligated to win the battle quickly, while Galtaran, on the contrary, should prolong it into a magical battle, where he has the advantage. That is, Tazar is forced to attack, while Galtaran carefully defends and brings the battle to the endgame. Galtaran's endgame looks like this: elementals participate in the battle, and they all have vulnerabilities and immunities to varying degrees. For example, Galtaran's earth elementals are immune to both lightning and Armageddon, but vulnerable to Shiver (which Tazar doesn't have). And water elementals, on the contrary, are vulnerable to Armageddon and fire spells like Inferno. By summoning a couple of stacks of earth elementals and casting Shield on them, he simply stands and casts Armageddon. No water elementals are scary to us. That is, the endgame is very strong; all that remains is to bring the battle to it: 1. Implement careful defense. 2. Eliminate Tazar's stacks that are immune to Armageddon (phoenixes, fire elementals, magma elementals). 3. Armageddon. However, this tactic is questionable in an online battle, as you always need to keep a thick stack alive. That is, you will have to cast Antimagic on the thickest stack. Although, everything is possible; it needs to be tested. P.S. I tested it a couple of times. Tazar doesn't have direct damage spells, which makes it easy to keep Galtaran's thick stack alive. And such a maneuver as Tazar retreating or buying himself out is not scary for him.