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Readme (Red, Inferno, Nimus, Nimus) def RiMpeL2 (Blue, Stronghold, Gurni, Gurni),2sm4d(3),133.

Average roads.

After long and exhausting resets with unreal spawns, the generator played a cruel joke on me one last time.
I spawned in the metro, zero gold, nowhere to be found, max-level Medusa spawns standing around, a few piles and chests scattered here and there that had to be cleared with chains. The ore pit is blocked by a horde of mages guarding a diplomacy flag. A nightmare, in short.

Week 1.
Nimus showed up with three stacks; Kalk is visible in the tavern with three stacks too. 33 Gogs are being gathered on 111. I have to scrounge for ore at a small underground respawn with immense effort and fight to get Imps, so I can break through to the surface with them. ГО on rough terrain at the gates from the metro, also two other exits, behind a horde of Air Elementals and a horde of Energy Elementals. I barely managed to gather some gold and ore, broke through the Air Elementals, and surfaced... there was snow, and on the other side of the gate stood a pack of Arch Mages. After estimating approximate losses, I decided not to attack. I went back to the other exit, past the horde of Energy Elementals. I also took an external dwelling of Imps and Gogs; the latter gathered to 41 units.
On 116 I decided to finally clear the external dwelling of Pit Lords behind the horde of Magogs, and broke through the Energy Elementals with minimal losses. Behind the dwelling I see 3 piles of gold and a campfire, guarded by a horde of upgraded Centaurs. The exit from the metro after the Energy Elementals was guarded by a horde of upgraded Fairies.
In the end, the first week turned out to be 12456 in the Stronghold, somehow... by the way, the surface after the Energy Elementals and Fairies was grassy, and I could see gold, gardens, and mills.

Week 2.
I go straight along the path, clear chests in the corners, see the first Crypt and external dwellings of Conflux... bad luck with secondary skills now. Still not enough gold, only 5 heroes. I upgrade the Pit Lords. Opened a minimal Crypt and scouted the Medusa spawn (4).
I see how to get to the opponent's respawn, past a horde of Wights and Gargoyles... my chain passes right nearby, and I fear that something might jump out...
The situation is dire, to put it mildly: Nimus stats 6-6-1-2, nothing anywhere, army: 5 Efreeti, 13 Pit Lords, and 38 Demons. Not a single Griffin Conservatory, no artifacts, absolutely nothing anywhere... well, I cleared an artifact for +morale (later, it helped a lot). The exit to the Treasury was past 5-9 Diamonds in my respawn, but I decided to go to the opponent anyway.
There was only 1 Dragon Fly Hive, in the back of the respawn, behind a pack of upgraded Cats... but I decided to hurry to the opponent.

Week 3.
I trade at the market, buy up, approach the block on his respawn.
And then Gurni runs by not far away and stops for the night on some bags of gold, and I happen to be right there. This is my lucky break!!!
I break through both blocks (wrote which ones above), kill the Imps and Gogs on the Goats, and I gather exactly 50 Demons, 21 Pit Lords, and 8 Efreeti, and I reach the unlucky Gurni... I engage in battle, his attack is already 15. Two bags of gold against mine, if you can call it that, my "treasury"... he retreats. On 133 I besiege Oleg's castle, Gurni was there, 2 bags of gold, and Goblins split into singles blocking access to the bags, the castle was also built, and Gurni had 50 mana, a spell dealing 100 damage, costing about 5-6 mana I think... and I don't even have a spell book!!! I didn't have enough time to buy one, and resources were a disaster, and money too... nightmare. I split the Efreeti into 4 stacks of 2, carefully destroyed the singles, morale kicked in, I used the Efreeti to pin the bags of gold and damaged them a bit, after which all the Efreeti died. Oleg methodically shot them with towers, and blasted the Pit Lords and Demons with the spell. Then, the catapult finally breached the wall, and I charged for an assault. The bags of gold were delayed, and morale kicked in for the remaining 37 Demons, and they turned the poor, dusty potato sacks into dust in one hit.
Many thanks to Oleg for an interesting and tense game!!!!
Thanks to Dirty_Player for help in mastering Inferno :)
And also thanks to the viewers - GoD, Imb, Valenok, for your attention!

It's a shame that Oleg also got a crappy respawn, no money at all and nowhere to get it... buying armies was practically impossible. In his (Castle) respawn's secondary, there were a couple of Dragon Fly Hives and a Throne Griffin Conservatory, but there was no way to take those when you can't even afford to buy troops... it happens.

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