Elimination Chamber

PReDS (blue, Tower, Aine, Pickerdam) lose wowa (red, rampart, Enova, Andra/Ivor), 6LM10a, 221.
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Thanks for the game.

It wasn't a glitch in the settings — it was me, being the host but not playing on the ba, who for some reason copied TE settings for RP-4 for VaTa :o

When we noticed, I offered to regenerate, but we had already played 2 days, and Dima refused, even though by that time Ivor had been revealed... well, in general the conditions were equal, and gameplay-wise only the tactical underground terrain was the same as on the surface :eek: also Tower had the scouting orb at the start and Pickerdam came with caps :D

About the game: we played 2500 and without resources, so Ivor immediately ran to clear a crypt, Andra (rescued from prison) was leveled for a week, trying on LM10 to find a passage to the brown Rampart and without magic she broke through the shooters, disregarding the loss of pointy-ears
But finally hit a horde of lizards — the army chained to a respawn, where an external dwelling of wood was spotted behind mountains, which Ivor could have reached, if on 117 he hadn't spotted the elf dwelling, he had to run in :) in the end, one hex was missing to claim the dendroid dwelling, lost precisely for taking sulfur that blocked the road)))))
week's result: due to lack of crystals, wood in the castle with growth and a thousand, 8 heroes

On the 2nd week I decide to go to the tower, the army chains resources, Andra takes a Naga Bank, Ivor clears a Refugee Camp (firebird!) with piles of crystals and an artifact of +3 mana per day, Andra, having previously taken a Ring of Speed, levels up in front of a prison behind a horde of golems and gets wiped on the guard of a secondary skill hut at home, where the 4th floor is being rebuilt — out of 4 magic schools, Resurrection with expert Earth is not obtained, the spells on the 2nd weren't given either, but the rebuild gave Town Portal! :) a 10th-level loser from prison clears a hut — and there's Loga! :smile43: but Andra never made it there for the rest of the game, too far :( meanwhile, stepping 4 hexes from home, she portals to a Conflux village cleared by Ivor with the bird underground, landing roughly above its gates)) and immediately runs to the library for a horde of trolls guarding the 2nd mana artifact, then to the Griffin Conservatory — but it's a minimal one((( however near the conservatory there's a Pandora's Box with a horde of Arch Magi, and inside it mom gets the entire 5th level for free! :) at the end of the week, once again no units or even Pegasi — all resources went into the tower
But at the start of week 3, with a loan, I break a level-3 Dragon Utopia behind a hill — I didn't take the Angel and Elves, obviously, but had to take the bird for the 1st round, and it was killed along with the Dwarves, Centaurs, and small fries from Conflux and its external dwellings; only wood came out: gave Water and Air spell books and Wings in addition, another pair of Wings is spotted with the scouting orb in the underground treasure zone, but for now we go up to the library and beehives, on the way a Pandora's Box with 15 movement points, Andra sits in a captured Barbarian village to replenish mana, while Ivor with artifacts and fast troops (without wood) runs further and near a Dungeon village gets hit by a 7-Angel distribution led by Pickerdam the Tactician :confused:
If wood had been in that battle or there had been more mana — it would have been GG then, our stats were almost twice as high... but as it was, after Mass Haste we were slowly cut down, Elves blocked, caps shooting... in the end I was left without mana with 11 birds and a handful of Centaurs against 3 Angels and caps with Magi... I could have fought on, but decided to run away from sin — there was plenty of mana, the battle was lost anyway, and Andra was ready, I thought she'd get him now))
No such luck — blue GG disappeared into the darkness, Andra only reached the Dungeon — the Tower, then Vortex and she had to take the brown Rampart

After that, maneuvers — blues didn't stick their heads out much anymore, Ivor was sent to search for them with a mighty buyout of 2 Ramparts, while Andra with fast units, having bought Fire in Conflux and gathered a few more Swans, came out into the treasure zone with 4 Dragon Utopias!! but the penultimate max-level one ate everything except the Angel and Pegasus, and for the 4th — also max-level, without Resurrection she didn't go in, despite the sky-high stats ;)
Ivor didn't find blue, but took the Inferno castle underground with built Devils, I buy him Tactics in the university :) in parallel I try to level the Eagle Eye hero, without scouting it's hopeless :( and I also try with Andra to siege those castles I see, while I shove spare artifacts, spell books, 2nd Wings, and the assembled Chalice (useless to mom — 2000+ mana from Vortex) onto Ivor and send him into the underground treasure zone, he already got Water
Periodically Pickerdam appears in sight, pulling mom out of treasure zones she tries to jump into after capturing another foothold — but with his Tactics, speed artifacts, and tons of gold, the blues just can't be hit with an Implosion of nearly 4K from a pack of Angels :( I never saw Shackles of War for the rest of the game, neither on the map, nor in the artifact treasury, nor in external markets :confused:
Nevertheless, the Eagle Eye hero is leveled and on 221 I recapture the formerly green Conflux with Phoenixes (I had already upgraded both Angels and Devils) — 1st speed is now definitely mine, the next turn the blue capital falls and they have only a single village left underground, the treasure zone around which was completely stripped, including 4 Dragon Utopias, which significantly boosted the blues' stats... though even for Ivor, who was constantly showing up in the tavern, they were already substantially higher at that point, not to mention Andra — so the opponent decided not to drag it out any further and surrendered, many thanks to him for the game :)