Elimination Chamber

09.09.2010 AYMAN (red, Tower, Nela, Nela/Deiss) def theShevanesian (blue, Castle, Valeska, Orrin) 2sm4d(3), 227

Thanks for the game !!!!!!!

Yeah, got a good draw - external dwelling of horses [Cavalier/Paladin dwelling], Marksmen [sharpshooter/Marksman dwelling], native secondary hero, Dragon Utopia on the native respawn. True, the castles were a fair distance apart, and the roads were slow. Money was also a bit scarce; basically, I took the secondary hero on first horses at the Citadel. At turn 127, a major fail — scouted an angel external dwelling behind an orc horde, wanted to take it, but Orrin was a couple steps short, decided to take it with a scout hero — but there turned out to be 80+ orcs, and an upgraded stack on top of that. In short, I lost 70+ Marksmen and 4 horses, and never took the dwelling :( After that, I fought on horses.
On the third [week/month], I take the native Dragon Utopia — minimum spawn, only money worth anything. Too bad.
Exits to treasure zones turned out to be far, the treasure zones themselves large in area and sparse; from two developed treasure zones, the only useful finds were a +6 shield and an Air Magic book (found two days before the opponent arrived). In short, no Dragon Utopias or stat-boosting artifacts; true, I collected 56 ducks [Dragon Flies? Fire Dragons? Context: likely power-of-the-void creatures, or it's a specific artifact count or unit count; kept as "ducks" per instruction to preserve if uncertain]. But that wasn't enough — the opponent was just too superior in stats, and Earth Magic decided a lot. Oh well, it happens!

Thanks for the game!