After the night poker and buffet, we woke up surprisingly easily; in the club, I ended up playing Eric—my swamp against Castle. The "cornflowers" (archers) ruled, but it wasn't meant to be—no sulfur or mercury.. I fought my way to my barbarian AI and again an empty castle :) I switched to barbs, and Gretchen became a mother; the AI runs to reclaim its homeland, but after building birds, the mother quickly takes him down, and boots drop from one of the heroes :) I built wyverns and birds in Strongholds, spread across the map, and from the start of week 3 broke a couple of "cans" (bears in Castle since week 2). 141 - Dragon Utopia; with that money, I upgraded my bears and went to clear the map, but it generated a ton of one-sided encounters and I had to scramble quite a bit. In the end, the game dragged on for ages (Scorp managed to play 2 :)), but by the end of the day, the mother finally found something—in another Dragon Utopia they gave wings and decent stats (attack went over 40) and finally grabbed logs for the boots and gloves. Before a new round of the buffet, the host decided to give me the game :cool: We had a fun evening (Scorp and Eric were "treating" Vik about how glad he was that he finally played SoD :D, and that's how the phrase "like two trolls treating a third" was born :)), there was poker too. And the next day we decided to just hang out as a group, because the games weren't critical anymore.
Thanks everyone for the chat and games, special thanks to Eric for the hospitality! Had a great rest and got charged with positivity! :smile03: