twaryna (Castle, Vitya, blue) defeated Kol'ka (Inferno, Deleb + Nimus, red) Sun 2-3-7

Excellent start - Dougal, Axel, and Vitya. Chose the latter as the main hero for fast movement on vehicles. Found a log in the hut. There were 2 guardposts (griffins+horses and griffins). All good, but the respawn turned out to be a huge corridor - it took almost 3 weeks to crawl from one end to the other... The adjacent zones weren't great either - also corridors, very few dwarf-gargoyle dwellings spawned, constant issues with gold and wood. On 1-4-1 I broke through into the adjacent zone and straight into the opponent's starting area. There I encountered an angry Sinitar with spell power 17 and on full chaos (no artifacts of -50 magic found along the way). He hit hard in the fight, but miscalculated and I killed him (-morale kicked in). Otherwise, Sin would have caused me a lot of trouble later on, of course.. Attacked the castle - Deleb was there with a horde of demonesses - immediately bought off to town via catapult. At home I learned Vampirism and rushed to break through from the nearby adjacent zone further (previously I went through the far one). Split the army at the wrong time and then Deleb appeared and made a nasty cunning move, I lost all my shooters and about 15 griffins. Then we scattered in all directions, I roamed a bit and ended up in a mini treasure zone, and then the treasure zone. I was moving with 50 griffins + Vampirism. In the mini I got the boots and started flying around nicely. The treasure zone wasn't great - but I earned a couple of useful artifacts - mainly the Armor of the Forgotten Hero, barely defeating a hundred paladins and 25 angels. Ended up reaching level 29, portal'd home and went after the opponent. He was hiding in the castle (Nimus was already level 27) and Deleb tried some cunning tricks, but not very successfully. I didn't charge into the castle, but instead broke into his treasure zone. There I took the Sunken Temple and then Nimus came out for the final battle. Surprisingly, I cut him down easily in the fight. Vampirism and Mass Slow are what dominate. And, of course, 40 horses, 80 monks, and a hundred griffins sealed the deal. Thanks for the game!