"Newcomer-2011. Winter"

We played a game with VahTank...
31.01.11. InFog (Blue, Tower, Aine) def VahTank (Red, Fortress, Sela) 2sm4d(3) 214
VahTank hired my mage in the tavern, it wasn't a surprise to me, but I was amazed at how he was blasting with lightning bolt and fireball (turns out he was an expert in water and fire + had the corresponding spheres). I relied on golems (anti-magic, those are) and relatively tanky (16 hp + plenty of them (sculptor's wings save the day)) gargoyles, mass haste also came in handy. That's basically what saved me. 33 wyverns were indeed a puzzle. Lucky with dwellings, I didn't have a single one. But I was glad there were no gorgons!
I built a capitol, by the way, it helped to buy everything out, the marketplace helped too, every last coin was spent, I had 12 wood left.
Aine: (Lightning bolt dealt 412)

Sela: (Ice dealt 478, fire 297)


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By the way, it turned out funny, basilisks attack an untouched stack of gargoyles and they turn to stone, next turn a single miraculously surviving genie casts cure on the gargoyles, lucky! :)

It was a good game, interesting.
In the first week, I find an external dwelling of wyverns and capture it - that's undoubtedly a plus. In the first week, I build a citadel and wyverns (I didn't have enough resources for hydras at all). Hence the 33 wyverns in the final battle. At the end of the first week, I realize I've scouted my entire territory and the respawn turned out to be tiny (consequently with very limited resources) - that's a minus. At first, I decide to play through the mage out of desperation, since I didn't get many troops from the start. While running to the external wyvern dwelling, I immediately noticed a sphere of fire, which I later took from the medusas. Until day 124, I run around the stat boosters on the respawn, open 2 crypts and one dwarf dwelling. On the way to my secondary hero, I discover a sphere of water - boundless joy, for that I even sacrifice 14 archers against coludnas. However, by the 3rd week, I realize that even if I build hydras, I won't have enough money to buy them all, so I decide to play without them entirely.
Lucky with the wells, by the way - 2 wells conveniently located near the road (1 on the respawn, 1 at the secondary hero) are very handy for a mage.
I already knew where my opponent was by the first week via the observatory, and after gathering my forces after the first month (bought everything that was there, left with 40 gold and 0 resources), I came to visit him.
Now I'm thinking, perhaps I shouldn't have gone onto the snow for that single point of attack power on the stat booster, then the genie wouldn't have moved first... Ah well.
The final battle started with mass haste and everyone piled on the wyverns, about 17 remained. My main spells: ice bolt ~450, fireball ~270. I cast mass bless once. I took out the archers on the first turn with dragonflies, and later with a fireball. The most dangerous things in the opponent's army are nagas and golems that are hard to take out with magic (the former are tanky, the latter are magic resistant). The nagas got eaten, but the golems then wreaked havoc. After the wyverns, the basilisks were next. And somehow I casually lost.
Though I almost believed until the very end that I would pull it off.
Thanks for the game, good luck in the tournament.