I checked later - if I hadn't taken Archery, I would have gotten Scout and other decent things later...
Another blunder: I spent 2.5-3 days in the snow without Pass Flight - again, for some reason, I headed towards the chest and water buffs - the chest gave about 15 Storms, I think - I could have just used one Nagash and spoons to get the boots... I would have gotten everything faster than the blues since I was there first - in the end, I think that's what played a role... I was short by one day - I would have taken Dragon Utopia with control and had 50 horses - further in perspective, there were 2 more Dragon Utopias, an elixir was being gathered - it would have been great, because under Tiris' command, with the elixir and leveling up to 1.5 swords, 50 horses would have had 220 hp...
And for the icing on the cake - I dismissed a horse by misclick - I wanted to check the experience))))))
Aside from Shiva, there were basically no decent heroes - but because of the special ability, I left the Tourist in the motherships...
Thanks for the game once again;)
I really liked the report too!