Druid Island REMASTERED

No one had time to attack me :cool:; for the first two weeks, I developed peacefully. The first week was difficult—it helped that among the neutrals there were many cowardly goblins and clumsy demons, and the ballista helped a lot :) . I cleared almost my entire territory of neutrals, collected all the second batches from the castles and creature dwellings, boarded a ship, and went to crush the enemies. At that time, I had 9 cyclopes, about 20 wyverns, approximately 30 chieftains, 43 shamans, 170-something centaurs, 250-something goblins; I don't remember the number of orcs, as I hardly use them. All creatures were without upgrades—I only captured the second orc city at the beginning of the second week and it was empty :eek:; as for hauling creatures from all dwellings to the first city to upgrade them there, I simply didn't have the time or desire, and nowhere to put them since I hadn't upgraded a single structure in the first city—I only built everything and developed the town to the level of a Castle.
The warrior level was 26; I played as the runner (she's the first one in the final cinematic) named Argat. At that time, she moved magnificently—crushing neutrals along the way and gaining additional movement points, she managed to run from one castle to another in a single turn. To my surprise and pleasure, she boarded and disembarked from the boat without losing any time. I also maxed out her skills for operating machines and the ballista; it's a pity that throughout the whole game I never taught her to manage the HP tent, otherwise the war would have been without losses. Due to development and artifacts, her attack was 33, and defense was over 20.

The AI developed their cities very strongly—of course, they had three times more money at the start of the game :rolleyes: :
When I arrived at the Elves—and I sailed to them first (at the end of the third week)—they had only three or four things left to finish building in the city. Therefore, they had monsters with maximum upgrades, but I didn't check the player level; I think it was 12-15, because most of the mines and other trinkets on the island had not been captured, not even Tieru's bow and quiver had been won back (I took them myself) :) . At the moment of my arrival on the island, strangely enough, the demons were already there :eek: , and right before my eyes, a strong demon warrior wiped out a fairly strong elf warrior (I judge by the quality of the creatures in the army—both had advanced creatures; I didn't see the elf's level). I landed on the island and attacked the winner :smile13:; he fled without making a single move; I only managed to see his level, which was 16. During this turn, I almost reached the foot of Tieru hill—passing neutrals helped a lot (who, by the way, were all trying to join). When I passed the turn to the AI, the main elf warrior (rather, a red-haired warrior named Dirael) popped out of the teleport near Tieru hill and bolted to the city :cool: . The next day, I captured the bow and quiver and went to smash the city; as a result of the assault, I lost only a few dozen centaurs and slightly fewer goblins—which is understandable—the castle is always trying to pick off the shooters, and then there's the elf woman with her ice block :smile21:. One can conclude her low level from the fact that she used specifically the ice block and not the "aspen swarm," which she specializes in and, with good development, uses to wipe out a huge number of creatures.
After taking the city, I was informed that the elves were defeated :smile51:; I traveled to the pier by another route, clearing the other side of the island of monsters and visiting all three trees, raising the hero's level to 30 (I earned one from the assault), and boarded the ship (this all took me two days). I wanted to go to the upgrade tower—the tower where you can upgrade all creatures—but I decided it wasn't worth the time :smile38: .
In the elf city, I left a small elven garrison from captured dwellings and the remnants of that city army that the elf woman didn't have time to buy (probably didn't have enough money), and I hired a human warrior to lead the garrison (I wanted an elf, but there were only orcs or humans in the tavern).
Three more days later, Argat landed in the north on the demon mainland; during the following (fourth) week, I captured both demon cities—when I caught up with one of their strongest warriors, he immediately fled from me without a fight, which disappointed me greatly :eek: . The demons' first city had maximum development, but it only had a level 1 warrior with one monster; I took it without losses using only cyclopes, and the second one had only just been started (a ford and a few structures); I stormed it similarly :cool: .
The last strong warrior ran past me while I was storming the first city (he didn't have time to reach the city, so he bolted for the pier :D ). After capturing both cities, in three days I caught up with and destroyed him just as he managed to land on my territory. I destroyed him with the runner, although his landing at my home didn't worry me much, since during the absence of the main warrior (the runner Argat), I had managed to well-develop and supply with an army no smaller than Argat's the centaur shooter leader Heggesh, and he was ready to give the uninvited guest a warm welcome :smile51: .
Well, that's it in short :) .