Favorites in battle! - 4 The Battle of Favorites! - 4

06.11.2011 R55Max (red, Rampart, Kyrre, Tant) def Wishmaster (blue, Fortress, Wystan, Tamika) 8mm6a, 231.

It was a very drawn-out game, played over three sessions. Tamika came from the start, plus Bron with about six peasants I think. Good respawn - an external dwelling of Gorgons, 2 each of Lizardmen and Gnolls. But I kept messing up periodically; on the first week I got wiped in a max crypt on sand, and then kept losing skeletons regularly, slow tempo. I didn't take any computers - they were very far away and not interfering.
Only really got going by the middle of week four - I took 2 Dragon Utopias, built a guild by that time in a village for the Town Portal scroll. One of the Utopias gave a Red Orb. I planned to rush my opponent, but no such luck - a carefully hidden passage through wasteland in the underground :) While searching for it and stockpiling skeletons, Tant came himself with an almost 2x superior stack of upgraded bone dragons (peasant external dwellings boost them) and not falling behind in the rest of the army. The Red Orb didn't decide it. Well, in the end it was my own fault - I went wandering without mana for Town Portal and ran into my opponent. Though otherwise, who knows how much longer this game would have dragged on :)
Thanks for the game!