Interportal 2011

Zybr (Nature) def HeartDe (Life) on Heart of the Winter 212

For me, it all started as usual - I got wiped out due to greed while storming the second castle. I retreated. I bought griffins at the castle and went to kill the ice creatures. All my troops and all the ice creatures perished in the battle. However, my scout leveled up quite well on his own, and there were no problems with resources to build phoenixes, and they were ready on time. By days 5-6, with 1 phoenix, I kill the mantis for the gloves and the castle. The scout with M movement returns and joins the main army. I bring up the second phoenix, 2 griffins, and a few fairies. I take the gargantuan cache, clean, losing only one "glutton" in the form of griffins and fairies. I raid the thieves' outpost and the gnome dwelling, then push through the thunderbirds for the gold mine. I take the mine, turn around, and go to kill the forty titans for the shackles. Killed them cleanly; I attacked more for the experience than for the artifact - in this kind of game, it's not needed. No GM movement yet, they provide scouting. I take the book of death and a sturdy shield from the ogres. Then comes the main fiasco - losing 3 phoenixes to a squad of golems and djinns. I'm left with two gargantuans. You can push through a lot with them, but they move much slower than phoenixes. Oh, by the way, after the battle with the djinns, the scout became GM :D:D.
After such a loss, I decided to focus on leveling up and gathering resources and money. First, I partially cleared my own land, then I headed toward the 3rd castle, having first taken the os cache and hiring 6 units there for cover.
During the assault, there was an unpleasant spit at the newly born phoenix right at the start, but then the defenders' forces were almost completely brought under control. I took the castle quite late overall, largely because there was some trouble with magic - only one song of peace for 3 mages)))) I had to hold the venoms with a priest.
After taking the castle, I sailed to the island. There was also a lack of artifacts there; among the majors before the utopia was the fire sword, and I didn't want to venture into the utopia itself - it would have been hard for me to kill 2 dragons despite the shield with fire protection. On the other hand, I broke all the treasuries and placed phoenixes in the third castle. I messed up a bit when taking the second gargantuan cache - I lost a druid there. Without his sands, I was afraid to attack the monsters with cyclopes (they were guarding the experience tree, and my priest was 1 level away from GM). I decided not to risk it and returned to my home lands. I bought everything; by the time of the portal assault on my side, I had 7 phoenixes, 6 gargantuans, and 2 mantises. For heroes: a tactician 5550, GM life (with staff of power), M nature, and a scout (expert nature and advanced death with the tome of death). I broke through without any major problems, losing only 1 mantis. I ate some crystals, brought up one more phoenix. I stayed the night. For some reason, I had many problems with the second portal, but in the end, the losses turned out to be exactly the same as the first - 1 mantis. I split the phoenixes into 2 squads of 4+4 and went to look for Heart. Although honestly, based on the gold, I had already determined that she had just taken the third castle and logically should be somewhere nearby. It turned out she was holed up in the castle. I thought about it and decided to storm. The final battle was won due to a clear advantage in meat and hero levels.

Thanks for the game and good luck in other games:)

I got a noble opponent, and from the very beginning, he offered a restart if I got catapults as my level 4 dwelling. Sir Zybr went first, so only after he passed the turn did I discover that I had catapults. Restart. Again, the opponent goes first, passes the turn to me, and again they appear - those wretched catapults. Third restart, phew, I got Angels.
The start was normal. I took the gloves, the second castle; on the sixth day, I built the first angel in the castle, and on the seventh, I went to capture the dwelling. I lost quite a bit there, but I did capture the dwelling, and two were immediately added to the army. I lost my meat. Everything would have been fine, but I was noticeably lagging in hero leveling. After capturing the dwelling, I didn't go to the gold mine to fight the birds, but instead spent a whole day pacing between two ordinary mines, not daring to attack the birds; I didn't have immortality for the heroes at that time. Because I ran out of cash.
My first two heroes were a priest-scout and a tactician; for the third, I took a simple priest to level up his magic. Later, I captured the opponent's mine, and handled the birds faster than I even expected. Then I went to level up the heroes, because besides the scout, everyone else was leveling quite mediocrely. Yes, I took the fourth hero in the second Nature castle and leveled his melee combat. Much later, my fifth was a druid. So, with five angels and 4 heroes, I headed for the third castle. On the way, I decided to collect various necessary artifacts. Overestimating my strength and making a gross mistake, after two consecutive battles, I went straight for the gold mine, where there were 805 troglodytes. Everything would have been fine if my priests had mana, and the angels too. There was simply no mana. I killed the troglodytes, but I was left with one angel instead of five. I was terribly upset at that moment. Because the plans to capture the third castle were ruined, and the opponent had a clear advantage.
Anyway, then I focused on trying to build up the army and level up the heroes further.
I took the third castle late, although practically without any major losses. In the second, I managed to build phoenixes, but didn't have time to move them to the third. The opponent came to me the very next day after I captured the last castle. That's where he caught me. For GMs - I had a scout and an archer (GM of military arts), the rest of the team were experts and masters. Additionally, there were 7 crosses and 4 angels.
The opponent crushed my defense. Thanks for the game!
In any case, it was fun