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

20.12.2011 AYMAN (red, Rampart, random, Clancy, Kyrre) def R55Max (blue, Rampart, Malcolm, Mephala) Jebus Cross, 137.

It was an interesting and tough game; the spawns were quite scarce – there are only 3 Dragon Fly Hives scattered around and one Dragon Utopia. By the way, Andrey's spawn wasn't any better either.

on day one I took the snow village. External dwelling of Pegasi, wood, unique dwellings in the Castle. Kyrre is level 10 but leveled up terribly.

on day two a Dragon Fly Hive at 8 Wyverns at 121, took the native village, plan to somehow gather the scattered Dragon Fly Hives, take the Dragon Utopia and head to the GO (Crystal Dragons). Collected the Dragon Fly Hives, got 20 ducks, lost one to a scout hero. At 126 I see Mephala taking the Wings from the Diamond Golems, which is sad. Kyrre is level 16 but the skill progression was bad, the only good thing is that I got Armor in the second to last slot. Took the external dwelling of Green Dragons and they are also in the Castle.

at 131 I take a Dragon Utopia with a scout hero (the third one) (Sword of the All, Breastplate of parameters) already not bad and I break through the Crystal Dragons. Take the Castl. Then some unclear running around. Andrey must have been wandering around his own respawn, I saw that the treasure zone was completely garbage, the only useful thing there was a Pandora's Box for 5 levels, got lucky. Scout heroes collected some snow secondary [heroes], 4 or 5 of them in total. At around 135 Kyrre took a Hive for 8 ducks, I had 25 ducks and moved out to Andrey's respawn.
136 Andrey hatches a cunning plan, Mephala flies over to me. And he wants to break my chain with a scout hero. In the end Andrey fails to kill the scout hero. Kyrre, after some deep miscalculations, uses Town Portal to break back home and the chain returns. At 137 Mephala flies back closer to home, probably waiting for growth. But on 137 Kyrre reaches Mephala with Flight. In the final battle I manage to win, thanks to better stats and a larger amount of meat.

Thank you Andrey for the game and good luck to you !!!!!!!

P.S. My son was born today, I dedicate this victory to him !!!!!!! :smile26:

The game was indeed interesting and uncompromising. A great start. Shakti clears the Hive guard, Mephala is freed from prison, there's a block of 50+ Vampire spawns behind a Pandora's Box towards the GO, there are a couple of crypts and artifacts up to level 3.
On day 2 I see an external dwelling of Centaurs and another Hive guarded by 5-9 Hydras, which also guard an artifact +4.

113 - against the Hydras I lose almost all my Centaurs and 3 Archers (they got morale a couple of times at the wrong moment), which greatly hindered my development. The Griffin Conservatory is revealed. But the worst thing is that I saw my GO - 5-9 Magical [Faerie Dragons?], and after that I absolutely have to break through 20+ Necromancer Knights for 2 artifacts of +12 Knowledge and +1 All Stats.

114 - the Dragon Utopia and the external dwelling of Dragons are scouted, and a Pandora's Box as a freebie in the form of 40 Gorgons.

117 - Mephala is level 12, the external dwelling of Dragons is taken, no money to build them.

125 - I ignore my own 2 Dragon Utopias in order to get to the treasure zone as quickly as possible, I barely break through the GO with the Magical [Faerie Dragons?]. There was nothing to fight with (14 Wyverns, 5 un-upgraded Unicorns, 2 Dragons and basically a meat shield). After the Necromancer Knights I took the central Castle in the treasure zone (Tower).

126 - I reach AYMAN's GO, I reinforce in the 2nd Castle of the treasure zone (Castl). I realize I wasted my time going to the treasure zone too early, I should have farmed [more], as it is completely empty (2 Pandora's Boxes and that's it). I didn't take them, since with Mass Haste and Slow, Armorer and Offense I was counting on fighting with a level advantage of up to +3, and crawling through the sand – Kyrre could punish me, and the chance to cast Town Portal is low, especially since I have Wings.

127 - I fight a secondary [hero], head towards the Dragon Utopias. In short, I took them before the final battle, they were pure junk (both mini), I upgraded 21 Wyverns in the swamp secondary town, jumped to AYMAN over the mountains – the distance was huge even for Kyrre, attacked a scout with a scout, but he fought back and in the end Kyrre successfully teleported back home with a chain transfer of the army. I had to retreat hoping for a battle in the Castle, but Kyrre didn't let me run far.

In the final battle everything was going fine, despite Kyrre's double advantage in all stats and a level advantage of up to 3, while AYMAN had neither Mass Slow nor Mass Haste (only Mass Cure). The fatal mistake was when I fed one strategic unit of Pegasi to the Dragons so they would burn their own Unicorns. Forgetting that they don't get greased. In response, on their next turn they burned 2 Unicorns and 26 Grands with their fire breath, which resisted lightning. Then the opponent's ever-resistant ducks slapped a third of my ducks, and after that it was just a matter of execution.

Thanks for the game, Congrats on Arthur! :)