AYMAN
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03.01.12 Psyche_7(blue,Castle,Valeska,Kyrre) def AYMAN (blue,Fortress,Wystan,Galthran), 2sm4d(3), 212
On the first week Kyrre and Isra arrive. I decide to focus mainly on Kyrre, since there isn't much gold and the respawn itself isn't very convenient. With great difficulty I break through Earth Magic on (native) secondary. There's enough gold on the secondary respawn, but building up the secondary is quite costly. As a result, at the end of the first week I have cavalry in the home citadel and swordsmen in the secondary. Captured 2 external pikeman dwellings and 1 swordsman dwelling are pleasing (there will be something to go into the home Dragon Utopia with). I see 2 Griffin Conservatories on the respawn (one level 2). In addition, I send Isra on a multi-day raid (to take the dwarf dwelling and collect skeletons along the way). I find a sword +3 and a spell power artifact near the dwarf dwelling, and decide to linger.
On the second week Kyrre goes down into the underground treasure zone, but there's nothing interesting there yet besides a mini-Hive and a gold mine (I'll return for the Dragon Utopia and Pandora's Boxes later). I break back home. Towards the end of the second week, Isra takes the level 2 Griffin Conservatory, and I transfer the army to Kyrre to take the Naga Bank and Medusa Dwellings (to level up Earth Magic).
The third week started with a level 3 Griffin Conservatory, then the home Dragon Utopia (I gave away pikemen and one angel foolishly). They gave a red orb and 2 knowledge helms :(. I break through to the underground towards another secondary (Necropolis, already taken by blue), leave Isra there to capture it, and Kyrre breaks closer to the second Dragon Utopia (the accumulated 130+ skeletons went to waste as I was eating). There they gave something more interesting - a sword +5 all. In the Pandora's Boxes - experience. Then came some unclear wandering in search of fast treasure zones. But none were found. As a result, towards the end of the month I reached the opponent through another secondary Castle, not particularly fearing offensive magic. Plus I tracked the opponent's movements using Air Magic View.
Around turn 146 I sit in the opponent's empty castle, simultaneously breaking through the GO from the other side. Unfortunately, there's nothing to buy in the swamp. Galthran didn't like this and didn't hesitate to appear a turn's distance from his castle. I check - 5 mana. Tempting, but despite my 160 mana, from offensive magic I only have Lightning Bolt for 200. I sit on the well next to the castle, since I only have 2 Archangels and 6 regular angels. Galthran, obviously confident in his victory (40 Wights, 400+ skeletons, 6 angels), doesn't attack but sits in the swamp to restore mana (I kindly built the guild there a turn earlier). Nothing to do - I retreat, and I don't even make it to the castle; I have to expose Kyrre on Archangels and spend money on surrender (risking running into Shackles of War or that one of the blue heroes reaches my main). But none of that happened and I safely holed up in the castle with a red orb and faith in 10 Archangels, 100+ Crossbowmen, and Expert Artillery. Fortunately, the opponent is satisfied with killing half my heroes and attacks anyway (even without upgrading the Wights).
The finale.
The opponent has 26-12, +3 speed, nearly 500 bones, 44 Wights, 70 Greater Lizards, and reinforcements. I have 13-13, +2 speed, 10 Archangels, 43 Greater Swordsmen, 110 Crossbowmen, and company.
Galthran has no Ballistics, so we're alive for now. Plus Anti-Morale triggers twice on Dragon Flies, preventing them from reaching my shooters. There's a shootout for a couple of rounds - I hit the Wights, the opponent hits the Crossbowmen. Galthran's +3 speed forces me to immediately block my shooters with everything possible. In the 3rd round, the opponent can't hold back and hits my Swordsmen with Wights (18 survive), I in response pile on with everything after removing retaliation - and there goes the main Wight stack (15 remain). Then the Angels got hit (1 left). And the walls are still intact. Unfortunately, due to a disconnect, we couldn't finish the game and decided to submit it for judgment.
IMHO: 10 Archangels kill the ballista and then everything else (+ the Crossbowmen also shoot, and there's something to protect them with), and the towers will deal with the skeletons.
Thanks for the game and patience! Sorry for the ruined finale (probably due to my internet).
It was ))) I played this game on a time limit, which I regretted )). As for the game, it wasn't bad — a 9 despite the double opponent), at least from my perspective I should have won BUT — I played quite carelessly, having 9 angels, I lost 2 on the Horde of Grezh Monks for an unnecessary book of Fire which blocked the passage to the treasure zone. Due to distractions, I simply didn't bring the Grezh Flies )). Oh well. I took three Dragon Utopias there, but it went very poorly; I don't know why in the first one they devoured 18 plain Mighty Gorgons — terrible. In the second, I had 7 angels left and for some reason they kept eating them in the Utopias, which also surprised me )). Demons devoured 3 angels from me. The Utopias gave nothing decent.
In the end, after the opponent took my capital, there was nothing left but to return. I put angels in the castle. I returned home without mana, and the opponent blocked my well. By the way, Kolya did that quite cunningly, well done )) acting like he's afraid of my magic, while having a Chupa-Chups himself, good job)).
Anyway, I took the capital, bought units, and caught up to Kyrra on Archangels; unfortunately, there were no Shackles )0. Kyrra ran away, and on the next turn I decided to attack her in the castle. In principle, Nikolai was right — I was almost certain of victory, but an unpleasant surprise in the form of an Orb of Inhibition ))) screwed me over.
In the FB I had a big advantage in meat, but I couldn't break through the human walls )) + Nikolai played the game well
Thank you, Nikolai, for the game!!!!!!
