"Новичок-2012. Winter"

Group A
15.01.2012 Tomash (red, Necromancer, Clavius, Clavius) def A_I_D (blue, Rampart, Ivor, Ivor) 2SM4d(3) 134

Started without restarts, had septiena and mines with 2 stacks, on 111 135 skeletons, found a lookout immediately, Griffin Conservatory behind lotsoa of archers, external dwelling of vampires, a couple of stat booster upgrades for attack and knowledge (would have preferred 1 experience crystal :rolleyes: ). The fifth or sixth hero was a wise woman, and she even leveled up excellently, got Earth, not a single junk skill, but Clavius also got Armorer, Tactics, decided that leveling him was more reliable. Took the vampires, built them too, on 114 broke through the lotsoa of ice spirits to the secondary, on 115 reached it — native necro secondary! I manage to build vampires there too, burn the lookout, see 2 external dwellings of skeletons and another Griffin Conservatory. At that point money runs out, I scatter roach heroes around the respawn, but besides a couple of treasure chests nothing smells of money, I barely manage to build a citadel in both towns, but on 121 I have exactly 1350 gold, Clavius is loitering around the Griffin Conservatory, mastering expert Necromancy, on 122 I finally bring all the vampires, 29 of them, and 230 skeletons, the Griffin Conservatory turns out to be a 2-stack, I lose 1 vampire. On that same secondary there is another Griffin Conservatory, a 1-stack, on the way to the portal from the main I take an artifact +2 attack for 20+ snipers behind it, apparently a quest one, but I can't find the hut for it.
On 124 I break through the portal and another 2-stack Griffin Conservatory, the portal leads to snow, I don't feel like going there, but nearby on my main there's an exit upwards, I go there, come out on grass, rejoice, hope to reach the opponent on the 2nd week, but when I got on the road, I went the wrong way, came to a Conflux secondary, already colored by the opponent. I take it, it's already 131, I'm having growth problems, the hope of finding money failed, everything on the grass is already picked up, no nagabanks in sight, I bought a hero for roach warfare, and that's all I could afford. Going at the opponent without growth with 5 angels 28 vampires and 350 skeletons is somehow risky, I don't know what army he has, nor what magic, I see some guard, go at it, passage to the treasure zone, nearby a Dragon Fly Hive for 38 gr vampires — almost lost an angel on them, but got lucky, 8 ducks, right at the entrance to the treasure zone behind the unicorns a ring +1 HP, I take it, and a Dragon Utopia, it turned out to be a minimal one, no special drain, so -18 vampires, it gave money which I have nowhere to spend, since after I left the opponent cut the chain, shackles and red orb, among anything useful — a cloak +10% Necromancy and a medal for +1 morale.

Ivor went after me into the treasure zone, stopped 1 turn away from Clavius, but didn't attack. On my turn I break the nearby guard of 100+ cerberi for the Necromancy, +40 skeletons, and attack, my angels move first, out of 38 grans only 3 remain, the opponent casts Oil, tries to cut down the angels, but since the dragons waited, the angels were surrounded by his troops, so without burning his own, he couldn't have struck, 2 of my angels survived, Haste on the skeletons, and in 2 rounds it was all over.

Good game, seemed like a chocolate layout, septiena, external dwelling of vampires, native secondary, 3 Griffin Conservatories, but the money bottleneck almost ruined everything, since I couldn't properly fight with roaches, nor bring in growth....
Overall there was suspense, since the opponent managed to build dragons, which evened the score on 7th level creatures, and if he had attacked himself, positioning correctly and getting first turn for his angels, Oil — closing off the elves, and he could well have shot down the skeletons, Ivor has expert Attack and Archery, with an attack parameter of 12 :eek:

thanks for the game ;)