d-neez
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17.01.2012. Group B. HellLighT (blue, Tower, Eine, Brissa) def d-neez (red, Fortress, Vestan, Vestan) 2SM4d(3) 215
Immediately disappointed by the main in the form of a huge fat intestine, thankfully on the serpent routes everyone quickly bypassed it, but the external dwelling of lizards and the well-placed gold along the intestine made me happy, so by day 117 I had 12346 in the castle. The main turned out to be quite large and for the first week I only cleared it; at the start of the second week I took a Barbarian secondary hero and, splitting across a chain the size of a large half of the map, immediately took an Inferno secondary. There's plenty of gold thrown at them, everything is broken through great with 65 archers and 6 wyverns with serpents, took 2 Medusa shrines and a Dwarf Cottage, built hydras. By the 3rd week Vestan has stats 8 11 2 2, advanced earth and basic tactics, the nearest exit to the opponent is GO 50-99 gr. Pit Fiends; other passages were in the deepest op, decided to run towards a treasury through an underground Necro secondary, capturing it and the lookout nearby, saw the treasury on rough terrain, completely filled with 10-19 angels, bears, wizards...without slow I didn't want to mess with all that; over the whole time I explored 12 shrines, built a Mage Guild in 3 castles, lots of scrolls, but slow was still missing. I split into a general secondary on day 141, and with all the bought growth from 5 hydras, 20 ducks, 9 bulls, 28 greater basilisks, 45 serpents, 122 greater archers, and 63 gnolls I run 2 days to a guard of 20-49 dendroid soldiers. Brissa shines with 5-6-12-7, kill the dendroids, come out onto snow...the wrong secondary, it turned out to be a treasury and not a single road nearby, I turn the chain around, in 2 days I split into a secondary on the other end of the map, there I level up tactics and earth, and, oh miracle, in the Necro underground a cockroach finds a slow scroll, without thinking I run to GO with 135 archers, 7 hydras, 23 ducks, 15 bulls, 86 gnolls, 47 dragonflies, and 32 basilisks, with slow and no losses, but Brissa with stats 12 8 17 12 and implosion for 1500k determined the outcome. GG, thanks for the game.
Conclusion: No matter how you look at it, the odds were not in my favor; after looking at the map I realized I could have gone all-in on the opponent right after taking the Barb secondary via rough terrain and then snow, at the very least by day 127 I would have attacked the main; Brissa would have been at most 3-4-9-6 with 120 mana, lightning for 300, 17 magi, 2 nagas, 47 master gremlins, 3 genies, 6 golems, 11 gargoyles...Vestan would have been 6 7 1 1, 6 wyverns, 12 basilisks, 19 regular dragonflies, 65 regular archers, 53 gnolls; no mass magic, 10 mana; even with an advantage in meat I don't think I would have taken the main because of lightning, and going out to GO on the third week was impossible due to the lack of slow; I started padding stats, the opponent got stronger and GG; the only thing I could have done right was to take a max-level Dragon Utopia with a secondary; as it turned out it would have given a sword +5 to all, amulet +3 to all, sandals +2 to all, and most importantly, the red orb of magic protection, but the lack of experience in taking max-level Dragon Utopias plus imagining a Captain's Hat and similar junk, the fear of ruining what I currently had, plus the found slow scroll tipped the scales in favor of turning away from the Dragon Utopia and breaking through GO. This will be a lesson for me; I need to urgently learn to take Dragon Utopias as early as possible with minimal losses.