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18.01.2012 Kluka (red, swamp, Wystan, Crag Hack) def Toostie Pie (blue, dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) Anarchy (7) 211

Started back in October, then postponed twice.

1.
111. Dacon (+350) and Crag Hack (diplomacy) arrived. Mistakenly sent 2 heroes along roads on harpies instead of swamp creatures.
112. In the chests: helmet+2 and shield+2. Figured out the template - #3. GO - angels on the grass and griffins in the metro. Broke into the metro.
113. Scouting in the metro - I see an Inferno town. Broke through to the sand. From the sand, I see a lift to a respawn, from which there is an off-road passage to the Inferno. This is probably a small treasure zone (respawn №16).
114. I take the underground Inferno with 4 basilisks + low-tier units.
115. Hired 32 lizardmen for gold.
116. I take the Inferno in the sands; with a scout, a crypt with 5 vampires. In the sands behind the mountain (going around on sand ~20 tiles) I see boots (behind griffins) and a Griffin Conservatory.
117. Built hydra dwellings in the fort + 1000, in the underground Inferno 1000.
Crag Hack level 6, due to taking Air Magic, Diplomacy is still advanced.

121. Pandora's Box with level 1 magic.
122. Mistakenly give the scout the helmet+2 and break to replenish mana. The scout takes the boots.
123. Maxed out diplomacy.
124. In a Naga Bank, I stupidly lost 7 basilisks and 2 Wyverns over 3 rounds.
125. I scout the Griffin Conservatory: 2nd level. Take it at the cost of 2 Wyverns and 30 Gnolls, get Intelligence shoved in.
126. Hired 25 water elementals for 7500 gold. At the cost of 2 hydras, I break through 12+2 Behemoths for a Pandora's Box with 15K experience, get Earth Magic and expert it.
127. Hive with 6 Wyverns, artifact +3 attack. Took external dwellings of Ogres and Roc/titans.
At home +Castle. In one of the Infernos, I built Pit Lords (to take the third Conflux/Sorceress town), but there is a block of 10+ Champions for +4 attack.
Crag Hack level 15, with artifacts 3-3-15-10, expert Wisdom, Air, Earth, Diplomacy, Intelligence, and basic Leadership.

131. Hired 13 wood elves/master huntsmen. Took Pathfinding (I don't know, maybe it was in vain).
132. +15K experience (-1 Wyvern and -1 Roc on guard), +8 Wyverns.
133. Split around the capital, a Naga Bank by 4, and back to the capital for mana. Built MGT2, now have Ice Bolt for 330.
134. Broke through GO (angels), lost 1 angel out of 2, both hydras, all the fodder (remaining water elementals, rocs, and something else). Pandora's Box with 45 Orcs.
The opponent, emerging from one treasure zone, passes through my respawn into another.
135. +2 angels, hire 122 Evil Eyes!!! Thinking about whether to take Archery from the hut 1 day's travel from home. Free up Gunnar level 10 - expert Logistics, Offense, Defense, advanced Tactics.
136. +8 Wyverns, Pandora's Box with 30 Ogres. Gunnar takes the central village, buys a spell book. Gunnar gets Air Magic. The opponent destroys my scout, having 104 Grand Elves and 42 wood elves, 14 lions/griffins, 2 Behemoths, 46 Evil Eyes, and 31 Harpies.
137. Gunnar takes the Cape of Speed and +4 Wyverns. I misread the template and go with Crag Hack and the whole army to the opponent's secondary respawn. There, I see a fort on a hill and upgrade the entire army there: 3 Archangels, 28 Wyverns, 116 Evil Eyes, 26 Ogres, 39 Orcs. 64 Lizardmen were already upgraded.

141. Well, I sit down to replenish mana in the opponent's secondary. On his turn, Shakti also visits the fort on the hill.
142. No stat artifacts, no damage magic, no control. I have no choice but to flee into a treasure zone, which the opponent could easily have already cleared.
143. Shakti takes the starting town.
144. Took the opponent's village.
145. I take the minimum Griffin Conservatory in the sand. Didn't expect such a gift - the opponent left a defeated but untaken Dragon Utopia near the village. With a scout using swamp growth, I take the dungeon on my home respawn.
146. I take the Dragon Utopia (shield +4all and КЗ). With Gunnar, a 3rd level Griffin Conservatory (out of habit, I refuse diplomacy :-D), I run to the opponent's starting Castle.
147. 35 hydras joined me for free, and for gold - 31 Wyverns.

211. Decided to make a bold move - through the off-road passage from the GO, take the external tavern, and from there reach the dungeon. However, I messed up the chain and had to spend a prepared hero, who was leveled up before the split, on transferring the army.
After attacking the opponent's scout near the external tavern, the opponent surrenders.