Vinceras
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crzq (Blue, Swamp, Wystan, Gunnar, Kyth) def Vinceras (Red, Tower, Neela, Neela) 2SM4d(3) 2.3.6
I don't have the strength to write a detailed report right now (it was a very tough game, for my opponent even more so, I think — we played for about 16-17 hours), and everything is basically in the replays anyway. The starting respawn wasn't super, but not bad — plenty of good crypts, but not much gold, plus one external dwelling — wyverns. A Dragon Fly Hive nearby behind 20+ Storm Elementals (8), a Pandora's Box behind 20+ Manticores (60 Lizardmen). Started off okay — captured everything without major losses, but the exits to the adjacent zone along the paths had 16 Arch Magi and 10+ Snipers. Foolishly, I flew into the first zone with group of Serpent Flies, they got morale and cut down a lot of my troops. Then the Snipers also got a bit of morale and finished off almost everything. In the adjacent zone, with 40+ Lizardmen and 4 Wyverns + some extra troops, I recklessly attacked an Imp cache (40); naturally, morale triggered and they blocked the Lizardmen, I only got out with 20 Lizardmen. Then there was a ton of other trolling — morale on Dragons, Angels, a Pandora's Box behind 143 Magmas giving only 15k experience, etc. The pinnacle was a plague week when I was rushing to cut off all the growth from my opponent and didn't buy out the Lizardmen and Wyverns at home. But overall, at the end of week 3, I freed Kyth at level 10 and started necromancing — fortunately, I had already taken the Boots, and all the Necromancer artifacts were there — Boots, Cloak, and Pendant. My opponent didn't come for me, went to eat treasure zones, while I necromanced and used Gunnar to capture all his towns, shipping out the growth. In Tower, thank God, I caught Dimension Door — taught it to two main heroes and eventually caught Neela replenishing mana in her main hero (although I had already necromanced quite a bit and had a 2-3 times advantage in troops. Spell power was much higher — had Lightning protection, Ice Bolt hit for about 700, I think; combat stats were slightly higher).
Thanks for the game. =)
It happened. The respawn wasn't the worst, but the guards on the secondary zones were all shooters, and the stone mine was blocked by a horde of Griffins; on the first week I barely managed to build a Naga at the fort. On the second week I went to the secondary zone and ended up finding a horde of Grand Elves on the road, taking three days to go around (. On the third week I took two external dwellings totaling 18 Wyverns and beat 90 Genies for a level 5 Hat. Then I went around clearing treasure zones; it was hard without Logistics, didn't find anything worthwhile there — one mini Dragon Utopia gave junk, just a waste of time, and meanwhile Skeletons were piling up. By the time of the final battle, with the remains of my mana, I sat in the castle, realizing I had no chance — my Explosion only doing 700 wouldn't have solved anything.
Thanks for the game.