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3.02.2012 Fellshut (blue Tower Solmyr Solmyr, Ivor) def ariputra (red Castle Valeska Valeska) 2SM4d(3) 135
We didn't play in one day, I don't remember the restarts, I see Ivor came, I see money, I see crypts, medusa dens, fast roads — let's play))
Week 1 we scout, collect resources for mages and nagas, I take the Dwarf Cottage at the end of the week and an external dwelling of gremlins (there were also 3 external dwellings of gargoyles — I didn't take any of them)
ГО is very harsh, I don't even think about it, there won't be access to the opponent for a long time, since the adjacent zones are on rough terrain and very far away + there are swamps and crags, I decide to go into the underground, first leveling Solmyr a bit, I clear a pandora's box for 10k over crosses on 121, meanwhile Ivor is leveling and the hero from the prison, Troglodytes were very useful))
We enter the underground and opening Xilnaga I see 4 tasty Dragon Fly Hives and the Necro secondary, due to the lack of nearby wells Solmyr often gets beaten up, there are no decent artifacts at all.
In short, we build chains, take the hives, naga banks, bring food etc, horde lvl 3 is built, we gather resources for horde lvl 4
The tempo is crap for me, so I take the last Dragon Fly Hive on week 3, build a chain to Ivor, Ivor with logistics runs to scout, I see another hive, the chain is built just in time, but then I see that the hive has already been eaten, first I kill the scout hero with a fake army, and then with the whole army, there were 200+ skeletons, birds, Wyverns and t1-6 from Castle without griffins and monks — morale -3, well, I punished all that almost without losses, then Valeska with 4 angels and necro meat manages to hit me hard too, but Solmyr was sitting at home just in case with a chain on 400, there was money for horde lvl 4 since there was an external market.
Thanks for the game, it was interesting)
I confirm
everything was fine, 2nd level was built, 26 marksmen from the start, Valeska leveled well, cleared the sword and shield +3, Vokial came, 4 prisons, fast barbarian secondary with bird building, on the second Valeska leveled expert air, found an external dwelling of swordsmen, Griffin Conservatories 1+3 with the loss of 46 skeletons, tried to fight on two fronts after Valeska fought, the troops went to Vokial (had a cloak +10%), the only thing was no Dragon Fly Hives (
on the third sword+6, there was a choice either to go to the enemy respawn or to the underground treasure zone next to it, on the 3rd turn in the treasure zone there was an ogre's shield, a pandora's box,
suddenly from the darkness Ivor attacks with 32 Wyverns and a machine first on Janava with a single unit then on the machine (8 Thunderbirds, 9 cavalrymen, 25 Swordsmen, 50 marksmen, 87 pikemen, 226 skeletons, 1 serpent) with a harsh morale penalty without capes, there was no money to buy them off, by that time Valeska had expert air, archery, attack, advanced tactics 16 13 4 3 versus 0 3 11 10 for Solmyr and 2 6 11 for Ivor, 4 angels could do nothing against such a machine,
then I looked at the saves, the opponent played simply perfectly, ГО was through a teleport on the road, the only way out by road to the metro was through shooters, other ways were on rough terrain 3-4 days' travel away, but Fellshut squeezed the maximum out of a draft that I would definitely have restarted
thanks for the interesting game
