Jebus Cross - 2.

21. 02.2012 Scorpiona(red, Swamp, Wystan, Broghild) def Javdet(blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) Jebus 131

In Broghild's tavern, on the first day, a couple of Dragon Fly Hives, a Pandora's Box, and an external dwelling of Wyverns appeared: cool!
The game went easily and smoothly.
113 - took the external dwelling of Lizardmen and 1 Wyvern, captured the secondary hero.
115 - scouts take another external dwelling of Wyverns and visit crypts; Broghild ate the Pandora's Box for 10k, got Logistics XP, and movement bonus:rolleyes: .
116-117 - Broghild takes a Dragon Fly Hive (6), Griffin Conservatory(1), expert Earth Magic, buys a book with Slow, and stands near the Conflux (4); Scouts take another Dragon Fly Hive (6).
121 - Griffin Conservatory(4), Dragon Fly Hive (12), and Broghild runs to the Dragon Utopia.
122 - scouts with a stack of Wyverns deep in the respawn take another Dragon Fly Hive (8), and another with a stack of 5 Angels + Lizardmen + units successfully sacrifices in a max Naga Bank for 2 Angels:smile16:
123 -124 - Broghild takes the Necklace +3 All Stats, takes a Dragon Utopia(1) = (Vest +3 +3 Attack/Defense and Hat +4)
And with a stack of 46 Wyverns and stats (12-19-8-11(20)) runs into the treasure zone. The Dragon Utopia is broken through almost unnoticed:smile51: .
125 - Wyvern upgrade, Dragon Utopia(3)=(Cloak of the Undead King, Hat +4 +4 Knowledge/Spell Power, Surcoat of Counterstrike +2), Pandora's Box for +3 to Arch Titan stats.
126 - Sword +5 All Stats and Library. Since Shakti is wandering somewhere nearby, and I have 0 mana, I decide to return to the capital to replenish mana supplies, while the scouts meanwhile take the Hat of the 5th Level deep in the respawn.
127 - return to the treasure zone:smile13: .
131 - Broghild (21-26-19-17) captures the center in the treasure zone and scouts scatter. Shakti reveals himself in the tavern (10-18-7-12). Upon turn transition, Shakti capitulated.
Thanks for the game!

There was a rest left. Near the town, an observatory - 4 hives are visible, but all have such guards that you can't approach them right away; a stable; an external dwelling of Troglodytes; Manticores with guards clearly under 100 Arch Devils; a gold mine; and a shield for +6 stats guarded by Pikemen; gloves guarded by a pack of Arch Vampires; a box guarded by Mummies. Everything is very compact. Well, how could one not play this?)))

Fought the Pikemen poorly - morale kicked in at the wrong moment; an undamaged unit chained, and goodbye to about 30 Troglodytes.

And then everything turned out to be dreary. The respawn in all directions from the observatory took at most a day's travel. Besides two more external dwellings of Troglodytes and another mine, there was nothing on the respawn. By estimates, about 25-30 Wyverns should be enough to break into the center, assuming you get movement or some slow units in the Dragon Utopia.

A scout reveals the Dragon Utopia - Scorpicores along the way, and if you go around losing almost a day, you can fight a pack of Necromancy Horses. But the main hero persistently doesn't get movement, and there's nothing to level anyone else on. Plus, I fought poorly through the entire first week, losing half the Troglodyte stack.

On 123, I stand at the pack of Manticores near the Dragon Utopia; a View scroll is brought up, and 2 red dots appear right in the direction of the Necromancy Horses. The stats there are higher, the army is presumably with the main hero, meaning the Dragon Utopia is clearly already broken.
And here I probably chose the lesser of two evils - attacked the Cats, hoping to get fat in the center. Still, the Horses with speed 10 seemed less dangerous. I came out naturally with huge losses - lost stacks of 13 Cats and a hundred Troglodytes; Mass Haste didn't really help:(

And in the center, I couldn't get fat - found only one Dragon Fly Hive; all guards with my half-army of 20+ Wyverns and the same number of Evil Eyes only get killed easily with Mass Slow. And Slow, when Earth Magic was finally leveled, the Miner didn't have it - couldn't be bothered to run to a town back in week 1. In short, more Wyverns and Eyes were lost, but besides 8 Giants, I got nothing worthwhile.

Seeing Broghild, the army, and how he was destroying Titans for +7 to stats, I knew it was over. The only chance was to use his lack of mana, but I have no combat magic, and Spell Power is around six. Ran around the treasure zone for a couple of days, found nothing, built an observatory in the tavern and surrendered.

Thanks for the game.