22.02.12 HellLighT (blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) def CryptoNight (red, Fortress, Tazar, Tazar) 134 Jebuss cross

We restarted for a long time, even managed to play out 4 days of another scenario that ended with the opponent's loss. The start wasn't the worst, Shakti with 2 stacks, I scatter with roaches, I spot a lvl 1 Griffin Conservatory with a huge stack, I pick up 30 Troglodytes from a refugee camp, I see 2 Dragon Fly Hives a turn away from the castle, I think everything is great - I need to play (there was still a restart left). As it turned out later, on the completely blocked respawn there were 3 hives (for 4, 8, 8 Wyverns) and 1 aforementioned Griffin Conservatory, from external dwellings 2 Manticores in different corners of the respawn, one of the secondary towns (as it turned out - my native one) was completely blocked by Scorpicores, there was only one Pandora's Box and it had gold, Shakti's skill rolls were terrible - they gave all sorts of junk, so after Earth the fourth skill was Ballista (which turned out to be a pretty nasty girl in FB :D ), the good things include the Elixir of Life, all 3 ingredients of which were within a turn and a half of each other on my respawn - that made my life a lot easier :) there was an external market and right next to my main was a Dragon Utopia guarded by 5-9 Giants. For the entire first week I built giant chains to take those damned Karagandian dwellings, the roaches ate everything they could, by 117 12346 in Citadel + portal and 2 Manticore dwellings, I split Shakti, buy everything out, made a small mistake, forgot to buy a new hero before splitting, lost half the feeder for the Dragon Utopia, 122 I take the Dragon Utopia, Shakti with Earth and Shield, 19 Wyverns, 19 Scorpicores, Angel, feeder of 50 Troglodytes, 10 Evil Eyes and some other small stuff, stupidly lost the Angel, got a Sword +12, Sphere of Earth, Crown of the Dragon's Teeth +4a+4k and Sphere of Vulnerability. I was ready to hit the main opponent, but I procrastinated for another couple of turns, as a result 90 giant Minotaurs only fall on 125, but on the way to it (as it turned out, on the same turn as the opponent). Right at the entrance to the treasure zone a small gift - behind 100+ Manticores lies the Cloak of the Undead King and Angel Wings :smile13:, I scout the passage with a scout hero, but nothing particularly interesting there, Sandals of the Saint behind Centaurs, didn't take the Library because of 10-19 Archangels, and a Fortress town which Ignatus from the prison with Logistics and Pathfinding dealt with). Shakti himself, thanks to the Observatory's illumination, ran through the mountains to the lower part of the treasure zone, where 5 more hives were visible (the most annoying thing is that 3 of them were minimum spawns), on 127 I check the tavern and see that Tazar has sharply grown in stats (all around 20), Shakti had 25 10, but without Defense, got a Book of Earth and started to hurry quickly, killed another Dragon Utopia, got a Shield +4 to all stats, as a result built a decent stack of Wyverns, but unfortunately lost the Scorpicores, 131 the opponent himself shows up, captures a Hydra dwelling near the swamp and vanishes back, for 4 turns there are fierce roach massacres... then a rather funny moment happens - I see a Wyvern dwelling near the swamp, but don't see the guard, without a second thought I give a scout hero Wyverns and Scorpicores and send him to take it, and there are Hydras! 25 of them №;№ASDASDasd, barely regained control and still lost 2 Wyverns, as it turned out right next to the dwelling there was a Helm +6 to all stats :smile49: encouraged, I took the Sandals, visited the Library, bought a Cloak +2 Speed at the market along the way, already having a Necklace +1, upgraded 49 Wyverns and sat in the swamp. Then Tazar shows up (thankfully not grown a single point in stats) and walks along the road past me, struck by such audacity (as he later said, my army seemed small to him, especially considering 20-49 Wyverns are visible) I check with a scout hero, first of all Sphere of Inhibition, army - 25 Chaos Hydras! 60 Wyverns, 67 Lizardmen, 4 Angels and single Serpent Flies, stats - 20 23 14 9 (as the post-mortem showed, Tazar also got all sorts of junk - Expert Defense, Pathfinding, Earth, Logistics, Literacy, Offense, Tactics, and Advanced Wisdom against my 3 Chaos Dragons, 49 Monarch Wyverns, 21 Scorpicores, 15 Gorgons, and single Serpent Flies, stats - 40 24 22 18, expert - Offense, Tactics, Earth, Fire, Ballista, Logistics, Wisdom, Advanced Air (turned out to be some kind of mage ;) ) and the important fact of +3 Speed. The FB was quite fun, having a huge advantage in battlefield movement, after waiting and removing the retaliation from the Wyverns, out of 60 there were 30 left and also paralyzed from the Scorpicores, I happily jump the Wyverns onto the Hydras, but clearly overdid it - killed 5, from the retaliation 10 died! plus the Hydras' turn, demoralized, I made a couple more mistakes, but as a result I started to lure the opponent into moving, largely thanks to the Ballista (which with a direct shot killed 5 Wyverns per turn) and the Elixir I won the fight. The opponent admitted that he misjudged the situation and didn't even upgrade the Wyverns, quite possibly then the outcome would have been different. Thanks for the interesting game.
p.s. CryptoNight promised to post all the interesting stuff in pictures himself!