24.02.12. Pit for LM (blue, random Castle, random Edric, Voya) def GoD (red, random Dungeon, random Lorelei, Isra), Speed-1, 125.
Starting heroes were dealt well ).
We started on the second attempt after my restart - the native secondary turned out to be blocked by ГО - a horde of Evil Eyes. The first few days I tried rather unsuccessfully to set up the stream, so the game wasn't very successful, there were a few mistakes.
111 - 8 heroes, plenty of money, external dwellings of archers and pikemen, an external stable and a Dragon Fly Hive. One of my favorite heroes arrived - Vistan. The only bad thing is that the opponent has a native Conservatory.
112 - The empty native secondary is colored, bows are bought, total 31 of them. Vistan on a barbarian respawn, I kill Gunnison.
113 - I take the barbarian, find a path to the Rampart through wasteland. On the turn transition, the evil computers kill two heroes. Money is quite tight, I place two thousand.
114 - Purple is finished off, orange Ivor is sent to the tavern. I lost a bit of army on this.
115 - Vistan took back a cloak +2+2 for magic, a crypt is taken.
116 - Another crypt, the Griffin Conservatory is scouted, but it's far and he won't reach it. Vistan leveled up perfectly - attack, logistics, earth.
117 - Nila takes a shield +4, I take back the Dragon Fly Hive, 4-6, Vistan is at the stable near ГО, I plan to attack on 121. Build order - griffins in the Citadel and cavalry in the Citadel. Not enough money to buy everything, but there are places to get it.
121 - I place 4 marketplaces, trade resources, buy army from the secondary (except griffins), archers from the capital and attack the Dwarf Cottage 20. With the money earned, I buy more cavalry, swords, and spears, take the Dragon Fly Hive for 4 wyverns, attack ГО (75 nomads), take the Rampart, buy a spell book. Then I attack 80+ diamond golems, get a book of air and Voya level 20 with average skills (logistics and armor are pleasing, but tent and catapult are disappointing, plus the native navigation is somewhat unfortunate). But still, a mage of sorts, 80 mana, with a spell book and chain lightning for 400+ she is more promising than Vistan.
122 - I take the Dragon Fly Hive for 8 wyverns and a helmet +5.
123 - I take a Pandora's box for 15 gr. cyclopes, free a decent Tunar level 30 from a prison. I sit down to replenish mana in the second central town.
124 - Tunar is routed - but that's good, someone will be able to take the Conservatory. With expert earth, slow, archers and cyclopes, the horde of gold and the conservatory-troshka fall without any effort. In the Pandora's box I get 35 upgraded wolves. I cast Dimension Door and attack Isra:
Voya (2, 10, 10, 15 (125)), expert wisdom, navigation, logistics, ballistics, water, tent, defense, 15 gr. cyclopes, 60 bows, 18 swords, 12 wyverns, 35 wolves, 5 champions, 3 angels, book of air; Isra (12, 19, 5, 6 (12)), advanced necromancy, earth, air, expert attack, defense and archery, basic logistics and mysticism, 1+48 gr. harpies, 4 wyverns, 256 skeletons, 121 troglodytes, 30 gr. medusas, 45 gr. eyes, +1 morale, +3 health, bow for +5 archery.
The battle was very hard, and if there was full mana, it would have been the end for me, because the skeletons under haste took out almost any stack in one go. But as it was, the haste only lasted 2 rounds, and then the slowed undead with speed 3 were no longer dangerous.
I first cast chain lightning on the archers, but it wasn't particularly effective. In response, the skeletons were hasted and ran forward. I was very lucky with the terrain - where my archers stood was something like a pocket with a narrow single-cell passage on top and a two-cell passage on the bottom. So the skeletons didn't reach them. In the second round, I slowed the skeletons, they were hasted, killed almost all the swords. Meanwhile, everyone piled on the harpies, but the harpies were very hard to kill. In the third round, the slow went off again, now without the possibility of being hasted. The swords were gone, the bows were gone, the harpies were gone.
Then I cast another chain lightning on the shooters, ran away from the skeletons. In the next round, I cast mass blessing and piled on the troglodytes. Managed to kill them with difficulty, lost an angel, wolves.
The next target was the remaining medusas and eyes. Finished them off with difficulty using army and archery, losing many troops. Then the cyclopes shot at the skeletons with impunity until only 150 remained, Isra surrendered. I had 13 cyclopes, 7 wyverns and 3 champions, 30 mana left.
After the battle with Dimension Door and the remaining army, my chances were probably preferable, but the opponent made a mistake somewhere and decided to surrender.
Thank you for the game.