Speed and aggression.

09.03.2012 Nolife (Red, Random/Swamp, Meris, Korbac) def Gaudin (Blue, Random/Rampart, Clancy, Mephala) Kite (l - u) 134.

Confirmed.
I played Kite for the first time.
And I couldn't even imagine that my native secondary hero would end up in such a tight spot.
Couldn't reach it in the first week because the road went through another secondary hero's territory. That is, behind two guards. :(
(Could have gone off-road, of course, but I only found that out after the game. I rushed off in completely the wrong direction :))
Didn't get a single elf from the starting troops. I didn't take a restart because I was tempted by Mephala. Plus I thought it was far from certain the chocolate would drop :)
Spent the entire first week running around with 7 elves from the dwelling built on day one.
No money.
Only two crypts.
Maximals and pre-maximals.
That's where I got two artifacts: a magic ring (although Mephala didn't have a spell book) and a glyph of valor.
Didn't find any other artifacts.
Also saw a bag of gold behind some vampires on a neighboring respawn.
There was one external dwelling of pegasuses. There were no crystals on my native respawn at all.
So I only built pegasuses and unicorns in the second week.
In the first week I captured (that's putting it mildly, of course :)) the citadel and castle.
Ran around with four heroes. Money was catastrophically short.
I freed a hero from prison and on the very next turn I misclicked and attacked a mob of goblins with a single unit.

My opponent played excellently. He showed up in the second week. Seeing such a massive force of meat, I locked myself in the castle, even though I knew there was practically no chance. Stats were almost the same, but the meat advantage was huge. Those lizardmen alone were something else :)
In short, everyone saw the screenshots. A well-deserved defeat. :smile15:

Thanks for the game.

I'll keep training :)