23.03.2012 7z (Blue, Citadel, Crag Hack, Crag) def Dimast (Red, Castle, Valeska, Tyris) 2sm4d(3) 133
Small respawn, practically no resources and gold, but there are 5 treasure chests. All turned out to be max! Cyclops external dwelling behind the marksmen ( ( Would have preferred birds instead...
Crag immediately gets Tactics and experts it on one of the chests. I break through the energy units onto the grass. Along the road there are only shooter blocks, but they no longer scare us. Next to the road is an elf external dwelling behind the lizards (I capture it) and a centaur external dwelling, and behind them Rampart.
The first week ended with elves in the citadel and 1-3+bears in the citadel. 0 gold on hand.
I somehow scrounge up gold and buy the elves. 28 units — an excellent stack. I reveal the conservatory minimal. I capture gold, upgrade the elves, take the conservatory and the naga bank. I capture the artifact for morale +3/+3 with 60 storm elementals, losing a behemoth. What a noob ( ( Well, it's fine, this will still decide it. I prepare to run to the second secondary hero (in which, apparently, the opponent is already).
131 opponent breaks through to the main and is ready to kill me. I hunker down with Crag in the citadel and wait for him.
132 opponent doesn't reach the main by one turn.
133 opponent bursts in. Armies and stats are in the screenshots. In the battle, I got morale about 7 times (of those, about 3 times on the grand elves) and luck a couple of times. The opponent got none. I shoot down all the marksmen on the very first turn and continue to shoot down the citadel's infantry.
The opponent flees. I lost ~15 grand elves, 8 birds, ~20 centaurs, goblins. Overall, a decent trade :)
We postpone the continuation of the game until tomorrow. The next day, the opponent surrenders.
Thanks for the game. Somehow, we clicked particularly well with the opponent :smile01:
First place, here I come! :smile49: :smile08:
The distribution was just insane, as Alex wrote me about 4 days ago that with such an army he would have said GG long ago when I beat someone, because I had 2 unicorns that wiped out stacks of 50-99 shooters. I definitely didn't plan to see that many grand elves. And the morale and luck when both had +3 — I got none against about 10 under luck, which just left no chance. And today, having a 10 percent chance against 90, I decided not to drag it out and concede the victory. I believe the person rightfully deserved it. We clicked, I won't argue. And I'm not Ari.... so why wouldn't we click. Thanks for the game. Just for myself, I could try that same save without that particular artifact, of course.
