Speed and aggression.

04/01/2012 shpilenger (red, random, Necropolis, Sepetina, Grindan) def Ihtiandr (blue, random, Rampart, Ivor, Ivor) Speed_2 124
Sieged the enemy capital in the Citadel with Meteor and 400 skeletons.
Thanks for the game!

Confirmed. We both streamed the game. We used up all the restarts, and in the end, we got an incredible amount of resources: 2 Rampart villages, an Elven stash, and 2 resource piles. I thought victory was already in the bag. True, at the beginning, there were only ranged guards everywhere, I upgraded my Kentaur and lost a good number of them. On turn 122, I had 50+ Grand Griffins, ~100 Griffin Riders, ~50 Dwarves. I was running to take the resource piles and saw my opponent rushing towards the Guardian. Both resource piles were level 2, and my opponent split his army between two heroes - Claudius and Grindan. Because I didn't have enough movement points to rush Ivor in the previous turn, I couldn't reach Claudius with half of my army. I decided to defend against my opponent in the castle, but while I was busy with the exchange in 0 resources and bringing the remaining Dwarves for an upgrade, I didn't have enough time to position Ivor in the castle. My opponent attacks. He has 400 Grand Skeletons, 4 Black Riders, 9 Liches, 80 mana, and Meteor Shower. Yes, one cast shaved off 20 Elves. I played the final very poorly, I think there were chances for victory. Thanks for the game!

P.S. I watched my opponent's stream, Shpil showed a very strong game. The last time I watched a stream with such interest was when I watched Alex. It was very nice to play against such an opponent