Dima Surmay
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22.04.2012 HellLighT(Blue, Castle, Valeska, Gurnisson) def Dima Surmay (Red, Conflux, Fiur, Grindan) Jebus 133
Week 1
A decent start with good potential, archer towers built, but since I prefer tempo I go for upgrading archers instead of going for angels in the Castle. On day 111 I split into 6 heroes, Gurnisson arrives - gets assigned to folders, revealed 2 Griffin Conservatories and a Dragon Fly Hive with light guards - let's play. The respawn turned out to be Huge! Roads stretch endlessly in all directions, but no high-level dwellings in sight. Found an external dwelling of spearmen and in a corner of the respawn an external dwelling of archers. On day 114, barely managed to shoot down a stack of 70 fat nomads for a Pandora's Box that gave 60 archers! A solid boost to the army. I also reveal 3 more Griffin Conservatories (almost all with Trog-based guards) and 3 Dragon Utopias, but the respawn is so large that even chains of 6-7 heroes (1-2 were scouting until the very end) couldn't instantly transfer troops from one part to another... By day 117 the Fort had angels.
Week 2
Due to the lack of decent dwellings, clearing the Dragon Fly Hives and Griffin Conservatories only started on day 121. I wasted an extra turn with Gurnisson because I was 500 XP short of level 10 for the Library. Anyway, through chains, I gathered all the Griffin Conservatories (total 15 angels), the Dragon Fly Hives (20 Wyverns) and 2 pre-mini Dragon Utopias (gave decent loot - Helm +6 All, Book of Air and minor artifacts; also outside the Utopias I got a Shield +4 All from some Efreeti) by day 127. A bit slow, but the respawn took up a quarter of the entire map, which kept astonishing me.
Week 3
The opponent reveals stats twice as low. Before heading out, on day 131 I grab the last Dragon Utopia, which gives a Breastplate +4a+4d, a Helm +12d (which ended up not being very useful later) and a Sphere of Earth (without Implosion and Meteor Shower). Since all the Dragon Utopias were small, I barely had enough gold to buy and upgrade the archers (and without the external market, I wouldn't even have had that). Using a scouting hero rescued from a prison with Air Magic (my main only got basic Earth Magic at the very end and nothing else), I reveal the opponent already in the center, near the exit, stats still lower than mine. I burst in, allow a miserable stack of 10-19 Titans to escape from me via Dimension Door, cut off the scout hero with the "overeat" buildup, and with Dimension Door jump onto the last hero glowing in the treasure zone... Fireball - shown in the pictures below, Chain Lightning for 800 and an attack by Archangels leave 10 birds alive out of 31. As it turned out, the opponent had nothing to reply with in terms of magic except Oil; the insane Ballista and 170 archers under the Golden Bow finished off the remnants. During the battle, 2 Archangels were killed, which the second stack successfully resurrected. Upon inspection, all 4 zones turned out to be gigantic, while the treasure zone was tiny and poor. The opponent had 3! external dwellings of birds and 2 dungeon villages. Thanks for the game.
I confirm, I was constantly lacking tempo.