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Apologies for the long absence... there were reasons for it, I'm already catching up, played one, started 2.
25.05.2012. Fellshut (blue, Necropolis, Galtran, Galtran) def Captain (Red, Flux, random, Monere) Jebus cross 125
We started almost without restarts.
111 - Galtran with 2 stacks, under the main for 100+ Centaurs a Pandora, zombies built, a second hero arrived with trogs - I set up the converter, next to a prison, I get another hero with troglodytes, as a result by the end of the turn 170 skeletons, the Pandora gave 5k experience, I expertised necromancy, got earth, scattered 6 heroes mainly along roads in 2 directions.
112 - The roads seem endless, but there's decent loot right on them, behind the wolves another Pandora for 5k experience, I advance earth, take logistics and offense, an external dwelling of necro horses, 2 more revealed on the other side off-road and on the road.
113 - The whole army continues moving in one direction along the endless road, skeletons barely accumulate due to losses in the external dwelling and a block of 8 scorpicores for another Pandora for 10k experience - I expert almost everything I have, only 200 skeletons, liches spawned in the main, I went with them to slowly clear the small stuff with the second necromancer, I revealed the ГО - gilded Castle horses, but archers are next to them, though you can avoid fighting them via one of the roads.
114 - took another external dwelling of necro horses! along the same road, finally saw a secondary town but didn't take it, set up a chain back, on the other side of the respawn scouts are running around scouting.
115 - took the secondary town, got wrecked with Galtran, the chain didn't arrive due to an acute lack of gold to buy back Galtran who urgently needed to replenish mana (miscalculation ;( ) one of the chain members went off to collect gold.
116 - theoretically could have already moved towards the ГО, but as practice shows, on huge respawns it's better to gather as much stuff as possible rather than rush headlong into the treasure zone, which almost always turns out to be small in such cases. So I sent Galtran to one side (where, due to my stupidity, he wasted a turn doing nothing) and sent the army to the other part of the respawn, towards 2 external dwellings of necro horses and 2 Dragon Fly Hives.
117 - with scouting I reveal another 2 Dragon Fly Hives, Galtran waits near the unicorns to fend off the guards for +2 all with growth, on the fly the chains are adjusted not very successfully
121 - I exchange a bunch of resources at the external market to buy and upgrade the horses, new heroes and skeletons for the front with Galtran, who after the guards stands at a big Dragon Fly Hive and waits for more meat, on the other part of the map things are bad, the targeted Dragon Fly Hives are far from each other, neutrals get too much morale, the chain barely crawls, I realize I'm stuck there for at least 2-3 turns
122 - Near one of the Dragon Fly Hives a Pandora for 20+ cytodrake birds, hoping for meat or gold I fight it, morale again... they give a whole 4th level to a witch with pitiful stats, I leave her mana so I can at least portal the army later instead of building a chain, Galtran enters the library
123 - I take the remaining Dragon Fly Hives, out of the stack of 350 skeletons that went into the chain only 150 remain... just terrible, I don't have time to portal, I built chains to exit into the treasure zone next turn, though Galtran himself got tempted by a Pandora near the exit and lost a lot of MP even with next turn
124 - portal, upgrade, chains, a Griffin Conservatory one next to the exit, army - 40 Wyverns, 19 upgraded horses, 2 without upgrade, 350 skeletons, I break the ГО horses and immediately see a citadel-town behind the ГО archers, I decide to fight because Galtran is running out of MP and needs to restore mana, the tactic given after the horses was very useful, but still the skeletons were cut down to 300, here I make a serious mistake, instead of sending a scouted scout further along the road, I immediately sit in the town and build a Mage Guild, well who could have thought that the opponent, whose army in the tavern showed not in the folder, was standing one turn away from me on a scout run... unfortunate, nothing to catch with, but a bit of meat shows and a turn back the stats were low, there is hope, I build a MG 4 for the chain lightning scroll on Galtran, sit down - wait
125 - The opponent makes a knight's move and attacks me, FB - the opponent has 60 mana SM - 6, and I have chain lightning with 13, as he himself said - didn't expect there to be 40 Wyverns. The opponent unknowingly broke the rules and upgraded a 6th level, but even that wouldn't have helped him. Thanks for the game
The opponent took one restart and we went.
On 111 I thought about taking a restart myself, because one road was a block of 42 griffins, and the second road on 112 was determined to be the ГО.
But Ciele successfully takes out the griffins, losing only almost all the fairies, and Monere is dug up, who goes along the other road to the stable.
There was also an external market there.
Then I found three external dwellings of psychos, Monere had to split up, because I hit a dead end at the ГО, there is no third castle, not a single Griffin Conservatory on the respawn and only two Wyvern trees (took one), but three external dwellings of psychos are very compactly located near the castle. Plus I cleared two external dwellings of fire elementals and two of earth elementals.
So I didn't take a restart.
On 121 Monere sits in the capital, where phoenixes are built in the citadel, and runs to the ГО.
On 122 I fight the ГО (have expert earth, but no slow) and upon inspection I see that near the passage to the opponent's land there is a village where I could sit, block the entire treasure zone, and try to learn slow. But the village is abandoned by archers and griffin riders and there's nothing else there, I turn around and a day later the opponent appears... and I had only found two more Wyvern trees. 22 in total. And playing on GR, where the conflux is banned, I forgot about the rule regarding upgrading 6th level.
Thanks for the game!
Дипломатия - искусство говорить собаке "хорошая собачка" до тех пор пока не найдешь подходящую палку.