Shakti was born underground as he should be, with mediocre 2 stacks, a castle without 2 lvl buildings.
First day 4 heroes, the only road led to the surface into the sands.
Second day brought a draw of two more heroes and showed that the sands are the exit zone to the computer and to the treasure zone. There turned out to be a bug passage to the grass. Liked the presence of Angel dwellings, but guarded by 50-99 gr eyes…
Third day – the computer's "Tower" castle was captured. The grass showed the presence of a wood dwelling, meaning this is the orange computer's "Rampart" respawn.
117 Capital of Manticore in the Citadel. In the Tower only enough for +1000 gold. To the orange there's a block along the road and good))) I had 35 Troglodytes left in my army.
Beginning of the second week was called wandering around unable to take anything. … On the grass 2 Griffin Conservatories both turned out to be Troglodyte ones. Checked one at 4.
124 Returned to native respawn and finally broke the block on the native respawn to the main part of the rough terrain, 85 Nomads for a Dragon Fly Hive (how good that I didn't go earlier (already had experience of losing to such) mini Dragon Fly Hive (4).
Another couple of days poked around in the depths of the respawn and finally found an exit to the zone toward the centers.
126-127 I split up closer to the sands to capture the Angel dwelling + portal.
131 Scouts on rough terrain again stumbled upon a block, never found a single exit to the center. Shakti, cool with 2 Angels from the portal, drove into the native treasure zone.
132 Shakti with reinforcements from Dungeon and 4 Angels kills 99 gr Swordsmen for a Pandora's box with 15 black cows. Then captures Dragonscale and Demon Bone, eats the Pandora's box with 3 Earth Lords, splits up to take Conservatories.
135 Dimmer runs on rocks revealing territory from the computer. Shakti takes Conservatory 4 and kills the orange in "Rampart".
136 Shakti splits up into the native, already revealed treasure zone for a Dragon Utopia, scouts take the last Conservatory (3) in the depths of the respawn on the grass. A second exit to the portal from Rampart to the center is revealed where the reds are already preparing to take the Dragon Utopia.
137-141 Shakti is in no hurry to enter the Dragon Utopia, takes another Conservatory in the treasure zone + a couple of Dragon Fly Hives and looks into the library.
On the fourth week the Tavern flooded me with Necro heroes, while the opponent from the first days had 3 Necros showing. I gave Septolina a Manticore, a Necro Cape from the treasure zone + a Necro Amulet and sent her little by little to mow down Skeletons on the native respawn.
142 Dragon Utopia (1). Gave Shield+4 and Hat+4+4. Shakti splits up into Dungeon, double Mana and runs along the only open direction into the huge computer treasure zone, along a veeeery long road.
145-146 Shakti lands in a village of the treasure zone and splits up into Tower to study Fly+Implosion.
147 interesting moment when my scout Dimmer on 3 Pegasi (on the grass) missed by 1 move to GG Klaivus boosted on a Dragon Fly!
Until 217 while Klaivus conquered my territory capturing my castles and capital. Shakti productively cleared the treasure zone: raised stats, got full control and all magic, collected 57 Wyverns, and Septolina mowed down 750 bones.
227 Shakti together with Septolina with full control and 2 DD little by little reclaimed the territory, captured "Castle" + 2 Angel dwellings, recruited 24 Archangels, 1500 skeletons. 67 gr Wyverns.
237 all week bought and transformed units into Skeletons, gathered resources and money for buying the army and upgrading bones. The opponent, like me, started making mistakes and exposing one GG after another, while Shakti, with expert viewing of land and air, easily caught red heroes in the dark. So in a week the reds lost Moandor (who later appeared again in the Tavern), Klaivus, Galtran.
141 the next week my mistakes started: not having time to hide Septolina (moves ran out), leaving her on the road against Arch with advanced Tactics, thinking I'll buy back and run, but perfectly understanding that Bracers exist…. But Vidomina caught up with expert Tactics and with Phoenixes on the grass +4 to speed = 20! And the comeback started. Resurrected Moandor together with Vidomina began capturing my cities along my own routes…
While Shakti alone couldn't keep up with them…
145 Moandor is 1 move short of entering a castle, and then I realize that if not now then it's over… Shakti runs up,
FB long positioning on Tactics trying not to get hit by Berserk, and here's a surprise – a red orb with +3 to speed.
Shakti (26-39-23-25)
Moandor (37-23-19-19)
At the end of the battle 4300 stack of Skeletons + 21 Wyverns of reds remain against 2700 of my bones + 32 Minotaurs and a stack of 78 Wyverns. Some luck came to one of my stacks and the opponent's Skeleton stack sharply decreased, after which I finished it off…
In FB there were specific blunders from both sides, but luck decided it!
Thanks for the most interesting game!!!
