ProtosArchon (Stronghold, Craig Hack, Craig Hack) def OUTLAW (Castle, Valeska, Valeska) 8xm12a, 2.1.5
The first week was murky—spent entirely on the run. By the end of the 1st, I already had 4 towns. The AI killed one of a small number of scouts and sent Valya to the tavern. There were no decent heroes in the tavern—so I decided to train Valentina, since there happened to be 3 external dwellings of bows. On the second week, I spent tempo recovering money to buy power for cons. Hive(6). 2 cons(3+2). I run to the center toward a spotted top of the hive(6). That's where I should have gone to the Barbarians while Craig didn't have tactics, but I changed my mind and started preparing to take 2 Dragon Utopias. On the 3rd, there are several cons and hives near the same Dragon Utopia. There is a DD near exp. Water. It seems everything is there for a normal life, but Valya is like a turtle—only boots and stables for speed. I realize that Craig with his spec needs to be taken down with power, but after building angels in the capital, I couldn't upgrade them somehow. In parallel, I started raising the Castle village in the underground. Craig already has grey ones and army power started changing in the tavern, although before that Valya was the absolute leader. Then a bolt from the blue—Craig appears in the tavern with cosmic stats, attack 45 alone ))). I gulped and went back to searching for goodies. Anyway, 1.5 weeks before FF, I managed to equalize stats and had my eye on a shield+12 and a tuall necklace, but I entered a square spotted by Craig (scouting skill) and was attacked in the open field = he had tactics+mass haste there. In the first round, the Barbarians wiped out more than half of my power. Although 220+ marksmen with blessing dealt 3.8K per double shot (immediately minus 10 grey ones), but there was an exp. berserker...... Behind the castle walls I could have carried it, but not in the open field. Thanks for an interesting battle!!!!