06.09.12 Ayauhteotl (Blue, Fortress, Bron, Tazar) def Sanin (Red, Tower, Tharosar, Yog) 8mm6a 125

At the start +1 health artifact, 5 basilisks, Tazar arrives. Only one road from the castle.
On 111 I take a crypt, pop a Dragon Fly Hive for 50+ golems and pile of Dragon Flies.
112-113 I take a pile and the max crypt. I enter a lookout, the right side of the respawn is behind mountains, the detour is inconvenient, both mines are
there.
114 Bron breaks through the zone guard, rides along the path. Tazar sets off to visit stat boosters. Scouts handle exploration
and resource gathering, mostly gold, wood, and ore.
115-117 Bron clears gloves +movement points and by 117 finally reaches the enemy castle (Necropolis). Empty. Tazar continues running
around stat boosters. Development was tough; every pile of wood was a joy, in the end I built levels 1-4 and 6 in the fort.
121 Tazar had just visited all available stat boosters in the respawn and was standing at the exit to the Necropolis castle zone. I hire troops,
transfer them to him, fight a couple of battles with them, they give Earth Magic. After that, the scouts take the troops and carry them to Bron, but don't deliver them (the
AI managed to cause trouble and its Ciele broke the chain), while Tazar prepares to visit stat boosters.
122-124 the AI is defeated, Bron hits a blockade which he didn't want to attack with a one-week army, and turned back.
Tazar with the combined army breaks through the entrance to the underground (scouts took an empty Citadel) and the portal guard. An artifact +1
speed for 50-99 pit fiends is visible.
125 Yog arrives, defeats the pit fiends, takes the artifact. I scout his army with a scout, attack with Tazar. The final battle is simply epic;
the opponent's conditions weren't great either.
Yog ~13-3-3-3, no mana, but with a ballista. 35 gremlins, 6 mages, 2 nagas.
Tazar ~3-10-5-4, no spell book, but with a first aid tent. 11 basilisks, 4 Wyverns, ~20 lizardmen, about 7 each of greater and not-greater Dragon Flies, and
a few basic Dragon Flies. I win thanks to a meat advantage. If the opponent hadn't lost so many troops on the pit fiends, everything could
have turned out differently.

16.09.12 Ayauhteotl (Red, Fortress, Bron) def Sanin (Blue, Tower, Nila) 8mm6a 223

A long and difficult game for me.
Quite a grim start, 1 road from the castle, plus a path off-road. Few troops, level 2 not built. Almost nothing interesting on the respawn.
But I see 3 AI Fortress in the tavern. Throughout the first week, Fiona with a small army rode along the road, once hit a blockade, then broke through a passage guarded by 50 greater gargoyles, leaving only basilisks. She never reached anything useful. Meanwhile, the other heroes broke through an off-road passage and found 3 Griffin Conservatories in the zone. By
117 I have levels 1-6 in the Citadel.
In the second week, I didn't want to take the Griffin Conservatories, they turned out to be 2+, and I had few troops. I split the army into 3 parts; eventually one
scout captures the AI's Rampart, Fiona reaches the AI's Fortress by the end of the week and captures it, it has levels 1-6 in the castle.
Bron takes a Conflux town. Bron leveled up well, getting Logistics and Earth Magic.
By 131 two Griffin Conservatories on a chain, +5 Angels. Then another Griffin Conservatory during the week, making 8 Angels. By the end of the week I capture
another Fortress. There was an attempt to take a third Fortress with Fiona, but due to a stupid mistake (forgetting to buy her a spell book) it
doesn't work, and -13 basilisks.
Around the captured castles I see another couple of Griffin Conservatories, but it's inconvenient to reach them without Town Portal. Nila already has high
stats in the tavern, I realize I need to catch up.
At the start of the fourth week I split up with Bron, bring up the army, take the only Dragon Utopia in visible range. It turned out to be mini,
gave useless artifacts. Bron's skills are developing perfectly, but without Town Portal it's bad. I go to the treasure zone, hoping to find
КЗ or a Pandora's Box with magic somewhere. In the treasure zone I clear Boots of Speed and Gloves of Speed, nice. And in a triple Dragon Utopia they give a Sword +5 all stats and a Red
Orb, which pleases me even more, as I'm very far behind in magic. All the Pandora's Boxes I clear give experience.
I start building guilds in the castles. And at the same time small skirmishes begin with the opponent using scouts.
The opponent tried to take one of my castles (an unupgraded Citadel) and scout the territory. In the end, the castle stayed with me,
but he scouted the surrounding area. By the end of the week Fiona attacks the last AI Fortress castle again and now takes it.
I have all Fortress towns. I finish building the level 4 guild in Rampart, no Town Portal. So I build the guild in Conflux — and it finally appears.
Bron immediately splits there, has quite a lot of mana, and the game becomes much more enjoyable. Finally I manage to unite the army.
I clear 2 artifacts giving +1 speed in battle and +2.
But in stats Nila is still far ahead, and besides, it's Nila.
I decide that with 4 Fortress towns, time is on my side, and there's still stuff to do, so I go collect the Griffin Conservatories around the castles, I see
another Dragon Utopia. I take it — a triple — and it gives nothing useful. Although the gold is very welcome. I start building Angels in the Castle
to upgrade them. There are already 16 of them from the Griffin Conservatories. Meanwhile, the scout war for the castle and reconnaissance continues. I don't give
it up, which a bit later decided the outcome of the game. By 222 my scouts managed to ride further towards the opponent's territory. The opponent on his
turn killed them, but I see Nila and another hero nearby; the second hero has 100+ pit fiends. Either he didn't manage to transfer them to Nila,
or she was still building up. I hope that with Expert Logistics, 2 movement point artifacts and a stable, I'll reach them. I jump into the Citadel with Bron,
and indeed I reach them on my last movement points. ~130 pit fiends on the scout are easily and quickly killed, then I attack Nila.
Bron ~10-20-10-10 13 hydras, 16 angels, 80 basilisks, 60 greater basilisks, 50 greater Wyverns and 100+ Dragon Flies.
Nila ~20-20-20-20, 14 devils, 4 titans and 11 angels. I win thanks to a mountain of meat and the Red Orb. Plus the speed
artifacts helped.

Thanks for the games.