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20.10.2012 Pyre (blue, Rampart, Ivor) def zoog (red, Castle, Valeska) 8mm6a, 127
111 - Scout on my respawn: external dwellings of rocs, harpies and 2 dwarves, piles of gold, Griffin Conservatory and Dragon Utopia. Crazy layout). I break through to the adjacent swamp.
112 - Check the Griffin Conservatory - 2-4. I see the green player via scouting from the adjacent zone, Ivor heads towards him. Another pile of gold shines near the computer enemy.
113 - I take the computer's castle and kill a relatively weak player nearby, send troops home to break through to a pile of crystals (not enough for pegasi)
114 - Killed the green player
115 - Scout the green player's respawn, another Griffin Conservatory, take a crypt and a cadaver. Scout a portal on the swamp adjacent zone behind the vampires.
116-117 - Ivor runs along the stat-booster structures. The relatively weak players recaptured the external dwellings of harpies and rocs.
121 - take the dwarf dwelling and cadaver, capture the external dwarf dwelling
122 - naga bank tier 3
123 - pile of gold mini
124 - take my Griffin Conservatory 3, break into the computer's castle, the relatively weak players take another pile of gold for 8 ducks.
125 - take another Griffin Conservatory 3.
126 - Ivor stands on the angel before the portal, nearby I scout a pile of gold. The relatively weak players take the dwarf dwelling.
127 - A relatively weak player takes a pile of gold for 8. I break through the portal and see the opponent's main army with efreeti on speed boost before the portal. I attack, he buys peace, I go on to kill a relatively weak player, then I take a castle with a few troops sitting in it.
Victory!
Thanks for the game.
The layout was schizoid - Luna, Arlak, Pyre, Shakti arrived, but on 111 I had to hit 20+ archers to get out of the castle, on the entire respawn there wasn't a single pile of gold, nor a breakable chest (I was afraid to attack 80+ mummies with a zero-level Luna), pre- or max-dwarf dwelling (I decided I couldn't take it with just archers and pikemen), on the neighboring respawn the only chest was taken from under my nose by the computer's hero) and I also misjudged the road - had to travel 3 days without roads. I didn't consider restarting because of the heroes, although 113 was still left. I thought I'd only have enough money for swordsmen in the fort, but I got lucky - I built efreeti in the Stronghold (the computer built it). Luna was leveled like Shakti - Earth Magic at level 2, almost immediately got Expert, then Air, Intelligence - but it wasn't needed anywhere, two boxes gave level 3 magic, I decided to take the single beehive for almost 20 cyclopes with horses. Then, on my turn, analyzing the template, it dawned on me that all the troops on Arlak the Scout were heading right towards the passage to the blue corner - and then he breaks through himself)