Favorites in battle! - 5 The Battle of Favorites! - 5

Group O.

PReDS (blue, Inferno, Fiona, Moner) def bRitvo4kA (red, Stronghold, Tyraxor, Tazar), Jebus Cross, 126.
Played FT, without experience etc.

Thanks for the game.

Between 123 and 124 a strange thing happened: my Moner lost the Expert Eagle Eye skill (noticed only towards the end), while everything else remained unchanged. Discussed this with Andrey, both didn't know how to proceed here. It's unlikely to have affected the outcome, nevertheless there was a bug in the game, so I'm reporting it. I wanted to attach the saves immediately, but something isn't working, even though I split it into 2 volumes of 3 meters each, so if needed, please let the hosts know where to send them.

That's how it was. This game was dramatic for me.
124 Taz breaks through the GO and is exactly 1 hex short of reaching Moner at the road fork.
Tazar 24-13-11-13 6ww-17clv-6mov-66g.wolves-60g.gnolls-27orcs-15marks, exp. armor, earth and water.
Moner 13-8-4-8 6hydras-3clv-19efreet-19lash-14demons, exp. offense, earth and water.
Moner goes down the left road.
125 Taz in pursuit after him, during which he loses sight of the opened swamp town where Moner DD'd after capturing the KV, which Taz could have reached and trapped him there if he had noticed in time.
126 Moner in the same town but now 16-11-12-12 and only efreet and hydras, Tazar 28-18-11-23. I return and attack. Moner casts Armageddon, nothing to counter with. Ransom with 5 ww-10clv-13g.wolves. Ransom into secondary. 2 DD and Moner traps him there with efreet, blocking the gate and Armageddoning. GG.
Thanks for the game!

P.S. After the game, opp. immediately started explaining about the Eagle Eye to me, I understood little, but of course this skill could not have affected the outcome of the match. The only thing I couldn't understand for a long time after the game was the unconquered Dragon Utopia nearby the swamp (turned out to be 1 and a slag one), instead of which Moner, who had gained Advanced Fire, fought to take the home Dragon Utopia (KO, +3all), for which he needed 2 DD and near it the hat at lvl5, and with the help of TP on the last moves returned back to the swamp, fought to return without which there was no way there anymore. As it turned out from PReDS's explanations - it's all about the hat and the well at the base.