Hermit
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Group B
24.11.12 JustObserver (blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) def Hermit (red, Swamp, Tazar, Paer), Balance, 141
I couldn't expect a Balance pick against Dungeon, but it didn't help me at all, I spent all my restarts on empty layouts, the only good one was restarted by the opp, I ended up playing a terrible mess - even with 2 native heroes in the tavern, there were no roads to adjacent zones, and there were no hideouts anywhere either, except in the central zones. The only positive moment - Shakti's development was simply ideal, attack, defense, tactics, logistics, earth magic, though XP was tight.
In the end, by the third week I reached the center, where I met the opp, who immediately ran to the treasure zone, I ran after him, the tavern showed my advantage in army strength, and in magic we both had nothing special, eventually at turn 141 the opp lost his army in the treasure zone and surrendered, thanks for the game.
That's exactly how it was. Shakti caught up to the lizard wolves and only Paer remained, fleeing from Shakti alone there (I started leveling her because she learned earth magic, which is why I managed to break into the treasure zone, otherwise things were going pretty badly...). In general, there was only one hive behind reasonable guards, which I barely broke through with expert earth magic. Mana ran out, the lizards in the hive got heavily eaten. I tried to exit the treasure zone from another passage while Shakti was deep inside and capture the opponent's capital, though apparently he knew not only logistics but also pathfinding (I can't check the save because I don't have the disk), but with a small number of lizards and no mana for mass slow, I lost :(
Thanks for the game!