I had a good setup - everything evened out in gold and necro was slowly getting there, while my opponent had absolutely no prospects, didn't want to hope for a throw, so I surrendered. Didn't want to take a win without a game, so we decided to play a BO3.
26.12.2012 crzq(red, Inferno, Xyron, Inteus) loose Javdet(blue, Dungeon, Lorelei, Sephyroth) balance 133.
At first it seemed like a good setup - Inteus appeared right away, gold seemed to be there, but then gold ran out, the exit to the adjacent zone was blocked by minotaurs along the path, and to the other side I'd have to run with the entire army through a corridor. The only hope was that my opponent had Lorelei and also 2 heroes until 116. On week 1 day 1-2 in the fort, but everything was bought out. Since there were no particular prospects, I decided to build a Mage Guild and fight with magic. At the start of week 2, I almost got completely wiped (had 80+ devils and 50 gogs) when approaching the central castle, breaking through the guard (10-19) of minotaurs (18). And then also when breaking the Conflux castle. Built Efreeti and attacked 20+ lizardmen (for the external dwelling of harpies, campfire, and mill). And attacked them with singles - there were 45 of them, got wiped and went home. Built Mage Guild 4 - meteor shower and clone. Meanwhile, my opponent ran to the treasure zone, I decided to cut him off and stupidly exposed my main, losing it. But there weren't many chances anyway.
27.12.2012 crzq(red, Castle, Sylvia, Valessa) def Javdet(blue, Rampart, Uland, Mephala) balance 123.
Got a mega-sweet setup - 2 native with Valessa, an external dwelling of archers, and in the pre-max crypt gave boots. Result: 90 marksmen by week 2. Valessa (6-7) leveled great and was already killing everything she saw on the way to the opponent, but opp threw in the naga bank (3).