"King of the Hill"

Javdet (red barb, Tyraxor, Tyraxor) def Dirty_Player (blue dungeon, Shakti, Jabarkas) balance, 147 ,WT

Idiocy rules)

Kostya chose balance for some reason. Surprisingly, the game turned out to be extremely interesting and with many options.

Starting with 2 wolf stacks - very promising, but the native secondary skill is clearly not on the road. Never made it to the village on the 1st day. One hex short..

There's a Griffin Conservatory with 100+ griffins, don't feel like touching it until I get 7th level. At the guard of the passage, the wolfies take their lawful 12 health, and then a dilemma - go back or there's another conservatory nearby and the center. The conservatory and then the pope's movement with Tyraxor's speed boost. Everything except the angels at the guard of the adjacent zone remains with Gunnar. The purse is pretty hefty -80 wolves and some fattening up. Blue pops out of the darkness and slaughters the wolf population. Managed to only grab an angel with me. Should surrender, but I decide to sneak into the conservatory; if I can handle it, we'll put up a fight.. Turns out it's a 2-stack, I level up earth magic, skipping pathfinding (something I'd regret many times later..), and into the treasure zone through GO.
Meanwhile, Jabber, due to inexperience, ran into my main area, which is in the corner and not really my main. But after a couple of days he came to his senses, and after scuffling in the central sands, he rushed to catch up with Tyrex.. Tyrex, however, was on an unreal streak of luck - first, to avoid a fork of wisdom and something pleasant, he got intelligence. Then, on another fork, he got stuck with wisdom. Ended up with a gimped mage with sp4. Only the trinket giving 3 mana per day is pleasing.

The exit treasure zone looks good on the surface for Dragon Fly Hives, but the contents are crap((((... almost all minimums. And from the other side, Jabber comes around, clearly more capable in the fun starting dash race. Cursing my stupidity for not taking pathfinding once again, I'm stuck one hex away from the Dragon Fly Hive, but having blocked the passage to 3 others. Kostya, having checked with a scout hero, and thereby leveling my sorcery to expert, attacks. But he didn't account for the fact that Tyrex's army has mages. 31 mana in such a situation became a bottomless well, and the battle was won with the loss of 20 wyverns and an angel.

And then I managed to also take over the villages that seemed lost forever, and when Jabber attacked Tyras who had left the treasure zone, he got another surprise - 70 mana - Tyras also got mysticism shoved on))

Thanks for the interesting game)

Afterwards it turned out - if not for the "genius surrender of Moscow" in the form of a wolf stack - my barbs wouldn't have had a chance - Kostya had an exit to the exit treasure zone right under his nose, plus a hero with logistics and pathfinding - everything would have been easily consumed within a week. The lost day searching for my main area cost Kostya the victory.