09.02.2013 Kluka (red, Necropolis, Tamika, Tamika) def cuc9ctblu (blue, swamp, Tazar, Tazar) 2sm4d(3) 215

On the first week, I lost almost my entire army in a second consecutive max crypt. So there was plenty of money, but nothing to fight with. Before that, I managed to break through to a secondary town, but it was blocked (I bypassed it later). By the end of the week, I was short 1 sulfur; since the market of the day was gone, I put vampires in the Castle. Tamika has log.
On the second week, starting with 12 vampires, I begin trying to do something; by mid-week, I finally max out Necromancer, take 2 secondary towns (Castle and Necropolis) and a mini-consult near one of them. They give air. The army consists of only 120 skeletons + weekly growth. Plenty of money, building up the home town to dragons.
On the third week, I take a third secondary town (Castle); nearby I see a Dragon Utopia, but have nothing to take it with. With growth and 250 skeletons on day 134, I go into a treasure zone. There, I mostly slaughter skeletons on foot-units, stupidly losing an angel and a dragon along the way; I take another mini-consult.
On day 137, Tazar flies over the mountains from an unexpected direction (I later found out that there was an exit from a treasure zone he had cleared at my secondary town). The army is weak - about 20 wyverns, a crowd of greater demons (probably from Pandora), a couple of angels and same-tier units. Tamika's looks even stronger, but skills 4-6-11-7 against Tazar's 10-17-6-4 is not serious. Not a single artifact for combat stats!
Listing everything I have:
Caps +1 and +3
Ribs +2
+1 health
+1 morale/luck
+1 luck
+1 wood per day
+1 to scouting radius
+2 mana/day
+1 and +3 to spell duration (for the first one near the starting Castle they gave 20K exp, but I had to take it as a scout - the main hero couldn't get there)
+10 resist (recovered it, it gathered dust in a treasure zone for 2 weeks, then I picked it up, but never passed it to the main hero)
And another 2 copies of the hourglass of the unkind hour.

I have to use growth from the Necropolis secondary town (horses in the fort) on day 141 to push into Dragon Utopia 3. But here the astrologers announced a freebie month: gave +6all and +5all. I probably should have accepted the battle immediately, but instead went into a second treasure zone. There, on the same day 141, I get a Town Portal scroll and start building magic for it. Then Pandora at full blast, then a mini-utopia with resist boots. After building the guild, I portal to the previously spotted Dragon Utopia; turns out it's max - they bit quite hard, but gave a +10 cap, +2all sandals, book of fire (after Pandora with all fire), and levitation boots.
Then I went to another treasure zone; essentially nothing interesting there, except for Pandora on full earth. Built the secondary town up to angels, bought one, after which the opponent took it. Tamika had Town Portal, Tazar had wings. Both have exp.log; Tamika has gloves, Tazar has boots.
Nothing else much to do, went to the opponent.

On day 225, Tazar attacks, having suddenly raised CS to 28. Anti-magic follows on 40 wyverns, I cast mass haste. Hit the wyverns with skeletons, half remained (perhaps an opponent's mistake?). I wasn't afraid of a skeleton explosion because with CS 32, raise dead is quite strong. However, Tazar has earth buffs - in one go -550 skeletons out of 1200, and only 250 are raised per cast. I had to cast anti-magic as well. Then I declare Armageddon; under anti-magic, 15 wyverns and 600 skeletons remain + the opponent's resist on skeletons triggered, which were quickly finished off. It all ended with summoning earth elementals - but Tamika had more mana (approximately 300 against 200).

Thanks for the game!