"only XL"

SoD
09.02.2013 Dima Surmay (red, Rampart, Ivor, Mephala) def Scorpiona (blue, Castle, Catherine, Tamika) 8xm8a 317

It turned out to be a very tedious and drawn-out game, we played in 3 sessions, I constantly felt like I was losing the tempo, I only started taking Dragon Utopias towards the end of the month, in the second one I got Wings and the Book of Air. Then for 2 weeks I looked for the Town Portal spell...found it in a Pandora's Box containing all the Earth spells, although I could have taken it 2 weeks earlier, I was a bit short on the road, distracted by another Dragon Utopia.

Then I started squeezing all the towns and looking for the Skull Helmet for the Armor of the Damned, I felt that only it could save me, as Scorpiona was actively necromancing with several heroes, and I also saw that she was taking a lot of Dragon Fly Hives. While looking for the helmet, I collected the Elixir of Life, the Red Orb, the Cloak of Undeath, and the Bow of the Sharpshooter. And at that time I lose 16 Archangels, attacking Scorpiona's town with a scout hero, and there's a mage with 22 spell power...I'm 3K gold short of buying back, and I didn't think to give the Cloak of Undeath to the scout hero...in the end it's Armageddon and I'm in lockdown...I don't know what to do...almost giving up...It's a good thing both heroes died, otherwise Scorpiona would have gotten the Wings and the Book of Air (she didn't have Dimension Door for the whole game) and I still had a nice set...About 3 days later I finally found the helmet through one of the zones on the last moves..I was about to portal home otherwise.

At the beginning of the third month I continue squeezing the remaining towns, and towards the end of the week I catch Tamika in a village, cast Vision and realize that her army is 2 times smaller than I thought and there are no set artifacts at all. So Freedom Bell without options.
Thanks for the game.