Favorites in battle! - 5 The Battle of Favorites! - 5

Congratulations to God for a strong and confident victory in the first game of the Grand Final! Huge thanks to Javdet for not giving up throughout the entire game and trying to snatch victory from God's hands, showing very good play (=
Good luck to both of you in further games of the series
For those who are interested, I streamed all 14+ hours of gameplay on my channel, links to VODs:
Part 1: http://www.twitch.tv/sheezohrennik/b/387247349
Part 2: http://www.twitch.tv/sheezohrennik/b/387406488
I might jump back in for some other games in the series, just definitely not in the next few days :D

Thanks for the stream, it was a pleasure listening to comments from people with good diction.

There were several questions during the stream about why things were done one way and not another.
1 The Griffin Conservatory under the Castle wasn't checked precisely because of the lack of mass slow. And without slow, breaking new Griffin Conservatories with 2nd-week armies is a risky endeavor. Spending a day just to check is an unaffordable luxury. I could have tried to max out Mephale's slow, but she was planned for the exit into the treasure zone (the one with Dragon Utopias) at 122-123 via another Griffin Conservatory. Who knew that treasure zone would be blocked by 50+ medusas. Perhaps it was worth risking a fight with them, but nearby there was another exit to 2 treasure zones, the contents of which you saw.

2 Vamps. An enticing idea, but very costly. And they are only relevant on the 2nd week, and even then there's a risk of getting wiped by some nags in a teleport.
If you noticed - there were extremely few crystals on the map, and I didn't want to sacrifice 10 when control was being actively built in the Castle.

And it's a bit disappointing that for the second time already on mirror I suffered because I revealed Dragon Utopias on the 1st week, while the opponent didn't reveal them and consequently didn't go towards them)
Although it's unknown which direction they would have gone without knowing about them.

But overall, well done for spending so much time and commenting until the very end.