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International Match Tournament 2013 (Rus v s French)

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Game 1: Havr (Haven) defeated Duranix (Necropolis) - 145.
The distribution was quite good, although the path to the dungeon wasn't very smooth. I bought troops from the castle, including upgraded spearmen, two dwellings of crossbowmen, and another dwelling of spearmen. The result was quite impressive. The starting priest was turned into a runner, and a tactician was purchased. I took the secondary resource node, ran from it to the dwelling of crusaders, defeated it, and bought 6 of them, resulting in a pretty good army. I scouted both level 4 dwellings, and one of them turned out to be an angelic dwelling, and it was also quite close. I went there and easily defeated it. Then, I headed to the angelic dwelling to get the dungeon hero and level up. I can't say that I had much luck, but it was tolerable. Initially, I planned to have 2 stacks of angels, crusaders, and champions in the army for the 3 heroes, but I immediately scouted 3 neutral phoenix squads. I changed the champions in the future army to phoenixes. I slightly delayed the march to the opponent - the furthest option opened up, and I also needed to add the last squad of angels and learn magic. As a result, I approached the newly opened two-way portal, and the opponent came out from there and attacked.
He had:
14 devils, 10 death knights, 16 vampires, a tactician with a robe, a grandmaster of order (total theft, hypnosis), a grandmaster of death (death grip), a runner of death (death gaze).
I had:
7 phoenixes, 10+9 angels, 51 crusaders, a commander-25 (with a scroll of a regular dispel in his hands, no other dispels were available), 2 grandmasters of life. I also had a chalice and a medal. As a result, the troops had a morale of 10+, and the heroes had 7. Considering the opponent's undead army, I had a complete initiative advantage.

In principle, the battle turned out to be not difficult; in the second round, the opponent's mages were already defeated, and the tactician under the robe wasn't even touched. Moreover, under the protection of death, cast by one of the priests on everyone, my tactician calmly withstood the double attack of devils and death knights (the vampires were gone after the first attack of the crusaders).