ОФБ-7 // FB-7 (satellite)

18.04.2013 Redsnow (Red, Tower, Neela, Neela) def R55Max (Blue, Fortress, Tazar, Tazar), Spider, 142

Opp quickly used up all his restarts, so I had three attempts left to try to find a layout in my favor. Which is exactly what happened. A decent respawn, there are experience stones, gremlin external dwellings, 2 Griffin Conservatories (1 and 4), good roads. For a while the question was who to make the main hero — Neela, who got Air, or Aislinn, who got Offense and Earth. In the end, albeit reluctantly, I made Neela, because I wouldn't have been able to gather for level 4 Mage Guild, and fighting Tazar, a magic hero, without good spells was not something I wanted at all.
A day or two before the FB, the opponent had 1 angel visible, but it seems it was left to be devoured in a Naga Bank, as in the final battle it was no longer there.
GG WP


And as was already written above:
Thanks to the generator for this victory, and to the opponent for the game and the time.

All the deals were empty, completely without external dwellings, and the starting armies were also very meager. The only chocolate was restarted by the opponent.

In the played deal, there were 2 Gnoll external dwellings and a Griffin Conservatory in a dead-end. On the first, I built a Wyvern in the Citadel thanks to 2 crypts and a minor Dwarf Cottage on the grass. 13 archers and almost 50 Gnolls with Tazar carried it, of course.

On the second, Tazar expertized Logistics and reclaimed the Gloves of the Master, visited an empty village. On neighboring respawns with conflict villages, I collected money; there were 2 Faerie external dwellings and one of Air Elementals; in a Pandora's Box with Grandmasters, they gave 50 Faerie units. I managed to build Hydras in the Citadel, on the third everything is in the Castle.

When I got out onto blue's territory on 137, I managed to kill a zero-level mage with 180 mana in the Dungeon Castle. And there was the Capitol and all the upgrades except for Dragons. Then I bought everyone from the Swamp except for 9 Manticores; I wanted to bring upgraded ones, and upgraded the Basiliscs. A strong computer bot was coming at me from a dead-end. I had to give an army to a zero-level scout, who proceeded to lose an angel and a hydra (3 left) and the small stuff. The computer had 175 or so Troglodytes and not a small number of other troops.

In the FB, I had the parameter advantage and Oil, but only 25 mana. The opponent had more meat because 250 Iron Golems and 6 angels were intimidating. On Tactics, I positioned correctly; after the opponent's Haste, I cast Oil; Basiliscs took damage from the straight arrow; on my turn, reds covered the blue stack with Gargoyles, and here was the first bad luck: my Serpents, with two attacks (wait and new round), didn't finish off 1 Gargoyle that was blocking the path to the blues. I had to waste a very important Magic Arrow cast on it and charge in with the Basilisks, whose ability triggered by the way. Then attacks from both sides proceeded understandably and normally. Then a small mistake by the opponent with casting Haste on the Naga, and I recast Oil, because the Serpents' turn was next, but then there was a misclick on my part that cost the game: The Serpents' turn, angels were in a clash with my shooters, near them was my Gnoll stack, I don't remember how many, but more than 130. I wanted to cast Haste on the Gnolls, then remove the retaliation with the Serpents and hit with the Gnolls, because the Oil-afflicted angels wouldn't be able to fly away, but I cast Haste on the Dragon Flies and everything fell apart...

I should have won the game even though the generator dealt not in my favor. If I had worn down the angels and the blues, then at the Dungeon, there was the entire growth plus 9 Manticores in the native, plus the Capitol for economy and Castle towers. I would have easily defended; from my starting point, the opponent's path was very long. Well, it is what it is, thanks for the game.