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

07/04/2013 GoD(Blue, Rampart, Clansy, Moandor) def Javdet(Red, Rampart, Clansy, Clansy) h3dm1 212

20/04/2013 Javdet(Blue, Rampart, Clansy, Clansy) def GoD(Red, Rampart, Clansy, Clansy) h3dm1 137

05 2013 GoD(Red, Rampart, Clansy, Moandor\Clansy) def Javdet(Blue, Rampart, Clansy, Clansy) h3dm1 135

Looks like karma for 2nd place))) Already the 5th lost final. And no matter what anyone says, I didn't deserve the defeat this time.
I'm not ashamed of the 1st game at all; perhaps my best in the season.

In the 2nd one, I played a bit clunky, but scouting and Kirryushas decided it; I found a Dragon Utopia with control and visited just in time.

In the first and last games, even Zhenya's main heroes coincide, as does what happens in the match. Twin-games — I scout more profitable directions, choose what seems right, move with foresight, while Zhenya blunders blindly and skims the cream off the top))

The starting army was as bad as it gets — 4 elves and 34 cents; I had to run carefully with them without getting into dangerous battles.
At the start, I scouted 2 more Dragon Utopias, which has already become a tradition; Zhenya hadn't found any by that time. I decided to play via the near one, since it would take about 3-4 days to get to the far one. In general, by 126 I have the minimum taken, and Town Portal in the tower. 127 is another two-star Dragon Utopia. Zhenya has nothing like that to boast about, and he didn't even start upgrading the tower, which I suspected since there are only 2 cities where it can be placed, and if he did place it, only in his home city, but then the house would be without upgrades. On the other hand, he ended up in a Dragon Utopia treasure zone — 4 on one respawn and 2 on neighboring ones.
131 some loser on the 3rd front eats the max-utopia, good haul — full control. Clansy, after stables and with boots, almost reached the far Dragon Utopia, right in the area of the same cluster. The opponent, however, gets a cap, shackles, and comparable stats thanks to the teapot in one turn.

And then color decided it — I was a day late for two strategically important Dragon Utopias, maybe even 3.
I was 100% sure he didn't know about the existence of the max-utopia because the passages in its area weren't cleared, and you can't see it otherwise. I rush toward it at full speed and see a miracle: Clansy is hanging out near it with power. I got flustered and instead of portaling home, in the final seconds, I started changing gear after an inconvenient VT-style artifact transfer. In the end, I didn't manage either. And obviously, I got wrecked.
But there were chances to fight; despite the difference in stats, I could have had a decent impl, which Zheka never foresaw, and 10+ archs.

Thanks for the games and congrats on the trophy!!!