Amiloo
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26.07.13. Pit for LM (blue, random Stronghold, random Terek, Malekith) loses to Amiloo (red, random Rampart, random Malcolm, Mephala), skirmish, 127.
We each took one restart. On the first day I saw an orc external dwelling, a decent-sized respawn, some gold available, Malekith arrived, with heroes – 5 orcs. Seemed playable.
On the second day I captured a village. After scouting the surroundings, I realized things were kind of bad. The only road from the secondary hero leads to a portal guarded by arch devils. Off-road in one direction – more arch devils, in the other – behemoths. Gold mines are guarded by 10+ arch genies and a hundred lizardmen. There wasn't much gold either.
In short, I didn't do much of anything until the end of the week. Found a cloak +2+2 to magic in a cart, doubled my mana. Collected all the gold from two respawns, also took a goblin external dwelling. Built tiers 1-5 in the Stronghold and GM2 with Bolt in Necropolis.
On 121 I bring up a few troops and start breaking through neutrals – 20 cerberi for a sword +2+2 and a dozen arch genies for the mine. I stop at the behemoths. On 122, I might have made a mistake by surrendering resources for army ransom. Broke through the behemoths. Beyond them, more arch genies guard a quest artifact. Mistook the trumpet for the telescope, attacked, lost troops, the artifact turned out not to be the right one and was useless. Attacked 40 evil eyes for Pandora's Box next. Got hit a bit, inside – basic gargoyles... That's where the path ended, no quick route to the opponent's village where I expected to meet. Crashed against 75+ arch pits guarding 2 Pandora's Boxes. Too many, no way to break them. Then doubled mana again, retook the mine from the lizardmen and went through the portal, killing devils and arch vampires on the other side. All fights are very unpleasant, both army and mana are dwindling... Then attacked arch pegasi for another quest artifact, which I already knew where to turn in. There were 36 of them, took more losses. Finally on 126 I reached the opponent's secondary hero, hoping that maybe things weren't so rosy there either and my Bolt at 300+ could decide the outcome. But Mephala has unreal stats, and an enormous number of troops, plus mass Haste. Took out the elves, took out the arch gnolls, almost everything of mine died in one round. Ransomed myself. The next day I checked the seer – 15k experience... Not an option, I need troops. GG.
Thanks for the game.
From the start I got 6 elves and Mephala picked up archery, with stables near the castle. Pretty quickly cleared everything at home, including the gold mine guarded by dwarves on the secondary. Managed to build 1235 in the Rampart plus external dwellings of wood elves and dwarves. Upgraded both by 122 and after grabbing ribs+2 and a hat+4 from the secondary, I ran into the treasure zone where I happily consumed a box for the entire 2nd week. Things stopped being scary. From a crypt behind the devils I got a chain+4, broke into another treasure zone, took a minor Dragon Fly Hive. Then Malekith shows up in range with 9 spell power, but I already have mass Haste, a solid amount of meat, and a Bolt for 150 too. I pick up a shield+3, a box for 60 arch gnolls, teleport home and attack. In the final fight, thanks to mass Haste, the meat overwhelmed the barbarian troops very quickly. Thanks for the game!
