“Summer 2013” experimental season. Online ranked games (reports, discussions).

08/07/2013 The_ (blue, swamp, Wistan) def. Iamsamstan (red, Tower, Solmyr) mininostalgia 146.

Excellent map, three gargoyles on 6 angels, a hidden wisp. After taking the wisp on turn 112, I went to dominate the castle and then the necropolis, but unfortunately, half the map and the third castle are cut off by 100+ wisps, making it impossible to bypass. After taking a couple of hives from the necropolis, I retreated home, replenished my mana, gathered gargoyles along the road, and broke through the wisp line on turn 126. Wistan developed exceptionally well, having all the essential skills. I went and destroyed the last castle and then went into the treasure room. The treasure room was snowy, but Wistan had flight and all level 4 items from Pandora, and there were probably about 8 hives there.

Then Solmyr appeared, making his first mistake. I attacked with the Cloak of Negation, even though his stats were something like 30-30-30-500 mana, compared to my 6-30-6-300 mana. But he couldn't defeat 97 monarchs with anything other than a 1400 damage bolt, which immediately cut my angel count in half. The opponent recovers, losing his entire duck stack (around 25). And just a couple of turns later, I see Solmyr visiting the arena, left with 6 angels. Town portal, fly, and damage. In the final, I misclicked and didn't deal enough damage to the monarchs, so I had to use Armageddon, but the result was the same, and I lost.

Thanks for the game!