14.10.2013 Group B Pirates - Sly Dragon 1 game
Stryfe (blue, rnd, fortress, Gerwulf, Pasis) def Darkello (red, castle, Caitlin, Tamika), Spider, 212
We started a long time ago, I remember I spent all my restarts - and this pair came up. From the start, many Gnolls arrive - I immediately upgrade them to break through properly and while I fight with the Dragon. On week 1, I captured the comp-ramp and scouted 2 external green dragon dwellings on his resp + took an external elf dwelling. For buildings: home - Wyverns in the Citadel and in the secondary - Unicorns in the Citadel. On the second week, I take the dragon dwellings and build them in the ramp, start leveling Pasis, and send the Dragon with 5 War Unicorns to collect money and resources. I grab a necromancer village, a Pandora's Box with 60 Skeletons there, and go to the underground Inferno treasure zone...there's nothing useful there except money. On week 3, I build the magic tower (Resurrection, Chain Lightning, and Implosion there) + find a Fly scroll. I kill the comp-Conflux (built birds there immediately) and capture 2 more villages - Necromancer and Tower. And in a snow treasure zone, I spotted a Dragon Utopia and several decent Pandora's Boxes. On week 4, I take the Dragon Utopia...and it rewards royally - Tome of Air Magic, Helm of the 5th Level, and Sphere of Inhibition; in one of the Pandora's Boxes, Pasis gets all level 4 magic! Then I buy Shackles of War on the Black Market and somewhere around turn 145, I see the opponent's entire army in one of the treasure zones on the lich (and by that point, the meat advantage was insane, considering Archangels and 1000+ Skeletons)...immediately Town Portal and Dimension Door - I kill the meat, but in the last seconds I do the wrong thing - Town Portal home (though I could have killed Tamika...). But as soon as the next week comes, I see Tamika on Archangels in a reachable zone heading towards the treasure zone....2 Dimension Doors - and GG. Thanks for the game!