17.10.13. Pit for LM (red, Conflux, random Fiur, Fiur) def The_ (blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Gunnar), Jebus, 123.
Everything went smoothly. I didn't take any restarts; my opponent used their 111+111, and we were off.
On 111, I revealed two Pandora's Boxes (goblin and mage stacks), a Dragon Utopia, and an incredible pile of artifacts — shield +3+3, helm +5, boots, gloves + Spirit of Oppression + armor +3. The guards were tough everywhere, though, and no hives in sight yet. I decided to see what would happen next and didn't restart, even with only 5 heroes. Oh, and the air dwelling was built, which was nice.
112 — scouted two hives and a Griffin Conservatory, plus a sword +6 and Sphere of Earth. There's a fairly convenient stable, 8 heroes. Decent. The Pandora's Box with goblins gave faeries. There's just no one to fight; everything is very powerful and tough.
113 — took a Tower village. Found an external market nearby. Also spotted the edge of a hive (could actually make out one more).
114 — beat trolls for the Sphere of Earth and colored a second village. Found another Pandora's Box and a hive with 50+ greater demons deeper inside. And on the road, found a helm +6 on everything behind twenty horses.
115 — opened the Scout's cottage. Found something I could kill — a hive with 20+ Cerberi. Heading there with Fiur.
116 — built Birds, stood on the hive.
117 — +6 wyverns, dashed to the stable. Took gloves, Spirit and armor from 50 greater elves, and took boots from 20+ monks. Built Birds at the citadel. External dwellings — one air and two faeries.
121 — buyout, shield +3+3, army sent to Fiur. The Griffin Conservatory turned out to be a min-size, unfortunately. Rushed home and forgot to buy a spellbook. And forgot to leave artifacts on the chain :)
122 — without artifacts, taking down fifty ogre mages wasn't very pleasant, but I got through. +6 wyverns. The army moved to another hive, a Pandora's Box for 2nd level, another 6 wyverns. Returned to Fiur. The Pandora's Box with mages gave 20 Magma Elementals, so I upgraded them and at the town. Stood at ГО. Ciele beat the helm +6 all.
123 — last hives, +12+6 wyverns, sword +6. I completely noobed it, gave away all resources and forgot I had no spellbook, while I wanted to buy it in the central town right by ГО. Managed somehow. ГО with 30+ ghost dragons fell pretty easily; took the town. Was a bit harder with 30+ giants for the Pandora's Box, but I got through. Got 3 gold dragons. Killed wood for the library, visited it. Then — a hundred bull beasts for the Pandora's Box with 25 greater elves and another library.
Stats are decent now — 26-15-15-12, great skills — attack, tactics, logistics, defense, earth. And the army is fine — 25 elves, 30 magma, 36 wyverns, 3 golds, 140 faeries, angel and 5 birds. I was basically near the opponent's ГО, and with 3500 movement points, it probably would have been easy to finish him off.
However, he couldn't handle his own ГО with 100+ cyclopes — a really bad respawn.
Thank you for the game!