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29.10.13. Pit for LM (red, Conflux, random Ciele, Ciele) def Player_ (blue, Necropolis, Tanth, Tanth), skirmish, 132.
Another difficult game again...
We each took one restart - got Ciele, Inte, 9 air elementals, decent castle gold - 4 heroes on day one. Scattered lookout towers, a couple of crypts - we play.
112 - necro village, lookout tower. Very much gold, mines - for Magma and Basilisk. Also an external dwelling of Pixies is visible. In the Mage Guild - Shield, Slow. Good.
113 - returned via the non-road passage to my respawn, took a crypt.
114 - since the crypt leveled Water and Power, I think about hitting the Basilisks. Running to them.
115 - crypt with 5 Vampires by Inte, I transfer troops to Ciele. As expected, there are very many Basilisks, but they are harder to kill than I calculated. Lost all Fairies and 3 Air, 12 left. Problems with both Ore and Wood prevent proper building.
116 - I put up 1000 gold, claim the Pixie external dwelling. The army runs to reclaim the Mercury mine for the Air upgrade, and Ciele - on foot to the capital, because I need to learn Earth spells, since Earth was given.
117 - Pixies in the Citadel are ready. Here opponent resigns, fine, auto, we play for a draw.
121 - 24 Air Elementals with a small cleanup squad tear apart the Magma Elementals, the second mine is ours, income 4k+, 8 heroes.
122 - Storm Elemental upgrade, I break through a portal behind Golems. On the other side - very unpleasant 50+ Greater Hydras, and it also leads somewhere deep into a corner via non-road. Not good, I run to the second non-road passage behind 50+ Ghosts.
123 - I open a nice central lookout tower. Nearby - Pandora's Box with Swords, a little further - a couple of external Dragon dwellings, which I have nothing to take with. I see the opponent. He has a Dragon Fly Hive behind Djinns and a Titan's Cuirass behind Demons. The path there - behind Trees and Greater Birds.
124 - Pandora's Box gives all secondary skills. Of course, I wanted experience, but this turned out even better, since I got a decent Water Bolt for 6 mana. A max-crypt allows me to level Earth and, already with Expert Slow, I hit the Greater Trees - 40+ of them don't go down easily, I have to spend 10 mana. The blue player is literally two steps away...
On his turn, Tanth breaks through the Birds and attacks. There turns out to be a lot of troops - 6 Wyverns, 100 Skeletons, 6 Liches, unexpected 4 Cavaliers and even more unexpected 45 Greater Basilisks. I have - 24 Storm Elementals and 29 Pixies + a small cleanup squad from the right-side heroes.
Speed is with me, so I immediately shoot a Bolt at the Basilisks, Storms at them as well. In the second round I repeat, the opponent moves forward. In the third round the Storms want to go first again, I cast the last Bolt at the Liches and buyback for 7k. In total I killed about 30 Basilisks, 5 Liches and nearly 30 Skeletons. He killed, I think, one Pixie and some chaff.
125 - I buyback, well, split up, and again stand on the border of the opponent's zone. This time there is no attack.
126 - well then, we hit the Demons. There are nearly 120 of them with Gorgons, all Storm shots are spent, fought for a long time, but broke through. Lost Troglodytes at the very end due to morale and a couple of Pixies. Mana remaining - 36 points, spell power is off the charts - 16.
127 - I see Tanth, but decide not to attack - there, for some reason, is again a horde of Greater Basilisks, plus Greater Zombies have been added, better to destroy the opponent's chains and economy, and then finish him off with growth. I take two villages, kill two heroes. With the lookout tower, I essentially reveal the rest of the map.
Tanth takes a village and goes to that very portal behind the Hydras.
131 - I split up, bring in the growth, sit in a village on the other side of the portal.
Tanth breaks through, horrified discovers that he landed right next to Ciele, runs to my respawn.
132 - I attack with Enian, after the opponent finds out that Ciele's Lightnings hit for 400+, a surrender follows.
Thank you for the game.
Everything built up nicely, had Cavaliers in the fort on day 1, went into the treasure zone on day 121 with 2 Cavaliers and a hundred Skeletons. Immediately a Pandora's Box with 45 Greater Basilisks. Took a village and see movement from the red player in the neighboring treasure zone. I reveal my entire army, estimate that I am stronger in terms of raw troops. At some point it wasn't enough and the Basilisks were left out, I was afraid they would be killed. But no. The opponent just broke through the Trees. I attack, cut down all the cover and all the retaliations, the opponent buys back. I was a bit surprised that he bought back for 10k+. Profiteer. I need to urgently realize this gold, and the only option to spend it is on a stack of Zombies. So I do. The opponent claims the Cuirass, I understand I need to run to another treasure zone to seek fortune. I should have claimed it myself, but I was afraid without Slow. 3 Mage Guilds and not a single Slow :(
I broke through the Hydras, and flew straight into Ciele's face. The path led to his necro village, as it turned out.
Thanks for the game.
