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Vatya (blue, Castle, Valya, Citadel) def CrazyDuck (red, Dungeon, Miner) SMKA 123

I was stopped from the last restart by a stable under the town, built archers, and the Citadel. By turn 114 I realize there's simply nowhere to go, since both passages to the portals to the secondary zones are blocked by 10-19 gr pegasi and 50-99 gr orcs. There's simply no wood, no gold, barely managed to stick the horses in the fort. On turn 121 I don't even have gold to buy out 9 miserable archers, 4 heroes are nervously smoking near the teleports!! But!!! there is a Citadel with oil!!!

On turn 121, with great difficulty (lucky that it didn't come to "F***ING MORALE") I took a mini-gnome. Bought up, and immediately take a Naga dwelling on level 4. Same deal, f***ing morale leads to a wipe. Thankfully I crawled out somehow (at the end the archers went into melee against the Nagas), got a bit of gold, full buyout, upgrade of the miserable 4 horses in the stable and go for a Conservatory double. Conservatory fell much easier, Champion speed-up gives its advantages.

I broke through 18 pegasi for the ramp secondary, broke through 55 orcs for the double, sent horses to collect gold. But on turn 123 the insolent Miner shows up. The Citadel is right in the middle of the spawn on an Angel, speeding up. I gather the troops into a stack, stop by a well on the way, and attack.
From my army, the decent stuff is 25 archers, 2 Angels, and 4 horses. The opponent has 30+ Eyes, 100+ Trogs, 6 Medusas, 6 Harpies, and 6 Minotaurs. This battle was such a pain... The opponent on Tactics covered the Eye, with Haste wiped out all my archers with Trogs (a bad trade for me). Mana is 40, ranged attacks deal 40 damage and he's covered from all sides. Plus the terrain is such that you can barely get through. I already thought I'd have to buy back 1-2 Angels (they barely entered the fight, using Wait to strike and retreat + healing) but the opponent blocked his main damage stack of 6 Minotaurs with Tactics so they could barely get out. In the end, we played it out so that I take out 5 Minotaurs with ranged + Angels and block the Eye. GG

Vatya (blue, Castle, Valya) def Rockmashine (red, Citadel, Crag Hack, Mullich) SMKA 122

On turn 111 I was totally blown away!!! Of course we play!!! Further on it showed that there's no gold on the map for either of us at all, again barely managed to get horses in the fort, but the sight of archers and 3 Conservatories warmed my soul. After discussing with the opponent, I sent him my screenshot, after which it was an unambiguous GG since there was nothing to counter with at all and nothing was in sight in the future. I was taking any Conservatory 2-3 to start, well and then whatever.