12.12.2013 Player_ (blue, dungeon, Gunnar) def Tonagash (red, Stronghold, Gurnisson, Galthran) 8mm6a 133
Shakti shows up with 2 stacks and a Manticore hovel under the castle + 2 roads - we play.
I build Manticores in the fort, take a Griffin Conservatory 1 with a strategic necklace +1 to speed that I cleared nearby. I break through to the center, and there's a Citadel village and it's unclear where to go next. I turn around, go the other road, and along the way take a Pandora's Box with 80 Troglodytes. Before the other exit to the center I see a Dragon Fly Hive and a Naga Bank 2 - I take them. On week 3 I clearly enter the center without any growth for 3 weeks, I see red flags. I kill a couple of scout heroes, visit the library. The next turn I see Galthran with a stack worse than mine, but 5-9 Angels and fear of having mana drive me further. I kill Müllich, I fall a bit short of the level-up points. On my turn Galthran attacks, puts Angels under the Troglodytes and seeing there's no chance surrenders.
Thanks for the game.

It happened. The start wasn't tempo-oriented. Gurnisson without a ballista. Didn't take the rest only because Gosha showed up. But you can't really necromancy much on rocks, so I immediately ran along the road, hoping to reach my castle faster and necromancy on grass. But the road on the adjacent swamp was blocked by Mummies and the passage to the center, and Gosha doesn't have that many skeletons, so I had to delay for 2 days, waiting for reinforcements. After that I finally took the brown player on a tiny respawn where there's nothing to do. I went to the center, the army returned home and the scout heroes took Griffin Conservatory 1. In the center I took 2 Pandora's Boxes for 20000 experience total, but there's no mana and skeletons are slowly accumulating. I see a Griffin Conservatory in the corner on 4, I leave all the meat except the skeletons. I plan to enter the portal next turn, but the blue player appears. Ahead is a Dragon Fly Hive that they might take, can't let it go. Müllich takes the Dragon Fly Hive, returns the meat to Galthran, Gunnar stands in front and doesn't attack. I can go back, pick up another Dragon Fly Hive and 2 Pandora's Boxes, but I don't want to leave the Logist in the center. Hoping that Gunnar has no magic, I attack. In the Fireball I sacrificed an Angel, and he even has magic there.
Thanks for the game.