Favorites, to battle! - 6 - The Battle of Favorites! - 6

11.01.2014
MERLIN (red, Castle, Valeska, Wokial) def Zoog (blue, Rampart, Ivor, Ivor) 8mm6a, 2-2-6.

A mega-drawn-out game. 20 archers from the start, they weren't built up in the town. A necro-AI took 1-1-1. Waiting for a restart from the opponent (he has double). No restart followed. Result of the first week - necro-horses in the Castle. Wokial. 11 crossbowmen remained alive. The AI has an external dwelling of vamps at the respawn and same-day boots are visible. Two cons are spotted. Then we start making a mess - 6 troglodyte external dwellings. Cons are three and two. Exit to the center via one-ways - had to struggle a bit. Well, then in the very first Dragon Utopia they gave КЗ, an all-purpose sword, and a red orb (which had been lying in the backpack for lack of use). TP is available - no brainer. Another Dragon Utopia - Boots of Levitation and Sailor's Helmet. HURRAH! This is victory!!! On the fifth week, we calculate the approximate location of the Grail. We start digging on 2-2-1. We dig it up on 2-2-2. After long deliberation (Castle, Necros or village-Tower) - we place it in the Tower that same day, thereby opening the map. We see a Dragon Utopia one day away from one of the villages - we take it. They gave us a knowledge-power cap and a titan thunder cap, and I think a book of fire too. The opponent, out of hopelessness, runs toward me. We meet. 1740 upgraded skeletons (with a flask and a ring - if I hadn't messed up, there would have been over 2k), 9 archs, 72 plain vamps, 33 upgraded liches, 43 crossbowmen, 24 necro-horses, 12 vivs, and a ballista against 190 grands, 14 angels, 80 vivs, 55 plain domestic unicorns, and 45+1 cap-centaurs. There were also silver pegasi, but they were managed to be wiped out by a previously attacking Czech with seven stacks of half-cut meat who had an explosion for 400. Parameters - combat equal. Ivor's spells are higher. On the first turn of the finale, we cast explosion on the grands (2250) - they resisted, the pests (that's what happens when you leave a cloak of balance to the opponent without picking it up). Opp throws oil. Grands kill 28 liches. On the second turn, getting the move - I cast mass haste (having previously positioned the skeletons so that under haste they would reach the vivs and unicorns blocking the grands with their bodies). Skeletons wipe out 44 of 80 vivs in one hit. Grands wipe out about 250-300 skels in a straight line. Opp does oil again. Skeletons melt before my eyes. But there is enough mana and troops too. Attempt to resurrect angels - 8 were raised. Didn't save them. Explosions weren't resisted anymore.
Thanks for the most interesting game.