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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 was taken at 1-1-1. Waiting for a restart from the opponent (he has doubles). 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 its respawn and same-day boots are visible. Two cons were spotted. Then we start doing dirty work - 6 troglodyte external dwellings. Cons of three and two. Getting to the center via one-ways - had to struggle a bit. Well, then in the very first Dragon Utopia they gave КЗ, sword for all, and a red orb (which had been lying in the backpack unused). 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 at 2-2-1. Dug it up at 2-2-2. After long deliberation (Castle, Necros or village-Tower) - placed it in the Tower on the same day, thereby opening the map. See a Dragon Utopia one day away from one of the villages - take it. Got the knowledge-power hat and a titan thunder hat, and I think a book of fire too. The opponent, out of hopelessness, runs toward me. We meet. 1740 upgraded skeletons (with flask and ring - if I hadn't messed up there would have been over 2k), 9 archs, 72 basic vamps, 33 upgraded liches, 43 crossbowmen, 24 necro-horses, 12 vivs and a ballista against 190 grands, 14 angels, 80 vivs, 55 basic domestic unicorns, and 45+1 cap-centaurs. There were also silver pegasi, but they were 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 move 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 your opponent without picking it up). Opp throws oil. Grands kill 28 liches. On the second move getting the turn - I throw 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 arrow. 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 help. Explosions weren't resisted anymore.
Thanks for the most interesting game.
On the 1st I didn't even determine the direction to my own AI - the roads happened to be long (which, combined with a lack of money, prevented me from implementing an excellent layout). Decided that if the opp took his necro-AI immediately, then no necrophiles were given out in the tavern, and I was wrong. Did everything very late, started taking Dragon Utopias on the 4th, but the opponent was forgiving for a while and was busy with strange things himself) In the finale it was funny - a misclick and I put 190 upgraded elves against 1000+ upgraded skeletons)) but decided that, getting carried away with oil-mass haste games with the opponent, he deviated from the plan to fight with magic (I had combat magic twice as strong, about one and a half to two times more mana, slightly stronger combat parameters, and even roughly equal strength troops%)) -- whose disappearance I noticed late simply).
And thanks to you too, sorry for not showing respect)