I had 2 restarts left, but a drunk GUNNAR and 2 native heroes show up and say there's no need to restart :D .
And I shouldn't have listened to him! After 2 weeks of play, I had a couple of Swans and a couple of Naga, I was losing almost every fight almost to nothing :eek: My opponent had a secondary Castle, plus I lost my movement on Goshun's 5th turn.
In week 3 I got a little back on track, took the pink computer's Swamp, upgraded 28 Swans, used them to take 2 Griffin Conservatories on 3 and 4.
In my Tower I built Mage Guild 4 with Library, in the Dungeon also Mage Guild 4 — no Town Portal!!!
But then Goshun shows up with 5+ Angels, an Arch Angel, 500+ Skeletons, 10 Greater Nagas, 30+ Greater Mages — in one word, I run!
The opponent takes my main and Swamp, right before my eyes takes a Dragon Utopia. I think — it's a tournament, I have to run around — what if the Dragon Utopia has КЗ or a full Alliance :rolleyes:
Week 4,
I went into the treasure zone, there were 3 more Griffin Conservatories for 5 Angels total, took a Dragon Utopia (level 2) — only Boots of Speed +2 All (I had Speed Boosters on). Also grabbed Shackles of War from behind the Devils.
On turn 211, I want to break into the Dungeon to double my mana, but Goshun arrives with 2 Dimension Doors and rips my army chain. Well, I think, I've got nothing to lose, I break in instead of myself, classically double a scout hero in the garrison for mana — 49 mana. In desperation, I stand on the spot of the killed scout hero from the chain, put on the Shackles — and attack.
I have 12 Angels, 26 Greater Swans + trash in the form of non-living from Pandora's Boxes, 3 Nagas, 4 Mages. My opponent has 1 Arch Angel, 6 Angels, 26 (I think) regular Swans, 600+ Skeletons, 10 Greater Nagas. But setting aside my 49 mana against his 150, my stats are better. The opponent casts DIsruption Ray, I cast 1 Meteor Shower on the Nagas + Angels, and Anti-Magic on my Angels :bm: The opponent bursts in under Haste — I remove the retaliation from the Skeletons, Slow them, cast Armageddon on the matter. I have 12 Angels left, my opponent has 200 Skeletons, 2 Angels, ~16 Swans, 1 Naga with 5 HP. I finish off the Skeletons, I have 0 mana, my opponent has 100. Then follows a continuous Resurrection of first Angels, then Swans from my opponent. I just beat on out of desperation. I'm sure I will lose, cursing my own stupidity for not being able to double my mana properly (I would have won by losing only the meat and a couple of Angels). But in the end, something unreal happened — my opponent ran out of mana before my feathered friends, and I won with 1(!) Angel alive :smile13: Goshun is Dead! My Angel rejoices at ridding the land of evil, but my opponent doesn't write "gg".
On turn 212, I replenished my mana at the well :D , brought 50 Troglodytes, 20 Eyes from the Dungeon — heading out with a new Goshun Air book to find meat, fearing nothing. My opponent catches me on his turn from my own Tower — there are 30 Arch Mages, 2 Arch Angels, 100 Gremlins + trash. The hero has no battle stats, but magic stats are 9-9. Right away he casts Anti-Magic on the Arch Angels; I thought to remove the Bindings, so I wasn't too worried. I checked the damage to my Angel from Arch Mages (about 50). I checked the Meteor Shower's effect on the Arch Angels — Anti-Magic without Earth! I immediately cast Anti-Magic on my Angel, next turn — Armageddon — gg.
Even though I played the early game very poorly, my opponent was wrong to fly over to kill me — there were many blunders — still, the finale turned out splendid!
Thanks for the game!