It was a heated match.
On the first week, I killed the computer (swamp), broke through the underground direction, found a dungeon village in the sands, and next to it an external dwelling of wyverns. I ignored upgrading my own castle and built 1345 in the fort. Through scouting in the underground, I spotted КВ, a shield +4 all, a couple of fat chests, a sword +12 for 50+ wizards and a Griffin Conservatory 3-4.
Having bought wyverns on the second week from wherever I could, I ran to the adjacent zone, took КО, clues for 4 wyverns, teleported home - went into the underground, a level 3 Griffin Conservatory - perfect for breaking through the wizards, but those scoundrels cast slow, further pain is hard to describe, in short, I lost.
But I took the sword +12, through teleporting and using the external tavern, I take the shield+4 all, КВ, two pandoras with 20k experience each. Ivor levels up so-so, I have logistics + earth, but they gave resistance + leadership, also had air and tactics. On the third week, I eat another treasure zone, again only mini hives, I just want to laugh. I teleport into the swamp (the computer's former castle), there's a level 2 Dragon Utopia there, oh there's the Captain's Hat, game is won. Another teleport into the dungeon, with a pre-upgrade of wyverns, I take two mana and on my 141 I beat Misha's main, using Dimension Door and fly, there I buy birds and run towards Tazar underground. He, meanwhile, finally found the Colossus on all 5 stats, which I would have taken the next turn, which I had been spotting through scouting since the first week, but I never had time to capture it - annoying, because mage stats there are even higher than mine.
Catching up with Tazar, I find two more hives - totaling 8 wyverns :smile16: and a Dragon Utopia, - there's a book of water and papal pendants. On my 144, I spot two Dragon Utopias, wings, clues and all of this untouched, although Taz definitely saw it (the medusa external dwelling was painted in that part of the map), as expected, Taz takes everything on his turn except for one Dragon Utopia in the corner and attacks with bracers and the red sphere.
Ivor: 33-21, expert attack, expert archery, expert tactics, army: 15 manticores, 40 monarchs, 8 wyverns, 9 dragonflies, 2 angels, 3 birds, 32 grand elves. +1 HP +1 morale.
Taz: 27-28, expert attack (not sure), defense, tactics, army: 8 red dragons, 47 wyverns +1 wyvern +1 wyvern, 2 angels, 3 birds, 35 upgraded medusae. +3 speed +2 morale +3 HP.
This was a fierce battle, on my side was the higher speed of my cats and monarchs relative to the wyverns (11 vs 10), i.e. I hit with my stacks first and only then received a counterattack, and what helped me win, literally by a hair (the net result was 7 cats, 7 monarchs), was the fact that morale procced for me and not for Misha, although with equal morale or its complete absence, Ivor FB would have lost, also by a hair, but would have lost, though to be fair: the passives of manticores and monarchs never even procced once :).
Thanks for the interesting game!
I thoroughly enjoyed playing this game. On week 1, I found an armageddon scroll and leveled Gellar for it. On week 2, I nearly lost everything to max cyclopes but still built the Mage Guild for the scroll. Well, after that, it was off to the races.
On week 3, I took a Dragon Utopia with КВ. On the turn I attacked, I could have attacked with 28 spell power and an imp, first shrewdly using armageddon. But I think I did everything right - it turned out to be a very manly finals. Thanks for the interesting game
