Dima Surmay
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Both restarted, and I got my native comp, so I didn’t suggest a mutual restart—I’d be glad just to win with such a handicap. Low on gold, no elves from the start, on my respawn there’s a level two Griffin Conservatory and a Dragon Fly Hive. On day 116, I killed my own comp and found 3 external dwellings of centaurs. On the first one, the horses stood in the Castle; I didn’t build anything for the comp.
On the second map, I found 3 more Griffin Conservatories on the comp’s respawn, an external dwelling of horses, a Dragon Utopia, and an external dwelling of elves and a Dragon Fly Hive. Slowly gathered everything, messed up once—cleared the Dragon Fly Hive’s guard, anyone would have taken it without losses... but something distracted me, and I didn’t take it )). Ended up taking the Dragon Utopia on day 134 with the loss of one Angel, got +11 all. After the Dragon Utopia, I thought about going to the treasure zone, but then red flags appeared, and I decided to go for contact, to at least capture some castles, which succeeded, as I took a Tower with level 4 magic and already a library, with Resurrection there; I build level 5 and get Fly.
On the fourth week, I run further to find Tazar; in terms of stats and army, I have the advantage. I can’t reach Tazar, but I realize he’s likely leaving the treasure zone without mana, and on one of the turns I’m 3 moves short, though he doesn’t know that. He runs along the road and captures the comp’s town. I rush to make contact and catch him, but the town turned out to be Dungeon, and I got scared he might have doubled his mana, but there’s no running now, and I attack. In the end, Tazar had no mana since he didn’t expect me to catch him—FB without options. But things could have turned out differently if I had been ambushed; I’d likely have lost.
Thanks for the game.
On the second map, I found 3 more Griffin Conservatories on the comp’s respawn, an external dwelling of horses, a Dragon Utopia, and an external dwelling of elves and a Dragon Fly Hive. Slowly gathered everything, messed up once—cleared the Dragon Fly Hive’s guard, anyone would have taken it without losses... but something distracted me, and I didn’t take it )). Ended up taking the Dragon Utopia on day 134 with the loss of one Angel, got +11 all. After the Dragon Utopia, I thought about going to the treasure zone, but then red flags appeared, and I decided to go for contact, to at least capture some castles, which succeeded, as I took a Tower with level 4 magic and already a library, with Resurrection there; I build level 5 and get Fly.
On the fourth week, I run further to find Tazar; in terms of stats and army, I have the advantage. I can’t reach Tazar, but I realize he’s likely leaving the treasure zone without mana, and on one of the turns I’m 3 moves short, though he doesn’t know that. He runs along the road and captures the comp’s town. I rush to make contact and catch him, but the town turned out to be Dungeon, and I got scared he might have doubled his mana, but there’s no running now, and I attack. In the end, Tazar had no mana since he didn’t expect me to catch him—FB without options. But things could have turned out differently if I had been ambushed; I’d likely have lost.
Thanks for the game.
