20.01.2014 shameonyou (blue, Castle, Ingham, Sir Mullich) def. Heroes13 (red, Rampart, Ulund, Dessa) Balance m200 124

We played the very first generation. I had Mullich sitting in the tavern with 20 spearmen, 7 archers, and griffins. The starting hero also had archers. Well, you can't resist that, plus there's some gold on the respawn and a crypt. The guard in the sand is, to put it mildly, easy — a horde of regular dendroids. I wanted to dig up a cart in a very conveniently placed factory workshop and go break them on the first week, however, for the entire week I didn't find A SINGLE pile of wood (there wasn't any near the mine either) — as a result, I couldn't upgrade the archers to 117... (the sawmill was also in the middle of nowhere). On the Inferno secondary hero, I grabbed a sword +2 +2. There's nothing else there, but a decent amount of gold. End of week — halberds + upgraded archers at the Citadel. At the start of the second week, I roll out a cart and break the dendroids — Mullich, by the way, has excellent skills: Logistics, Earth, Air (Armorer was also offered, but that's already too much). Next, I kill the orcs for a Crown +4 Knowledge, 45 energy elementals for the Hive (I don't have time to take them), and almost 50 phoenixes for a box of 20 air elementals :cool:. On the following turn, the opponent flies out and quite painlessly breaks through his King Minotaurs and attacks.

FB: Mullich 9 8 1 3 (12) 54 marksmen, 20 air elementals, 1+87+1+1+1 halberds, advanced Earth without Slow, Shield, Archery, Haste, cart for archers, ballista; Dessa 4 6 3 3 (30), 30 grand elves, 2 cats, 80+ upgraded Centaurs, 11 pegasuses, Haste, Archery.

In round 1, I immediately cast Haste on the marksmen, because the opponent can Haste the grand elves and then they'll hit me first. I take out 10 grand elves, then we have a shootout, resulting in me having 25 marksmen left when all the grand elves die. There's a charge from the pegasuses + centaurs under Haste, but with Mullich's decent stats, Dessa gets hit much harder, so after the battle I'm left with 20 air elementals and 50 halberds, plus another 6 marksmen :) and all the artifacts from Dessa — and that's game. Thanks for the game!