"Newcomer-2014. Winter"

Thank you for a very intense game. It was tough! :smile04:

Confirmed.

Got lucky, Galthran appeared in the tavern after the start, he and Clavius both leveled up nicely. I carefully hid Gosh until day 114, only sending him around to upgrade structures.

I broke through to secondary towns by week two and started necromancy. On the Conflux secondary I took the Griffin Conservatory-2 without much trouble and headed into the treasure zone. There I ate a couple of Dragon Fly Hives and a box; since nothing tasty was visible, I ran to another treasure zone. Then a scout hero spotted the opponent in the same treasure zone, as well as Wings and a Helm. I didn't manage to pick them up because I was clearing a treasure zone at the other end of the map at the time. In that treasure zone I found several small Dragon Fly Hives, there were about 20 utopias. In the Dragon Utopia there I got the Book of Air, a Red Orb, and some junk.
On day 127 the birds were in Conflux, on day 137 they were in Castle. Skeletons and horses were shipped from home.

At the end of week three, I spot a suspicious flag on the opponent's secondary, I run over and look with a scout hero - Shaktiti is there on a rush.
Here I kind of messed up with the timer; in the end I managed to cast Dimension Door and attack, but I didn't equip the Red Orb, which cost me all the utopias, and I couldn't reach the enemy's main hero on the scout hero :( . I also had no mana left to Dimension Door back, so I had to take a hit. The opponent attacked with everything possible, and by then I had the Red Orb, but the trade was still not in my favor.
Then we saved, and I thought for a long time about what to do. I gathered everything I could into a stack, swapped, and ran to the swamp (native) treasure zone to look for stats and artifacts for the skeletons (I wanted to add something to the Rebreather and find Speed). In the treasure zone, the same mini Dragon Fly Hives, sketchy Pandora's Boxes, and some rotten stuff for stats. The only Dragon Utopia (1) had junk. I tried my best to conserve mana, Mysticism helped, but it still wasn't enough to get out of the treasure zone properly. And on the way to the exit, a pack of Arch Devils with Troll Faces was waiting for me, which I had to fight to get to the portal to the castle. They chewed me up pretty badly too.
As a result, on the last turn I run out of the treasure zone and run right into the opponent.
I tried to catch him with anti-morale (had a dragon), it worked a little, but overall the opponent had more meat, and the skeletons ran out.

Thanks for the game.