"Newcomer-2014. Winter"

Group B

Akeila took 2 restarts, I did not take any.

On 111 Tamika arrives and buys 5 heroes. Tamika pushes Necro, I play. On the secondary zones there are guards that suit me perfectly - a horde of Castle archers and mages :cool: . So Necro on the respawn on the 1st, on 116 I make a father's move: I buy cavalry, buy cavalry, buy out the hero, and then immediately sacrifice the cavalry and the hero on 40 dwarves for a Spirit of Despair and gems :D

With Tamika I found and took the maximum Behemoth nest on 117, where I took a bit of a beating, but got +70 bones. Result of the week - cavalry in the Citadel + 200 Necro-raised bones. At the start of the 2nd, I break through into the metro through 90 archers, losing a cavalryman :smile34: , then comes the next father's move: I attack 120 rag mobs with a Ghost Dragon for a Chain Mail +4 and 2 obelisks (why so many :confused: ) and the remaining 2 cavalrymen, a few bones, and half the Marksmen die. They give Earth. I captured Necro, built a Mage Guild there - no Slow, luckily there was a Haste scroll, but there's nothing to do in the treasure zone without Haste since the army is only bones. By the end of the 2nd, I broke into the treasure zone, but there are only shooter guards + a Dragon Utopia. I returned home, built a Mage Guild - also no Slow. Bones are already about 400. At the start of the 3rd, I went to take a secondary zone with mages - there in Conflux they give a Mage Guild. I return to Necro and go back to the treasure zone. There I stall until the end of the 4th week, because there were neither Logistics nor speed artifacts. I took a box there for the entire 3rd and 5th levels, a Dragon Fly Hive for 28 Wyverns, a single Dragon Utopia with Red Boots, a Sword +5 All for 130 Apprentice Pegasi (next father's move: I forget that they make spells more expensive and lose 200 skeletons when I discover I don't have enough mana for Raise! ). Not a single Griffin Conservatory was found on the map in a month.

At the start of the 5th week, I return home, build Archers and break the home Dragon Utopia - they give a Captain's Hat, a Book of Air (when I already have Control in general) and a Book of Fire :rolleyes: . Didn't get an impressive stack of skeletons, because there wasn't much chance to Necro-raise in the treasure zone, and on the respawns there are hardly any roads besides the native one. Then I broke the ghosts and took the opponent's main, seeing in the scouting views that he was clearly stuck in the sandbox treasure zone for a long time.

Then I fly on Control to the opponent and catch Gurni without mana there. My stats are higher (15 17 19 14), and army-wise: 600+ bones, 3 Archers, 28 Wyverns, 15 King Minotaurs, 8 Champions, 50 Marksmen, 30 Crusaders. Opponent has 8 Bears, 25 Thunders, and about 50 Wyverns + no mana.

Thanks for the game!