Stomper
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On the first week:
1236 in the castle and 6 heroes, I broke through to a secondary zone off-road, collected some gold, but it's very far to run to the castle, it's behind the mountains, I returned, and there are 2 exits to secondary zones via road with 20-49 Lizardmen in a cave and with triple guard: 50-99 Gogs, 10-19 Medusas, and 20-49 Mummies on the rocks. There is a Griffin Conservatory guarded by 10-19 Monks and an external dwelling of Gorgons guarded by 20-49 Snipers (which I never got around to until the end of the game).
On the second week:
I captured my 2 secondary zones, built another 4 and the 7th level in the castle, broke through 2 exits into treasure zones and cleared a couple of Dragon Fly Hives in one, and revealed a few in the other as well; Tazar leveled up elite-style.
On the third week:
I thoroughly cleared 2 treasure zones, took a Dragon Utopia where I got very lucky — they gave me the Tome of Air, a Chalice, and a Sword +12-3, collected 49 Wyverns and took the maximum Griffin Conservatory. Taz with Expert Air and Advanced Earth.
On day 142 I break into the treasure zone where the opponent is running around, take a Dragon Utopia and prepare to jump the opponent. Stats: 32 21 20 18, 86 Lizardmen, 5 Hydras, 53 Wyverns, 8 Basiliks, 4 Angels, and a few Serpents.
On day 143 I execute my plan. There are 9 Angels, 7 Birds, 10 Psychos, and 62 Magma Elementals. Stats are about 10 points lower.
In the first round he casts Berserk on the Wyverns, which gladly kill the Hydras. I cast Mass Haste and dive into the attack. In the second round I cast Mass Slow — a questionable decision. The Wyverns kill 9 Angels, the Angels target the Birds I think, after which the opponent casts Armageddon for 1130 and retreats, keeping 4 Birds and 62 Magma Elementals. I'm left with 37 Wyverns and 11 Lizardmen. After that I run around gathering the remains of the treasure zone, rebuild secondary zones (I need meat), look for something against magic, level up Resistance.
On day 145 the opponent flies through Gate and captures my main.
By day 147 I built Bears in the Citadel and Efreets; before that I also took 2 external dwellings in the treasure zone. On day 148? the opponent runs after me into the treasure zone, I take a Dragon Utopia, visit the Library, find a Cloak of Magic Resistance above level 3 and an Orb of Air. I take them and attack with the Cloak, 10 Efreets, 37 Wyverns, and 6 Portents of Doom.
Against 70 Magma Elementals, 33 Energy Elementals, and 4 Birds.
Stats: 36 25 24 21 vs 18 17 22 10. We blasted each other with bolts — I had 975, he had 560. I turned out stronger, although I really didn't want him to run away.
Thanks for the interesting game.
Confirmed. The respawn turned out to be good. An external dwelling of Air elementals, 2 external dwellings of Fire elementals (though one was far away and scouted late), and 4(!) external dwellings of Earth elementals!!! Those 4 dwellings are collected on the 1st week, and on the 2nd week ~35 Magma Elementals seriously wreck the local flora and fauna. It was problematic, though, with finances for buying and upgrading them. There were 2 Medusa dens: one small, the other large. I foolishly forgot which was which and attacked the large one first (turned out to be max), losing part of the army there. :smile20: Also on the respawn I find a Pandora's Box with 50 strategic groups of Faeries.
On the 2nd week I break almost everything I see, though I don't see much worthwhile. At the end of the 2nd week I suddenly discover 3 Griffin Conservatories, I go into them casually even with weak troops, they crumble easily. All 3 turned out to be trash-level. Not bad. On the 3rd week I take a Dragon Utopia on a secondary, they give me a Sword +5 all and an Armor +10 SP. I think about attacking the opponent, since the day before his Taz with bad stats was seen in the tavern, but the next day I see all his stats are around 20, so I cool my enthusiasm and go to the next treasure zone. There I manage to grab an experience Pandora's Box and a Dragon Utopia, which gives me Water Orb. The next day Taz shows up with good stats and a bunch of Wyverns. I think things are bad, but I look through the spellbook and find Armageddon, a cunning plan is immediately born :smile51: The opponent, in addition, completely ignores my units immune to Armageddon. In the end, I retreat after the 1st Armageddon to save my Birds. And here, probably, was a fail, because most likely I could have cast one more Armageddon, and then I would have left the opponent without the ability to easily fatten up further, but as they say, "smart" ideas come too late. There was also a thought to stop his Wyverns with Berserk, but I think I read somewhere that this bug was fixed, so I didn't risk it. Then the story is utterly predictable. The opponent fathens up further, finds a Magic Resistance Cloak, and crushes me (though the experiment showed he would have managed even without the Cloak). I realize that another retreat from the battlefield won't bring success, only drag out the game pointlessly, so I honestly sacrifice my hero to him and write gg.
P.S. I was somehow unlucky with Dragon Fly Hives in this spawn. I encountered only 3, and 2 were in a very inconvenient spot.
Thanks for the game.