"Battleship" TOURNAMENT - reports and summaries.

Bolivar (Elves, Ossir+Gilraen) defeated Noom (Elves, Vinrael+Gilraen) on the last day of the second month.

P.S. We chatted with the opponent after the game, and at the time of Gilraen's defeat, Ossir had more troops in all his stacks. And although the opponent had a hero of level 25 with a troop bonus, I wouldn't have given him another month or two to develop.

I confirm. The opponent surprised me a bit by developing Ossir when he had Ving and Anven in the Elven mirror match. I decided to try playing through Vinrael on Chaos and teleport to the opponent on the 3rd week. I quickly found a convenient spot for the teleport - I was a little slow in building the guild, so I lost 1 day. I also couldn't get the enchanted ballista. Nevertheless, the first hit-and-run attack with a full army was quite successful - it's a pity that I was one tile short of the opponent's castle, which was "eaten" by the battle with the opponent's cockroach, which he had thoughtfully placed on the road. The opponent's resistance almost didn't work, so I killed all the elves, dragons, and almost all the horses. I was left with only oaks and horses at home.
As a result, on the 4th week, I finally launched Gilraen with two dragons on the world map and started trying to develop the Forest Lord for the rest of the elves. At the same time, my main hero with horses and wood went to catch the opponent in his gold mine. He was greedy and tried to kill Anven, and he was 5 steps short of Ossir on the road - on the next turn, the opponent brought in troops and successfully exchanged - although he gave away two dragons. A critical mistake was that I exposed Vinrael in the third hit-and-run attack - I forgot about the single-unit flies, and the wood units died from a single shot. Along with the hero who had just received the enchanted ballista. The opponent safely retreated to his treasure, and I went to clear my treasure with Gilraen. In order to even out the troops, I had to teleport home on the 7th day of the week, so I cleared the treasure in two turns. On the 7th week, I saw a +20 initiative ring on the map near the Yarlo and went to take it to counter the hit-and-run attacks (there was a -20 initiative ring for the final battle). 9 dragons couldn't do it - the Yarlo often used Fire Wave, and there were 4 stacks of 74 of them - the elves died before they could even take a turn. The dragons died after the mana ran out. Thank you for the game.