"Crusade" Tournament (Spring 2014)

the distribution was decent — 111 Shakti with 3 stacks, and the boots were visible, so I decided to play. The only external dwelling was Troglodytes, so I didn't portal. I leveled up Shakti pretty well. At 113 I took a Pandora's box with 45 Harpies, then upgraded. The opponent tried to rush, but it didn't work out — XP tactics and stats decided the game.

On 112, a swamp opponent with two Wyverns, instead of defending his own Castle, reached my village, killed my hero there, bought a Lich there, and killed another hero — but I survived that. By 117, Inteus farmed an external dwelling of horses and portaled them. The external market helped, but I almost lost the dungeon — luckily, the opponent, who appeared near the swamp on the same day, didn't run for it. In the end, I doubled my mana, bought horses (14 total), and decided to go to war because I had no desire to compete with a miner in a grinding match for Tiers, and there were no paths for alternative development either — but by 210, the swamp player was no longer of interest to anyone. Thanks for the game.