One for all and all for one - 2

15.03.2014
Plan B vs USW. 1st basket, 1st game

wowa (red, Dungeon, Ajit, Adele) def BISHOP (blue, Ramp, Malcom, Malcom, Mephala) 144@anarchy

agreed to play on 200%
used all restarts (there was a reroll with Mullich against Inferno, but on day 2 scouting showed absolutely nothing, including wood)
started Dungeon vs Ramp, and the spawn wasn't great, although, maybe I just haven't played on Impossible in a long time
but one way or another, Dungeon doesn't build, lived off trades, after capturing my own two native secondary towns with Fort and Barbarian behind shifted guards in the appendix of the treasure zone, next to which there's an underground cartographer, nowhere left to run)
went deep into roadless terrain and took a Resurrection scroll, which later helped a lot)
meanwhile, the main hero is Moandor with a hint of Necropolis assembly :D
on day 115 I bring all the small troops from 3 Dungeons, upgrade Harpies, kill a stack of Magog for a box (the whole 2nd level) and run along the road to the secondary villages
end of the week -- home has Eyes in a Citadel, another secondary town has Eyes in a Fort, markets everywhere, 7 heroes, no serious external dwellings revealed
on the 2nd week I finally reach an external dwelling of Angels :smile03:
I take it, the army goes to Ajit, who has uncovered the entire underground except for that one lava area where Moandor was heading
I place portals everywhere, capture Dragon Fly Hives in a chain, plan to take mana artifacts, double Moandor who has Earth and Intelligence magic, and at the start of week 3 hit the Guardian Object in the hyper treasure zone)
but on day 131 Adele arrives! :eek: plans change somewhat -- I buy her from the Barbarian town and the same day she reaches level 9 with Earth and Air magic :)
on day 132, after doubling and leveling Earth to Advanced, she destroys the rusted Guardian Object and bursts into the treasure zone -- it's enormous, with Wings in a couple of days, as well as the Cape of Velocity, Boots of Speed, and Blue Cloak, but at the opposite edge of the map :smile35:
day 133 -- 1st Dragon Utopia, day 134 low-level troops take a Dungeon in the treasure zone, with mama having Wings, day 135 1st join, but a pack of Arch Devils, day 136 Fort-Inferno, the low-level troops from which defeat/take with Wings free artifacts +11 to everything total, another Dragon Utopia, I buy/level Cira for the heck of it :rolleyes:
day 137 Adele frees a prison with Crag, but he can't reach a Necropolis Fort, from which through a chain of prisons you could have immediately consumed all the Tomes + Cloak, Adele rests for the rest of the day, but the next day she already attacks a Castle at the map edge, where they brought her both the Purse and Boots of Speed, and she devours the rest herself, then portals to the central Dungeon for Vorex)
day 142 -- mama's mana over 1K, low-level troops with Wings/Tomes collect everything not nailed down, including Boots (I bought Gauntlets from the Artifact Merchant), another Dragon Utopia, the Vial for the Elixir (both Rings were already available), a corner Castle where I immediately started building Stables to support Adele's Logistics, who entered the 8th slot)))
day 143, after consuming another Dragon Utopia along the way, I camp near the lift up, the Tavern shows an army advantage and a significant stat advantage
day 144 mama emerges to the surface, reveals Shields and towns, jumps to the nearest one, a low-level hero with Shackles crashes there (such a cheesy low-level hero :D)
Adele has a couple more jumps, a low-level hero with Dimension Door reveals the nearest Shields -- and hello -- Mephala with the Purse!
I attack, the opponent sees the Shackles and writes GG

as it turned out, Ramp had an even worse spawn -- a native secondary Fort, a half-week's march away, and a 2nd one, completely blocked by a stack of upgraded Master Gre... -- you can't call it anything other than a generator insult :smile51: which ultimately decided the game on 200%

thanks for the game :)