111 - From the start, got an artifact +1 to speed. Under the Castle, a Dragon Fly Hive for 20-49 ghosts, external dwellings of lizards and basilisks for 50-99 zombies, along one road a Nagash Stone + a box for 10-19 trolls, also found an external dwelling of gnolls, a shield +6 behind the snipers. Tazar takes +1 attack and stands next to the zombies.
112 - Build basilisks in the Castle, buy out everything available, bring the gnolls from the external dwelling, kill the zombies, take the external dwelling of lizards and the external dwelling of basilisks, take a crypt for 2k, stand in front of the Dragon Fly Hive. Tazar was given logistics.
113 - Kill the ghosts almost without losses, the Dragon Fly Hive is large, I don't risk entering (army: 2 Wyverns, 8 Basilisks, 50 Gnolls, 22 Lizards + a meat shield of 16 Pikemen). Run Tazar up the road towards one of the secondary heroes, because an external dwelling of bulls with an armor +1 all behind ogres + a prison was scouted there. Meanwhile, Ciele runs down the road towards the other secondary hero, runs into a block of lots of Death Flies, goes around through wasteland, finds a Griffin Conservatory 3-4 with a Mage Guild.
114 - With Crag, I visit the experience stone - get Earth Magic + take a crypt. The scout hero just finds a scroll of Slow. Build bulls in the Castle. In the prison, Lacus with Pathfinding, Expert Archery. Next to the prison, another Dragon Fly Hive for 20-49 Death Flies and a box for 5-9 Chaos Hydras were discovered.
115 - Labeta takes a Barbarian secondary town. One of the scout heroes meanwhile finds an external dwelling of hydras for 50-99 Centaur Captains. Send Lacus there with Tactics and Archery, while Tazar runs to the Dragon Fly Hive and the box for hydras.
116 - Tazar at the Dragon Fly Hive, Lacus at the external dwelling, army in the Castle, where I also built hydras.
117 - Ciele finally bypassed the block on the road to another secondary town, but right before the Castle she was met by a block of monks, so failure. However, another external dwelling of hydras is found, unfortunately unreachable. Lacus takes the external dwelling of hydras, one of the scout heroes picks up the Dragon Fly Hive near the Castle for 8 Wyverns, and all this loot goes to Tazar, who takes a minimal Dragon Fly Hive, a Spirit of Oppression behind Halberdiers, and prepares to fight the hydras. All units are built in the Citadel in the Castle.
121 - Bring a couple of hydras and flies from the Castle (money was catastrophically short, considering I also needed to split Tazar and build a Mage Guild). Expected experience or money from the hydras (both were needed, in principle), but got something even better - 20 bulls! Split Tazar to send home, buy a spell book and run him to the box and the Nagash Stone for trolls.
122 - In the box: 90 gnolls, the Nagash Stone is a two :( . Free Nella from prison, split Tazar to take to her in front of the Griffin Conservatory. Refused the experience ground in favor of Attack. Stand Nella in front of the crypt. Meanwhile, Labeta brings gnolls, a Slow scroll, and bulls from the external dwelling from the other secondary town. Build a Resource Silo in the Castle for upgrading bulls.
123 - A Griffin Conservatory level three falls without problems, even without oil; given Tactics. Split Tazar to send home, take a Scholar near the Castle with him, who expertises Attack, upgrade the flies, and stay as Tazar to replenish mana.
124 - Run Tazar to the Mage Guild, take +1 defense and an experience stone, stand in front of the second experience stone right next to the Mage Guild hoping to upgrade Earth Magic. Scout heroes gather the army together, upgrade bulls and gnolls.
125 - First, check the experience stone: Earth Magic finally gets upgraded! Recapture the shield +6, transfer the army to Tazar. Stats 4 19 4 5 (40). 5 hydras, 3 angels, 28 upgraded bulls, 17 Wyverns, 145 upgraded gnolls, a few flies. The Mage Guild with 38 Naga Queens falls without problems, then I see Crag in front of a Mage Guild with 50-99 Wizards, I leave those guys for him :) Run forward, take a minimal Dragon Fly Hive and a box for 15k experience behind a horde of bulls, sit in the Castle. Have 25 mana, Mass Haste, Mass Slow. On his turn, Crag with absolutely identical combat stats (4 19) attacks me in the Castle. He only has 28 Monarchs + a few units. He casts Mass Haste, I cast Mass Slow, but Crag's resistance kicks in. I move everyone forward, understanding that numerical advantage is on my side. Then the opponent hides the Monarchs in a corner of the Castle, not noticing that the wall there is already destroyed. Mass Slow finally lands on the second attempt, and the Monarchs are cornered. Good game.
Thanks for the game.
Spring 2014