Jebus Cross - 4

We played with a timer of 24+8+1. Sometimes the timer was a bit tight, but overall it was enough. The distribution was quite decent — a couple of hives were visible, an external dwelling of horses, but the road to ГО was blocked by cyclops behind a box. You could run around for scouting. After a couple of days, I found 4 more hives (6 in total), a Griffin Conservatory, and boxes for all of level 1. In the 1st week, I took both secondaries; I teleported horses from the dungeon, but no real stack came of them — they were eaten. I also gathered all the hives — ended up with slightly over 30 ducks in total (lost a few to sultans), and skeletons by the start of the 2nd week were only around 200. Galtran had mass earth, air, and weapon. Loga never worked for him, and there were no speed artifacts for a very long time. I took Griffin Conservatory 3 and ran towards ГО. On the last moves at 122, I broke a double ГО of archdevils and monarchs. I launched scouting and accelerated. The center is quite poor — a couple of speed artifacts, helmet+12, 2 hives, boxes all for experience and crosses, necklace+3 all, a couple of utops. In the middle of the 2nd week, I broke through to the opponent's respawn — the road there is very wild. I never reached the main, but I took a couple of utops from his respawn — useful things were a level 5 cap, speed boots, and a gladius. I built up to a level 4 guild, and with the TP scroll, moving around became easier. At the start of the 3rd week, the opponent showed a higher army and equal stats. At 132, Gunnar, arriving via off-road, attacks me in my Castle, but I had reinforced just in case. Armies there from two built dungeons + 2 external dwellings of cats and 4 angels, plenty of mana, stats roughly equal. I have 40+ ducks, 300 bones, 3 angels and a few death knights, +3 speed. Impl there, mass haste and impl from me, slow and impl there (I only feared mass berserk). Next, I had the option to throw an impl and buy off with a superior army, but I cast sacrifice and trade 2 angels for 6 ducks :) and buy off with slightly over 20 ducks — there were a few medusas, eyes, and a couple of cats left, and Gunnar puts himself in a bad spot. I beat the red orb just in case (should have done it earlier, then I would have fought a kettle instead of a cap), take an angel from the external dwelling for the 1st move, and luckily Loshek with 25 mana was wandering the center. He captured the Castle and Galtran with mass haste kills Gunnar. Thanks for the game!