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We got completely wrecked.
In the end, both my opponent and I had decent draws. On respawn: external dwelling of dragons, Dragon Fly Hive with 32 Wyverns, Griffin Conservatory trio, a Luna appeared who leveled up well, grabbed a couple of artifacts, took a Pandora's Box for the entire 2nd level, and learned Literacy (that ultimately decided the game, Luna retrained the entire 2nd level to Shakti). In the Center, a Book of Fire was visible through the scouting view, and Luna happened to have 11 Spell Power without artifacts. Anyway, after gathering all the respawn goodies (there was a huge fail on 114 — I give Shakti 2 dragons, 4 Wyverns + tier-1 units, all the meat on a scout hero, and I misclick-attack 40 Medusas with the scout hero and meat — lose all Troglodytes, Medusas, Harpies, Eyes, ALL THE DWELLINGS, just sad, it was tough, even had to build Minotaurs for the tier-1 units) I entered the Center on 123 via Archangels, then immediately Chaos Hydras for a 20k + KO Pandora's Box, while Luna replenishes mana at home (Shakti left her Knowledge artifacts because he already doubled his mana to 240).
After the Pandora's Box, I level up Air Magic, and through scouting I see a red hero — likely Crag Hack, roughly similar stats, I decide to try to reach him, ignoring all the goodies (Shakti had Expert Logistics + Stables), and I manage to reach Crag Hack with 75 MP remaining, though the army size doesn't look great — up to 20 Zealots, up to 20 Battle Dwarves, up to 10 Thunderbirds + tier-1 Thunderbirds. Too late to retreat — I rely on the large mana pool and attack.
Crag Hack: 10 mana, 6 Spell Power, 12 Zealots, 14 Battle Dwarves, 5+ tier-1 Thunderbirds, Ballista
Shakti: 200+ mana, 5 Spell Power, 29 Battle Dwarves, 3 Angels, 1 Dragon (Archangels bit it), 4 Minotaurs, 6 Medusas, 69+1 Troglodytes, Ballista with Expert Artillery, battle stats roughly equal.
If Crag Hack had had mana — 12 Zealots would have wiped out everything and everyone, but as it was, we exchanged Oil and he had only enough mana left for one Dispel against Blind, after which the Bears didn't exploit my mistake (I was sure I was attacking with Wait and sent the dragons forward to kill the tier-1 birds) — instead of killing the dragon and getting the first turn (and thus crashing into the Wyverns before the next Blind), they went for the three Angels, then Blind + Oil + Rush + Blind + Rush + Blind + Lightning Bolt + Rush = Crag Hack dies.
As the postmortem showed, if I hadn't attacked, things would have been very grim — Crag Hack had a KZ from respawn, 3 external Bear dwellings, and in the treasure zone on his turn he would have picked up a KV, and who knows if Luna would have gained anything from the KO or not.
Thanks for the game, good luck going forward!
In the end, both my opponent and I had decent draws. On respawn: external dwelling of dragons, Dragon Fly Hive with 32 Wyverns, Griffin Conservatory trio, a Luna appeared who leveled up well, grabbed a couple of artifacts, took a Pandora's Box for the entire 2nd level, and learned Literacy (that ultimately decided the game, Luna retrained the entire 2nd level to Shakti). In the Center, a Book of Fire was visible through the scouting view, and Luna happened to have 11 Spell Power without artifacts. Anyway, after gathering all the respawn goodies (there was a huge fail on 114 — I give Shakti 2 dragons, 4 Wyverns + tier-1 units, all the meat on a scout hero, and I misclick-attack 40 Medusas with the scout hero and meat — lose all Troglodytes, Medusas, Harpies, Eyes, ALL THE DWELLINGS, just sad, it was tough, even had to build Minotaurs for the tier-1 units) I entered the Center on 123 via Archangels, then immediately Chaos Hydras for a 20k + KO Pandora's Box, while Luna replenishes mana at home (Shakti left her Knowledge artifacts because he already doubled his mana to 240).
After the Pandora's Box, I level up Air Magic, and through scouting I see a red hero — likely Crag Hack, roughly similar stats, I decide to try to reach him, ignoring all the goodies (Shakti had Expert Logistics + Stables), and I manage to reach Crag Hack with 75 MP remaining, though the army size doesn't look great — up to 20 Zealots, up to 20 Battle Dwarves, up to 10 Thunderbirds + tier-1 Thunderbirds. Too late to retreat — I rely on the large mana pool and attack.
Crag Hack: 10 mana, 6 Spell Power, 12 Zealots, 14 Battle Dwarves, 5+ tier-1 Thunderbirds, Ballista
Shakti: 200+ mana, 5 Spell Power, 29 Battle Dwarves, 3 Angels, 1 Dragon (Archangels bit it), 4 Minotaurs, 6 Medusas, 69+1 Troglodytes, Ballista with Expert Artillery, battle stats roughly equal.
If Crag Hack had had mana — 12 Zealots would have wiped out everything and everyone, but as it was, we exchanged Oil and he had only enough mana left for one Dispel against Blind, after which the Bears didn't exploit my mistake (I was sure I was attacking with Wait and sent the dragons forward to kill the tier-1 birds) — instead of killing the dragon and getting the first turn (and thus crashing into the Wyverns before the next Blind), they went for the three Angels, then Blind + Oil + Rush + Blind + Rush + Blind + Lightning Bolt + Rush = Crag Hack dies.
As the postmortem showed, if I hadn't attacked, things would have been very grim — Crag Hack had a KZ from respawn, 3 external Bear dwellings, and in the treasure zone on his turn he would have picked up a KV, and who knows if Luna would have gained anything from the KO or not.
Thanks for the game, good luck going forward!
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