Jebus Cross - 4

Broke at 122 with stats 5 6, but had 377 skells and mass slow. The game was decided at 123 when i could attack hack with red orb and red cape killing 5 abs and close to 30 wyvs. Stats were only 10 10 but it was enough. Opponent decided to play on for hours clearing his area, but there were no chances since I had all desert. Thanks for playing.

For 3 days of wandering around the respawn, Crag Hack leveled up a couple of times and got Mysticism. There are three trees, magic artifacts, a couple of boxes, a sword +3, Cape of the Air, but I have no idea how to take this and where to even start. Out of external dwellings, there's only 1 goblin, villages are blocked. On the positive side – stables. On 114, Tant finds an external dwelling of bears, albeit a bit late, but at least that's something; now things are becoming clearer. I take the dwelling already with a seasoned bear, and nearby there's a box visible behind a lot of ogres – fat, I open it – empty. Built bears in the castle.

On 121, I bought Crag Hack a spell book, took max medusas, and sent the bears to the flank, where there are +4 wyverns. On 122, Crag Hack recaptures Grudak +4, frees Saurug, who runs with the mana conduit straight to the Capital Building for the +3+3 necklace. On 123, he is supposed to give the necklace to Crag Hack, under double mana, and transfer the mana conduit again to the flank led by Gunnar to collect the Cape of the Air and two more trees, with a return for breaking through the Capital Building. I cringed a bit when auto-combat showed my bear getting wasted in the max tree, but it turned out fine. I hit the Capital Building – a hundred Thunderbirds, with oil, no problem. On the downside – Crag Hack is left with bears and wyverns; I visit the library. A little further down the road, behind the Vaskys, lies a red orb; behind a mountain nearby is +5 to all – ready to take it next turn via Dimension Door. On my 123, Galtran approaches, takes the orb and attacks. My Chain Lightning at 505 damage is of no interest to anyone anymore, and the equal speed of wyverns and Galtran's skeletons (+2 there) gives no chance at all. I retreated with 1 wyvern; at home there were still a couple of trees, the library, a couple of boxes, and a couple of sunken ships. From one I even pulled out Cape of the Winter, but I needed stats. There were chances to grab +3 and +5 to all from the center, but as soon as I aimed for it – Galtran took it.

Overall, everything was shaping up pretty well, but damn that red orb... that nasty artifact :) It throws me out of the main Jebus Cross bracket for the second time, ironically enough.

Thanks for the game!