The first rest was spent on inconvenient units and Gurney without a ballista. The second generation finally produced a unit with a ballista :smile41:. In addition, there were two native heroes in the tavern, one of whom, namely Crag, we began to develop. He, as an exemplary son, trained, justifying the hopes placed in him, immediately grabbing a log, and cheerfully breaking through many units with the combined army. Only once did he let us down, receiving ballistics on level 9, but we forgot that misstep, as every parent forgives their children.

In the first battle, we broke through to the computer bot in the castle and saw firsthand the reason for his sad isolation. Hordes of invaders from the Royal Elves and Dendroids surrounded the castle and doomed its inhabitants to loneliness. We could not leave the suffering in trouble, and in the second, we freed him and gladly fulfilled his desire to join our kingdom, arranging a small tournament between our soldiers in honor of the holiday, where our steel, of course, turned out to be stronger.

While we were making our way along narrow paths to our gray brother, scouts at the Red Wood Observatory managed to reveal part of the kingdom of our sworn enemy. The news was not the best - we already knew from rumors from the tavern from passing merchants that the enemy was always ahead of us in terms of money - two more griffin dungeons were discovered on the enemy's territory. Stupid beasts do not always know where to establish their lair, and this time it served our enemy well. Now it was only a matter of time before the troops freed the angels.
Meanwhile, our scouts discovered a sulfur mine on the neighboring map, which created a short passage through the mountain range to the blue faction. As true barbarians, we were immediately struck by the idea of launching a blitzkrieg: warriors and Mighty Crag demanded it, however, my experienced intuition told me that we would not have time and would be met by angels, and even in a fortified castle. Gathering a small army, which I managed to assemble in two weeks without sufficient fortification of the castle and its walls, which was the reason for the small number of recruits, I went on a campaign for my only conservatory on the territory of the gray faction. The griffins did not cause much trouble to Crag, and he returned with 3 angels. By that time, the scouts from the Observatory reported that the blue faction had already freed its angels. Soon we were all convinced of this when we saw the enemy army in the discovered passage in the rocks. There were few chances to resist them, but we still set up an ambush behind the portal, so as not to let them to the city, and Crag swore that if he did not defeat the enemy, he would inflict a mortal wound on him and finish off the villain in the castle. I knew how quickly barbarians recover, and reinforcements were waiting for me at home, but there was not enough money for equipment. Something needs to be done with the treasurer, I think, taking advantage of the wartime, this lackey is robbing me.
However, the battle did not take place, the enemy ran along a false path. Taking advantage of the tactical moment, Crag broke into the enemy's rear and captured his castle, killing two necromancers along the way (I felt that he had become involved with evil, which made our company even more righteous). More than a hundred skeletons were killed, the great necromancer Nagash was defeated, who took away one of my angels and fled in disgrace, taking away another White-Winged angel. But the reward in the castle was recruits and another angel, who hid from recruitment in this unholy horde. Examining the enemy's possessions, I was amazed. The griffins even had 3 conservatories here, archers and griffins organized their camps near the castle, a rich stable was right at the gates of the castle, always offering fresh horses, and local merchants organized a bazaar nearby, offering everything at ridiculously low prices. The wealth of the region was immense.
But we did not come to enjoy the sights, but war filled our hearts and clenched cold steel in our fists. With even greater ferocity, we took up the military cause. Crag organized a campaign on the newly opened territories. In a couple of days, we managed to free up to 20 wyverns captured by dragonflies. We knew that the blue faction would return for their castle and were already preparing caravans to return to the siege in time. At the end of the third week of the war, Crag met the enemy army in the castle.
We will remember that glorious battle, and the names of the fallen brothers who gave us this sky and this land will forever ring in our hearts.
Thanks for the game.