"Newcomer-2014. Summer"

I took 1 restart, on the second draw I saw a decent number of chests and 4 roads + an external dwelling of nagas for 20+ eyes. There were a lot of angry blocks, but I played, hoping for a re from the opponent, since there were supposedly few roads there. But he didn't restart and we played.
By the end of the first week I built 1-5 in the Citadel + a portal with nagas, Shakti with Earth magic, everything was pretty good, just tight on gold.
On the second week I take a secondary scout hero, planning to take two more, build chains to them, but then blue flies into the adjacent secondary Castle through a portal that was supposed to lead to the treasure zone. Earth isn't expert and I don't have anywhere near enough gold to buy all the nagas, I hope he doesn't attack me, but just in case I split my stack at home.
The opponent locks me in the Castle, he has 10+ horsemen and 20+ griffins, fighting in the field is suicide. He methodically kills my scout hero, while I skip turns with the main hero at base, full trade to the Castle and try to at least buy some meat.

By the start of the third week I have no external dwelling of nagas, and he gets reinforcements, I expect an assault, but for some reason the opponent drags his feet for several more days, I buy a little bit of meat each day, build a Mage Guild with a waterfall, all this just from one single scout hero collecting freebies on the secondary and the trade)

In the end, the opponent attacks only on day 136. Ivor 3 6 6 3, but without a spell book:) He has 40+ griffins, 14 horsemen, 6 of my nagas from the external dwelling, 20+ archers and 20+ pikemen from the secondary Castle.

I'm sitting in the Castle, 17 nagas, 25 eyes, 130 Troglodytes, a few harpies. Shakti 5 4 2 3 60 mana, Expert Attack, Tactics, advanced Earth magic. I thought I would lose, but his catapult must have been defective)) It shot everything it could, but never broke through the Castle gates. In the end, when at least some breach appeared in the wall, the opponent only had Castle pikemen and 14 horsemen left, which were quickly destroyed by the Troglodytes and nagas.

The game was clearly a losing one, there were external dwellings of horsemen and elves + piles of gold, but I got lucky that the opponent didn't attack immediately on day 131 with the growth, and then his catapult just messed up :rolleyes:

Thanks for the game!)[/QU
Confirmed. Thanks for the game!