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We played without restarts. Got 2 native heroes, ended up with around 150 Troglodytes, and 3 Dragon Fly Hives were scouted on day 1, along with external dwellings of Gaze and Medusa, and Boots for 40 gr. orcs (took Shakti on day 1, losing 17 Troglodytes). On day 2, I picked Earth in the University.
The respawn turned out to be huge, stretching from one corner of the map to the other vertically. An external dragon dwelling was found behind Cyclopes and a Pandora's Box, as well as 3 Gaze external dwellings. It was 2 days of travel to the Dragon Utopia with the Log, Boots, and Haste. The Dragon Utopia itself had 4 different units and Death Knights, all off-road.
I was faced with a choice: Portal the dragons or build a fat stack of Gaze. I opted for the second option. Collected 61 Gaze and 31 Dragon Flies and ran to the Dragon Utopia. I planned to emerge on 123. The main problem was the lack of Slow. A pile of scrolls, the native guild, and secondary skills, on which Shakti wasted a couple of travel days, didn't provide the needed spell. And I made a mistake—I decided to take a level 3 Dragon Utopia before the main one and left all my Gaze and 8 Dragon Flies there. I got complete junk and had nothing left to emerge with. I had to rebuild dragons, take the external dwelling, upgrade them, and emerge on 131.
If this weren't a tournament game, I would have surrendered after the Dragon Utopia and not wasted my opponent's time. But I decided to check out the center anyway—it was very large, with many Dragon Fly Hives, good artifacts, and Dragon Utopias. But I found all of this too late, and by that time Tazar had already become indecently leveled.
Even though I found КЗ and could, in theory, try to mass dragons (there was another external dwelling), I decided to go for a final showdown by holing up in the central Castle. I had a cunning plan to cast Anti-Magic on the Dragon Flies and throw Implosion, but he had a Cloak of Rejection. There was no chance in the final battle.
Thanks to Tvarina for the game and for analyzing my mistakes on the stream. Also, my gratitude to the tournament organizers—an excellent experience and special emotions from the game!)
The respawn turned out to be huge, stretching from one corner of the map to the other vertically. An external dragon dwelling was found behind Cyclopes and a Pandora's Box, as well as 3 Gaze external dwellings. It was 2 days of travel to the Dragon Utopia with the Log, Boots, and Haste. The Dragon Utopia itself had 4 different units and Death Knights, all off-road.
I was faced with a choice: Portal the dragons or build a fat stack of Gaze. I opted for the second option. Collected 61 Gaze and 31 Dragon Flies and ran to the Dragon Utopia. I planned to emerge on 123. The main problem was the lack of Slow. A pile of scrolls, the native guild, and secondary skills, on which Shakti wasted a couple of travel days, didn't provide the needed spell. And I made a mistake—I decided to take a level 3 Dragon Utopia before the main one and left all my Gaze and 8 Dragon Flies there. I got complete junk and had nothing left to emerge with. I had to rebuild dragons, take the external dwelling, upgrade them, and emerge on 131.
If this weren't a tournament game, I would have surrendered after the Dragon Utopia and not wasted my opponent's time. But I decided to check out the center anyway—it was very large, with many Dragon Fly Hives, good artifacts, and Dragon Utopias. But I found all of this too late, and by that time Tazar had already become indecently leveled.
Even though I found КЗ and could, in theory, try to mass dragons (there was another external dwelling), I decided to go for a final showdown by holing up in the central Castle. I had a cunning plan to cast Anti-Magic on the Dragon Flies and throw Implosion, but he had a Cloak of Rejection. There was no chance in the final battle.
Thanks to Tvarina for the game and for analyzing my mistakes on the stream. Also, my gratitude to the tournament organizers—an excellent experience and special emotions from the game!)
