"Newcomer-2014. Summer"

We played without restarts. 2 native heroes arrived, ended up with around 150 Troglodytes, 3 Dragon Fly Hives were scouted on the first day, external dwellings of eyes and medusas, and Boots for 40 gr. orcs (took them on the first day with Shakti, losing 17 Troglodytes). On the 2nd day in the university I took earth magic.

The respawn turned out to be huge, stretching from one corner of the map to the other vertically. A dragon external dwelling was found behind cyclopes and a Pandora's box, as well as 3 eye external dwellings. 2 days of travel to the ГО with the log, Boots, and haste. The ГО itself consisted of 4 different units and death knights via roadless terrain.

I faced a choice: to portal the dragons or make a fat stack of eyes. I preferred the second option. Collected 61 eyes, 31 Dragon Flies and ran to the ГО. I planned to exit on day 123. The main problem was the lack of slow. Lots of scrolls, the native guild, and secondary skills, on which I wasted a couple of days of travel for Shakti, did not give the needed spell. And I made a mistake — I decided to take a level 3 Dragon Utopia before the ГО and left all the eyes and 8 Dragon Flies there. Gave complete junk and there was nothing left to exit with. Had to rebuild dragons, take the external dwelling, upgrade them, and exit on day 131.

If it 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 the center anyway — it was very big, many Dragon Fly Hives, good artifacts, Dragon Utopias. But I found all this too late, and by that time Tazar had leveled up indecently.

Although I found КЗ and could theoretically try to mass dragons (there was another external dwelling), I decided to have a final stand by holing up in the central Castle. There was a cunning plan to put anti-magic on the Dragon Flies and throw imps, but there was a Cloak of Rejection. No chance in FB.

Thanks to Twaryn for the game and analyzing my mistakes on the stream. Also thanks to the tournament organizers — great experience and special emotions from the game)