Jebus Cross - 4

It turned out to be an awkward game.
Opponent took all the rests, I had another one that I didn't even think to use after revealing three Dragon Fly Hives and two Griffin Conservatories on the first day. The respawn was great, in the end I got 5 conservatories for 11 Angels and about 30 Ducks. Admittedly, I slowed myself down because I went the wrong direction, not towards where the maximum Dragon Fly Hives and the max conservatory were. I got to 123 with a rush, and then 124 with a Force Blast, which I should have won easily (11 Angels, 2 Bears, 30 Ducks, 6 Birds against 3 Angels, 3 Draconians, 35 Ducks, 50 Grands, a few Royal Griffins), but I froze at three in the morning. I thought I had +1 speed, which I hadn't even picked up from the respawn, so I just cast Mass Haste and charged into the Duck stack with everything. 11 Angels hit perfectly for -11 Ducks, but in response, I lost an Angel (the respawn didn't give artifacts, though my base stats were sufficient after Arenas and other boosters, something like 16-9 vs 14-20). Then, instead of my Ducks moving, the Angels suddenly went, I got Oil applied to my face, and over 2 rounds I lost all my feathered troops. In short, a failure; Kyrre ended up buying a truce. The center was tiny; I colored the Angel external dwellings, took the conservatory, a couple of chests. In general, I ate what the Red player hadn't collected and went to another respawn, chasing all the scout heroes out of the center and taking towns. Midway through the third, Kyrre ran out of the respawn and went to another adjacent respawn, where Crag Hack accidentally caught her on the rush, though without artifacts, but still. This was followed by an attack from a Prison hero with 400 mana, but Crag Hack had a Cloak of Negation — that's GG. Although the home Dragon Utopias were fat (there was no Dragon Utopia either at home, in the center, or on the other respawn; there was nowhere to take parameters and control, whereas the opponent had 3), the Red player found control and parameters and was slowly turning the game around — a game I had almost given away out of my own courtesy (read: stupidity), but the gift was returned :)

Thanks for the game!

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A tough game. The surrender was hanging by a thread. In short, there was an external dwelling of Draconians, through which I played against them in a fort; then a Griffin Conservatory and 4 Dragon Fly Hives for 22 Ducks plus good Pandoras, but the army was catastrophically insufficient for everything. On 113, Das took the Draconian external dwelling, and Kyrre grabbed 4 Ducks. The next day, both take one Dragon Fly Hive each, and there were already 16 Ducks. Then a Pandora gave experience; a random hero picked up the army, and near a secondary hero I took another Dragon Fly Hive. Naga Lords were seen. On 117, I took Boots; Kyrre went to Stables.
I got to 123 delayed, trying to level Earth Magic. After the Naga Lords, 50+ Black Knights for 2 Pandoras were seen; without Mass Slow there was nothing to do there. In short, Slow didn't level up, neither after the Naga Lords nor after the blocking Gold Golems that immediately appeared. On 124, I take a couple of Dragon Fly Hives, kill 110 Cats for a prison, and get +3 Attack, Defence, and Mass Slow. I see Crag Hack, I check 11 Angels + everything else — it's a loss. I send Kyrre back in the hope that he won't attack, but he does! Force Blast — a rough mistake from the opponent, and I manage to cut down the entire stack of those same Angels and take a truce. Then, with 3 Angels, 9 Ducks, and 40 Elves, I replenish mana, and with Slow already, I attack the Knights; Pandoras for 20 experience each — well, okay. On 131, two minor Dragon Utopias — no control, just a bit of parameters. 133 — a Dragon Utopia gives 3 hats: a Cowl, a Potion of Learning, and 12 Knowledge. I take the Castle from Blue; there I beat Kyrre with doubled mana in a dungeon and an Imp with 2000 HP. Crag Hack gets beaten; at the Central Castle, but seems he simply didn't reach Kyrre and, after taking a small Pandora along the way, parked with 400 MP. I check with a scout hero using a Sphere of Negation — no, but there was no one to check for the Cloak of Negation, so I decided not to attack, but to go to the Swamp Respawn — and I was right. I broke through there, took the Castle, a Dragon Fly Hive, found a Griffin Conservatory and 3 more Dragon Fly Hives — just what I needed, basically! But I didn't notice the timer, and in the last seconds, Kyrre simply moved somewhere without thinking about anything. Crag Hack reached her and cut her down with Mass Haste; after that there were no chances! Lack of concentration, I guess — with issue 2 on 124, the game started going my way, and then this mistake. After that, I would have just collected everything, taken the Castles, and snowballed; there wasn't much left for victory, but it wasn't meant to be...
Thanks for the game, The, and good luck further in the tournament!
Also a special thanks to the organizer — a good tournament, I didn't want to get eliminated, but a game is a game!