Immediately see the Book of Earth under Castle, Labeta appeared in the tavern, found a Griffin Conservatory and a Dragon Fly Hive. Labeta first ran to the ГО, eating chests along the way and visiting a couple of stat boosters, then split up and headed down the road, where another Dragon Fly Hive was found, and even two of them turned out to be there. Along the way, I took a potion, took the Dragon Fly Hives, 6+8. On day 116, found a couple of caches, built a chain to them and collected on day 117 (hydras + bulls). Placed the hydras in the Citadel, a bit short on gold.
On day 121, Labeta took a couple of Pandora's Boxes with 5k experience each, leveled up Scouting and Air Magic. Moner grabbed 2 angels. On day 122, moved towards ГО, cleaned up the second Griffin Conservatory – another angel, took the Book of Earth. On day 123, took the Dragon Fly Hive for 4 and the Titan's Cuirass, after which Labeta went to hit ГО – first devils, then hydras. Both fights were somewhat difficult, had to spend a lot of mana. In the center, there's an immediate tough block of 30+ red dragons, so to start, I grab the Dragon Fly Hive 100 movement points away, which gives 12 Wyverns. With 30 Wyverns and mana for one Resurrection, I hit the dragons, lose about 5, but the reward is the Helm +6 all stats, Titan's Shield, and 4 Wyverns. I free Aislin from the prison, sit in the central town to replenish mana. The army is there, stats and magic too, but Labeta can barely move, need Dimension Door. I start building the Mage Guild in Rampart (never finished it), run to collect Pandora's Boxes. First – a pyramid, gives Mirror Image. Behind 20+ angels gives 5 angels, behind 50+ Grand Unicorns gives 20k experience. I free a hero from prison with Pathfinding, run to the Dragon Utopia. Grabbed a couple of Dragon Fly Hives, took a level 3 dwelling – gave poor stuff, two navigation artifacts and a Necklace +3 all stats. By this time, I scouted everything up to the opponent's ГО and found a Pandora's Box there behind 10+ titans. Can't leave it… I portal there, take it on day 131 I think, gives 10 horses. I'm left with about 50 mana points, can't run home anymore, but you'd think, what's there to fear? Well, and then Jeditt hits me with 15 spell power, 200+ mana, and a dozen Chain Lightnings. Manage to deal with the Armageddon fairly bloodlessly (angels resist twice, I put Anti-Magic on them and 40 Wyverns), but summoning 60 Fire Elementals stumps me. Actually, I wanted to buy my way out immediately (and originally planned to do that in case of trouble), but there are also Shackles of War there… Both heroes die, I have a lot of gold and the un-bought week 3 growth. I try to dig up one of the heroes, only Aislin comes. I place her in the wrong spot (without the ability to split), lose the central town because of it, and also poorly expose Moner, who could have taken back the castle, but he gets reached and chased off on the last tile before it. Dessa goes on the attack, but repelling her is not difficult with Meteor Shower. I gather an army, go on the attack (still have the Helm of Thunder left), but very poorly expose myself several times under castles, and in general by day 141 I haven't reached the capital. No gold, heroes still won't come, the opponent has a whole respawn for collecting free stuff and 9 Chain Lightning growth. Everything is really bad, ГГ.
Thank you for the game!
Осень-Зима 2013-14.