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We used all restarts. 2 roads from town gave way, without level 2, Gosha with 2 stacks. So not necromancing is not a great option on Jebus, but with Gosha it's possible. From the external dwellings close to town - 2 dwellings of imps, by the end of the week another dwelling of gogs was found. The passage to one of the secondary zones is blocked by obsidian gargoyles, the respawn was being developed quite quickly thanks to external taverns. On day 114 I found the first hive behind the pegasi, scouted it, it's big, nothing to take it with, until the end of the week I explored the respawn, farmed skeletons, leveled Gosha and prepared chains for capturing objects on day 121.
At the start of the second week, I take the aforementioned hive with a scout hero, which turned out to be a max one, losing 30 skeletons + meat from the Tower village, then with another scout hero I grab a flask for +2 HP, then with Gosha I take a Pandora's Box for 20-49 gr. dendroids for 10k experience, that was the decisive moment for me in the game, Gosha was level 12 with all skills on expert and lucky, finally Earth Magic was offered and it immediately leveled to expert. Then on day 123 I split with Gosha and through an external tavern I stay overnight at the Griffin Conservatory 3-4 and during this turn I take 2 hives for 8+4 Wyverns. On day 124 I hit a double gate: first 50+ dread knights, then 70 of their un-upgraded ones, and I reach the central ramp, speed up and in the last seconds of the turn I place the Mage Guild there. From town two roads, one to the opponent's respawn with an unbreached gate of 50+ manticores and the second to the center where 2 more gate blocks block the path.
In general, from the end of day 122 the timer was really pressing me and I made a fatal mistake, using red to replenish mana. I wasn't too afraid of the opponent, but on his turn he sharply raised his stats (took Gladius + doubled his spell power parameter), breached the gate, checked me with a scout hero - I have 15/100 mana, and he hits me in the ramp fort.
He has 2 red dragons, 4 angels, 18 scorpicores, 190 gr. Troglodytes and 1+1+1 harpies / I have 5 sultans, 3 angels, 24 ducks (which merged into 1 stack), 40 magogs, 250 skeletons. We fought for 30+ minutes, the opponent competently realized his mana advantage, having 70 against my 15. I had a chance to make a decent trade by casting Haste on the ducks with my last mana and hitting the scorpicores, but I didn't risk it, but in any scenario I would lose Gosha in the battle and had no prospects afterwards.
A good game from the opponent, instant punishment for a mistake, gg.
Thanks for the game!

Added after 7 minutes
Congratulations to Falcone on a well-deserved victory in the tournament. His path was quite difficult and thorny. After a loss in the 1/4 of the upper bracket, he managed to reach the grand final and take revenge, winning 3-0.
In the first game on 8mm6a, the tempo of the game was killed by a block of cyclopes at the exit from my respawn.
In the second game on 8mm6a, I fully paid for my gross mistakes and after several losses decided to surrender.
In the third game on Jebus, having played decently without major mistakes, I underestimated the situation and lost a game in which I could have seriously hoped for a win.

I thank the opponent for the game, for a good final.
I thank the organizers for the tournament, for the half a year that I have been playing Heroes Online, my game has improved significantly, largely thanks to this tournament.
I thank all the opponents I had the chance to play against; it was very interesting to play and communicate.
Thanks for the tournament.

We took all restarts, got a good layout: day 114 Troglodytes, an external dwelling of dragons, stables, external dwellings of manticores, scouted on day 111. I only expanded to 5 heroes though, didn't have enough money at the start.

Day 112 I go to hit the external dwelling of dragons, fought poorly with the guard - dendroids - and lost 14 Troglodytes and 7 Evil Eyes, in the dwelling I lost another 14 Troglodytes. Opened the overview in the center of the respawn, saw good things: gloves, another external dwelling of cats, 2 Dragon Fly Hives, a Pandora's Box for 20-49 gr. wolves, next to the gate a Gladius for 50-99 snipers and a library. But everything was scattered very far.

Day 113 I take the Pandora's Box, it gave 5k experience, nothing useful was offered, I had to take Wisdom at level 6. I gather money, scouted the gate - 50-99 manticores and the central castle right at the exit.

Day 114 I take a mini Dragon Fly Hive, take the gloves - Shakti gets Earth Magic! I approached close to the gate and discovered that right behind the manticores there is a road to the opponent's respawn and there are 4 different gates of 3 types of dread knights and devils.

Day 115 I scouted 2 Griffin Conservatories - one is a 1-level and the edge of another was visible within 2 days of movement for Shakti. I decided that I could take the 2-level one and, lacking better prospects, directed my main hero towards the griffin dwelling.

Day 116 I took the 1-level Conservatory, but the other turned out to be 3rd level with a grail structure, I can't handle it without growth, and I decided to split back home for the spell book and run to it again, while the other guys were collecting manticore dwellings and money to buy them out.

Day 117 Shakti runs to the Conservatory, money is being gathered, which is sorely lacking. I build ferry chains.

Day 121 Two native heroes arrive, I go mass Troglodytes, there are 3 dwellings still. Made a mistake with the chain and was a couple of moves short of the Conservatory.

Day 122 I take the Conservatory losing 12 Troglodytes, split back home, make 80 mana, run to the gate - 2 days away. Scout heroes take a cloak for +2+2 spell power/knowledge

Day 123 I breach the snipers, chain-grab an artifact for +3+3 spell power/knowledge and stop next to the library and the gate with angels, scorpicores and dragons. On his turn, the opponent starts hitting a gate and then stays in the castle.

Day 124 I ferry all artifacts and Troglodytes from dwellings, take the library, attack Galtran with a scout hero, see 14 mana, kill a few gogs with archery, then attack with Shakti.

Finale - the opponent already described the army composition, my stats are 20 6 11 9, Galtran has 11 13 5 11. We fought for quite a while, but the advantage in mana and 140 archers allowed me to first cut down the magog, efreeti angels, and ducks, and then finish off the skeleton stack, with a counterattack from the dragon and with Bless on the Troglodytes.

Thanks for the game!

Added after 10 minutes
I also wanted to thank my opponent in the final for the game. A very worthy opponent and the final score clearly does not reflect the balance of power. I was quite lucky with the layouts, just as in some games on the way to this very final, take for example the games against Rabe and Jewelmask, when I no longer believed in victory at all, but managed to pull through. But I am very, very happy with this victory. All these six months I lived for the game and was hardly distracted by anything else. Friends and family even started to worry about me)

Special thanks to Svetogor, with whom I played my first online games. He helped me a lot at the beginning to figure out what was what here)

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