Wars of the Wizards

I got a stronghold as I had hoped, and as in all previous games in the tournament, I chose a battle mage as my main hero. I had 3 stacks of goblins on a gretchin, so I decided to upgrade the goblins on day 1.

I saw 4 goblin dwellings and a behemoth dwelling early on and decided to take the goblin dwellings, even though I had a dung town. This made some hard battles possible since I had Spirit of the Oasis. I lacked experience on Gundu, and a box with level 3 magic and a box with 50 wolves didn't help with that. I had air magic but was at a low level and had low stats, so all hope was on a last box guarded by a horde mage. I took a con with 3 angels at 121 with a scout but made a double mistake, so I couldn't transfer the army to Gundu and lost most of the day. At 122, I beat the mage and got all air spells. I ran to the magic spring and was ready to break at 123.

Mino kings were at 128, and since I was poor, I couldn't upgrade behemoths, so the battle cost dearly. In the desert, I saw Thant ready to beat the horde greater basilisk for wings, so I wanted to prevent him from getting them and still avoid being caught. I just managed to, using Gretchin to steal them and moved off-road into the desert with Gundu. After that, the army got smaller and smaller, but the stats got very good. I had teleport from a scroll and built a guild. Bishop took the center town, and I took the other desert town. I took a couple of topes and moved back. He took my town at 127, but I managed to get it back.

In the end, I took the middle town back and sat there with 10 absolute defenders as a power stack, 3 angels, 13 wyverns, and a bit more. He had 1 ghost dragon and close to 600 skeletons but not much more. I was much stronger in might. He started by killing 7 absolute defenders with implosion. I cast haste and then, in the next round, a 3600 implosion to take out all his skeletons, and my army took care of the rest.

Thanks for playing.