"only XL-2"

Thanks for the game.

it was an interesting game. It started off great - Brogh and Taz with 3 stacks, Solmyr also with 3, a nest of Lizards right nearby. Then it got even better - a nest of Flies, Wasps, 4 Gnolls, a Dragon Fly Hive with Nagas 10-19 and a shield +4, 2 Gnome Mines, a Medusa ground. A Dragon Utopia at home and several Crypts. The only thing is the road to the center is through one-way portals and sand. On day 117 I camped at the max Gnome Mine - didn't risk it. On day 121 Gnome Mine, Medusa ground, and I break through 19 Nagas with a hero stack, go into the Dragon Fly Hive - it's max, I leave all my Wyverns there, which get minused immediately, along with some Wasps and Gnolls. Then I take a Tower Boat, in the central zone on the sand there's another Dragon Fly Hive, in my home corner there's another one, and there's also a Library and a Dragon Utopia. I clear the first Dragon Utopia on days 124-125. By week 2 I also managed to gather the one at home. On week 3 I scout a one-way portal - there's a respawn info with 2 Dragon Utopias. Just before the last one I take a Pandora's Box for all the Air spells and get the Book of Air in the Dragon Utopia, but out of 5 Dragon Utopias I never found anything for Earth. At the end of week 3, the Blue player arrives and after several unsuccessful attempts using Dimension Door, they first take my Tower Boat from me, then my main town. From the lookout tower, built in the Tower Boat, a Dragon Utopia was visible on a neighboring tile. I want to take it since the Shaman is also targeting it. I take it - it gives nothing useful, but I leave myself exposed. Naturally I get attacked - thanks to turn 1, an immediate implosion and from 40+ Monarchs only 17 remain, I cast Anti-Magic on them and close in. In round 2, the opponent casts Anti-Magic on 40 Grandmaster Cats (I forgot to mention the opponent had a double with a nest of Cats). The Serpents remove the Anti-Magic from them and I cast Armageddon for 2k. 17 Cats remain, which hit the Monarchs and paralyze them. Over 3 rounds, the opponent resurrects 6 of their Archangels and all the Cats with Resurrection. Another Armageddon and I buy back with 13 Monarchs. The Shaman sits in my main town and gives the Cats to a lowbie. Next turn I buy back, transfer everything to a slightly less leveled-up Taz, who first takes back the main town and kills Shakti with a Death Wave, and then Brogh attacks with Shackles on the remaining Cats on the lowbie.

Thanks for the game!