Having chosen all restarts, it gave a mini-nostalgia on the slow roads.
I had a fast path to the Castle and good miner upgrades, then spent a long time pushing toward the swamp; lizards were standing by the Necropolis, so I decided to ignore it.
At the Castle respawn, I took the sword external dwelling and teleported them. At home, I built an Eye, and in the Castle, swords in the citadel. There were 2 more troglodyte external dwellings, which I also took by the end of the week.
Money was crappy, but there is an external market. On 124, 23 "pots" and 200+ troglodytes are breaking a level 3 Griffin Conservatory with GS on the grass; it hit a bit hard since I didn't have time to max out Earth Magic. Then I moved into the treasure zone.
In the treasure zone, I poked around until the end of the week: 14 ducks + expert log + scouted a small Dragon Utopia.
On 132, with reinforcements and taking another Hive, a mini Dragon Utopia is taken from level 5 caps.
133 I intended to burst into the central treasure zone, but the loser finally broke through the strategic overview and spotted the opponent's treasure zone, which had several utopias. Crashed against ГО and took a village in the treasure zone, scouting it at the same time. Then I took 3 Dragon Utopias and wings. Gathering Hives and Griffin Conservatories, and on 141 I place Archangels—managed to get 8 of them; on 142, upgrade 60 ducks.
Took all Castles and caught Kiryu in the treasure zone. Shackles, KS, stats 33 34 against 27 27, own advantage in one-on-one meat, and the opponent surrenders after the first round.
Thanks for the game!
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P.S. Thanks a lot to the orgs for an interesting tournament; the random template idea is quite interesting and fresh, if only they could fix it in HD mode :D