One for all and all for one - 3

Teapots — Pure Draw
semifinal, round 3

opponent picked all RE, I still had 111 left
Castle is dealt, Valya and Ivor in the tavern, archers are built
there's a Necro, but I counted on starting issues without Gosh and Tant
I was wrong, but when the opp's guild showed Gosh mid-move, it was already too late :)
on the plus side, Dragon Utopia under the castle, then I found stables and a Griffin Conservatory in the adjacent zone
on week 1 I took the ramp neighbor, the brown guy was totally out of hand — 15 ears and nearly 50 Centaurs were viciously terrorizing my chumps, taking out the money and gem ones, and, most importantly, there were no chains for return, otherwise Thiris would have gone with wood for the external dwelling of angels in the far corner of the resp))
Valya takes the wood external dwelling and I build them as meat for the Dragon Utopia, Earth magic came for her and Ivor, Srakar is dug up, but the Necro stubbornly doesn't move, and I even took a log for them :o
on 121 I merge the army, brown dies, Valya, having bought a spell book from him, runs through the stables to the Conservatory, frantically trying to expert Earth magic (turning down Offense for this) and barely has enough XP right before the Conservatory
max-level, left the horse, half the wood, and a few pikemen
then with the angels I clear all the evil passages I hadn't touched to avoid losses before the Conservatory — a lift to the treasure zone for 17 Cyclops Kings, nearly 50 Eyes for a teleport to center, behind it a horde of Earth Elementals and immediately ~50 Energy Elementals for Necromancer Boots
managed to beat them off but not take them, 3 angels are ferried to Valya in the treasure zone, the Castle army travels via chain to the external dwelling, and Srakar with an angel and small fry blocked the passage
there Gosh met him and drove him off, the Necro army has 5 horses, 300 skeletons, 5 liches, and a few vampires
... and he was left blocking the teleport
in reality the decision is debatable, since the rest of the army with archers should have been floating somewhere, and Gosh had neither Haste nor Tactics, and the skeletons would most likely have been shot down even with regular Slow
but it turned out even simpler — Valya was not far away, Gosh, having thrown Arrow at the marks, was left without mana, and the main thing was to kill as much as possible before he could buy back
and he could have been fully killed, since he was attacked 2 rounds in a row after waiting, but morale/luck (which Valya was given after the Conservatory for 3 expert slots) didn't come through, and Galtran left on 1 skeleton and a vampire, 30 skeletons died from the retaliatory strike after finishing off the angel
remembering how control was denied in the late game of the previous semifinal games, I decided to cut off part of the map from the opp, lowering his chances for control, which earlier extended all the way to the preflop))) I run to the Necro resp, but at the fork I turn, as it turned out, toward the former green Conflux
but even if I had guessed right, I couldn't have stopped him from slipping into the corner treasure zone anyway — that's where Gosh went
Valya, meanwhile, along long slow roads reaches the blue Conflux, nearby a box behind a horde of Crushers, move points are enough to take it and sit in the town
I was hoping for Conflux meat for the Dragon Utopia, but it turned out even cooler — all of week 4! :eek: and, as if butter before the Conservatory, on the river after the fight with the Crushers, Advanced Wisdom reaches Valya)))
then the chumps take 3 villages, Ivor even picked up a Town Portal scroll — right next to where Gosh was standing before turning around on Srakar
army for angels, Grinya took 3 or 4 Naga Banks, Valya takes the Conservatories
on 141 Valya with a pack of angels and the feed from Srakar and 2 Necro villages + demons from the box takes the home Dragon Utopia (+7 to all stats) and in the Conflux artifact shop buys boots, then Rosik from the prison with Mass Haste takes a Dragon Utopia in the swamp — there's a blue cap and a teapot, time to pay a courtesy visit to the blues))
could have hopped there earlier, but I stupidly forgot to build a lookout tower in the village for Rosik, who Teleported there from the Dragon Utopia :confused:
so Valya did the hopping the next day, not having had time to expert Air magic by the end of the game, devouring another Dragon Utopia with KO along the way and picking up Manacles, we run into the blue corner village, where a fort had been jammed in earlier
Gosh was standing nearby on the speedway and was killing himself with a pack of Archangels even on a chump, but he just didn't scout in that direction, was busy taking the Dragon Fly Hive at home with chumps and ran out of timer
overnight Galtran takes, apparently, the only Dragon Utopia of the game, but he has nowhere to go, and first Rosik with SP~20 and the Fire Sphere thins everything out with Armageddon, after which about 600 skeletons remain (thanks to the fur coat and coffin in addition to the stolen boots, the opp traditionally amassed around 1K)))
I attack the remnants with Manacles and the full army led by 15 Archangels, the opp types GG

thanks for the games, good luck on the streams :)

ps: after the game I wanted to watch the recording of episode 1 of the final — for the commentary, I was most interested in the moment when there wasn't enough money for the buyback)) alas, the recording had no sound at all :( Twitch, the pest, stored my ears from unrighteous content aka stream background music that way
just curious, is this problem solvable, or are recordings doomed to be mute in the future?