An interesting contact game has emerged.
Tazik got a log right away and became the papa.
There were problems with ore and gold, so on a shoestring I squeezed in birds, and also grabbed 3 external dwellings of fire.
On the 2nd I could have gone for contact, but instead entered the treasure zone.
On 132 the first Dragon Utopia with native troops — I necromanced about 200 skeleton tanks, plus a little bit from the treasure zone. (armor 4/4 and that's it)
The first Mage Guild level 5 at home gave nothing.
I enter the second treasure zone, and meanwhile Maretti shows full control and takes the double:mad:
I was already ready to be upset, but suddenly found a Dimension Door scroll :)
Tazik had perfect leveling + mysticism :D, so after 2 Dimension Doors I head to 2 Dragon Utopias (3+1), got a sword +5 all and junk.
Built Mage Guild level 4 in the Tower with a library, also nothing there.
Then I found another couple of Dragon Utopias + a couple of libraries; my stats became significantly higher + I was ahead in meat practically the whole time.
To all the water from Pandora's Box, all the fire and fire boost were added as well. Maretti didn't show the cape (I had 2) or the Sword of Heaven (I had 1), so the plan was via Armageddon, but I couldn't reach Kirya with full control.
At the start of the month I was lucky to dig up 2 heroes that Maretti had killed. Grindan with 2 Dimension Doors and another mage with log. With their help I could control the map, even though the timer was very tough.
On 213 Maretti builds Archangels and flees to the Castle, which I was roughly supposed to reach. The dwarves upgrade the Archangels; I had to work hard — all resources went into the guild, yet another empty one.
I brought back 9 Archangels and ran toward him. Until the very end I thought I wouldn't make it, but I reached him on almost the last moves. My meat is much larger, plus magic and stats as well. I could kill everyone with one Armageddon, but Maretti immediately surrenders.
TFP!