“Two Seasons: Summer-Autumn 2015” Tournament. Online games for rating (reports, discussions).

We were finishing a save game, and it turned out to be BO3 from the series. We played the first two games about a week ago and started the third. We agreed that these three games would count as one. In the first game, MuLLIyTa defeated me on day 115 for the quest artifact. In the second game, he completely beat me due to a faster pace, which meant higher stats and a dominant army. Plus, he also got a stable near his Castle and played as the red faction. So, my expansion to 1-2-4 was simply too late, and 3 Archangels from the box didn't help me. Meanwhile, MuLLIyTa, with his momentum, rushed to the center on 1-2-3, cleared the treasure for two days, and on the third day, he overwhelmed me, having 4500 movement points. I couldn't counter it, even if I had expanded earlier, as planned, because a single Consort and 1 Uruk-Hai against 15 Cyclops, 23 Dryads, 7 Giants, and 3 Angels with reinforcements – the odds were not in my favor... In the third game, the situation was terrible for my opponent, just as it was for me in the second. I expanded as always, late, to 1-2-4 with a rush. However, this time, I had something to build at home: 6 Uruk-Hai (I was missing one), 2 Consorts (for 7 Angels), 2 Genies (I was missing one). There were also hidden units: a Pit Lord (1), a Demon (1), a Devil (1), which I didn't take, by the way, and 2 Behemoths. On 1-2-4, I managed to get the Book of Earth when expanding. On 1-2-5, I took the Utopia. On 1-2-6, I got a Genie and the Hive, increased my stats in the Library by +2 all, and acquired a cloak that suppressed magic levels 3-5 and a necklace that reduced morale by -2. I positioned myself to attack the central Castle, which my opponent took on 1-2-5, and was ready for the final battle if Kirrh had stayed overnight in the central city. In the worst case, I would have replenished my mana, of which I had 10 units left. On 1-2-7, MuLLIyTa wrote GG, unable to take the Utopia, while Kal'Kh felt quite good at that moment. Having 70 Demons, 34 Dryads, 6 Angels, and stats of 20+, with 2 Hives on 14 Vivs and a single Consort on the entire huge resource map, he expanded two days earlier but couldn't find anything.