Redwhait
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Thank you for the game!
I took 113 because I already took a village in the treasure zone, no prospects or money, so I decided to take a risk. 2 decent lineups, Pit banned and a decisive, quite adequate playable hand. Even the fish at the start didn't ruin it.
Charna joined the main forces, grabbing Log and Earth magic within the first 3 levels. Bones barely stacked because of this, but oh well.
Quickly took the Barb and Swamp, but with Inferno there was a problem — too long a road. Several days of running on fast units. The birds fell easily, after that I went into the Inferno side treasure zone, it turned out to be poor, but there were boots and a Necro cloak. I was about to move on but scouted them, and there was a +5 all stats Bible and a Dragon Utopia. I took the sword and the Bible, but no way to take the Utopia :mad:
Turned around to another treasure zone that Luna was trying to scout, but 20+ groups of Liches blocked the way. But then the opponent came through the center of the treasure zone near the end of week 2 and wanted to take the main. I sent Luna to scout without showing Armageddon (4th Guild in Inferno), hoping the opponent would take the bait and go further, while Charna sat in the main ready to defend. But the opponent turned back home and killed Luna, which might have been the key mistake.
Then I went into the remaining treasure zones instead of the center, and in vain. After picking up a ton of Pandora's Box scrolls and putting up a couple of guilds, I never found Dimension Door. 2 or 3 Pandoras for all Fire spells, and also 2 Fire books :D
I grew decently, was even ahead in stats and power for a while, despite there being 10+ Arches and an easy Elixir on week 3, not to mention full control. But even Log + Boots + Gloves didn't save me. Deesa found Necromancy in the Scholar, also got a decent boost, in the depths of one treasure zone I found a Fly scroll, but too late.
In the end, when I realized how I could take the opponent's main and search from there, karma repaid the debt. I set myself up, essentially just as stupidly as Maretti did against me in the previous stage.
Thanks for the games and congratulations on a well-deserved tournament victory!
I rate my performance as very good, considering I hadn't really played this conflict much before and didn't particularly like it (so I didn't even expect to get this far), but during the tournament it proved quite playable on almost all templates. Only Necro matchups were a problem. Of course, I'd like to see fairies and psychos unbanned for more strategic variety with it, because right now there's often no striking power, and without Necros and Luna, there's rarely anything you can do.