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Seeing Crag Hack in the tavern and the upgraded archers, I decided not to waste my last restart, which I greatly regretted. Empty respawn, impenetrable blockades, extremely little gold. When I was short 40 gold to hire the cavalry, I was quite upset. From the respawn I went out on day 121 and, after tempoing, sacrificed the archers on the air elementals guarding the treasure zone. Capturing Rampart, I decided to rebuild it since I found an external dwelling of Behemoths. I ran around all week collecting resources and wanted to surrender already, but there was still hope that my opponent's situation wasn't any better. On day 3 I rushed into the treasure zone, ate 4 Dragon Fly Hives (4 4 4 6), a couple of boxes, and a Dragon Armor. On day 4 I took 3 Griffin Conservatories on a secondary hero for a total of 8 Angels and went to die at the GY, eating an empty Dragon Utopia along the way. At the GY my opponent caught me. Forgetting to put on the Cloak, I lost -6 Angels from the explosion on the first turn and surrendered. Afterwards, though, we played a fun game with FB and the Cloak, but even then there was no chance.
Thanks for the game.
I scratched around, chose Swamp, for which no one has won yet in this tournament. Spent all my restarts. Roads are bad — I have a road to the GY and to a secondary, and that's it, as it turned out, while my opponent had a road passage to the other 4 secondaries... And everything else is bad too — 4 heroes by day 115. Not even that there's no money for more, there's simply nowhere to send them. The respawn had a penny, I had to punch through many shooter guards, thankfully Tazar got Tactics right away.
A Necropolis secondary in the Dungeon, with a level 2 Griffin Conservatory nearby. I wandered around the Necropolis vicinity, found an elevator to the treasure zone. Among the gold banks, only 1 Crypt and a Medusa Hovel for 2k gold; the wood mine on the respawn was blocked. Only after finding a wood mine 2-3 days' journey from the Necropolis did I manage to insert a Wyvern into the Citadel.
On day 121 Galthran appeared in the tavern, and I had the idea to go Necro. I played very slowly, because there was no money for buying out units and I wanted to level Necro, but there was nowhere to level. I attacked 20-49 Orcs for 1k experience and a chest with Tazar and 3 Wyverns — suddenly there turned out to be 49 of them, and -3 Wyverns and -2500 for buying back the hero. I took the Conservatory on day 124, converting Gnolls and barely buying out Gargoyles and Zombies. I walked for a couple of days through the wasteland to the treasure zone — there was nowhere else to go anyway. Actually, in the treasure zone things started to improve. The first Dragon Fly Hive was a max roll (I fought much better than auto-combat!). Boots of Speed and Necro Boots were found; Gashan had already arrived; a Hat was found, and things started rolling.
At the end of week 3, feeling his heroic strength, Gashan, without waiting for a delivery of 200+ Skeletons, 17 Wyverns, and an Angel, went to bully 20-49 Psychos for a Pandora's Box — and there turned out to be 48 of them with Grand Elixir! Minus everything, and -2500 for buying back the hero, and about 4 days for him to return to the treasure zone, with 18 Psychos still remaining.
Only 1 Angel was left, plus a delivery of 6 Wyverns and 25 Pegasi from a box. I activated plan B — there were 5 external dwellings of Unicorns nearby, so I could make a decent stack. 2 days before the end of the week I cleared 3 external dwellings, and by day 141 I already had 12 Unicorns.
I was lucky that my opponent's situation was also bad. In the end, realizing I didn't really have anything to go at the opponent with, I just cleared the treasure zone with Tazar and Gashan. On week 5, after hopping around, I found a mini Dragon Utopia with Sandals and went for the opponent. 20+ Wyverns, 20+ Unicorns, and 600 Skeletons were not countered.
Thanks for the game.
