The Final Battle 9

10.10.2015 Maretti (Blue, Dungeon, Gunnar, Gunnar) def Sanin (Red, Necropolis, Charna, Charna) 6lm10a 237

The surface layout played out, with external dwellings of peasants in the central zone, which gave a nice boost at the start. On the edge of the respawn was an external dwelling of horses; I took it on 117. Horses at home, money at zero. The only money object was a mini-naga bank, which I broke into at the start of the second week. On the second day, I went through a couple of treasure zones in the center; the only interesting thing was a speed cape. On the third day, I emerged into my super treasure zone. There were several Dragon Fly Hives, artifacts handpicked — a ring of sulfur, a vial of mercury, boots of levitation... I ran further into the dead-end treasure zone from my crossroad. It was native; by the end of the fourth day, I took the first mini-Griffin Conservatory there, a Dragon Utopia with a Water Book, two external dwellings of dragons, and two of liches. I also captured two computers, built Town Portal at home in the guild, and built dragons. I saw my opponent flying over my already cleared super treasure zone; Gunnar was losing in both stats and money at that point.

On 211, Dessey took a Dragon Utopia at one of the computers' respawn; it gave a chalice and КЗ. Charna ran to the next crossroad — endless sands, under which there should have been a good super treasure zone, but my opponent got there first. I simply took two more villages along the roads. Near one of them was a Dragon Utopia; Dessey pulled out a КВ from it, and then things heated up. I had two heroes with full control, though no artifacts for Log. My opponent started capturing my towns with Archmages, but for several days I managed to keep control fairly easily, and then the very first guild there gave Town Portal. Nevertheless, only one hero had full control, so the scuffle dragged on for a long time. Gunnar could only stop it one way — by personally sitting in the contested village, which he did twice. There were about 2000 skeletons by then, so I didn't dare attack. He was left with three towns and a full set of necro artifacts; with several Necromancers, he killed everything around, so over the last week of the game the skeleton count doubled, but that wasn't enough :)

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