The 3rd stage of the annual John Van Caneghem Tournament (2007).

To be honest, Fireball not only pleased me with its results and met my expectations, but also fulfilled one of the things I hoped to see after the tournament! Thank you, Fireball, for taking a different path!

I saw how to defeat the AI in 8 days, but with the artifact, the total stats were higher, approximately. But, as it turned out, it can be done even faster, but I was already tired of hunting for the AI in the 2 previous stages (thank you for the variety). By the way, I think that the Guardian Dragon can be defeated with the forces of the first week; in my case, it all came down to the distance covered. I simply didn't have time to test this assumption. I managed to complete the map 1.5 times (not counting scouting) - first in 9 days, and then the same, but more carefully, in 8.

Now, together with my comrades, we figured out that 9 Angels with healing make it possible to win, even without high magic.

I had 5 Archangels and 1 Angel, but without a specific tactic.