“Two Seasons: Winter-Spring 2016” Tournament. Online games for rating (reports, discussions).

The start was relatively brisk, Tazar and Crag + max Crypt and the building for +2 to Attack and Defense. I decide to check the second day, opponent already without restarts. On day two I reveal a Mini-Workshop and manage to get 9 wood in the army of 15 Grands; I decide to play. On day three, a block of Lizards is discovered along the road and a Mini Dwarf Cottage — already worse. Day four, I take the Mini-Workshop and come across a block of 100+ Hemp Tent for a bunch of wood and an artifact +500 gold per day, and there's another block of Pirates there too. 9 Crystals, but without Pegasi I can't fight the Pirates (I spend a day clearing the Crystals on the snow). The Portal behind the Pirates leads to a village (seems like the central one), but there's a block of 20-49 Scorpicores on the road behind a level 4 Shrine and an Orb of Air. And then further behind the Pirates on the path to the opponent there's another block of 9 Sharpshooters. Nothing to be done — I fight the Sharpshooters and lose 10 of my 15 Elves. I feel like surrendering and giving up on this nonsense, but on move 117 exactly I manage to capture the opponent's Castle with an income of 2000 and a built Wyvern structure; I build a Citadel there and play from the Swamp Castle. Only by turn 135 did I manage to return to breaking through the Scorpicores. In the army I have 93 Lizards (there was a quest for 45), 5 Angels, 15 Wyverns, and 6 Giants. I get stuck at the Underground Portal, and the opponent, not seeing me, attacks with only Angels; he has no gold to buy back, and no Mass Magic either. In the end I trade his 9 Angels for 1 of mine, but I mess up at the end of the fight — I could have killed the enemy hero — but still the opponent's morale is low and he surrenders.