[TOURNAMENT-HotA] BLITZ-JEBUS CROSS

On 113 I looked into the thieves' guild, better I hadn't, there I saw an Ancient Behemoth, immediately morale -3 ((( 5 days to castles, I thought about surrendering because there was no tempo, I got Witches from the refugee camp, but later it turned out that was all the good stuff that Pit found on his respawn :rolleyes: . I, at the end of the week, found and took three unified dwellings in the Gremlins, leveled up Jeremy, and overtook the opp in army strength. I took a Dragon Utopia from dead Kirja without a spell book, and went to the other center. There I leisurely took a couple of utopias, upgraded the Horde Dwellings, and went to the main center. I was immediately attacked with 30+ all, killing the enemy's monster fairly quickly by the 2nd round, I realized I had nothing to counter a challenge of 134 Dwarf Cottages per turn, and the ransom was only 14K... killing all his living creatures, I barely manage to buy myself off, a turn later I picked up the Cloak 3+ and didn't let go again. Thanks for the game!

On 111 I took an Ancient Behemoth from refugees and decided to play, but on 112 I already realized it was a terrible mistake.
On the respawn there were external dwellings of horses, archers, a Dragon Fly Hive for 4 Wyverns, 2 Airship Shipyards for 10 Cyclopes, and a workshop for 2 Giants. Not a single Pandora's Box, no artifacts, and everything was very far away without roads (except the hive). Thanks to the secondary dungeon hero, I managed to gather 15 Champions by 123 and break 3 Fairy Dragons with their help. In the process, everything died except 6 Cyclopes, 7 horses, and the stashed archers. With such an army I ran around the center for the whole second week, scared of every serious monster. I got Wings from something valuable, but couldn't gather troops. On 131 I waited for the growth and ate 100+ Cyclopes for a Teapot of Power. Then I finally found a couple of hives and airship shipyards, a Griffin Conservatory for 3, which allowed me to take 2 utopias. They gave decent artifacts, but I was hopelessly losing in army strength. On the fourth week I saw the opp, and since I was without Boots of Levitation and Log, I decided to attack (plus I didn't want to give up 2 external dwellings of Green Dragons). The battle unexpectedly ended in my favor, but I was left with absolutely no troops, while the opp still had something combat-ready. Well, some noob heroes in prisons in the center popped up, so it was hard to play against several decent heroes of the opp. They overwhelmed me, however, almost immediately with the Cloak, and that was GG.
Thank you for the game!