Favorites, to battle! - 8 - The Battle of Favorites! - 8

The opponent denied all my resists, after which I saw a blocked but interesting setup. Unfortunately, 27 cyclopes against 113 didn't work out for me (though it was close). I was left with nothing, but slowly recovered and eventually assembled 4 Griffin Conservatory nests, a tier 2 building, and a couple of artifacts for stats — reached 125 through Black Dragons. In 4 turns on a fairly poor treasure pile, I boosted my stats a bit and encountered the opponent who had emerged. They had 9 Angels, 35 Vivi, and stats about one and a half times smaller, while I had 30 Vivi, 2 Angels, a bunch of a zoo +200 skeletons, more mana. I shaved off all their single Vivi units with my shooters and attacked. The trade was in my favor, and the opponent surrendered. Thanks for the game.