Great start: fast roads, two external dwellings of archers, an external market, Charna and Straker. In the first week, I brawled with the computers, which cut down my heroes several times, pushing my development back. Nevertheless, by week 1, angels in the fort with nearly zero trade.
At the beginning of week 2, Charna levels up Earth and takes a double Griffin Conservatory; on day 124 I enter a small treasure zone on the sand, and in the first chest get all the Air magic, leveling Wisdom just before taking it. Then I head to a large underground treasure zone, killing the last computer on the way. Incidentally, I enter a university with Attack and Defense.
On week 3, I collect the treasure: Wings and КЗ from the ground, two Dragon Utopias, several Dragon Fly Hives, two chests with Wraiths. On day 134, via Dimension Door, I take the enemy capital and cut down Tazar, who was speeding up nearby. On my turn, Blue surrenders.
Thanks for the game.
Day 111, a spread of 7 heroes, 2 external dwellings of Gnolls spotted, 1 of Archers, a Dragon Fly Hive, a Griffin Conservatory. By day 117, I took out 2 computers, didn't reach Inferno, very long road. Days 121-124, I take 4 Dragon Fly Hives, a triple Griffin Conservatory, expert Scholar, retrain Tazar and Labetha to Resurrection. Day 125, mini Dragon Utopia with Crystal Sword, losing 4 Golems and 3 Gargoyles. Day 127, triple Dragon Utopia — a teapot, +3 All, Ко, losing Gorgons.
Treasure zones were just royal... nothing at all, a couple of Dragon Fly Hives and a Pandora's Box for all the Water magic... There was no control on my side of the map, neither in chests nor in Garrisons... Tazar says, "I trampled your good leveling", and takes in order: Scout, Leadership, Sorcery, and Archery. Of course, no Logs, no Stables, no speed artifacts on any of the respawns. As a result, Tazar with 2000 movement points, standing at the split, planning to crawl in the next day (or rather burst in with such a movement reserve sounds too loud), into the center treasure zone, but then the opponent arrives and crushes him with Archers. There, linear heroes, Wings on the road, КЗ on the ground, Pandora's Boxes for control, Dragon Utopias with +5 All, +4 All, +4/+4 armor, and a hat on all of week 5 (a useless hat though, since all of week 5 is from a Pandora on the road).
In short, the only chance was, as it turned out, to go to the Inferno computer; in its zone there are 4 Griffin Conservatories, take the Shackles and just sit in the castle and wait for the opponent to come attack and kill him with Crystal Sword and Shackles... though I wouldn't have made it in time no matter what.
Thanks for the game, good luck going forward.
