Andres
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Beautiful game. I gave up 8K total for the castle and color. After the rests, I was left in a tough situation. First 2 days with 3 heroes, both directions blocked. Got lucky with a nearby hive - 6, took it on 113 and developed through Wyverns. Never managed to get a hammer stack by the end of the week, ГО was very far. On 122, I scouted in the completely opposite direction 2 Griffin Conservatories (later turned out to be 3+3), but before exiting I didn't want to spend a day on them, and that probably decided the game. I exited on 123 with a speed stack: 18 Wyverns, 220 Troglodytes, 17 Evil Eyes, 25 regular Eyes (very timely in the box, right before ГО) through gold. The Eyes from the box were excellent dragon fodder. Right there, a central tavern. Despite only having money for 1 hero, I decided to build the tavern rather than the lookout. And that also decided things. On 124, on the last moves I took КШ and a trash Dragon Utopia with +12 sword +12 shield and another КШ. Andres appeared right away with Sultans and, as it turned out a bit later, an Armorer, so without КШ I had nothing to catch there. I took the central swamp, gathered 50+ Wyverns and upgraded them. I went for the opponent's respawn, took the capital. 3900 MP+КВ vs Andres lacking air control was encouraging, but the long absence of Town Portal was very stressful. There were long and tense wars of weak stacks, which I mostly lost for the obvious reason of lacking TP (Andres had TP). Finally, on 144 I took a Dragon Utopia in the adjacent zone with КЗ, after which the opponent surrendered. The autopsy showed that if not for this КЗ, we could have kept running for a very long time, and in the far late game Andres would have quite likely won, not just played for a draw. Thanks for the interesting game!
The game really turned out very beautiful. As usual, after taking a big payback from the opponent for the castle, I couldn't create enough problems for him (I don't know why this happens every other time against me). Moreover, the only Efreet dwell was in a mega-ass spot, I barely found a path to it by the end of the week, and 2 Dragon Fly Hives, 1 of which was behind a lot of upgraded Minotaurs — all of this was nothing to fight with. It looked completely hopeless, but a КО was found in the bushes! I decide to play through a mage, found Dimer. All week he runs around stat boosters and I feed him a box for 10K. I double mana (there's a Dungeon and with 160 mana and Armorer at 800 I plan to go through the GIANTS' STREAM. Was supposed to exit on 123, but I misclick with the chain and simply don't bring the Efreets to Dimer. I exit on 124. A couple of days in the center and I have to fall back from the center castle a bit closer to the respawn because the opponent takes КШ. From the prison I get Brogh with Offense, Logistics, and Resistance. I burn Archers at the human respawn. With Logistists I take the center castle as soon as the opponent leaves from there. Then with chains I reach a Dragon Utopia from the depths of the center in roadless terrain — all 5 and КЗ — an excellent trash stack. All 3 I take from the ground. Then another 2 Dragon Utopias at the humans' and in the center, but no control anywhere, just like on the ground. My combat stats are 50, the opponent's are 70 and 60 — with Monarchs and 6 Angels I can do nothing against 40 Ducks and 8 Angels in such a situation. A guerrilla war begins, as Kostyan wrote, which essentially favors me thanks to Town Portal. Dimer and Brogh are overpowered thanks to Expert Earth and Logistics, Boots and Gloves. I leveled Gunnar.
While Kostyan went to take the castle and visit the stables there, I with Dimer retook the center castle and from there sent a weak stack to the swamp respawn towards the village, while Brogh headed to the main. The decisive moment was the next turn, when the weak stack was 50 MP short of the village, from where a Dragon Utopia with КЗ would have been taken, and the opponent took it. If Brogh had taken it, everything could have been different, because Brogh would have gotten air control from the Dragon Utopias near the main at the swamp respawn. I did everything I could, but Kostyan's precise play together with unfavorable layouts nullified everything. GG
Thanks for the game!