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

The draft was pretty good for the army; I found 5 Dragon Fly Hives, 2 Griffin Conservatories (both mini though), a Duck dwelling, 2 Cow dwellings, a Club +5 and Shield +6. However, most of it was deep in unpathed terrain, so it wasn't very tempo-oriented. On the downside, Taz had no Logistics, but he got Offense and Earth Magic. There's no Oil in two guilds, but a scout hero has it and there's a Scholar. Overall, everything as needed. I planned to break out on 122, but I made a mistake: when I doubled Taz's mana to 140 in a dungeon on 116, I didn't buy the spell book. So I broke out on 123, deeply convinced that I would be punished for this mistake, at least that's usually my experience. And logic also suggested that Castle usually breaks out on 123-124 with Archers and stats, so I needed to tempo up. Nevertheless, on 123 I go in with 45 Monks, 10 Bulls, 2 Angels against 16 Arch Devils (this Guard Object looked more central than a pack of Elders going the other way, and Scouting isn't upgraded yet). I lose 2 Ducks and a few Bulls. I immediately take a Dragon Utopia (minimal drop with a Helm of Knowledge), Scouting gets upgraded. I set up the chains so that a scout hero takes one center Castle on the next turn, after first having Taz break a box with 19 Red Dragons with Greys, and then Taz was supposed to hit the Elders without losses on Oil and send a Logistics hero there (the other center, where the opponent was supposed to come out). On his turn, the opponent concedes. It turned out the draft was weak; the final army was 20 Ducks and 5 Angels, heroes not great... The Guard Object also spawned poorly; even the first guard in the center won. Out of curiosity, I took another turn: Taz was breaking everything without losses and taking 15 Gorgons and 4 Chaos Hydras from boxes... a complete stomp, and even my mistake didn't matter.

Thanks for the game!