[ТУРНИР-HotA] Beast's King

It all started more or less normally, but the first week almost ended in failure. After losing some gnolls during the week, 117 Dragons with 80 gnolls and 2 vivas, along with a small contingent, attacked a throne room filled with gnomes on grass. It turned out to be a maximum difficulty map; I barely managed to escape with 27 gnolls, burned through my timer, and depleted all my mana (using mass shield and bless – it was impossible without them). The lack of a stack of gnolls set me back by two days. Instead of going for 121, I decided to take 2 castles in the compass castle zone 123. There weren't enough troops, even with oil, so it was a tough fight, resulting in 5 angels. By the end of the week, things picked up, and I found 2 decent Dragon Utopias in a treasure zone. In my army, only 8 angels remained; the rest were dead. However, 131 already meant 10 archons and air control. At that point, my opponent seemed overwhelmingly stronger, and it appeared that a third game would definitely be needed. However, after moving to another treasure zone, I discovered tons of marshmallows/hives there, another Dragon Utopia, and КЗ. As a result, by the end of the week, I took his capital city while simultaneously jumping back and forth and gathering more troops. To the 12 archons, I added about 50 monarchs, about 50 cyclops kings, and KSH. Game 141 was saved; most likely, Vova would have won if I hadn't accidentally dismissed or killed my main hero. But Vova didn't have enough time to finish me off. Thanks for the interesting games!

2#0

I was two weeks ahead, having taken all the computer-controlled towns earlier, although I had very few creatures in my bank. However, from the second town onwards, I could go to any treasure zone I wanted, but as usual, I made the wrong choice – I went from Necropolis to the emptiest one.
True, I sent a lone moon with SP >10 to the Inferno treasure zone, but it only reached the lift behind the sea wolves; oops....

After the treasure zone, I emerged into the center on map 131; it was catastrophically empty, so I moved to the flaxen faction’s territory. Meanwhile, my opponent, who had control, ran through the already explored center, took my main town – I didn't defend it because at that moment, statistically, I was practically at the bottom, but finally noticed Dragon Utopias, a lot of libraries, and the moon on sultans managed to get underground and revealed many interesting things right along the way during the Wistan event – the treasure zones were adjacent, and I already had jumping enabled.
I take everything; in terms of parameters, I am now surpassing him by 10 both in attack and defense, but he is destroying my villages in the treasure zones, even in the ones I have already looted…. We saved the game, but an unplanned replay didn't allow me to finish it in time :(
And although I didn't know about all the Lizardmen's overpowered units – for example, that when attacking, they don't show their entire army – even in the case of a (im)possible victory, I probably wouldn't have been able to push for a decisive win in the last week....

GG, well-deserved victory for my opponent in two games, thanks for the games :)