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Jubi-Juby

An absolutely insane game from my side:smile04: Brief description follows. Good starting respawn on the surface with an external dwelling of Zealots under the castle. A pleasant native adjacent zone underground with an external dwelling of Medusas, Eyes, and Troglodytes. Also had a native Inferno computer with an external dwelling of Pits not far from the road. I made an easy decision to "Demonize", starting from the second week, though I was really tight on gold:( In the second week I Demonized, gathered the Dragon Fly Hives, a Griffin Conservatory or two, but found nothing else:( At the start of the third week I took a mini-Dragon Utopia with the Sword of Hellfire, but the stats were absolutely not giving:( Then I made the key fail of the game - I stood in a lift with practically my entire army using my scout hero with the Sword of Hellfire, because I saw the breakdown of the opponent's main hero from the super-treasure zone of the orange computer. I wanted to cut off Shakhter from his army (it was already about 1 AM, and my non-stop stream had been going for about 12 hours at that point):smile04:, hoping that I could cover the opponent's army in the super-treasure zone with some scout hero. The idea failed, the opponent had Town Portal, and on his turn Shakhter attacks my scout hero. Then a losing trade for me and I buy back. Next the opponent goes after my army and main hero into my super-treasure zone. Then a second final battle happens with a decent trade on both sides, but since my demons couldn't catch up to the angels due to the terrain, I have to buy back again:( Then we split to our respective treasure zones. I cleared the purple's super-treasure zone, then mine, then half of the opponent's treasure zone. I also messed around and collected various achievements along the way:D (like new artifacts for Diplomacy, Resistance, and so on). Meanwhile, the opponent gathered a much larger army than mine and upgraded his angels. Oh, yes! Almost forgot. There was also a third final battle where I didn't equip the Shackles of War, and the opponent escaped on three ducks:o And there was a fourth final battle too, where Shakhter covered my scout hero with his entire army, but with a freshly assembled Armor of the Damned and Sword of Hellfire. I had to buy back there. In the end, Shakhter attacks me in a Tower castle where I had just upgraded 7 Giants, without having a counter to the Armor of the Damned in the form of a Surcoat of Counterstrike:confused: The final, sixth final battle was a beauty (those who want to see it can find it on my Twitch channel in the "Highlights" section). Chat was writing "wasted", "GG", "surrender" and so on:D But "Russians don't surrender"!!! I managed to pull off the final battle by a hair:) GG! Thank you to my opponent for the game!
P.S. Testing of template 6lm10a (Jubi-Juby edition) continues:D

I upgraded Angels on the first week in the fort thanks to the external market. I wasted Vala with Log and Earth on 1 Angel on 122 against a Black Dragon along with all the artifacts and gloves. I wanted to surrender. I started leveling Shakti from 123 in the computer's super-treasure zone. By 127 I already had a 40k exp hero (a 20k Pandora's Box hit). I found a Town Portal scroll there. The opponent burst in from his center with a curly-haired scout, blocked my transfer of the army to Shakti in the Conflux (which I had defeated to refill mana and buy Air), by standing in the subterranean gates, but since I had Town Portal, I attacked him, and he bought back. I cut his stack of Zealots. Then I went on the offensive, wanted to get into his super-treasure zone and take the Sword of Hellfire, which I had seen from the start of the game in the overview. I even managed to push back his main hero with a scout, who for some reason was left undefended. I marched for 4 days. And in the end I just lost them into nothing. The opponent got lucky with the Golden Bow and Zealot Pairs, he also had Archery, he managed to trade well and prevent me from taking the Sword of Hellfire in his super-treasure zone. Because he left me with 2 Angels and 1 Devil. He bought back with his 50+ Demons and 2 Birds. Although he easily won that fight, I personally don't understand why he bought back, giving me money for the second time, which I basically didn't have all game. Then we started amassing armies. I gathered a somewhat decent army, took a Dragon Utopia in the swamp center, and went to his super-treasure zone again. I marched for 3 days. Was short by 400+ movement points. Right in front of me, the handsome Gunnar appears, takes the Sword of Hellfire, and covers me again — now he had Town Portal and Dimension Door. Cool, huh. The trade was essentially equal in losses, but I was left with 0 army, while he had a stack of 80+ Demons and 2 Birds left. No money, so I had to run. Didn't expect to get covered. Well, that was definitely the moment to concede and write GG. But for some reason he didn't go to take my main hero or capture my towns. He ran off to collect Zealot Pairs. That bought me time. With a growth of 2 Angels, a taken Dragon Fly Hive for 8 Wyverns, and native meat from the Castle, I managed, 2 days after another final battle, to take a mini-Dragon Utopia, which gave me a Cap of Silence. That brought me back into the game. I split my army, captured enough towns for good map control. Gathered a good army. Upgraded my Archers. Was ready to fight. I found his Enova with all his army near a computer-Castle. I attacked with my main — he bought back as usual, after trading favorably on Cyclops. Also on the respawn of that computer was a useless mini-Dragon Utopia. I picked up an Elixir of Life and Sniper's Crossbow. The opponent devoured 2 super-treasure zones and a bit of my swamp zone, which was adjacent to those two. All 3 Dragon Utopias were there. But at least I took out all the meaty objects from there except the Workshop. In short, the opponent went and captured the orange Tower and upgraded his 7 Giants. I attacked. I didn't equip the Surcoat against level 1-2 magic and lost the game. It doesn't take much brains to first shoot down my Cyclops stack, and then on morale procs shoot down ducks with 4 speed. I knew he had Armor of the Damned and Sword of Hellfire. Enova had revealed that earlier. Another gift for the opponent. A flashy game full of final battles. Mediocre in execution from each player. The winner was the one who made fewer mistakes and played with a single hero. [/FONT]
GG WP

PS: minus the luck from the Armor of the Damned in HotA is imbalanced. I didn't even expect it to make that artifact so strong. It just works on cooldown.