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Bargained for about 3500 for the blue Stronghold. Restarts were spent, early scouting showed that the respawn was a bit tricky. On one road there was a block of 5-9 horsemen, the second clearly led to the exit and there were many boxes there, but behind shooter guards. There were also golem guards a bit off the road. Bought 6 heroes, took a chest with Crag Hack and got Attack-Artilery. I thought that if I take Attack now, then later they'd give me some crappy choice, and the ballista already came, so maybe it would help a bit. The calculation paid off, in the skeleton I got +4 chain, I farmed the golems without losses by maneuvering around the ballista, then I managed to break through the horsemen, sacrificing only the Gnolls. Then it got interesting, I saw a nest of birds, cleared it killing 90 guards, then I saw golems 50-99 guarding a box. I set Crag Hack to clear it on day 121. It turned out to be 15000 experience. At the same time, a scout showed that my respawn was enormous, about 1/3 of the map, there were 4 Dragon Utopias on the respawn. Since there wasn't much point in running to the GW, I settled on the respawn. On day 122 I took a level-1 Dragon Utopia and got a letdown, there was only a Captain's Hat. But I managed to upgrade 6 bears. Then I took another level-3 Dragon Utopia. There was a Book of Air, +6 cap, and +4 shield. I sacrificed all the Barbarian meat, but it was okay. Then I jumped to double the mana and saw 2 more bear nests. I took them, saw that the opponent had approached with a not-so-large army (up to 50 Wyverns, no Angels). I brought meat from the Rampart, upgraded 2 more bears and took 2 more Dragon Utopias. They gave some nice stuff too, but didn't give KZ and KSh. But then there was nothing left to do on the respawn, on day 131 I broke through the GW and captured the opponent's Castle. There was no Tavern, but there was a Guild. I stayed there overnight. On day 132 I took the Dragon Utopia the opponent had skipped, and it didn't give anything worthwhile. On day 133, scouting showed the opponent was holed up on a neighboring respawn, I jumped, killed 3 Loshk's, but his Tazar turned out to be in the Castle. I inspected Tazar and saw he had less mana than I did. In the Castle there were only 50 Ducks and some meat. The opponent immediately cast Slow for some reason. I thought I'd cast Inferno, since I had a Sphere. I cast it, and Inferno killed 18 Ducks per cast. Then the opponent attacked the Angels, I didn't understand. As a result, I cast another Inferno on those sitting in the Castle and slaughtered the Ducks under Shield. It turned out the opponent didn't have powerful battle magic.
Thanks for the game!
Difficult respawn with minimal amount of money. Ran 6 heroes until the end of the week, maneuvering between blocks. Wiped on day five on a box, left with just one Vivi. Got 60 Lizardmen. Collected everything I could reach with the growth, on day 123 broke out into the center, but after the GW was left without mana. The Castle turned out to be very far away, lost almost the entire army on the way there. Couldn't recover in the center — found nothing interesting. With the remnants of the army, I took the only level-2 Dragon Utopia — just a necklace +2 all stats. Out of desperation, I went to clear a neighboring respawn, which, as it later turned out, had one Dragon Fly Hive and nothing else. I didn't surrender only out of principle for the sake of the final match. Thanks for the game!
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