Favorites, to battle! - 9 - The Battle of Favorites! - 9

Thanks for the game.

That was a tough match. At first, I thought victory was in the bag, but alas. Let's go through it in order.
I bought the color for 2.5K (I think). From the start with 15 elves, I see clues, a conservatory, and a market. Just what I need, let's play. The opponent had already chosen their respawns. Ivor immediately grabs a chest for 5K experience and gets logistics and air magic. Then some small things: 2 crypts, gold collection. I break into a chest for 10K experience and Ivor is already looking great with expert armor, offense, expert air, and logistics. Next, he takes a chest with 50 centaurs. The "losshki" (low-tier units) pick up a +6 sword and +6 shield, the pegasus external dwelling, elves, boots, and on the last move Ivor finally finds the unicorn external dwelling. Unicorns are at home in the Castle. In the Swamp, I placed same-color own units. In the respawn, 2 hives were eventually found (one very far behind the mountains, taken by "losshki" on the 2nd), and 3 conservatories, a Dragon Utopia. The "losshok" checks the third conservatory - it's a 2k one, normally we move to 121. On the next turn Ivor enters conservatory 3-4 with group units; turns out it's a papal maximum, taken normally. And then Terek picks up the 3k conservatory and Pandora for 5K experience. In general, I enter the center on 124 via 12 archangels. From the overview, I saw a Dragon Utopia in the center, so I headed there immediately. Along the way, I picked up a chest with 15 group lions and 5 red dragons. I didn't reach it right away because I miscalculated the moves. It turned out that "2ka" gave probably the most essential thing for the center - wings! Ivor was already good with expert logistics, boots, and wings. In general, we didn't cross paths much with the opponent; each cleared their own section. The opponent took a town in the very center of the treasure zone. And I, wandering without mana, only found the second town by the end of the 2nd week. As a result, I ate about 5 Dragon Utopias in the center, but as for hives, it was a complete disaster.
On the 3rd week, realizing that the opponent had left the center for another respawn, I took what I could. And ran to the snow. It was a total B! In the snow, I found only 2 hives for 12 own units. Disaster. No Dragon Utopias, no conservatories, nothing! I see that by the end of the 3rd week, the opponent is already sporting nearly 90 group same-color own units. I leave control of the center and try to find something somewhere. I managed to upgrade 50 medusas in the central Dungeon and connect them with 15 group units. By the end of the week, I place green houses and group own units in the swamp.
The FB (Final Battle) was as follows: Ivor 35,34,27,26 with elixir, expert luck! :D 3 gold dragons, 7 angels, 60 elves, 35 dendroids, 33 unicorns, 69 medusas, 35 own units vs Goshan 25,27, 20, 20 with KS 1400 + group bones, 105 group own units, 7 angels, 13 group horses, 3 stacks of 6 group flies. On my side, the hope was for luck and morale (I had +3 luck and +2 morale), but alas, at the critical moment luck didn't trigger, and morale didn't trigger at all. For the opponent, only half a stack of his own units triggered morale once. In general, in the FB, only 500+ bones survived.
Thanks for the game.