[Tournaments-HotA] Urfin Jus and his wooden soldiers

It went pretty well, captured an Inferno computer on day 2, a Tower on week 1, and a Citadel on week 2. I went for a quick demon rush, as planned. On week 2, I took a Pandora's Box for all Earth magic. By the end of week 2, I had over a hundred demons. On day 136, I went into the center to eat the central treasure zone. On day 142, I attacked the opponent and diligently tried to catch Beatrice with control (I ended up having no air control at all). Captured all of the opponent's towns and trapped him in the castle of one of my treasure zones. My stats were higher and I had more mana.



Thanks for the game!

standard blue color with what seem to me ideal computers — Castle, Dungeon, and Swamp — and I would have preferred Ryland as the hero, he's who I got. Rested a bit, in the end the start seemed decent, convenient roads, I planned to grab everyone by 115 at the latest.
on 112 I took the Dungeon, and that's where something fantastic began. The Swamp and Castle (Alkin and Katya) broke through a horde of upgraded Gremlins and a hundred Fairies respectively, and as a result surrounded me from both sides and additionally wiped out three chumps (-7500, mind you), who were supposed to kill them :o
dealt with the Swamp, Katya ran away. by 117 only the Castle remained, which I attacked stupidly (in a tilt), there turned out to be a castle there that I hadn't checked. result — entire army wiped, 7 Griffins and 4 Knights just stood rooted to the spot, didn't even think about finishing anyone off.
on 121 I pick up the growth and attack a single Griffin Conservatory, claim an Angel with losses of Dendroid Soldiers and Centaurs. that same day I lose that Angel along with Ryland in the Black Tower. what a son of a bitch that Black Dragon turned out to be :smile05: (panicked)
sitting on 70 Troglodytes, attempt to enter the 1st treasure zone unsuccessful, a block of Cyclops for a quest artifact, oh well...
take a Phoenix from the camp, morale +++ :smile14:
in the end it of course didn't resurrect at all, I lost it in a Naga bank for some chunk of gold I don't remember. seize the Castle by the end of week 2, or at the start of week 3.
on 4 spawns — 1 single Griffin Conservatory and 2 Dragon Fly Hives, don't remember exactly for how many, sad and poor. run to another treasure zone, there are about 4-5 Hives there but inconvenient. and only 2 Dragon Utopias, though notable ones — one with КЗ and the other with a 5x Hat. the opponent shows up at this point to visit me for tea, I have absolutely nothing :smile50:
captures all my towns within a week while I'm running around for these Dragon Utopias. then I jump into his treasure zone, take a couple of Dragon Utopias, stats are decent around 30, the opponent's are about the same, I share a password and those willing to join. but zero mana, I have to sit in a town to replenish mana, and then Kyrre joins on the last turn with all sorts of junk and attacks, the odds are unequal.
notably, I had 3 days left to take a little town, I only remember one game in my memory where I pulled that off, but that one was Anarchy, here restrictions got in the way, 6th and 7th were happy to join, but... otherwise I might have been able to do something.
I give credit to the opponent, who surprisingly played brilliantly and ruined my plan with a hundred Minotaurs for ГО. I'll be on guard now :smile14:
thanks for the game 0-1