=Lizard=
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I'm lucky in this tournament, nothing to say (just don't want to jinx it :)). Got a red castle for 1600+800, so with the bonus they basically paid me 600. Started off inconsistently — the first few days I thought about taking a rest every turn, considering that my opponent stubbornly wasn't taking one. Second Müllich and on the respawn 3 hives with simple guards. But the starting army of 15 archers with buyout — if even one of the crypts had been taken by scout heroes, max, I'd have been left with no army at all. However, by 114 all questions were resolved; the tavern was graced by a pint of dark unfiltered by the famous former Norwegian goal scorer Ole "Gunnar" Solskjær. Until the end of the week I just collected resources to the max, building horses at the Citadel. 117 Gunnar in an external tavern near one of the hives. All hives turn out to be mini, which is sad. On the exit from the Griffin Conservatory respawn — also mini, starting to get annoying. Deep in the respawn (about 3 turns from stables) there was another Conservatory and boots guarded by a general stack of 5-9 bone dragons, but I never got around to them by the end of the game. 123 I took the enemy Conflux, started building a mage guild there, temporarily ignoring angels. Took both central villages. 125 broke into the treasure zone, found another couple of hives, a library, a Dragon Utopia. I planned to take that Utopia with growth at 131. Didn't want to go in with just 1 angel, 4 champions (1 was killed somewhere), and 26 ducks without tanking. But at 126, Deesa appears in the center and takes both central villages (1 turn apart via scout hero teleports). I readjust to cover Deesa, but my scout hero falls 1 step short on the road to the village where I wanted to buy back the defeated Gunnar. I have to have Gunnar spend the night in a teleport. The chains are a bit crooked; I absolutely needed to finish collecting resources, and at 131 Gunnar doesn't make it to the Utopia near the central village. He spends the night there, nervously watching to see if the Utopia (which ultimately decided the game) gets snatched from under his nose. It wasn't taken. 132 I enter the Utopia and realize that Deesa, with his army and without combat stats, even with resurrection, would have been crushed here. Max. My combat stats were around 11-12, Mass Shield, Mass Stone Skin. Angel, 27 Wyverns, 8 champions, plenty of various tanks. Quick combat showed a loss without killing a single black (sorry, afro-dragon!). My magic and a timely lucky morale did the job; I came out with an angel and 25 wyverns. Gave me a truly royal reward: +12 sword, +12 shield, +4+4 chest, КЗ. I return to Conflux, where in the 5th Mage Guild the Summon Earth Elemental had become unnecessary. I track the blues' movements through scouts. 133 I take the Utopia in the treasure zone, getting Wings, a Sack of Gold, and Boots of Resistance; I build an angel (so my scout hero on it with stables can reach a distant hive). 134 I rebuild the mage guild, get Dimension Door, and make what seemed like a fatal mistake. I hadn't seen Vitaly's air control before that moment, and there it was. He took both villages from me again, and Gunnar is literally sitting in Conflux on the angel with all the artifacts. I gave the wyverns to a scout hero to pick up various nagashards on the Conflux respawn... And I didn't even bribe. But I got lucky — Vitaly went after another Utopia, which gave him trash. On my turn, I cover him with vastly superior stats, kill a lot, lose almost nothing, and he sues for peace. Then Gunnar took the capital, then via 2 Dimension Doors with bog-ridden wyverns (one of the villages was a swamp) I covered Deesa in the enemy Inferno. Thanks for the game!
