Hall of Fame Stage 3 of the BLITZ TOURNAMENT

Radik

Well then, I'll also post my description, since this time it's without pictures and quite brief:) There was a shortage of time both for the tournament itself and for the description.

Description of the third blitz tournament walkthrough, or Galthran – the superhero

I'll start by saying that after carefully examining the tournament map in the editor, and also after 2 attempts at the walkthrough, I concluded that to achieve a skeleton count as close to maximum as possible, you need to do the following:
- on the first day capture 2 castles, complete the quest for the ring of the magi, and open the guardian of the question that requires that same ring of the magi to pass, while minimizing losses of skeletons as well as potential skeletons in battles, killing not everything in sight but only as many as necessary (since necromancy on the first day is far from 100%). It is extremely important at this stage to learn fire magic from the scholar, otherwise you won't be able to take the Pandora's Box with 7000 dragons.
- the second day is practically the most important and decisive – you need to build the black magic amplifier in the starting castle (at the beginning of the day), capture the castle with the black magic amplifier, killing only those neutrals on the way that block the path, open two passage guardians (near the hill fort and the Pandora's Box with 3000 skeletons, which also needs to be opened), recruit Penix, pick up the Armor of the Damned, take the Angel Wings, open the Pandora's Box near the bottom castle, capture that castle, kill 2 clouds of ghost dragons (those that give wood, ore, and gold), build a cursed temple in three castles.
- and on the third day finish off the remaining neutrals, exchange the wings for the Town Portal, pick up 100 thousand gold, open the Pandora's Box guarded by 7000 dragons, open the Pandora's Box with 2000 spearmen, buy out all the skeletons, exchange all existing creatures for skeletons, and run to the hill fort to upgrade all existing skeletons to skeleton warriors.
If the above is accomplished, in my opinion, the maximum result will be achieved. Of course, losses in battles are inevitable, so I'll repeat once again – it's extremely important to minimize them.
So:
Day 1
1. With Galthran, take two steps to the right through the fire pillar, then down-right, attacking 10 skeletons – no losses, the army gains 2 skeletons. Total 12. I note that we do not collect the Cloak of the Undead King for the time being.
2. Take one step left-up, then 4 steps left and a step left-down, attacking 10 skeletons – no losses, +2 skeletons. Total 14.
3. Take a step right, attacking 20 skeletons – no losses, +8. Total 22.
4. Take another step right, attacking 30 skeletons – no losses, +10. Total 32.
5. Take a step right-up, then right-down, attacking 20 skeletons under the fire pillar – no losses, +6. Total 38.
6. Take a step left, attacking 30 skeletons – no losses, +12. Total 48.
7. Take another step left, attacking 50 skeleton warriors – losses: 2 skeletons and 4 mana, +18. Total 64. A level is gained – of course, choose advanced sorcery. I won't dwell on this further, as I improved existing secondary skills upon leveling up. The last empty slot, as I said above, is needed for fire magic.
8. Take 2 steps left, then left-down, attacking 25 walking dead on the left – no losses, +12. Total 76.
9. Take a step right, attacking 35 walking dead – no losses, +16. Total 92. Another level is gained – choose expert sorcery. Now we can start thinking about liches (collect the Cloak of the Undead King).
10. Take another step right, attacking 50 walking dead – no losses, +13 liches. Total 13 liches, 92 skeletons.
11. Take another step right, attacking 100 zombies – no losses, +40 liches. Total 53 liches and 92 skeletons.
12. Attack Castle Agony, guarded by 100 skeleton warriors – losses: 3 skeletons (the towers shot). +60 skeletons, as you need to unassemble the Cloak of the Undead King before the battle. Total 53 liches and 149 skeletons.
13. Run into the castle and leave all the skeletons there, so they don't get shredded by the towers and the sinister mighty liches which still had battles ahead. Also, reassemble the Cloak of the Undead King.
14. Attack 40 walking dead – no losses, +14 liches. Total 67 liches. Raising skeletons makes no sense, as Galthran is clearly set on taking Haunt Wind, which is very heavily guarded.
15. Take a step right, attacking 30 walking dead – no losses, +9 liches. Total 76.
16. Take a step down-right, attacking 20 zombies – no losses, +6 liches. Total 82.
17. Take a step down, attacking 30 guards – no losses, +12 liches. Total 94.
18. Take another step down, attacking 50 vampires – no losses, +33 liches. Total 127.
19. Take two steps down-right, thereby visiting the scholar and learning fire magic, run into the stables, then into the well, replenishing mana to 60.
20. Take a step left, attacking 100 vampire lords. The first rather difficult battle (I'll just say you need to position your army correctly and move skillfully. Formation – 121 liches and 6 stacks of 1 lich each. Losses – 3 liches and 4 mana, +69 liches. Total 193 liches.
21. Attack Haunt Wind with 100 death knights in the garrison. Again, you need to distribute your army and move correctly. Formation – 181 liches and 6 stacks of 2 liches each. Losses – 30 liches and 12 mana (the first significant loss, but I think it's worth it), +70 liches. Total 233 liches.
22. Take a step left, then left-up, attacking 50 mighty liches (divide your existing liches in half). Losses – 11 liches and 4 mana, +40 liches. Total 262.
23. Take a step left, attacking 50 guards – no losses, +24 liches. Total 286 liches.
24. Take another step left (staying in place), attacking 60 vampire lords – no losses, +48 liches. Total 334.
25. Take another step left, attacking 50 ghosts – no losses, +24 liches. Total 358.
26. Take a step left-down (but stay in place), attacking 50 mighty liches. Losses – 10 liches, +40. Total 388.
27. Take another step left-down, attacking 100 vampire lords – no losses, +80 liches. Total 468.
28. Take a step down (stay in place), attacking 50 death knights. Losses – 1 lich, +38 liches. Total 505 liches.
29. Take another step down, attacking 70 mighty liches. Losses – 13 liches, +56 liches. Total 548 liches.
30. Take a step left-down (stay in place), attacking 10 ghost dragons. Losses – 2 liches, +8 liches and 2500 gold. Total 554.
31. Take another step left-down, attacking 50 death knights – no losses, +40 liches. Total 594.
32. Take a step right, attacking 30 ghost dragons. Losses – 1 lich and 4 mana, +24 liches. Total 617. After the battle, enter the monolith entrance and emerge near seer Blake's hut.
33. In Agony, hire Monere (another interesting point – those who captured only 1 castle on the first day need to buy Caitlin, otherwise you won't build the black magic amplifier in the starting castle), run with him to Blake's hut, receive the ring of the magi, run to the guardian of the question near Haunt Wind, open it, run to Galthran and give him the fairy, take his liches, and stop for a night's rest over 150 ghosts.
34. With Galthran, take the two remaining steps left and stay for the night, not forgetting to remove the Cloak of the Undead King and put on the speed boots.

Day 2.

1. Build the black magic amplifier in Cassazione.
2. With Galthran, take 4 steps left and stop right on top of Monere, with whom you take the fairy and give the liches to Galthran.
3. Take another 3 steps left, diagonally open the guardian of the question (I don't know why I did this, since I didn't take the Pandora's Box immediately and returned to it later the same day).
4. Take a step down, then left-down, then right-down, attacking 30 guards – no losses, +26 skeletons (yes, indeed skeletons). With Monere, take the skeletons from Galthran.
5. Take a step down, attacking 150 vampires – no losses, +134 liches. Total 751.
6. Run into the well, then attack 100 death knights (my route to them was: step right, then left-up). Losses – 1 lich, +90 liches. Total 840.
7. Attack Blackwater with a guard of 100 vampire lords. Losses – 1 lich, +90 liches. Total 929. And finally, the necromancy limit is reached – 100% revival rate (4 black magic amplifiers – 40%, sorcery skill – 30%, and Cloak of the Undead King – 30%). Now you can crush everyone and everything.
8. Take a step right, then right-up, attacking 100 mighty liches. Losses – 20 liches, +100 liches. Total 1009.
9. With Monere, move one step right. With Galthran, run up and open the Pandora's Box with 3000 guard skeletons. No losses, +3000 skeletons and a very nice spell "Clone". Total 1009 liches and 3000 skeletons.
10. Take a step right-down, then down, then right-down, attacking 40 ghosts – no losses, +40 skeletons. Total 1009 liches and 3040 skeletons.
11. Take a step right, attacking 150 ghosts – no losses, +150 skeletons. Total 1009 liches and 3190 skeletons.
12. Take a step right-down, attacking 200 vampire lords – no losses, +200 liches. Total 1209 liches and 3190 skeletons.
13. Take the Lion's Shield of Courage, killing 500 guard skeletons without losses. +500 skeletons. Total 1209 liches and 3690 skeletons.
14. Take a step right-down, attacking 400 vampire lords – no losses, +400 liches and the Golden Bow. Total 1609 liches and 3690 skeletons.
15. With Monere, take all the skeletons from Galthran (becomes 3716 plus 149 in the castle) and the Lion's Shield of Courage, run to recruit Penix, then pick up the Armor of the Damned and run back to Galthran, giving him the armor and Penix.
16. Take a step down, attacking 400 mighty liches – no losses, +400 liches. Total 1 Penix and 2009 liches.
17. Take a step right, attacking 400 death knights – no losses, +400 liches and the Angel Wings. Total 2409.
18. Take a step down, attacking 150 mighty liches – no losses, +150 liches. Total 2559.
19. Take a step right (stay in place), attacking 200 death knights – no losses, +200 liches. Total 2759.
20. Take another step right, attacking 200 death knights – no losses, +200 liches. Total 2959.
21. Take a step down, attacking 400 ghost dragons – no losses, -24 mana, +400 liches, +15 ore and 5000 gold. Total 3359.
22. Put on the wings and take 5 steps down, then a step left-down. Diagonally left-up, open the Pandora's Box – no losses, -24 mana, +2800 liches, +500 ghost dragons, and Pandora's treasures, the main ones being Dimension Door, Berserk, and Amulet of Vulnerability. Total 6159 liches, 500 ghost dragons, and Phoenix.
23. Attack Rave Raven. Losses – 1 lich, +100 liches. Total 6258.
24. Cast Dimension Door left adjacent to 400 ghost dragons and kill them without losses by taking a step right (while staying in place), +400 liches, 15 wood, and 5000 gold. Total 6658.
25. Take another step right, attacking 100 death knights – no losses, +100 liches. Total 6758
26. Take a step right (while staying in place), attacking 399 ghost dragons – no losses, +399 liches. Total 7157.
27. Cast Dimension Door adjacent to the guardian of the question near the hill fort and open it on the last step. 6 mana remaining. Don't forget to put the speed boots back on.
28. With Monere, run into Agony and leave the skeletons there, which become 3865, and run to the guardian of the question near the scroll of Water Walk and gold, but his step ends under the fire pillar, where we rest for the night.
29. In Blackwater, hire Tyraxor, take the liches from Galthran with him, and rest near the remaining undead stacks.
30. In Blackwater, Agony, and Haunt Wind, build cursed temples.

Day 3.

1. The castles produce skeletons – 400 in each.
2. With Galthran, run into the well, take 2 steps right. With Tyraxor, give the liches to Galthran.
3. Take a step right-down, attacking 200 death knights – no losses, +200 liches. Total 7307.
4. Take a step right, attacking 400 ghost dragons – no losses, +400 liches. Total 7707.
5. Take a step right-up, attacking 150 mighty liches – no losses, +150 liches. Total 7857.
6. Take another step right-up, attacking 200 vampire lords – no losses, +200 liches. Total 8057 liches.
7. With Monere, open the guardian, pick up the scroll and 100 thousand gold.
8. Cast Dimension Door to the seer's hut with the Town Portal, run in and exchange the wings for the Town Portal.
9. Cast Dimension Door to the guardian of the question near Armageddon's Blade, open it, take the Pandora's Box with 2000 spearmen and the blade.
10. Using the Town Portal, jump to Rave Raven, leave the spearmen and phoenix there.
11. Attack the 7000 ghost dragons guarding the Pandora's Box – no losses, -96 mana, +7000 liches. Total 15057 liches and 500 ghost dragons.
12. Jump clockwise through the castles, starting with Agony, and buy out all the skeletons. In Rave Raven, convert everything into skeletons. Jump to Blackwater, buy out the skeletons there, and run to the hill fort, where we upgrade our skeletons.
13. Total I gathered 23,071 skeleton warriors.

That's basically it, Game Over! Unlike last time, I didn't indulge in screenshots, as my description would have been about 10 meters long, and I also didn't describe the battles, as time was extremely short, and I don't think a meticulous description is beneficial anyway, since I believe that if a person struggles for a certain amount of time to defeat a particular army with particular forces, they will learn it much better. But when everything is already laid out, you don't have to think for yourself, and it ends up – you watch, you read, and you conveniently forget (IMHO).

Sincerely, Radik.

P.S. Too bad there wasn't time to improve, as I think if I replayed the first day, I could gather 20-30 more skeletons.