NEW YEAR!

opp offered a final bo1
since I had a lot of deadlines looming over me, I agreed*
we took all the rest — when something playable came up, opp didn't want to play, while I got some stale positions, which is more of an exception for a random map
in the mandatory game it wasn't great either, but on the 1st day I broke out with as many as 7 heroes for the first time in all my games! :)
and I went with 3 Conflux mages, the main one became Enakin, and on the other front, where contact later occurred, Brissa in a heavy fight with almost fifty zombies secures a prison — killed almost the entire timer, but got a girl with shooting!
in the middle of the week, checking the turn revealed red movement up top
I build a Citadel in my ramp and put Ciele there — opp doesn't make it, but cuts off the noob
next turn, with great effort and grinding, I traded crystals for pegasi and attacked the Taverov income — I kill all the wizards and sit back in the Citadel with a fort — blue color rules!
then the magic girls chase away the reds, Brissa runs and takes their ramp village, and on 117 spends the night in the snow
at the start of the week, father Skywalker with a week-1 Inferno army wastes time on crap like clearing crypts on mud to buy back ramp income and a couple of heroes to bring to Brissa; opp decided to defend his capital without a Citadel, but you can't really fight against full mana and pegasi

gg, thanks for the game :)
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*) but I warned that if the judges don't accept the shortened final, we'd have to play another game.... or two)))