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A tough start in the underworld - no caches, little gold, two exits to secondary towns along the way are guarded by Archmages and Ice Elementals. I leveled Shakti a bit on the respawn and headed out through the Pits. Came out onto an empty snow respawn, turned around to break through the shooter exits with growth by week 1, day 21. Fighting my way through - one exit along a roadless path onto rocks, the second onto another snow zone. Reached the town, built a Lookout Tower, saw a Griffin Conservatory far to the north, decided to run to it. With Blessing, I cleared the Conservatory-three, right above it a passage to the third month, I headed there since there was nowhere else to go.
In the third month, I took 6 Hives, 2 Libraries, minor stat artifacts, while the opponent appeared at one of the snow secondary towns and moved toward my main. From the third month, I went across the rocks to a portal leading back to my respawn, defeated the Gravedigger, recruited him in my main, double-manned, and attacked Deessa. I got Armageddon, traded my 3 Angels and 3 Pegasi for the opponent's 6 Angels, followed by a ransom. From the army, 42 Pegasi and 11 Minotaurs remained; then I moved the Gravedigger toward the Griffin Conservatory and to the opponent's respawn, where I killed Deessa.
Thanks for the interesting game.
The game was not going well for a very long time, the opponent took three restarts, plus one technical restart. Week 1, day 12, near the hometown, 3 Conservatories. All roads were blocked, so I had to circle on a small patch until week 1, day 17; on day 17 I found a roadless passage, but that became critical for tempo. On week 2, day 3, I took a second Citadel, in the middle of the third week built Behemoths in both Citadels, and took all three Conservatories. In the Pandora's Box, there was full level 4-5 magic. On week 3, day 6, I accidentally ran into the opponent with Angels, Pegasi, Phoenixes, and Behemoths, but due to the lost tempo at the start and a severe stat disadvantage, I had to flee after an Armageddon strike. Two days later, the opponent caught up to my town; Armageddon didn't save me either, Berserk didn't land; in the end, on week 4, day 2, my defeat - loss of the main hero and both towns. If I had found the passage earlier, I likely could have dragged it out due to double growth, but as it was, alas, defeat. Thanks for the game
