Dirty_Player
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We picked all restarts and played for luck. I got a good draw: 4 Dragon Fly Hives, 2 Griffin Conservatories, an external dwelling of birds, and nice artifacts. Not everything I wanted worked out, so I decided to go out on day 121 without mass Slow via efreets. But surprisingly, behind the efreets there were two more ГО that needed to be cleared from efreets, so I had to skip a day immediately and wait for Labetha with mass Slow. The center turned out to be quite poor. My opponent wasn't in a hurry to enter the center, but he revealed strong stats and Archangels, so I didn't dare to go collect goodies near the opponent's ГО. Instead, I went to a neutral respawn to take a Dragon Utopia. I built GM5, which gave me Dimension Door (cool). I took the max Dragon Utopia — it gave the Speaker's Hat, Admiral's Hat, a Chalice, and something else. On day 127, the blue player finally entered the center, but there were only 1-4 (1) Archangels. I couldn't attack in time, realizing reinforcements would arrive. I decided to take a Dragon Utopia at a respawn. The opponent took a Dragon Utopia (which turned out to have КЗ) near a neighboring ГО and went to a neighboring respawn. I took a small Dragon Utopia at home — it had the Book of Air. I collected the Shackles and the Cloak of Undead King. Ready for battle, but I needed to catch up))) The third week saw a war of scout heroes with castle captures, which I lost. They practically pushed me out of the center. On the third try, I finally got Town Portal at home and bought off the blue scout. Realizing I was losing map control, I went to take the opponent's main to upgrade Angels there. Artyom realized that giving up the castle meant switching to defense. I was half a step short of attacking on day 137, but luckily I was red and had the buffer of day 141. During that time, the blue player brought 30 Ogres from a Pandora's Box, which helped a bit in the final battle. A very ambiguous final fight (see the screenshot), where there were mutual mistakes and inaccuracies. In the end, I narrowly managed to win the final battle thanks to Storm Elementals. Perhaps Artyom should have surrendered the castle and continued the chase with an advantage in map control, but Tazar with Archangels and growth would have looked terrifying; maybe he could have caught the blue army with the Shackles on week 4, but that's not certain. Thanks for the game.
