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I was glad to start with 2 stables, a castle, a Hive, and a Bubble.
Then it turned out that this was the only good thing in the game.
2 one-way paths leading out from the neighboring spawn point. I went into the closer one - it was a dead end. I ran to the 2nd one on the opposite end of the map. But it was already too late.

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There was one more rest for me, Grendan came, and from the tower it was visible that the stone was far, but it could be reached by a detour. There were also air elementals standing around. So I didn't take the rest, because gold-wise everything was fine. As a result, after breaking through to the mine and freeing another native hero from prison, I went with Brissa through the wasteland to the gray Conflux. Grendan, meanwhile, wandered around until the birds appeared. With the birds, he went to take gold objects. At the same time, Brissa managed to kill the Conflux on day 117. She was leveling through Earth magic, so I decided to separate her and handle two directions. On day 124, I found a DD scroll behind the monks, and everything looked very interesting. On day 125, I crashed against an opponent who, via a bug path, took my blue swamp. Then we saved, and after reviewing my own stream and the replay, I restored the roads and realized that the opponent had squeezed me from all sides. So I decided to take his town, which Brissa could reach with DD. Then the plan was to buy him off or flee, but the opponent had 7 angels and tactics and managed to kill my entire army with morale chains. I got a DD scroll (which I still couldn't use, since I had a level 2 guild), but for me the game was lost despite the 12 birds that remained (I rebuilt them in the citadel of the second Conflux). So I decided to surrender.

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Luna arrived, and there were two experience stones, so I didn't resurrect. The road was blocked at 6k, so on day 112 I took the +5 cap for gr orcs, and on day 113 I regenerated mana in the village. Then I pushed through to another village and the central zone, and on day 117 I cleared the manticore dwelling. I sent Tazar on 4 horses to grab resources at the GM in 3k off-road, while Luna searched for various tasty treats. By the end of the second week, my opponent attacked my fort with his own and killed it, and I killed all his wolves. He didn't come at me, even though I was prepared to gather centaurs and bombard him with Luna's battle magic in that case. So we ran around; on days 125-126 I cleared two boxes with 15k experience and 40 elves, and with them I went into the conflux-max (I had nothing else besides centaurs, dwarves, and 1 serpent). Luna shone brightly in the conflux, and as a result I had 4 angels and 19 elves. On day 131 I rebuilt the DD on the first try, so the plan was simple — jump on the green player with 4 angels. That's what I did on day 132, taking the conflux 2 along the way and driving out the opponent, who still managed to steal 2 conservatories from my comp. :eek: Well, but the lookout tower showed utopias, which I easily took with resurrect and the strategist's well. The utopias gave some magic and +6 total stats, so I jumped after the opponent and took cities one by one, leveling up the Dragon just in case for the finale, but the opponent ran poorly to his utopia, where I caught him. In the finale, without magic block, he simply had no chance.

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A very tense game. I had 2 rests, so did my opponent. He didn't rest Luna. I suspected something bad would happen, but the layout looked just perfect — a bunch of SP boosters, gold. In the end, I didn't take it. On day 113, when it was already too late to take a rest, I saw that I was running into a one-way portal exit on the road, and there was still a native town. And my opponent revealed Galthran. Yeah, yeah. In short, not very good news. However, the one-way portal entrance wasn't too far. I decided to jump in with Brissa and saw that there was a good road junction with two camps — my purple and green ones. I realized there could be a quick encounter, because my opponent came in from the opposite side of the square and was killing his camps as early as week 1. Still, there was nowhere to go — at home I could have farmed gold objects with Luna, but what would I do with it without an army? I went and quickly killed the purple camp on day 132, then turned toward the green one. There I saw the orange town that my opponent was killing, and it became clear where the contact would happen. I took it with a chain, killing a level 5 Dharim from a prison camp with archers. Two parts of the army were killing the green and pink camps. Then my opponent finally showed up and took one of the hives I was planning to take. Luckily, Luna had farmed enough gold objects that I decided to go for a war of attrition. The war of attrition went very well for me, even though I lost 2 birds taking a pre-max hive so my opponent wouldn't get it. But the result of the battle was that my opponent lost 3 turns chasing me (though he took a box behind the hydras — I don't know what it gave him). During that time, I moved my ducks out of the combat zone, took a level 1 conflux, and ran into a treasure chest in the direction away from the pink camp. And only at the end of week 2 did I start building a capitol, deciding to build it in Conflux after all. I built the Portal of Summoning pretty quickly, thanks to which Luna could jump around like crazy. I immediately took my opponent's main town, where I saw there was no TP or Portal of Summoning, but there was Fly and Resurrection. And I even managed to jump out of there so he wouldn't trap me. And so it happened — he spent 2 turns taking the main town, which gave me the chance to rebuild the TP (I traded a bunch of scrolls for 3 resources each in the artifact market), and on the day he took the town back, I got the TP. I bought up, gathered an army with a TP-sharer, and doubled my mana. I attacked my opponent. There was no magic block, so I killed his entire army with implosions, although in response, before fleeing, he threw an implosion, and I didn't manage to resurrect my angels in time. I was left with 1 angel and 21 ducks. Bad, because it was day 141 — he hit-and-ran me and left me with 10 ducks, but he still fled. I took back his main town, where I saw the Portal of Summoning had been rebuilt. Well, without TP it would have been tough for him. So in 2 turns I simply restored my army, leveled Ainaian for control, took back his castle with the stable, and jumped Luna to where 3 heroes were. There, Galthran was regenerating mana from 8. The second final was already without any losses on my side.

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Thank you for playing!

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I gave away the town and color for 4200. Nimbus arrived, and I was initially leveling him to take all that good stuff that was there. Everything was fine until the start of week 2. Then I realized that, first, I was hitting a one-way passage (the exit was, as luck would have it, on the other side), and second, the micro-dragging was brutal. I broke through the 6k guard, and there was a Conflux there. But I did it on day 125. I had 14 angels, and my last hope was the Utopias. The opponent jumped in with a Donkey into the one-way passage, I killed it and realized the opponent had already been where the exit was. However, I still hadn't seen where the entrance was. I tried to run to the green player, but on week 3 he managed to chase off Valeska with 3 angels (he bought back 2). I took 2 Utopias on days 132 and 133 (the 2nd and the max one) and got just two shields and two breastplates there. No control, nothing. In the Conflux I was rebuilding control when the opponent came and took my main. And that's how I lost with 16 angels.

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After the previous loss, I wasn't really in the mood to play, so I just went with the first template because there were decent heroes, the possibility of necro-citadel, and a necro-village in the adjacent zone. Everything looked fine — Tamika had Logistics, Boots of Speed, and Expert Necromancy, until Dessessa came and ruined the party, running in and taking the Conflux near the Tavern. I tried to attack Solmyr with a Cannon and +3 SP (total of 7 power), but the opponent cast Mass Haste and showed that on the next turn he would take my main town, and a turn later — the necro-village where I was building a Grail. As the fog of war revealed, the opponent simply came to rush me. Given time, I could have gathered enough resources and he wouldn't have had a chance. I probably wouldn't have relied on just one Dessessa like my opponent did. But it seems I still need to grind and grind my skill.

Thanks for the game and good luck going forward!