Posts from HW vs HB

So I decided to copy-paste a post by Forrest on Bay (for the buzz, so to speak):

People here are asking roughly what the odds are for each player. If appropriate, I'll write them. If not, delete this.
In the format: pair - odds for the first to advance and odds for the second to advance

1. Nagan-4_______ - Roland from Gilead . SoD version. 2,4-1,50
2. Uran__________ - Stinger._____ SoD version. Live (1-0) 1.95-1,80
3. Mizrael________ - AlexTheGreat. SoD version 4,5-1,17
4. Pit-In sake of LM- Samurai._____ TE-lite version. 1,7-2,1
5. Invisible_______ - Mike_Spb.___ TE version. 3,8-1,22
6. Scorp_________ - KobRa_Spb.__ SoD version. 2,75-1,40
7. Alex R_________ - Paladin._____ SoD version. 3,1-1,30
8. Dekontaminator - DC_Vasya.___ SoD version. 5,5-1,10
9. Dudge_________ - Napalm._____ SoD version. 3,1-1,30
10.Dubrovin Pavel - Markon._____ TE-lite version. 3,4-1,27

Entire match
Bay-HW P1-1.10 X-12.0 P2-9.0

As one familiar player said regarding this: "It's not entirely clear what they mean, but the general idea can be grasped."

Pit - for the sake of LM (blue, Rampart, Kairie, Kairie) defeats Samurai (red, Fortress, Tazar, Tazar), 121, 2sm4d(3).
From the castle, there are two slow paths; I took one, and the other had a small blockade, so I couldn't scout it. In the tavern, there are 2 native heroes, totaling 10 elves, 60 centaurs, and 10+ dwarves. There's a lot of money.
On turn 115, the path led to a Conflux town; along the way, I took a crypt with 5 vampires and found stashes of earth and air elementals.
On turn 116, I take a stack of 10 dwarves, preparing to take a second one, but then Tazar runs along the road to my town and takes MY stack of medusas, just a few squares from the capital!
I have to quickly split up, buy everyone back, and attack:
Kairie (2, 5, 1, (15)), expert archery and basic earth magic, ranged attack 20, dispel magic (helped remove petrification from the centaurs), 12 air elementals, 8 higher elves, 45 centaurs, 2 unicorns, 3 dendroids, 5 pegasi, 4 earth elementals.
Tazar (5, 12), expert defense and basic attack, 6 wyverns, 26 gnolls, 21 lizardmen, 4 basilisks, 1 flying snake, single gnolls.
As a result of a long and bloody battle, Kairie retreats, leaving Tazar with 1 wyvern and 1 lizard.
I build 2 markets, sell all resources, buy back Kairie, and place her in the capital with 20 sprites and 6 dwarves.
On turn 121, Tazar tries to take my conservatory; it turns out to have 2 angels, and he dies.
Thank you for the game.

Here are the saves from our first game.

So far, 3 pairs of players have started playing.

1. Uran __________ 1 - 0 Stinger.
2. Pit-In sake of LM 1 - 0 Samurai.
3. Dekontaminator 0 - 1 DC_Vasya.

Several more pairs are about to start playing. There's a problem with one pair – Alexa R and Paladin; they can't seem to coordinate their game time. We're still figuring it out.

P.S. Portal has formed a team, which, in my opinion, is very strong.

1. Hardcore.
2. Vitalic.
3. Deep Mike.
4. Lesgor.
5. Neoandy.
6. Kebazavr.
7. Alone ekb.
8. LeBrone.
9. Chudozavr.
10. ZluqaOMG

The team representative, Neoandy, suggested holding a draw. Since our players are already involved in a match with Bye, the Portal representative kindly agreed not to rush things; the draw will be held next week, and the exact dates of the games will be determined then.

I just played the first game with Markon.
The following situation occurred:

At the end of the third week, I took a Necklace +3 to power and mana amount from a treasury, and a Cloak +5 to power; as a result, Magic Power became 12.
Markon hits ГО, I get defeated, however Markon did not go to the Main town, he turned around and left.

With my scout, I spotted at least 2 external dwellings of same-faction units on Markon's respawn; I realized I needed to look for Dragon Utopias. At the beginning of the fourth week, I found two Dragon Utopias, having previously taken 6 Angels.

In the middle of the fourth week, I take two Dragon Utopias (Teapot of All, Sword +6 Attack, Book of Air and Fire, Dragon Scale Cuirass). I'm happy that now I can position myself by the well so that Vistan (who is holed up in my Main town) cannot reach me, while I will take his Main town on 2.1.1. And generally, a lot can be done with Flight and Jump.

However, I discover that Flight and Jump are missing from the Book of Air.
Saves exist, but I cannot send them via ICQ.

I am ready to replay if Markon doesn't mind.

I have now loaded my save and checked—Flight and Jump are there; if Markon hasn't looked at the map yet, then I am ready to continue.

I think I read a post by DC Vasya on the Portal.
The score in the matches is 4-3 in favor of Bay,
Stinger was the first to win a match against Uranus, 2-1.

Today I will be gathering information about the played matches.

Uran(red, Crag Hack, Stronghold)_DEF_Stinger(blue, Bron, Fortress)_132

0-1

Bye-HeroesWorld

So, the opponent isn't posting, apparently not registered here, I'll post myself, though I don't feel like it )
When I started playing, I was a bit out of sorts, and that ended up showing in the end.
Started without restarts, got 5 basilisks and 12 gnolls, the second hero has 14 gnolls, Lizardmen not built. On top of that, on day 1 I went into a crypt with 5 vampires and left some gnolls and 1 basilisk there.
On week 1 I built everything except Hydras in the Fortress, took 1 external dwelling of Lizardmen, 1 of gnolls, found a Conservatory, 2 external dwellings of Behemoths behind a strong guard, and picked up a Barbarian secondary hero, upgraded Rocs with a Capitol there. All this building ended up mattering later — not much gold left for buying creatures.
Bron 4 12 1 3, Expert Resist, Advanced Armorer, Basic Earth. Opponent built a Castle.

On 123 I attack the Conservatory without a spell book — tier 3, emerged with 31 upgraded Lizardmen, 1 Wyvern, 3 Basilisks, and 34 Gnolls. I attacked with 7 Rocs, Wolves, 10 Basilisks, 5 Wyverns, and Lizardmen. On 127 I take an external dwelling of Behemoths guarded by 34 upgraded Behemoths with Mass Slow, besides the dwelling the guard had an artifact +3 Attack/Defense. Also found a Blue Cap guarded by a horde of Pit Fiends, which I took on 132 with 3 Angels and 31 Lizardmen with Mass Slow.
Right then on 132, Crag Hack comes to my secondary hero with 34 upgraded Rocs, 4 Angels, and 6 Wyverns. Stats 9 8 4 3.
Don't know what came over me — guess it was the desire to sleep, since I hadn't slept for 2 days
So I attacked the opponent with 2 Angels, 1+1 Dragon Fly, 50 Lizardmen, and 12 regular Behemoths. Bron 9 20 2 (70), implosion for 450.
In the end, I could have won, but morale on all the opponent's stacks in the very first round left me no chance. Could have kept playing, tried repositioning or something, but I surrendered.

Added after 40 seconds
Stinger(red,Stronghold,Crag Hack,Crag Hack) def Uran(blue,Fortress,Tazar,Tazar), 2sm4d(3),121

Bye-HeroesWorld

1-1

Drafted a mirror match.
On day 1: 4 heroes, I spot a Stable behind a hill, scout hero found a Sword +3 in a wagon and an Anti-Morale artifact.
On day 2 I spot the opponent's spawn from a lookout tower, see that he's lighting up mine from his lookout.
I see a passage to him through the secondary area, if you can call it that
On day 3 I took a Dwelling with 15 Dwarves, checked the Conservatory — minimal.
Came up with a plan to take the Conservatory on 115, and on 121 kill the opponent in his castle.
And so I did. By 115 I upgraded Goblins and Wolves, took the Conservatory with minor losses — 5 Wolves and 12 Goblins — and headed towards the passage.
On 117 I was already at the opponent's spawn and scouted his lookout.
121 — the opponent built a Castle, but the army inside isn't impressive.
A stack of Lizardmen, a stack of Gnolls, a few Wyverns.
I attack.
Crag Hack 12 1
1 Angel, 3 Rocs, 5 Orcs, 16 upgraded Wolves, 38 upgraded Goblins.
Tazar 1 6 1 2 15 Lizardmen, 12+1+1+1+1 Gnolls, 1 Wyvern, tent.
The castle assault succeeded.

Added after 41 seconds
Stinger(red,Stronghold,Crag Hack,Crag Hack) def Uran(blue,Conflux,Kalt,Kalt), 2sm4d(3),121

Bye-HeroesWorld

2-1

Enjoyed playing Barbarian — drafted him again, and again both of us went without restarts. At spawn: 2 external dwellings of Orcs taken on week 1, Thunderbirds and Orcs upgraded with a Capitol, a Tower secondary area with an external Market captured near the castle, passage to the Treasury broken through, along with an Angel external dwelling guarded by several Champions.
On 121 Crag Hack with 49 Orcs, 7 Thunderbirds, 36 upgraded Wolves, and 45 upgraded Goblins was about to run to the Treasury and take the dwelling on 122.
But a surrender message comes from the opponent, because things are bad for him.

Party saves.
I split the saves from the first game into 2 files, but a few saves are missing – I didn't have time to make them; maybe Uranus still has them.

Mizrael vs Alex The Great
HeroesWorld - Bye, match score 1-1

Alex(Fortress, Tazar, Tazar) def Mizrael(Castle, Caitlin, Crag Hack) 2sm4d(3) 127

We took a restart, 5 heroes from the start - Crag arrives, I see an external dwelling of archers and a Crusader, I hide the old man until turn 3. Scouts meanwhile toss archers to each other and hit external dwellings and treasure piles. 113 - secondary town is Rampart, the army starts bouncing between 2 spawns (I really want to squeeze in Pegasi with the external dwelling in the secondary). End of week: home has Cavaliers in the Citadel, secondary has Pegasi in it plus an external dwelling, all the creature stacks from external dwellings are bought out. Heavy spending in week 1 doesn't allow buying up all the treasure immediately, so as not to lose tempo Crag breaks a Naga Bank with 20 Nagas using only Cavaliers and Pegasi, 11 Pegasi remain, but there's money to buy creature stacks and a spell book. Found another external dwelling of Pegasi, upgraded Elves and I'm leveling Crag to go into the throne Griffin Conservatory. Broke the 125 two-stack without issues and then Tazar comes visiting, 1 hex short of reaching the capital :) All the treasure is with me, I'm not too worried - I hit Basilisks for Shackles of War and a Pandora's Box with a stack of War Unicorns (5k gold - a trap, I wanted experience), find an external dwelling of Elves plus a passage to the treasure zone. Here I majorly screwed up - Crag is Hasted by Angels, and all the treasure is with the scout! And this is on terrain scouted by the opponent - roads are quick, Taz grabbed a stable in Castle and with Angelic Haste reaches the carrier of creature stacks... The archers were halved, the ransom cost 10k gold, on my turn Crag gets the treasure and I decide to attack Taz anyway with the Shackles (no point going into the treasure zone, that's like looking for happiness - especially since there's no way to take a Dragon Utopia even if I find one). Expert Artillery on Crag could have helped turn the fight, but not after losing half the archers for absolutely nothing. Taz has 90 mana and Arrow Tower somewhere around 70, I'll upload saves later - maybe someone can check what would have happened if Crag had fought the battle with all the treasure, I'm no longer interested - because I'm a deer :smile35:. So Crag crashed against Taz's toughened and shielded Basilisks. Thanks for the game.

Mizrael(Dungeon, Shakti, Shakti) def Alex(Rampart, Kyrre, Kyrre) 2sm4d(3) 126

External dwelling of Troglodytes from the start, quick roads - I spread out with 5 heroes. 112 - secondary town is Conflux, then Shakti breaks a stack of Dendroids at the Metro, at the exit there's a lot of Ice elementals - on the surface, forget them. 116 - native secondary town, the passage was held by 40 Elves, thankfully Minotaurs were already there, I split them 1 each and managed to reduce losses (couldn't do it without any losses, the terrain saved 2 central stacks of Elves). End of week: home has Minotaurs in the Citadel, secondary has Eyes in it, 1000 in Conflux. 121 buyout of secondary growth, transfer of creature stacks to Kyrre on the road, where he breaks a Medusa dwelling with 8 per stack. 122 Shakti stocked up on a spell book, got creature stacks and broke a trash-tier Conservatory, Hasted by Angels near the broken Metro. On his turn, Kyrre runs in from above, hits a Golden Bow from under Wyverns, breaks the entrance underground and, seeing no guards, immediately turns back. 123 Shakti with all the treasure comes out to the surface - Kyrre is far away, so he hits a Naga Bank, which goes towards upgrading and buying Harpies. 125 the blue's secondary (Castle) is captured, a Conservatory with 4 Angels under it is broken. On 126 Shakti sits in the Rampart capital, where a surprise awaits him in the form of unbought growth. On his turn, the opponent surrendered. Thanks for the game.

P.S. Saves will come later, when I get to the unLime.

Uran - Stinger 1-2 The battle is over. Barbarians rule! Uran (red Barbarian Crack Crack) def =Stinger= (blue Swamp Bronze Bronze) 133 (approximately) 2sm4d On the first day, I took 2 nests of Rukh and goblins, 1-3, 5 in the castle. On day 121, I took an angelic creature that summons 2 angels, and the next day, another one, and then I had a large army. I'm looking for an opponent... I find one... he attacks and dies... as I later saw, if he hadn't attacked, but had taken a level 5 hero with a +5 sword, I wouldn't have had a chance. =Stinger= (red Barbarian Crack Crack) def Uran (blue Swamp Basin Basin) 121 2sm4d The opponent took one angel and, without reinforcements, took my castle on day 121 (I bought too little meat in the castle). =Stinger= (red Barbarian Crack Crack) def Uran (blue Conflux Random ???) 121 2sm4d This was a complete disaster... I was messing around, falling asleep... the beer wasn't helping. Solmyr didn't fight at all, having 1044, he lost his entire army in the first week on nonsense, and on day 121, all his troops died - THIS IS EVIL... I surrendered.

Dubrovin Pavel (Red, Rampart, Kyrr, Kyrr) def Markon (Blue, Fortress, Wystan, Wystan), 2sm4d(3), 2.3.1.

First game of the match.
A very interesting game turned out, in short:

On the first week — Unicorns in Castle.

On the second week — secondary hero of Conflux, Tower, external dwelling of Centaurs.

On the third week — through the underground I exit to Sergei's Inferno secondary hero, but there Wystan was already waiting for me with 1-4 Angels, 50-99 Gorgons, 20-49 Wyverns, I turn around, frantically grab on the edge a Treasure +3 Helm of Mana, Necklace +3+3 Mana/Power, Chain Mail +5 to Spell Power. Here Wystan hits the GO (20-49 Hydras), I get defeated at the Main. However, Sergei also didn't attack me in Castle, he turns back to his side.

On the fourth week — I send a scout, who revealed 2 external dwellings of Wyverns and Gnolls, they kill him, I take Kyrr at the Conflux respawn of Conflux-Two, dive into the Treasure, and there carefully stood 2 Dragon Utopias, and next to it Conflux — as it turned out — the Maximum. Meanwhile, while I was traveling, Wystan settled in my Rampart. I take Two Dragon Utopias-twos (Book of Air, Fire, Helm of Everything, Sword +6). Got defeated at Conflux. I stood on 1.4.7. in the middle of my Rampart, where Wystan had settled, and the presumed Main Fortress. Wystan goes to the Treasure Zone on the surface.

On the fifth week — I take my Capital, go after Wystan. He goes to the Library — I go to the Library, here I find Wystan in one cell near the Shield +12-2 and external dwelling of Green Dragons, I attack. With magic I kill 30+ of Sergei's Wights, which on Tactics and with Haste also slaughter all my Elves. I take the Shield +12-2, the dwellings of Dragons and Unicorns, and another Library. At the end of the week I take Sergei's Main.

On the sixth week — unsuccessfully (due to lack of Air magic) I try to find Wystan. I take +50 to Air Magic. The Marksman deals 1000 damage. Here I see that Wystan's stats have crept up, and Wystan is already seeking a fight with me. At the end of the week I attack Wystan, who has +2 to Speed, I get hit by Implosion, which kills all the Battle Unicorns, Wystan bought his way out, and I didn't even strike anyone in his army. On 2.3.1. Wystan awaits me in the Main Fortress, moreover on the Castle's doorstep, and inside holds another Hero. On my turn, with Loach I take Sergei's Inferno secondary hero, so as not to get Implosion on my head again and be left with a completely indecent Army. I pulled up Shnyr in advance with growth from Rampart in the form of 18 Elves, 10 Pegasi, 43 Centaurs, other Army. On 2.3.1. I attack Wystan at the Castle's doorstep, leaving, as a last resort, Shnyr with 18 Elves, 10 Pegasi, and 43 Centaurs, which were simply impossible to take. Wystan Slows my troops, everyone was slowed except for 10 Wights, on whom my 15% Resist worked. In response I kill half of the 29 Wights. In the next round they hit me with Implosion, I again kill 70+ Gorgons with Lightning, again Implosion, again Lightning finishes off the Wights. Here Sergei summons Earth Elementals, and then uses Armageddon. In the end, no Main Heroes. Here my Shnyr came in handy, with 18 Elves, 10 Pegasi, and 43 Centaurs, who attacks the Castle with Sergei's Loach with an army of 1 Gremlin. Here a glitch occurs. Then Sergei congratulated on the victory.

Thanks for the super-interesting game!!!

The following results are known as of today.

1. Nagan-4 - Roland from Gilead.
2. Uran 1 - 2 Stinger.
3. Mizrael 2 - 1 AlexTheGreat.
4. Pit-In sake of LM 1 - 0 Samurai.
5. Invisible - Mike_Spb.
6. Scorp - KobRa_Spb.
7. Alex R_________ - Paladin.
8. Dekontaminator 0 - 2 DC_Vasya.
9. Dudge - Napalm.
10. Dubrovin Pavel 1 - 0 Markon.

The score is currently 5-5 in terms of matches. In terms of total team points, it's 2 - 1 in favor of Bay. Congratulations to Mizrael for winning his match against the very strong player from St. Petersburg, AlexTheGreat.
Congratulations also to our opponents, Stinger and DC Vasya, for their victories in their matches.
Many thanks, I think from all our forum players, to Uran and Dekontaminator, who didn't make the opponents' victories easy!

MikeSPB (red, Barbarian, Tyraxor, Tyraxor) def invisible (blue, Castle, Valeska, Tazar) 2sm4d(3) 216 it seems
On the first, I built horses in the castle, on the native respawn a Dragon Utopia and Boots of Speed, on the secondary a dungeon, another Dragon Utopia. Not a single hive or conservatory is visible (I didn't see a single conservatory until the end of the game :() On the second, a bit of money and in the underground I took the only found hive for 8 Wyverns. I found an external dwelling of eyes and built them in the dungeon as well with a portal. On 133, I take the first Dragon Utopia — a tier-3 one (+6 OL, +2 OL and something else), on 135 the second — a mini one (Red Sphere and Golden Bow). All good, but there's no meat, and the opponent shows 20+ Wyverns + the rest of the gang. So I went on a whim to the underground treasury, where I took a library, a couple of trees, and another Dragon Utopia for stats. I only built angels on week 3. I don't even hope for victory anymore, because the main army is archers, no archery skill, the opponent's spell power is higher, and besides, the scariest combat magic I have is Lightning :(. The pandora's box gave 20 Queen Medusas, and I built them along with the castle in the dungeon. Then I just played it out, because it was late at night, running around pointlessly. I wanted to build Archangels, but had 2 elixir components, so I built an artifact gallery on 147 in the dungeon: it gave the missing ring. No money left for Archangels, scouted the secondary which leads to Mike's respawn, and he didn't break through the exit to the underground. I decided to try and catch someone unawares. In the middle of week 5, I capture Tyraxor's main castle, take Bracers of Defense from his respawn. And he's at my main castle a day later. Moon with fire advance transported the troops home, Taz is broken the same way (forgot to remove the bracers during the split, thanks to Mike for offering auto, although I already understood that FF was a pure formality). I have elixir, Mike has +3 to speed and 84 Wyverns. Not even Tazar's armor and the Red Sphere helped.
Thanks for the game.
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Mike_SPb(red, Stronghold, Tyraxor, Tyraxor) def invisible(blue, Castle, Valeska, Crag Hack), 1,217
Played the first game. Not much money in the first week, but two dwarf dwellings, a 15-stack and a 20-stack, solved all the problems, 1-5 in the stronghold, took external dwellings of wolves, ogres, and orcs. Near the secondary is a conservatory and a pandora's box, and behind them a passage to the treasury. There are two more passages to the secondaries, I even upgraded the birds to break through for the snipers, but then changed my mind about breaking them.
121, I exchange all resources, buy almost the entire army except the ogres, take the minimum conservatory.
122, Pandora's box for 10K experience. Gives archery and wisdom, water is already expert.
Then I ran to the treasury. Only got distracted by the sword +6 and 2 minimum Naga banks. Made a big mistake by not buying the book in the secondary on the first week, which cost me a lot of army. In the treasury, I collected 24 Wyverns, a spell +12, and on 131, I stood in a Dragon Utopia.
132, I brought the army and broke a level 2, killed 7 or 8 Wyverns, ogres, and birds, but it gave the Blue Hood.
Then I took the Crown of Wisdom. And hopped around the treasuries, since Tazar's stats were already higher. I hopped almost on the spot, because without Logistics and with little mana, I had to go back to replenish mana. Collected 82 ducks, Golden Bow for archery, maxed out armor, and started getting ready to visit, but then Tazar ran over and captured the native. I thought about taking it back from the bums, since I had 2 Blue Hoods and the water book, and I myself hopped to his castle, but didn't make it in time and had to attack Tazar in the town. The stats were about even, but what decided it was that Tazar didn't have archery or 82 ducks :D.
Thanks for the game

Thanks for the game!

Let me add from myself, that despite Tyraxor being given a lot of hives (I haven't seen that many on SMs in a long time), Mike played this game very cleverly. On this map, according to Mike (and my opinion too))), the only thing that could have saved me was if I had caught him on the offensive with the Bracers.

created a topic at the request and for convenience.

Thank you! Another HW vs HP will be needed soon!))

then we'll change the title:) - no big deal;)

Mizrael (Necropolis, random, Galthran) def Alex (Tower, Neela, Neela) 2sm4d(3) 136

Restarted for a long time; I was persistently being pushed into the basement with shooter blocks. On the first surface generation, Clavius was my starting hero, which was already pleasing (I was aiming for him as the main hero), but I was given a decent amount of gold, and on the 6th hero came Galthran, whom I had to hide until turn 3. Jedid brought a lot of Troglodytes, so I immediately used the transformer and Gosh started smashing everything in sight. Week result: Knights in the Stronghold, external dwelling of vampires and 2 zombies, in the hut I got logistics. 121 conservatory for 2 angels, the next day another one for 3, and a day later another +3 angels and a secondary Tower. On 125 I broke through a GO of a hundred Pit Lords (they were standing on roadless terrain, so I decided not to send the main hero into the snow), sent a scout, and Gosh ran to the neighboring grass field for boots. 127 the main hero with boots and on angels is standing not far from Red's secondary hero — Ciele from the prison conducted reconnaissance. On 131 he safely camps there, replenishing mana. On 132, a sped-up Gosh reaches Neela's capital; a released scout spots Rizza with the purse — a sin not to take advantage; I bought Bron, gave him a spell book and an army — attacked. At the cost of 5 angels, I wiped out everything, returned the purse to Gosh just in case. Chased down some leftover heroes on Red's former spawns a bit and, by scouting the air, tracked down the last 2 heroes, where the main hero with the army headed. On 136, Alkes's computer rebooted, after which we decided not to continue; thanks for the game.

Roland from Gilead (blue, Tower, Nella) def Nagan-4 (red, Castle, Valeska, Ivor), 125.

My opponent used all their restarts, I had one left at 113.
111. Ivor picks up Boots of Speed on his turn, giving Logistics, so I didn't bother deciding who would be the main hero. I build Archers.
112. External dwellings of Pikemen and Archers. I upgraded the Archers.
113. The respawn is in the very center, I've already uncovered a third of the map. I decide to play. I build a Blacksmith.
114. I pick up Necropolis as a secondary town, build Crusaders.
115. 8 heroes by day 5, Ivor's breakthrough power is excellent. How I could make a mistake – I don't understand. I want to build Griffins, but on autopilot I miss and upgrade Crusaders! This is ultimately what cost me the game; I didn't have enough meat for the final battle.
116 and 117. Citadel and Castle, level 1 Mage Guild in Necropolis, clearing respawns using several heroes.
121. Breakthrough power is good – recruited 54 upgraded Archers, 12 upgraded Crusaders, 70 Pikemen, and Gremlins. I take Tower, upgrade the Gremlins, there are already fifty of them.
122. I go into the treasure zone.
123. In the treasure zone, I take a dwelling of Horses and a Hive for 8 Wyverns guarded by a lot of Gold Golems. The vile flies ignored the Pikemen and persistently gnawed on one of the Horses. Now, if I break through to Necropolis next turn, I can use the Stables near the treasure zone to speed up and take another Horse dwelling in the treasure zone in two turns; all the monsters visible there are quite breakable.
At the most interesting moment, the boss of the blue player shows up.
Now either break through to the town, or clear the treasure zone.
I broke through to the town, but I should have cleared the treasure zone – on turn 125 I would have taken another Horse dwelling and a Pandora's Box with 40 upgraded Archers, after which I'd have nearly a hundred of them. Ivor has Expert Archery and Offense. With the Stables, Boots, Logistics, and on Champions – Ivor would have flown across the map, there was a chance to recapture the capital on turn 127 or even 131.
But it's a pity to give up the capital; Nella doesn't seem impressive in terms of stats, so I decided to defend behind the castle walls. My economy is better: 3 castles vs 2, three money heroes giving 350 gold each, and if I defend successfully – the blue player won't have funds to recruit an army, while I have a Black Market. This plan wasn't a mistake if I had built Griffins in week 1.

Final battle. Ivor level 9 (6,7,1,2), 20 mana – 8 Wyverns, 1 Horse, 7 Griffins, 12 upgraded Crusaders, 54 upgraded Archers, 46 blue Gremlins, 70 Pikemen.
Nella level 8 (6,4,3,3), 120 mana (!) – 2 Angels, 12 Master Genies, 16 Gargoyles, 7 Mages, and 239 (!) shooting Gremlins. Has Lightning Bolt dealing 95 damage.
The assault was intense, with an unclear outcome until the end. Neither side pushed forward, the Gremlins' ammo was depleted, all three castle towers were intact. A disconnect occurred at the worst possible moment, after many rounds when everything hung by a thread: Red had 5 Pikemen and a Griffin, with mana for one shot. Blue had 34 Gremlins, out of arrows, with a Ballista. The Gremlins have speed 5, the Pikemen on grass also have speed 5. It's hard for me to say how it would have ended, but if I'd had two dozen Griffins – I would have defended easily.
We decided to replay the final battle, since we didn't remember the exact turn order – we decided to play the battle as it goes. Unfortunately, the second time the Catapult quickly destroyed 2 out of 3 towers, and although the battle was again long – Nella's lightning bolts decided it.
The mistake with the Griffins killed me, just building on autopilot without looking, shame and disgrace.
Thanks for the game, Dima!