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Decontaminator (blue, Necropolis, Galtran) def. Nagan-4 (red, Dungeon, Shakti), 237.
Large respawn point at the top. On day 4, I discovered half the map using observation towers and captured a neutral Castle. There were no ambushes, only one Medusa, but the guard – a horde of grayed-out archers – wasn't impressive. On the seventh day, there were Manticores with a Castle, no minuses. 8 heroes scattered across the map. In the beginning of the second week, I captured a neutral Rampart; in general, I camped while gathering troops. On day 124, Shakti was already level 11.
But in the third week, I started destroying Hives. Somewhere around day 134, I could already capture a Utopia; on day 137, my army consisted of 40 Wyverns and 10 Manticores, not counting the fodder. I didn't see any paths to my opponent, except for the Grand Order. In terms of parameters, Shakti was significantly behind Galtran. In general, I went to destroy Utopias: in the fourth week, I destroyed as many as 4 of them, and by day 213 – already 7. I don't remember when I managed to do that before. After that, I moved to my opponent and started taking his cities. A gross mistake that cost me the game. I thought I had eaten two Outposts, 7 Utopias, and a bunch of Hives, and my opponent simply had nowhere else to acquire artifacts. Complete control of the map, a well-fed Shakti was much stronger than Galtran. And yet, I noticed that a small piece in the upper right corner was not revealed, and there was a Hive and… a Utopia's foundation. I didn't figure out that foundation – otherwise, I would have captured that corner in two turns. And on that small piece, there were three Utopias, a box with level 5 magic, and 4 Phoenixes, several Hives. While I was taking my opponent's cities, he captured that corner and acquired all the magic possible, including control of the map. Instead of my guaranteed victory, we started playing this game together. After dancing around for a while, we converged in a final battle on day 231. I had a little less fodder, but significantly more hero parameters and mana.
Shakti – level 24 (37, 23, 35, 22), 428 mana points. Expert in Logistics, Pathfinding, Tactics, Wisdom, Earth, Air, Attack, and Defense.
10 Angels, 72 Wyverns, 24 Red Manticores, 15 Champions, 15 Crushers, 24 Enhanced Medusas, 34 Blighthunters.
Galtran – level 25 (14, 28, 28, 20), 200 mana points. Expert in Necromancy, Wisdom, Logistics, Pathfinding, Air, Earth, Defense, and Resistance.
4 Phoenixes, 8 Firebirds, 54 Wyverns, 31 Vampire Lords, 9 Black Knights, and about 2200 Skeletons.
In general, we had roughly the same as in our first game, except that the heroes weren't as well-fed. And here it turned out that resistance to skeletons was very useful, and there were artifacts for resistance. First, they resisted an explosion of 4400 hit points (there was an Earth Sphere), then the expert slow spell didn't affect them, and at some point, I almost lost. We started playing checkers – we played until I had 10 Angels, 20 Manticores, and a battered stack of Wyverns – and he had a legion of skeletons. Any stack of skeletons killed in one hit – it was impossible to risk an explosion – they might resist or not. He casts a mass slow spell on me, I respond with a mass haste spell, and simultaneously raise the fallen stacks in safe intervals. And so on, several times.
We played for a long time – Galtran's mana started to run out. He chose a convenient moment, hit with an explosion, killing 10 Angels, and bought himself time with skeletons. I was left with 55 Wyverns and 20 Red Manticores. Although the losses were roughly comparable, he preserved his main stack – the skeletons, so I lost the battle strategically.
We jumped around a bit more, I destroyed the eighth Utopia, a very good one, found on the very edge of the respawn point, and on day 237, we had the final battle. There was nothing else to do on the map, and there was nowhere to gather an army.
Shakti level 25 (42, 29, 40, 27). 250 mana. 1 Angel, 20 Red Manticores, 54 Wyverns, 48 Combat Gnomes, 30 Grayed-out Archers, 80 White Centaurs, 8 Harpy-Witches.
Galtran level 25 (14, 28, 28, 20). 200 mana. 1 Ghost Dragon, 4 Black Knights, 6 Liches, 8 Vampire Lords, 8 Ghosts, about 2400 Skeletons.
I had an explosion of almost 5000 hit points, I could summon 160 Earth Elementals – in general, Shakti hoped to win. Galtran has a Cloak of Negation, goodbye explosion and elementals. Powerful lightning spells were resisted three times in a row by the skeletons. Finish, there was nothing to kill the skeletons with. Excellent game by my opponent, and my notorious intuition failed me.
Thank you very much for the game!
