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Wic (red, Castle, Tyris, Shackty) def Javdet (blue, Rampart, Kyrre) @ 2sm4d(3), 122
It's common knowledge that grass vs grass gives blue a higher than average chance of a bad layout, so I didn't hesitate long between Inferno and Castle when choosing the town. And the game with morale/stack also played a role — Tyris doesn't worry about that, unlike Marique.
But the generator was especially harsh today, not only to blue, but also to red. We used all restarts including on encounter, the overall stats for native respawns — 1 Griffin Conservatory, 1 hive, 4 native external dwellings (of which 3 were in the only decent setup, which ended in a restart on encounter).
And, judging by blue's comments, his spawn was even worse — constantly hiding the sawmill somewhere, and his external dwellings were on the same level. Ironically, I was given Rampart external dwellings twice on my secondaries, but without Rampart they were, of course, of little use (we played with replacement of matching towns).
The final setup, when only encounter and block restarts remained, started phenomenally — a 10-tile road dead-ended into a stack of ogre magi guarding the passage to the neighboring respawn. So, forget about external dwellings, we need an encounter restart, hopefully it's a shifted ГО.
In the tavern — Sorsha, he becomes the main hero, from the money-makers Octavia, and Orrin brought a cart.
111 I break through the ogres — minus 3 griffins.
112 fork in the road, no one to scout the direction, all the heroes fell behind, I run right — a pack of diamond gargoyles, minus the remaining 3 griffins.
113 I run along the road, see an archer external dwelling. It only dawns on me now that the road has looped back to the native respawn, and apparently I'm running into ГО now.
The rush is off, especially since the neighboring secondary also turned out to be Castle, the town itself is replaced by Stronghold, and it's blocked by medusas, but there's a crusader external dwelling, nice.
115 I collect money, break crypts, also take the griffin external dwelling, gold is already 20K, no issues with building and buying.
116 I run towards Stronghold — with the cart and expert tactics, the medusas are unlikely to be a problem, but then a scout, who went down the first road to the end, discovers that it's not ГО, but a descent underground with 6K guards.
Time for an encounter restart is already lost, but there's a chance to rush on 117 or 121.
117 I give up on Stronghold, break through the nearest teleporter, send a hero inside, and he runs into an empty Rampart. A massive mistake by the opponent — there's a teleporter right under the town behind a magma golem stack, and it wasn't broken through until 116.
I build a castle in Rampart, buy the remaining troops (8 dwarves, 5 pegasi, and 3 centaurs), and place a hero inside. The main hero runs further, chases away the enemy hero, and opens the view — the respawn is small, no blue heroes visible, most likely they ran to the neighboring stone respawn.
121 max credit, buy almost everything, check the Rampart surroundings with heroes — no mines. The main hero runs along the only road.
122 I reach Stronghold, inside the citadel is Crag Hack with all his power — behemoths, birds, and whatever Rampart stuff remained, cyclops aren't greased.
In principle, I didn't have to attack — at home, troops are not bought out, Sorsha has no spell book, and the road is a dead end, meaning Crag Hack isn't going anywhere, he'll come out sooner or later.
But, after thinking for a couple of minutes, I decided to take the town by storm anyway — the citadel shouldn't have time to kill many marksmen before its ballista destroys it. And in the worst case, if I have to retreat, I have something to buy — the Rampart growth plus the remnants of my own, while the opponent doesn't.
Actually, the battle wasn't particularly interesting — stats were equal, but Sorsha had too great an advantage in power. The only hope was that I could take down the capitol before it destroyed the citadel or the gate. But the opponent apparently didn't even think in that direction.
Thanks for the game!
