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KostyaN (red, random Castle, random Aedel, Monere) def Drake22 (blue, Rampart, Ivor, Kyrre), 2sm4d(3), 211.
How arrogant I've become, however: I myself still have much to learn, yet I've taken it upon myself to train newcomers :D . The main thing is I won once again without a finisher and not without the generator's help :rolleyes: ... In one of the generations I got a random Dungeon (like I gave him a handicap - myself random, Yuri any choice) and I, without a miner, ran underground quite decently for 3 days with Arlach the artilleryman and by week 1 day 1-3 had 25 Beholders, but they banned that jackpot for me :((. In the end I got Castle without Valkyrie and Tyris.
111. 4 heroes - Monere as the main, I managed to lose 4 Pikemen and the single Archer on 90 Gnolls (morale, damn it :mad: ) - that's not surprising, given that the Archers aren't built naturally, and from the second "power" hero (Calh) came a measly 9 Gogs - well, where do I put them :smile50: :smile32: ? I checked the tree for +level, it's paid and on the way to the Griffin Conservatory I almost bumped my head (a day of failures basically!).
112. only enough money for an upgrade of 19 Archers, and thanks to that maneuver the main's tempo is lost, he's still level 1 :smile18: , and also while scouting with Aedel I forgot to cast Bless on the Archers, which cost me another couple of Pikemen...
113. + 5th hero Fafner the Scholar, from scouting I see this setup: on the road to Inferno - almost 50 Orc Chieftains, the other way - unclear, but there's a Griffin Conservatory and a stable on the road and a Crypt as well, I also cleared a Dwarf Cottage with resources from almost 100 Zombies, but haven't checked it yet, no treasure zones visible, but with such a setup (I forgot to mention a +3 Sword visible behind Griffins, a tree behind Mega Liches, and a Dragon Utopia with a Breastplate +1 to everything behind 100+ Hags) - it's bad to take a restart! right away in the max Crypt, due to stupidity, I lose 7 out of 19 Marksmen (I mis-weighed :smile40: ), but the Pikemen are almost intact - not bad...
114. 6th hero, cleared the Griffin Conservatory, but didn't check it, Monere level 4 with Earth.
115. in the army I have 10 Marksmen left, 6 Gogs and 20 Pikemen with their single-unit stacks, but I fought through to the wasteland past 28 upgraded Dogs and almost reached an empty Dungeon; I checked everything: Griffin Conservatory - 3-4, Dwarf Cottage - 20 for sure, too early...
116. the Dungeon is mine, Monere - expert Logistics, but not sped up for the 2nd day :o ; no treasure zones visible, not even the smallest ones, not there nor there :eek: :(
117. budget construction option - Cavaliers in the Fort, and in the Dungeon - instead of a thousand Beholders I built Harpies, because there's a shortage of Archers; the main managed at level 6 to grab with these leftovers.
121. 7th hero brought Monere a Cavalier and upgraded it, he's hanging around by the stable, a couple of moves short.
122. 8th hero (I'm lucky - 2 native ones came and both with Archery!), the main is raging on native turf for now with small stuff (thanks to 2 markets and a ton of wood I managed to buy everything at home except Swords - even traded not at zero).
123. happiness unexpectedly fell on my head: I thought to drive away a horde of Angels from 2 chests, but they not only wanted to fight, but also lined up as a single stack of 71 pairs of wings and didn't weigh, and of course lost morale, result: minus 10 Marksmen, c'est la vie you know... Monere level 8 with basic Archery and Armorer, good.
124. the main went to establish order on the wasteland, at home I clumsily sold a Monk, in the secondary - a thousand finally)).
125. I decided, so as not to stall and not to lose weak units, to leave Monere only with the speed-stack of 2+2 Champions and - for 3 Crypts, I handled the first 2 easily (minimums), upgraded the Harpies, let even the scout heroes feel like sped-up humans!
126. the max Crypt on the wasteland forced me to change the 2+2 formation to 1+1+1, well screw it)), but now we have Knowledge 6 aiming for 120 mana from the Dungeon - that's for potential Mass Slow; money thanks to nimble scout-vacuums is already, for me, a ton, but to Angels it's still somehow far off...
127. as always - I blundered: to buy the 9th Gurney with a Ballista, I put Aedel in the Dungeon, ran there with Monere to read a scroll, built a mana doubler, and she, to my great joy, doubled Aedel's mana :p (this is from the category "noobs burn" :D ), at home I only built Monks with the Castle, but I also left some money for some buying ;); the main at level 10 also took Artillery, combat stats currently 8-5 without artifacts affecting them.
131. bought 21 upgraded Beholders, doubled mana, took a ring +1 to Health at the Dungeon doorstep.
132-133. long pre-Griffin Conservatory buying and speed-up maneuvers, Monere finally camps at the Griffin Conservatory, already checked as a kamikaze level 3, but still without the acquired power...
134. the process is underway)): +3 guys with Mass Slow and army
1 Pikeman - 1 Pikeman
40 Marksmen - 21 Beholders - 1 Pikeman
105 Pikemen - 7 Champions
with terrible, for Mass Slow, losses of 6 Pikemen and a ton of mana; Water in the second-to-last slot, 12th level, I decide to split the army into 1+1+1 - Angel with the main and the rest with the scouts, took that Dwarf Cottage 20.
135. +3 Sword, I run towards the Inferno spawn, hoping to find a passage to the Elves there, because I'm too lazy to beat the Griffin Conservatory (few Archers, no Tactics - losses guaranteed even with Slow).
136. max Hive with an army of 4 single-unit Pikemen and 3 - Angels with the dumbest 1st cast of Stone Skin instead of Slow without Angel losses, although 1 of them in the 1st round was attacked by 5 and left with about 60 HP.
137. Yuri first surrendered, because he lost a lot and had no tempo left - which is why instead of building Angels (I already had 20000) I bought, messing around, 16 upgraded Crusaders (not needed at all yet) - and went on 140 Hags with a third upgraded (understandably, without losses), but then we decided to continue, well, we'll manage without native Angels ;) ; Monere also reached level 15 (expert Artillery) without treasure zones and chests yet))); I took Inferno, but due to confusion with continuing the game with the main and 3 other scout heroes I didn't reach it, well screw it, we weren't playing for a cow anyway); I'm already splitting the army into 3 parts: Wyverns with Beholders separately with the 3rd assistant.
141. Gurney with human power cleared an interesting scouting area, showing in the passage to the opponent 2 consecutive Griffin Conservatories - his mouth is watering ;)) - I think to move the main forces there.
142-143. on closer inspection it turned out those Griffin Conservatories are behind an impassable cliff and without any Dimension Doors or Flights we have no chance of getting there :mad: , I had to dig into the nearest underground, which turned out to have a Necropolis secondary town and quite an extensive treasure zone...
144. maneuvering, I take Necropolis and scout in the treasure zone 3 trees in a row - super :smile03: ! power slowly starts creeping in from all cracks...
145. another max tree (LUCK!!!), Water expert.
146. another mini already + a quest artifact (but damn, it's far to carry it), 3rd little tree with a Pandora's Box behind a whole mob of Black Dragons, so I feel sorry for the troops (and I don't even have Wisdom yet), I cleared some Gloves, but didn't reach the square.
147. the power merged... meaning into one, not to zero - on neutrals :D (including all from the Dungeon), I took without Archers against 2 fat stacks of Nomads +15% to shooting (and yet on the map behind simple guards 2 components of the Angelic Wings are visible, another week - and I'd have assembled it for sure, even if at opposite ends).
211. Guarding another tree (almost 50 Cyclops with 9 Kings) I lose 3 Wyverns - the bastards didn't react to a setup of Harpies, but it, already just indecently, turns out to be the 3rd max :eek:; I take a Pandora's Box behind 50 Wyverns, having already advanced Wisdom - but it's only for 10000 experience instead of some magic... Then the final word of surrender arrives, due to lack of prospects. Oh well...
Thanks for the game, Yuri! don't be upset - next time a normal setup will come your way too :) .
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