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    4 heroes, two with ballistas: Gervulf and Pyrrhus. Sawmill captured, ore mine scouted, boars defeated with the loss of 4 gnolls. No idea what to build or how to hire wyverns.. A pile of sulfur is visible.

    The only path hit a wall of 50-99 nags... No clue where to look for secondary resources... But some kind of flag is visible. Charna found a gnoll hideout with a bit of gold and a water mill, but first and foremost, gold must be found; the hideout can wait, although if she stumbles upon a non-empty secondary resource, the gnolls from the hideout could help capture it.

    Turned out it wasn't a secondary resource, but two whole wyvern hideouts. Wyverns are built, but there is absolutely no money for purchasing.

    Both wyvern hideouts captured, but while capturing the second one, I stupidly lost one wyvern in a total noob move. Result: two wyverns, three not purchased, and no money—not even for some buildings, let alone for buying the three wyverns—but two suspicious medusa-related things are visible... And a monolith with a passage to who-knows-where behind a horde of lizards. Pyrrhus found a pile of gold, and I was able to build a market.

   
All gems and crystals exchanged for money. All wyverns purchased, basilisks built. Broghild wants to take one of the medusas.

   
D... she's level 8 :( lost 4 wyverns and all the gnolls, though only one lizard. But hope of building hydras has actually appeared. Charna is scouting; no secondary resources visible, but three piles of gold, a pile of crystals, a stable, and a cow hideout are visible. Building nothing, saving money for hydras.

   
Lost another wyvern while fighting for two piles of gold, but hydras are up! I think I finally found a village; Broghild is heading there, just needs to buy a book first.

   
GM1 built in the capital, Broghild with a book is heading to the village, which Charna riskily captured with two magic arrows and a snake, and she is moving along the path; all four exits from the respawn are known.

    Lox reveals a passage to another zone.

    But Papa heads toward the area with a Pandora's Box and 2 passages. He breaks through one of them.

    Lox enters and sees another dead-end village. Meanwhile, at home, a chain is set up to gather all growth and transport it through the castle gate to Papa.

    Growth from external dwellings and secondary heroes is funneled to the main hero, upgraded, portaled to Necropolis, and transferred via Pasis to Papa, capturing a village along the way. Papa then sits in a strong village, in front of which a guard gives him the coveted Haste!

    Papa makes another long march and sits in the blue (!) village. It seems the opponent was "lucky" with the map layout — the path to their home village is through rough terrain. Gnolls and Lizardmen haven't been recruited.

    A scout Lox sent reveals a Stable, an external dwelling of Beholders, an Observation Tower, and Crag Hack on a flyer near it.

    On her turn, Crag Hack chases away the scout and buys out the external dwelling of Beholders, but retribution in the form of Sinka with a Loga and Swamp growth catches up to her. After losing a flyer and a Beholder, Crag Hack buys his way out.

    Lox finds a rough terrain passage to the Blue player's respawn. And a Conservatory near it.

    Papa is defeated and runs to the main entrance, trying to force his way through the Guard Oblivion. You really shouldn't do what I did (placed Marik on 7 units of skeletons), but Brogh shows stats of 4-6-1-1, making it hard to hope for either breaking the GO or having Expert Tactics.

    Marik runs strictly along the path, only distracted by a Pandora's Box — 20 Air Elementals, something to feed the GO with.

    On his turn, Brogh emerges from the respawn, takes a Conservatory, and stands against a few Hydras, Angels, and Greater Lizardmen, as well as several Ducks.

    Marik, meanwhile, breaks through the GO of Phoenixes. This formation allows avoiding burns, blocking Gogs, and also enables all melee stacks to fight. Losses — 5 Dogs, 90 Imps, and part of the Air Elementals.

    Next, a second GO (60 Naga) falls with losses of single units, a couple of Loxes, and finally the opponent's castle with a bunch of unrecruited treasure inside. A surrender followed.

The day began with Fiona taking the crypt. The image shows the standard setup for crypts as Stronghold. Vamps (if any) kill one unit on the left, another removes the retaliation, and then wolves pile onto them. In the 2nd round, witches fall (preferably damage them in the 1st first), then skeletons fall in one hit, and for zombies it's preferable to save one unit for retaliation. Otherwise, shoot them with orcs until wolves can kill them in one hit.

The lackey scouts the stable, but it's a long way there, so Fiona returns the troops home.

The lackeys scatter, spotting various goodies.

And the father goes into the gnome dwelling. Tyraxor is a real specialist in gnome dwellings. Without morale, he can clear them up to maximum on 111 (with a normal distribution of wolves or fast offense upgrade to expert). But in this case, I had a brain fart—for some reason I took orcs with me (needed an extra unit for retaliation), and then stupidly put a unit under attack. As a result, I lost all the orcs and some gobs where I could have limited losses to 5 units. I even thought about taking a restart so this shame wouldn't make it into the report. But I resisted.

Because an external dwelling of wolves, birds, cyclops, and 2 pandoras was discovered, and the father spent the night in a gold mine, dropping extra troops into the garrison

Released the 7th hero in the last unexplored direction.

The lackey found 2 cyclops external dwellings—I'll take the bottom one, but I'll have to ignore the top one, it's just too far. Also a hive and boots of speed—also too far.

The second one found 2 hives (I'll take the bottom, and the top if possible) and a hell sword (I'll take it).

And the father messed up once again, leaving troops in the mine. Had to go back, losing tempo :(. With lackeys I took the crypt, wolf external dwelling, mill, cleared the guard from the cyclops external dwelling, set a chain to home—to upgrade wolves from the external dwelling and transport birds with orcs. The father spent the night in the crypt.

The father attacked 67 golems for a pandora, prudently giving away extra goblins—units will still be needed. Lost all orcs, all units, 1 bird and the wagon.

The pandora turned out to be 15K exp, Tyraxor significantly improved his self-esteem. It's just a pity that no decent skills were offered (speed first and foremost), had to grab wisdom, and earth here is clearly not the dream.

Right then 41 demons fell, wolves cut the stack in one hit, units were only required to spread stacks in different directions, gave away 3 of them. The pandora turned out to be 5K exp, gave navigation (useful but dangerous, scout might not make it).

Fiona with 2 cyclops from the external dwelling and 3 goblins went to scout the lower road. Saw already the 4th cyclops external dwelling, but behind a group of djinns, it's scary.

The lackey found 2 Dragon Utopia, but in such the middle of nowhere ...

Fiona reached the dungeon village, next to which 4 hives stand compactly (2 on screen and 2 further right). I'll need to visit here at the start of the 2nd week.

And on the upper road, money and another bird external dwelling were discovered. That's where the father headed.

Alamar meanwhile is preparing with blind to take the second cyclops external dwelling.

Fafner took the troops, cleared the road towards the center, saw and took the hippo external dwelling and returned the troops back

The father took the troops, visited the stadium and continued moving up.

And Fiona took the dungeon village, bought 2 cyclops in the portal and began cleaning up small guards.

The father took the 2nd bird external dwelling, dragon shield and passed troops to the lackey to take the village. But on the way a 3rd bird external dwelling was found.

The lackey takes the bird external dwelling, the village where another hero is bought, returns troops to the father, who goes to take back the hive and legion boots.

The hive turned out to be maximum, all the healing was easier. Prudently didn't take wolves. This, by the way, is Tyraxor's weakness on Jebus Cross—that hives have to be broken without the main striking stack.
As a result of the week, 7 dwellings with citadels were established at home, the following external dwellings were cleared: 1 hippo, 2 cyclops, 3 birds, 1 wolf, 3 gobs. Legion boots are staying at home. Everything is good except Tyraxor's leveling—leveled navigation to expert, nothing useful was offered still.

The father went to the center.

With such an army, ГО is defeated almost without losses.

The branch to the right is most likely either a castle or a side zone, so the father went deeper into the center. He's not distracted by trivial things like hives and small pandoras; Dragon Utopia, fat pandoras, relics, or the opponent are needed.
Got and pushed pastfight, scout still isn't here (they're mocking me). Decided not to smash the horde of monarchs on the last cell—maybe the opponent will run up, let him smash them himself.

The father smashes the monarchs, takes wings. Just flew over the dragons for the cuirass; it's not needed at all right now—it's just an extra +200 damage to light, which doesn't matter with such armies, unlike mass earth casts. And there would be losses on dragons, you can't cast mass word.
Decided not to get distracted by the castle, cleared the prison guard so that on the next turn a lackey could free the prisoner and he could take the castle. Ran further. The center is unusually thin... in search of anything at all, I even skip the ring and pendant of speed.

The father takes a pandora behind 2 fairies—15K exp, and with all experts as river the scout finally arrives! The opponent's respawn is visible.

Tyraxor smashes all guards and on the last cell settles in the castle. The scout just finishes leveling to expert, which allows crashing into the dungeon-village to double mana and back.
Release lackeys, take naga bank and bracers, slightly scout the territory.

The father, properly accelerated for the first time in the game, reaches Pyre with 6 archangels.

In the finale with bracers, blind and flies (prudently taken to remove anti-magic), with a lag in stats nothing would have helped anymore.