Posts from "The Art of Strategy," a section for reports.

lady revan(red, undead, Orson) defeated Flash_RUS (blue, elves, Anven) day 3, week 3, month 2.
Started with Zoltan, found Orson in the tavern. Decided to develop Orson. Had relatively good luck with leveling up, reached level 20, as usual, visited the town for spells, and continued traveling. The only thing was that I couldn't find the spell I needed, "Unholy Word," anywhere. I thought it was better not to search the Treasury and decided not to waste time. I decided to surprise my opponent and attack their town. At the Guild of Heroes portal, I killed 135 messengers, eliminated all the neutral creatures in that area, gained a level, and headed towards my opponent's town. On the way, I encountered Talanar and decided to kill him too. Then, I sent Ravenna on a scouting mission (to find out where the town was) and attacked in the same turn. I captured the town, and after 4 days, Anven came to me. I was standing near the portal. Anven was well-developed; my liches were immediately defeated. Then, Anven started resurrecting troops and casting a general speed-up spell. In response, I cast "Dominate" on the emeralds. Anven tried to remove it. If "Dominate" had been removed on the first turn, I would have probably lost; the dragons were dealing a lot of damage. I had to position the dragons on the corpses so that my opponent couldn't resurrect them.
But I got lucky. Here's the replay of the battle. Flash_RUS, thank you very much for the interesting game!
Orson, level 28, 5-19-36-27
3 races
3 Logistics - pathfinding
3 Education - mana attraction, decipher secret, magical reward
3 Sorcery - secret knowledge, secret advantage, wisdom
3 Dark Magic - master of pain, master of mind
3 Defense - resilience, deafening defense, reflection.

Vip.rus (humans, Vittorio) defeated Lok1978 (humans, Rutger) week 6

First I went into some empty zone, ended up wasting 2 weeks and was only level 8( Went into another adjacent zone, there were a bunch of artifacts, a shop, solved the money problem) When I built archers, everything went smoothly, they all fell. But I thought I was falling far behind, because the log was offered at the end of week 4, I didn't take it, took luck as the 5th skill. In the zone next to the adjacent one I saw a ring of initiative under heavy guard, portaled there on week 4, hurray, it turned out to be a treasure zone!!! Barely won the ring, over 200 wyverns and tons of chaff, and then it was almost on autopilot, leveled up to 29 there, got stacked with artifacts, I see a miner in the ГО popped out, portaled home. The miner popped out on my side and ran headfirst into my fully prepared army) In the end we fought in the ГО, thanks to the opponent for not hiding in town, since he was training monks and I was training cavalry. In the end over 60 cavalry decided everything almost in one go. Thanks for the game, Lok!

Xodyn (Red, Academy, Razazak) def immortal (Blue, Fortress, Ingvar) 2-3-4

moz (red, elves, Wilraen) defeated eldarmoon (blue, Necropolis, Zoltan) 1-4-3

Leolopus (Fortress, Dwarves, Red) lost to alex_nv (Vlad, Necropolis, Blue) 2-2-7
Undead are undead :)
In the second week, he broke through to a resource location, in the third week, he took one center at the beginning and another at the end, at the beginning of the 5th week, he reached the Grand Order, and at the end of the 6th week, he reached the opponent's Castle. The Dwarves ventured out to a deserted center once but didn't wander around without logistics.
That's all.
Vlad, level 28, 19 21 24 16(190) -1 1
3 Racial - all
3 Summoning - Life and Elemental Balance
3 Dark - Mind and Curses
3 Logistics - Path of War
3 Defense - Grave Cold
3 Education
There was also Lucretia, level 21, 15 10 20 8 0 0
Thank you to my opponent for his patience and the game! He had to wait for me all the time :smile43:

maksar (red, Barbarian, Haggash) defeated Flash_RUS (blue, demon, Alastor) 2 week 3 month

It was an unusually long game. Haggash was available in the tavern, so I leveled her. Everything went fine until week 6, when due to the 8-minute timer expiring, I couldn't transfer the army to Haggash in the center of the map (I only transferred the wyverns and some warmongers). As luck would have it, zero-level Crag immediately got attacked by a higher-level Alastor. Although the enemy had almost no troops, the berserker (on the centaurs) did its job. Only the cyclopes and centaurs remained from my army (and not even all of them), while the opponent lost very little. I thought about giving up (Flash_RUS talked me out of it). Upset, I ran wherever my eyes led me (thankfully, logistics and the boots + path of war allowed it). I expected the opponent to visit me any day, but he didn't come; he was hanging around the center. Over a couple of weeks of wandering, I plundered everything I saw, gathered artifacts, and reached level 30. After that, I gated home, picked up troops, and went to the opponent via GO. I was surprised not to see him in the castle (turns out he simply didn't have enough mana). After destroying 2 populations, I met Alastor a week later. I needn't have feared mind control and berserker — the opponent's army was far too small. Thanks for the game.