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“From many, one” vs “3 torn down towers”:
wowa (Conflux, random, Monya) def Decontaminator (Rampart, Kiryukha) 146, @2sm4d(3), fast roads
I ran into a Rampart double-build, which actually pushed my opponent to visit me at the start of week 3, breaking through the ГО [Guardian Object?] of fairies (with a tome of earth from the underground treasure zone and a ton of mana from the dungeon, it’s a good thing, especially since they took an external dwelling of fens on barbarian land next to the Rampart secondary))))
but while Kirry was running around my former domain, trying to reach my secondaries in one turn with boots and gloves, Monya was calmly clearing the same barbarian treasure zone with pathfinding, where on my side there were as many as 2 parrot external dwellings! :D
and at the respawn of external dwellings in week 1, I didn’t find any at all, which is rare for Conflux (later I only found a butterfly generator), but the parrots were placed in the Citadel, and even though I spent the whole week running with a quickly melting starting army, I still took the Castle secondary, breaking through several shooter blocks along the way and, for dessert, hell hounds – to break through them I even had to return to the well
I ended the week at a dwarf dwelling near home; on week 2 I immediately ran from it to the swamp, the passage to which was guarded by a pack of upgraded medusas
from the swamp, after capturing a bull external dwelling along the way, I split back into the Castle and, distracted by a Griffin Conservatory (minimal, unfortunately), I broke into the treasure zone, where the edge of a phoenix generator was revealed ;)
but as I already wrote, there turned out to be 2 of them!!! :) for the 2nd one, I spared no expense, breaking through without tactics against upgraded efreet (good thing birds don’t take damage from the shield))) but I still lost one along with an angel, and carelessly lost the 2nd one to my own by misclicking and standing in the fire blast :(
but in the process I also farmed some ducks; the noobs dug up a Dragon Utopia – I’m preparing to take it at the start of week 3, but then near the ГО I see Kirry sped up ;) he was standing quite far away, apparently the ground sight was calculated exactly for running distance, but my respawn’s sight revealed the cunning plan – I retreat and pull out everything except the water elementals :)
next turn we’re without a capital, but with a decent pack of birds, a small amount of ducks, and after a feast, we dive into a three-spell setup – shield for 4, blue cap, and water relic
but mana is at zero (thanks to the artifact +3 points per day trickling into shield, fortunately earth magic is maxed)
to the Castle (next to which is the well) there’s a chain ready to pull the treasure there, but then the noobs reveal the rooftops of 2 more Dragon Utopias))) over a couple of days – while Kiryukha, on the long winding roads, first fails to reach the Castle and then the swamp, and, failing to reach it, immediately portals into my former Conflux – I clear both of them, preserving the birds and geese (I didn’t take the pea-shooters with me either)))
the split was against snipers without tactics :D :D I even wanted to sacrifice a parrot, but decided that with defense over 20 and armor on the goose, a couple of surviving earth elementals and a butterfly wouldn’t harm me – and so it turned out :)
from the Castle I run to the well and jump to the opponent (the plan was for him to attack and trade, while the treasure in the swamp remained untouched) and so it happened – they reached me, apparently, by the last cell))))))) then a shootout of battlecruisers from implosion-main caliber (but mine is bigger) with a torpedo attack by parrots, who were immediately tied up, jumped on, and blown up 2 more times
I, having killed all the centaurs, elves, pegasi, and most of the unicorns, buy back the ducks while the last bird is still alive)))
then from the swamp I take the 4th Dragon Utopia of the game (before that I messed up and didn’t put in the resource – I couldn’t upgrade the bulls, didn’t even take them) – the minimal reward pleased me for dessert: a bag of gold and a necklace for the admiral’s set, but a sphere of the elements [Earth] dropped – our main caliber even more main :D
from the Utopia through virgin land I aim for home, and the next turn, having upgraded and finally brought in the bulls, I recapture the capital – Kirry wasn’t there
at night he attacks again – a few pegasi, 7 surviving unicorns, some wood, and 80 dwarves that didn’t participate in the FF1, led by 6 parrots
mana was replenished as blue, but 2 consecutive implosions on the wood hit the unicorns’ aura; the treacherous pegasi make it clear there won’t be enough shots for everyone now – I cast summon; then Kirry, blocking the gate, shoots his mana, killing the geese and bulls; I drop crap into the moat, and on the last turn, when the opponent has a single stack of surviving wood, I haste them – and they deal minimal damage; Kirry flees(((((((
my turn – all mana spent :( we rest for a day, build a chain from the swamp, where the surviving parrot (not taken to the 4th Utopia :) hangs out; from the barbarian treasure zone, Gela with an antimagic scroll splits off (I specifically checked the rules to make sure 3rd level can be used without building))) and finally, sending the noob ahead, we push into the elven domain: besides the fen, a pack of shooting storms and herrings, a bunch of butterflies for show, and a couple of monks
at night I put on red boots instead of all-by-2, and then, naturally, Kiryukha attacks on the white centaur singles – but no luck, antimagic on the parrot, and either drop a battle on the rest and wait for round 2, or just flee: I decided to thin them out with meteors anyway, but in round 2, the turn still didn’t come for Kirry!
GG, huge thanks to the opponent for a sharp and exciting game))))))
