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twaryna (blue, Inferno, Marbas + Grok) defeated Vip.rus (red, Necropolis, Lucrecia) on Labyrinth, 2-3-1
Epic game:) The start was good - Deleb + Marbas and 4 water elementals in the elemental conduit - living the dream, but Vip took a restart. We decided to stick with the same map. The second time the hand was also decent - Grol + Grok + Sinitar, and on the second day Marbas showed up, whom I assigned as the main hero, with Grok as the secondary. That's basically where all the good stuff ended. Grok wasn't getting any war machines for a long time, the respawn was tight, and resources and gold were catastrophically scarce. Barely breaking the garrison on day 7, I was overjoyed - only devils! Spent my last gold to buy one, and Grok went to take down a dwelling with it, which turned out to be the upgraded one. That was one of the key moments. My war machines were only upgraded without perks at that point, and if I had lost that fight, I definitely wouldn't have been able to turn the game around, since the deficit in finances and resources was catastrophic. But it all ended well. The adjacent zones weren't encouraging though - very poor, and I was lagging far behind in development and economy... By the 4th month I was already expecting a Necropolis player to visit, and the tavern stats were almost one and a half times higher than mine. At the end of the month I broke my GO - the Necropolis player wasn't there. I ran off to look for the treasure zone. Finally found it only in the second week of the second month; luckily the Necro player wasn't in a hurry to pressure me, and that was a mistake. In the treasure zone I took a Dragon Utopia - it gave me Sandro's Cloak and a couple of other worthwhile artifacts. It was dark, and I wanted to set up a berserk surprise. Time was on my side... Throughout the whole game, I was leveling up the hit-and-run cockroaches Sinitar and Ora. I slipped up at one point and exposed both of them to the Necro player in the same turn - had to sacrifice Ora - he took out 16 vampires (resist triggered) and 54 skeletons over 2 fights - not much, but still satisfying) I fed a bit in the treasure zone, and finally the Necro player showed up through the GO - I was ready and pulled off a hit-and-run with Sinitar using the 24 spell... That became the finish:) 1K skeletons were slowly taken down; imo Vip was too greedy - could have spread out 150 skeletons. Then we tried a rematch for fun - I had no luck with resist (the Necro was on Chaos) and I lost. But that's just a side note:) Thanks for the game!