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Lord De Sat (red, undead, Zoltan) def. Arandor (blue, academy, Ora)
What can I say? Not the best game in my career. We played for about 4 months. During that time, I amassed a decent army, and I even got lucky with a week of liches. But the artifacts were just terrible. The best thing I had was a couple of dwarven items. At the beginning of the game, I had a scroll of antimagic lying around near my castle, plus I had evasion in the guild, but I never got light magic, even though that would have fundamentally changed the course of the battle. In general, the final battle was just awful for me, especially when 12 titans took down 24 messengers with a single attack. And in general, in the middle of the battle, Ar activated and took down my fighters (although there weren't many of them) and the remaining messengers. Then he focused on the vampires. He finished them off too. In general, I was a bit stunned by this turn of events; even with luck, I didn't think magic users could do that. But still, I had too much meat for him, even though he was casting counterspells, trying to resurrect something, and casting divine spells.
Well, that's it. Vegtam, did I win or what?

Yes, the battle was tough. At first, I thought I would lose completely, but as the battle progressed, I fought quite well. Despite the fact that my opponent had two or even three times more troops than me (for example, I had 60 Djinns, and he had 150 Liches, or my 70 Mages against 200 Vampires. He had over 1,000 Skeletons, a bunch of Zombies and Ghosts) and his stats were around 20. I collected several items from the Dragon set, the entire Lion set, and other trinkets, including a ring with 20% Intuition and two rings with 10% (it's a pity you can't wear everything at once). At the last moment, I decided to put on the Lion set so that my hero could move as often as possible and have time to cast spells, and then cast a counterspell or resurrect someone. Besides, I had three types of resurrection spells, hehe. I upgraded Light, but it's a pity I didn't get Holy Word, otherwise I would have done something amazing)). During the battle, I made a couple of mistakes, but how can you avoid them? =\ As for the game in general, at the beginning, the game didn't go very well. I lost some Mages, Gargoyles, and other units little by little. Besides, I was underground, =(
Oh, I thought I would run to the Castle so that he would besiege it; I would have had a chance there, but I didn't feel like doing that and sitting there like a coward. And that was a mistake; next time, I will definitely run away :3

If the artifacts and spells were decent, I wouldn't hesitate to attack a town. And your build wasn't exactly optimal, Ar. Though, the artifacts are top-notch.

Mages are generally quite powerful.

Lord_De_Sat (blue, Academy, Ora) def Ment (red, Haven, Axel)

I wouldn't say so. And Ar actually played very well; I was even surprised that mages could be so strong. If he had leveled up a bit differently, he might have even defeated me.
And the map didn't favor Arandor's victory.

There are too many coincidences for them not to lose. Although it depends on the opponent.

It's a pity I didn't record the replay. Although there's not much to see there. Ar was right – I had a ton of liches, vampires, and so on. But I still don't understand how 12 Titans could defeat 24 Messengers, even with luck, considering that the Messengers' defense was roughly equal to the Titans' attack, plus they had evasion and were standing at a safe distance. I even thought that Ar started using cheats, because after the game, I carefully calculated everything and found out that it shouldn't have happened that way.

The Messengers were under direct attack. I also upgraded the ranged attack skill, and added bonuses from the dragon set to the 7th-level creatures, and maybe something else. Too bad I didn’t buy the bow in the castle; then I could have shot directly at everyone. I only took that stupid hammer with +3 attack =[br][/br]
Vissy, mages are strong) we’ll play together sometime.

Mages are useless! They can’t do anything properly.

Unjustified hatred from a Dungeon player.

Lord_De_Sat (blue, Academy, Ora) def Ment (red, Haven, Axel)

I wouldn't say so.Funny. If I'm not mistaken, you, Lord, were using some not-so-nice words about mages when we were playing together.

Heh:D That's how he cheered them on:D No, actually, Arandor plays better as a mage.

Congratulations to Lord_de_Sat on winning the tournament! Unfortunately, no prizes are planned for the winner. Therefore, I'm removing the topic from the important ones.

Hey guys, let's chip in and buy Satu a chocolate bar!

I was rooting for Arandor. (Congratulations on the victory!)