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12.02.2012. Pit for LM (red, Conflux, random Moon, Moon) def Gomunguls (blue, Rampart, Kyri, Kyri), Jebus Cross, 216.
First, the opponent took 3 restarts in a row for the first day, even though I seemed to have a decent map, plenty of starting troops (twice – 2 native heroes, useful external dwellings before the castle), and convenient stables. Then I took 111 – everything was just too blocked and money was scarce, then – 112 (the heroes were good, I captured the gold mine, saw a hive, conservatory, stable – but on the second day I found inconvenient blocks on both roads, a lack of gold, and no external dwellings). Out of restarts – had to play whatever I was given.
It must be said that Moon haunted me in every generation – so now she dropped as a starter. The start was very tough, but as it turned out by the middle of the second week and later (when it came down to Dragon Utopia on respawn), quite decent.
111 – roads are average, air is built up, entire army – 11 airs, 50 fairies, and 7 gargoyles. The road down is blocked by wyverns behind a hive and Pandora; I'm heading east. No money, 4 heroes. I see 4 hives – at least that's something.
112 – somehow bought a fifth hero. Moon hit orcs, of which there are clearly many, guarding a quest artifact +1 morale.
113 – orcs eat 2 airs (turned out to be nearly 40), then the wall burns demons and griffins. Captured armor +2 to spell power. Fire is advanced – can now hit 10-19 wyverns. Bought two more heroes – Septienna and Galtran, who later became very useful.
114 – Moon broke back home for mana. Took a Rampart village; there the watchtower showed the presence of a hive and conservatory. Saw a stable not far from ГО, nearby is a Dragon Utopia, slightly further – an external dwelling of mind elementals.
115 – finally 8 heroes. Killing wyverns – in Pandora there are 90 fairies... Conservatory 3-4, you just can't take it by walling. ГО is very unpleasant – archangels, but next to them is another hive. Found one more Dragon Utopia as well.
116 – captured a cloak +2+2 to magic, beat the guard of the second hive, not going inside yet. Moon burned naggs in a bank, unfortunately, a minimal one. And scouting showed the presence of an earth book and earth orb. Only thing is Moon grabbed air...
117 – thinking for a long time how to take Pandora with 50-100 gr. gargoyles, but bringing birds isn't working out, and I don't want to risk it without them – and correctly so, as it turns out, there are nearly 100 of them, and the reward is level 3. Moon spends the night at the stable. Galtran takes the psych external dwelling and heads for the book. The guard is just wonderful, gr. ghosts.
121 – Moon takes the first hive (4) and breaks to secondary for mana replenishment and storming the conservatory. Galtran easily takes the book behind a hundred ghosts. Gelar discovers on the way a helmet +6 to all for 20 ifrits and a hive nearby. And Calch finds a very convenient exit via off-road into the desert through normal guards (black knights).
122 – in a chain I take two hives (12+8), then with Moon the conservatory (3) almost without losses.
123 – another maximum hive. Here, perhaps, I make a mistake, moving Moon to ГО with one bird. Should have given her an angel – then on the next turn she would have landed to replenish mana in the city. And with a rather weak and two-cell bird, I didn't dare attack 50+ knights... Oh well, the army is with Galtran, who is running for the helmet. An Inferno village was taken.
124 – helmet captured, Moon is at ГО. The opponent meanwhile moved to the center, but parameters aren't particularly high yet.
125 – hive, maximum again, earth orb, maximum naga-bank where Septienna leveled up advanced earth, portal, bringing the army to Moon – she hits 3 archangels of ГО, Pikedram occupies Rampart. Only 39 mana remains – but I can't waste a whole turn... Running along the road – and there is Kyri. Short by three cells to attack, although there are countless troops there... Well, an explosion for 2400 – that's minus one stack, parameters are comparable, 50 wyv should have managed. The opponent, apparently fearing magic, runs away, leaving the remains of the poor center to me.
126 – I take the sentinel's shield and portal for mana to the central Rampart. Set a chain to take the Dragon Utopia.
127 – losing a couple of wyv and some others, Iona got sandals +2 to all and an fire book. With Armageddon for 1200 it's already easier, going on the attack.
131 – thinking for a long time whether to bring the army, in the end I guess wrong – the opponent's city turns out to be very close, while I have growth.
132 – I take Inferno. Scouting reports that there is nothing in the center. Therefore, I break home to buy earth and visit the stable. Septienna portals the army there as well, and Enian takes the Dragon Utopia, which turns out to be excellent, with a shield +4 to all and a sword +5 to all. Now I can assemble the alliance – the armor seems to be above the city, and the necklace is in the desert.
133 – after beating the hive guard, Moon gets advanced earth. Now double ГО will fall without losses. Built an artifact market – and there's armor +1 all – won't have to run a distance of about two days off-road.
134 – Septienna takes a minimal Dragon Utopia without losses, and there, as if ordered, is the only remaining necessary artifact – air book. I get 6 wyverns in the hive, hit a mountain of monsters, leveling up earth and logistics, assemble the alliance, then take a couple more hives in the desert and land to replenish mana in the central castle. Now finally there is air vision and it's possible to track what the blues are doing. And they went to the western respawn...
135 – short by 1 cell on the road to finish the game... Why did I even fight for and take Pandora for 15k exp? Advanced spellcasting was given anyway... But Moon's move length is impressive – 3k with ДД – that's just countless.
136 – opp takes a Dragon Utopia, city and portals home. I take the Dungeon, send out scouting. Portal to the center and go on the attack against the elf respawn – because neither parameters nor Kyri's army are impressive. Saved here.
137 – continued after a day. I take the elf capital, everything seems fine, but due to two unlucky prisons I completely lose control over the left zone, they take the dungeon and drive away all heroes.
141 – further it was very hard and bad to play, Kyri has 4500 moves and ДД, I have only 3000 with ДД. Visited the stable, went for the anti-resist orb. Opp took the capital back, without growth.
142 – I cannot reach Kyri, who is one cell from her city (not yet, until 211, when I finally got speed artifacts), so I broke through to the right Rampart respawn, took 2 angels in the cons and 8 wyv in the hive. Opp didn't do much, ate a prison in the center.
143 – I take a hive with 6 wyv, a Dragon Utopia on respawn with junk. After this I make a huge mistake, portal to my capital to sell artifacts, and instead of entering the city, I fly out of it on the last moves. And the army remained in the central Inferno, where Kyri can reach in one day... I move them wherever I can. Got lucky, opp apparently didn't notice such a gift, ran past the inferno and killed ГО on the right respawn.
144 – don't remember what Moon did... Ah, yes, took a cloak +2 to speed. She finished her turn in the right Rampart, which was managed to be taken from neutrals with a small elven growth. Opp took my inferno-village in the top right corner of the map. Bad.
145 – I take the Dragon Utopia on the right respawn, spend the night in the capital just in case, lest they decide to attack it via yesterday's village. Set a chain to return the village. Opp goes to the right respawn, portaling there from their south-eastern village, occupies the strongpoint, takes the Dragon Utopia. Armies and parameters are slowly evening out...
146 – I return the village without using Moon. Find and take another Dragon Utopia on the right respawn. Kyri runs through territory already eaten by me.
147 – need to deprive of growth, spend the night in the field in the middle between central Inferno and Rampart capital, near the stable. Opp takes the central Inferno.
211 – I take the capital, move growth further away, spend the night at my home. Lucky, buy boots at the artifact market and find gloves. Kyri is used to retake her own capital.
212 – Moon has the gloves. Now it will be easier. I take central inferno. I mess up by not buying out the dwarves in the right Rampart, and the opponent's mage takes it. Kyri portals there and goes around the captured Dragon Utopia.
213 – decide that killing a serious opponent mage is an important matter, spend Moon's turn on this, take opp's capital. Kyri wandered around the right Rampart, finding nothing much.
214 – I take the upper village on the right respawn, free Grindan along the way. Spend the night in opp's capital. Kyri takes the village on her turn.
215 – I take the right Rampart. Kyri takes her capital and... stays there for the night. Hurrah, FB!
Moon (29, 24, 36, 30 (511)), expert wisdom, fire, air, mind, logistics, earth, sorcery and advanced literacy, 73 wyv, 5 angels, 28 psychs, 65 ice, 218 fairies, 2 gold dragons, 16 birds, Angelic Alliance, cloak of speed, books of fire, air and earth (the last one – with amplifier), sphere of resolution; Kyri (34, 18, 14, 11 (298)), expert archery, logistics, earth, water, attack, pathfinding, defense, advanced wisdom, 40 elves, 58 battle unicorns, 69 wyverns, 1 gold dragon, 3 angels and 12 ifrits, cloak of renunciation, +1 speed, lightning charm, +1 morale, shackles of war, books of earth and water, resist boots.
The battle was won very easily – after mass-shield I took out the angels with ice bolt, dragons with angels, elves with birds. In the second round mass-defense from water started – I used mass-haste and killed ifrits with wyverns. In the third round – wait, opp – mass-skin, me – blind on unicorns, and at the start of the fourth – blind on wyv. Then my wyv hit without answer, and blindness is cast again on the ice ones' turn. I have as much mana as I want, no army would have helped there... A red orb could have helped (which, by the way, was there, but fortunately – far away) or something like a mass-haste tactic.
Thanks for the game.
Javdet
