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Cunning Dragon vs Cerberus round 1 group B
24.09.2013 darkello (blue, random, Inferno, Kalth, Tazar (Nagash)) def sanin (red, random, Boloto, Gervylf, Enova) 8mm6a 234
Very decent respawn: three Griffin Conservatories, two external dwellings of flies, and one of lizards. I killed the Tower player's main in the end of week 1, Solmyr was waiting for me there with his lightning bolts. I built Hydras in Fortress at home.
At the start of week 2, I began capturing the Griffin Conservatories. It just so happened that Enova took them, even though there was also a decent Broghild available. But Enova immediately got good advancements: Defense, Attack, and Earth magic. The Conservatories were taken rather clumsily, but thanks to good defense (I also had a +4 Shield) I managed to capture them without losing the Hydras and without losing all the lizards. True, I lost everything else: the flies, the wyverns, the basilisks. Oh well, I left the respawn with eight Angels. I also had a rather awkward central zone with several dead-end one-way portals that didn't lead to any other zones at all, so it wasn't immediately clear how to get out of there.
I pushed further, captured five more Griffin Conservatories, and the Angel count became 16. The Pandora's Box gave me 110 Gremlins. I upgraded them in the Tower and sent them to clear my corner treasure zone. I took the Dragon Utopia in the opponent's central zone, then the maximum-level spot in the corner treasure zone. I lost two Hydras, which was a shame. The box gave a Haven Shield and KZ. It wasn't very clear what to do next, so I invaded the opponent and took his main on day 2 of week 1, which was no longer his main.
And then suddenly Tazar revealed stats higher than mine. Dimension Door was built in my tower, but Wisdom wasn't maxed. I went to level up Wisdom, after which I started jumping from my corner underground treasure zone. I jumped to another max-level Dragon Utopia, which gave me a Titan's Cuirass, Wings, and a Potion of Immortality. Now, I thought, I need to attack before the opponent finds the red orb. Too bad Air magic isn't maxed — if it were, it would have been GG, because on day 2 of week 2 the opponent leaves all his army in Kalid and his birds in Rion. But Enova was one move short of reaching Kalid, so I had to strike Rion, which immediately bought itself back. The next turn I attacked Tazar, managed to kill all the Angels, and the Wyverns' resistance kicked in.
Well, after that there wasn't much left to take. The opponent revealed control, and I thought it would only get worse, so factoring in morale, I attacked. If it hadn't been Tazar there, maybe I could have done something.
Thanks for the game.
p.s. there's a mistake in the report; my starting hero was Dragon.
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