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09.11.2013 SM spell vs Тролли из грифотни
Ayauhteotl (Blue, Castle, Vala, Müllich) + Lim4 (Green, Rampart, Kyrre) def Darkello (Red, Citadel, Grechka) + Егор Коробейников (Brown, Conflux, random, Inteus, Dimer), Boombox, 131
We used all our rests and started.
I have one village on a roadless area, next to it is a max Griffin Conservatory. As it turned out, the only Griffin Conservatory on the respawn. Besides that, there are 3 more Dragon Fly Hives, a griffin nest, archers, and a couple of mage artifacts. Müllich and Green arrived. I quickly leveled Earth Magic with Green, but it wasn't very clear what to do next. There simply won't be enough shots for the Griffin Conservatory, even if the griffins don't get morale, the Dragon Fly Hives are big, there isn't much else to do. On day 115, I gathered whatever troops I had and built a chain for the Dragon Fly Hives, starting with the far one, which Green would take with Slow and Ice Bolt on 150. On day 117, I would have built Angels, but I decided to tempo and take everything on day 116. I entered the Dragon Fly Hive, and of course it was max. Then follows just plain bad luck; the dragonflies keep acting twice. Very few of them remain, they are under Slow, and I have 1 griffin. I should have played it safe and run, but I really wanted to finish them off and couldn't handle one more morale proc. I tempo'd, damn it.
Meanwhile, Lim finds a couple of Griffin Conservatories and hives at his place, but there are almost no nests either, only Elven ones, and there's nothing to take them with for now. He does what he can, builds a Mage Guild, and supplies me with resources and gold.
On day 117, I think about what to do. Müllich, level 2 with Fire Magic in the second slot, becomes the main. I build Angels, finish the Dragon Fly Hive. Along the chain, there are 2 more Dragon Fly Hives, that's 28 Wyverns total. I split towards the Griffin Conservatory. I break the Griffin Conservatory, losing 6 or 7 Wyverns, but now I have an army of 20+ Wyverns and 5 Angels. ГО is lower to Dark, but we decide to attack Егор. ГО to him is 5-9 Angels and 5-9 Greater Hydras, and his village is visible right next to it. Masha, meanwhile, takes a Griffin Conservatory-1, urgently gathers resources for me to get Archers, and starts taking Dragon Fly Hives.
On day 121, I chain the army to Vala, upgrading the Angels along the way. I don't buy anyone else to avoid a blue rush, I attack Vala via ГО and capture the village. It has Mage Guild level 5 and there is Anti-Magic, but levels 4-5 are nothing. I split Müllich there (no Earth-Air magic, but at least he got Wisdom) and run along the path. I see a Dragon Fly Hive behind the Fanatics, I decide to take it. +8 Wyverns. But because of this, I'm a bit short of reaching the castle. I'm very afraid that Dimer, who is visible in the tavern with 10+ magic stats, will hit me hard, but the attack doesn't come. I capture Conflux, there's 1-7 in the Fort, of course the birds were bought out. I realize I urgently need Earth Magic expertise, so I build a University there, learn it, and split back home to turn in the artifact Masha brought for 10k experience on the next turn.
On his turn, Егор is not very pleasing by double-dipping to the village with Dimer and recapturing it. Then he for some reason splits Dimer against my scout on a bird, and his scouts recapture his main. Then Dark appears too, breaks through ГО to me and runs to my castle with Greater Hydras and a decent army, but apparently doesn't expect to see my main there with the entire army, so he moves his troops back using an external tavern and splits against Müllich with Grechka on 1-stack Thunderbirds. I had a scroll of Resurrection, but even with it I couldn't kill them.
On my turn, I see that Егор's army is on a scout. I take Müllich's army with my scout, recapture Егор's village with a level 5 Mage Guild, hire another scout there, and run to his army. I have 6 Archers and 28 Wyverns, he has 5 Angels, 12 Wyverns, and 3 Birds. And in addition, a Bolt for 85 damage. In a hurry, I set up a bit crookedly, and end up losing two Archers and 4 Wyverns. He has 7 Wyverns left and that's it. I don't attack them to resurrect the Wyverns, but he runs away. And as it turns out later, this is exactly why we never saw Dimer again - on his turn, he didn't have enough gold to hire him, and now he's overwritten. I move the army back to my main, turn in the artifact and expert Earth Magic, but don't manage to get back to the castle in time.
Darkello appears again, takes my main, upgrades his 3 Angels, and attacks Müllich. There are 6 Greater Werewolves, 18 Thunderbirds, 19 Wyverns, and 3 Archers. I have 24 Wyverns, 4 Archers, and a bit of cannon fodder. Just no Mass Haste... and indeed, there is no Mass Haste. We trade, 2 Archers from his side, 2 Archers and 7 Wyverns from mine, and I buy back, thanks to Masha who sent me a pile of gold.
I buy back in Lim's village, and then, oh miracle, our Greenie returned. I hire him, and out of joy, or maybe fatigue, I make another serious mistake and replenish Müllich's mana at the well without taking artifacts from Greenie. I have to waste an extra turn, but now I have Resurrection for 425 damage and 90 mana, we combine the army, 48 Wyverns, 6 Angels, and 2 Archers. I run to reclaim the castles.
I take Егор's main, meanwhile Lim heads to his last village. On day 127, I completely brazenly approach my main, where Grechka is sitting with an army, because my army is stronger, and on day 131 with the weekly growth, Dark won't be able to attack.
Day 131 arrives, Grechka splits off somewhere, then troops are brought in. No hero is visible in the castle, I'm surprised why Grechka isn't on the hero split, well maybe there wasn't enough time. We discuss what to do and decide we need to attack. You can't do much against Werewolves in the open field. I attack... and Grechka isn't there. Turns out there wasn't enough time to split her back in. GG.
We decided to replay the finale formally, with Grechka.
Müllich 13-11-10-(87), 48 Wyverns 1-1 Archers 6 Angels 12-1-1 Grands
Grechka 10-12-11-(100), 19 Wyverns 21 Thunderbirds 9 Greater Werewolves 2 Archers 15 Goblins 7 Wolves and 12 Ballistae
I want to express huge gratitude to the [Canyon] ravine, into which almost all of Grechka's stacks dived at least once, as well as the gates that don't open if someone is killed in front of them. This, along with 48 Wyverns under Anti-Magic, Resurrection, and high morale, made it possible to win the fight.
Thank you.