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17.01.14 Cincinnat (red, Conflux, random, Kalt, Brissa) def Akella (blue, Dungeon, Shakti) 8xm8a (L) 134

Air elementals are upgraded, but Kalt starts with fish. Under the castle there is a troglodyte Griffin Conservatory, so I never got around to it.
On the first turn, I smoked, sacrificed meat, almost all the fish. On the respawn, I looted a helmet +3 knowledge, from the chest I got greaves +1 +1. I switched to Brissa to replenish mana, and leveled up SP somewhere along the way.
On turn 115, I'm stuck with all three heroes before the exit from the underground. Kalt broke through his own guard (group of fairies), only air elementals and fish remained in the army. On the surface — 50-99 rogues. Remembering the experience of tempo fathers, I decide to attack them with Kalt, skip the turn, and attack with the mage who already has a decent archery stack. I pelted the rogues with arrows, on the surface there is an immediate passage to two secondary towns. I send in a hero, pick up strategic view, and see that one of the secondary towns is a native one. I take both with the two remaining heroes, hope returns. At home, I build fire elementals and water elementals.
I pick up air elementals from the secondary town, with the arrival of the native hero, there are 25 of them. At the swamp secondary town, I attack a box behind zombies, getting 60 group of gnolls. Meanwhile, through a bugged passage, a cito-comp runs to me and kills a hero. I had to spend a couple of days on killing it.
Next, I break through with Brissa into the zone behind the swamp through Vaskas, where there is a box guarded by golems. The box gives a whole second town, I continue. I capture another secondary town and realize from the mines that this is near the opponent.
At home on turn 127, with difficulty and a full exchange from all possible markets, birds are built in the citadel.
Brissa has Lightning Bolt at 195, I decide I need to go rush.
A few turns later, the opponent shows up. By that time, I already have a good flow of gold and resources, which I exchange to zero and bring in meat. I kill a couple of heroes, and on turn 134, after gathering all available ducks, the opponent attacks. When I was running towards the opponent, he had 10-19 ducks, and he attacked with 30. I frantically calculate the stack HP — 2100, I have Lightning Bolts for 1950. Should be enough.
FB:
Shakti 7-4-3-4 with 30 ducks, 4 minotaurs, 7 medusae and one eye, but no spell book.
Brissa 2-1-7-8, 80 mana, Lightning Bolt costing 8 mana for 195 damage. In the army: 4 birds, 4 psychos, 33 air elementals, 12 fish, fairies.
I strike with Lightning Bolt, fly the birds away from the ducks, which ate my entire army, but due to Shakti lacking a spell book, they never reached the birds.

Thanks for the game!

17.01.2014 wariator (red, Citadel, Crag) def Grisha (blue, Dungeon, Shakti, Tazar) Jebus Cross 135! In FB, the summon 100 earth elementals helped a lot! Thanks for the game!

17.01.2014 Night Troll (red, Rampart, Mephala) def Iamsamstan (blue, Tower, Solmyr) 2sm4d(3) 117

The respawn gave good stuff. There were cans and Dragon Fly Hives, as well as artifacts. I played the first week excellently, had already planned my development strategy for week 2, but then follows ГГ. The opponent surrenders because he loses at the external dwelling of nagas. Thanks for the game!

01/18/2014 Juristis (blue, random, Dungeon, Geon, Shakti) def MuLLIyTa (red, random, Inferno, Xarfax) Skirmish 114
Spent all the resources, Shakti surrendered in the tavern with 2 stacks, along with Peer and Claw. Made it to level 112 on the second turn, and on level 113, I captured the gold mine for 44 snakes, but the second turn itself is very small, and the guards in the treasury are quite unpleasant. The plan for the rest of the game was uncertain, but the opponent surrendered. Thanks for the game!

18.01.14 Cincinnat (red, Tower, Solmyr, Inteus) def Night Troll (blue, Castle, Turis) 2sm4d(3) 143

We chose all restarts. In the end, a spacious respawn was generated, with lots of gold and resources on it, a Griffin Conservatory with Trog, an external dwelling of genies was found and taken by the end of the week, and naga homes were placed in the Citadel thanks to the gargoyles built from the start.
I arrived at the Conflux secondary at the end of the first week via wasteland, then broke through the archmage road block with a leveled-up Inteus, and we bit the genies.
A papal hut with a log was found near the Conflux, Inteus grabbed earth magic, and Solmyr was sold luck. The question of the main hero became clear.
At the start of the second week, I barely kill 100 mummies for a shrine and an armor of +4 attack power, things got more fun with that.
By the end of the second week, giants were built in the home Castle, the native secondary was captured, Conservatory-1 was taken (went perfectly with mass curse). The plan for day 127 was to also put birds in the fort at the Conflux, but I was 3 mercury short :(. Also, my last move on 127 was taking the external dwelling of giants, guarded by a horde of pits. When I attacked in the last seconds, I first thought it was a throw. There turned out to be 77 pits (also a crystal cloak near the dwelling). I cast mass curse, mass blind, and slowed individual stacks. In the end, I got out with the loss of one naga and the gargoyles, the angel survived.
On day 131, I gather a stack of giants (6), return to the home Conservatory, it turns out to be a level 2. I clear it with mass curse, level up earth magic.
After that, I took another Conservatory on the native secondary, this time with earth magic, it turned out to be level 4. I defeat Inteus, rebuy at the Conflux, and pass the army along the chain, aiming for a treasure underground. I turn in a quest cleared earlier, gaining 10k experience. I level up tactics, defense, and log.
The treasure was disappointing at first, only mines and mills, but then a lightning tower with 100+ pits was found there.
Meanwhile, Turis is slowly approaching my secondary through the snow, I break out from the treasure and go for contact. I reach him in a couple of days, my army has 7 angels, 10 giants, 16 master genies, 8 nagas, 21 mages, gremlins, and gargoyles. He has 70+ instead of 99 archers, 13 cavaliers, 100 halberdiers left from battles with my chumps. In the final, mass magic and fodder decided the game.

Thanks for the game, see you in the newbie lobby :)