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I was doing fine; at 132 and 134 I took 2 Dragon Utopia, the threes gave parameters and a blue cap, and then I visited my opponent. But it turned out everything was very bad there.
Thanks for the game.I confirm, I used up all restarts; on every start there was a block on the road from the Castle, but Solmir broke through with a non-native hero's army; this time right at the exit from the Castle 84 halflings are guarding an obelisk, I fed Solmir to them, finished them off with other heroes losing ~10 gremlins + a couple of gargoyles; at 113 I attacked an external dwelling of djinns with 80 gremlins + 6 golems by 1s using Lakmus with tactics, I should have positioned slightly differently, but I did this: put the gremlins in the corner and golems around them, as a result on the second turn the djinns kill the golem cover, morale triggers and you can just surrender at 113, but since it's a tournament game and the map is XL+U, there's no knowing what the opponent has; however, losing a week of tempo took its toll, the opponent didn't delay and arrived quite quickly, I had nothing to oppose him with, neither cans nor hives were available, entered a teleport in treasury and got kicked into a swamp, ran around there for a couple of days and surrendered, plus the opponent took my native city with growth. Thanks for the game.

Poor generation and poor gameplay on my part, I won't even describe it.
In short, I lost.
Thanks for the game.

Pretty rich map with many neutrals in start area for skells. Built bks with castle week 1. Could take 2 cons for 5 angels and made 500 skells before breaking at 124. Same day I visited a pyramide that would have given DD if I had wisdom. Same day opponent broke and came my way, but had much smaller army. Thanks for playing.

A good start - plenty of air units, money, and good paths to the AI.
On 112 I reach the swamp and set up there with 7 air units + 30 fairies + 15 gremlins (couldn't manage to ferry them in via air). And on his turn, Tazik attacks me with 10 snakes!!! 6 lizards and 35 gnolls! By a miracle I fight them off, remaining with only ONE air unit. But there are still 6 at home not bought + I see 2 lizard external dwellings, so I build them right there in the swamp.
Then I kill the AI, take clues near the main and on 123 I crash into the first treasure zone. There is only one clue for 8 wights. I get wiped out and buy back at an external dwelling on the other side of the map, near another treasure zone. It's more interesting there - 3 clues, a couple of decent artifacts and a Dragon Utopia. I collect all the hives, take the Dragon Utopia - there is КВ and wings. I crash into the central treasure zone - they are tiny and there is only one mini-clue and a quest artifact for 5 greens. I turn around and run to the last treasure zone, where I found a stat Dragon Utopia and another mini-clue. I'm preparing to break in on the opponent, but then he exposes himself on his AI's territory. The Miner gets wiped out while the purse remains on the loser! I calculated the moves - just right! Crashed, DD'd, attacked. Surrender follows.
Thanks for the game!

On the 2nd week, I used ogres to take a quest shield (20k gold) for 74 gr. in a treasure zone, and a +4 all shield for 85 diamond golems; other than the Dragon Utopia, which I didn't have the power for, there was nothing interesting there. I spent the entire 3rd week clearing the swamp treasure zone, where I gathered 40 ducks, кв, a cloak of +2 speed, and picked up a level 2 Dragon Utopia from the first treasure zone; useful stuff included +5 all, and on the way another Dragon Utopia from an adjacent treasure zone, which turned out to be max level and gave absolutely nothing useful, then I ran to the opponent. Unfortunately, there was no anti-magic in the fb, and as a result, I got incredibly lucky: Artyom, in a battle he had already won where he was shooting down my wyverns with towers under berserk (he didn't know it works independently of sp until they strike :smile43: ), didn't notice that the oil had worn off and my wyvs actually killed his last single demon unit.
Thanks for the game.

I drove myself into a difficult situation early in the 2nd week and at that moment encountered an opponent near the central village. But the opponent didn't attack, and Marius calmly expanded by using consumables to summon 7 angels.
On the 3rd turn, I got a decent pair of mermaids with good stats. I built a teleportation and Armageddon in two high-level dwellings.
On the 4th turn, Claudius appeared. Before he reached the Fortress, I outsmarted him with Armageddon, and the opponent surrendered.
Thanks for the game!