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There were a lot of blocks and the overall layout was tricky, but I managed to sort it out successfully! I didn't take a single Dragon Utopia until the second month, even though I had 30 attack! I built Dimension Door in my contested zone and eventually took 2 Dragon Utopias—one from the opponent—and the opponent's Town Portal.

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I took a rest on the first day, although it was quite playable – lots of money, a big respawn with a Griffin Conservatory. But problems with speed and the starting army, as well as the pathfinding, still forced me to take a risk. As a result, I ended up with a very bad roll.
111 – spawned underground, cast View Spellbook. I see a prison, boots, an external dwelling of Knights, a couple of Pandora's Boxes. There's a hero with centaurs. There are treasure chests. Roads are slow. I can't afford the boots.
113 – I take a Tower town. Nearby – a Titan's shield guarded by a horde of greater Minotaurs. Clavius with Tamika stubbornly level up Attack. In the treasure zone through wasteland, I ran into blockages.
115 – scouted a Dragon Fly Hive. Things look very bad. No money, blocks everywhere. But the main problem – no sulfur and no ore! The mine remained north of the castle, to get to it I need to clear the external dwelling of Knights, and it's guarded by 20+ greater Medusas. The lion's share of the starting zone's gold is there too.
116 – still, I think there's a chance to take the external dwelling. But in any case, I need sulfur for Liches first. I attack Magmas for a bunch of resources. I lose a quarter of my skeletons and realize it's better not to mess with the Medusas.
117 – traded for 3 sulfur and 6 stone at two marketplaces, I build Liches in the Citadel. In the army – 113 skeletons, 6k gold for buying units. Maybe I should have taken the external dwelling, I could have, but I was afraid. Glad about Clavius, who got Logistics.
121 – but now I took it with minimal losses. 165 skeletons, bought out Liches, learned Tactics in the hut.
122 – I clear the boots. I enter another wasteland treasure zone, where I cast View Spellbook. Nothing particularly interesting – 2 Dragon Fly Hives and a Pandora for Behemoths, but that's exactly what I need now. I took a small town, replenish mana. And in the neighboring treasure zone from the scouting, I see a Dragon Utopia, a Book of Fire, and a Dragon Fly Hive with a Pandora for Hydras. It would be good to get there, but I don't really have anything to fight with there yet.
123 – I take a max Dragon Fly Hive, a Pandora for experience – Clavius is now Expert at Attack, Defense, Tactics, Logistics. I sit in a new town again to replenish mana.
124 – I take another max Dragon Fly Hive. Result – 24 Wyverns, 160+ skeletons, and a few Zombies. I pick up Wisdom. Time to run to the Dragon Utopia, I'll gather army on the way.
125 – I aggregated Goblins from the towns, +100 skeletons per day.
126 – I get 70 Zombies from a Pandora, now I have a meat shield for the Dragon Utopia.
127 – I sit in the town in front of the Dragon Utopia. Already 400 skeletons.
131 – the Dragon Utopia turns out to be level 3, they give stat items – Sword of Justice, Titan's Cuirass, and a Crown +4+4. I clear the Book of Fire, another Dragon Fly Hive for 8. I'm getting ready to attack, because the opponent seems not very strong.
132 – split the army, replenished mana, go to the respawn of the Barbarian opponent.
133 – cleared a Ring of Speed and a Cache of Demons, but took the wrong road.
134 – the opponent turns out to be somewhere in a remote wasteland. I run aimlessly, pop up at the Dungeon opponent's respawn.
135 – I clear the Dungeon and take a nearby Dragon Fly Hive for 6.
136 – I pop out somewhere in a corner from the underground, and I see a Dragon Utopia! I start an urgent relocation towards it, because there's no control.
137 – I pop up at the Rampart opponent's respawn, spent the night right next to the stable.
141 – I find a portal – and now I'm on the lava in the right treasure zone!
142 – I grab the Dragon Fly Hive, the Sphere of Water, and now I'm right in front of the Dragon Utopia!
143 – but the opponent has already had control for a while, and the Dragon Utopia slips right out from under my nose. Solmyr runs away. I cast View Spellbook – there are a couple of Dragon Fly Hives and Pandoras. I try to find magic in them…
145 – the treasure zone is eaten up. Didn't find control. 56 Wyverns, 760+ skeletons, 11 Black Knights, 3 Angels – final army. I maxed Water, in the last slot I got Air, still Advanced. Built the Mage Guild in one town up to level 3, but resources are a problem.
146 – split the army, I run home. I grab the Cloak of Resistance along the way.
147 – leveled Tamika properly, she gets Expert Logistics. Clavius – near the stable.
211 – stable, split the army – and now I'm home! Solmyr flew nearby but didn't take my scouted valuable objects. His loss. A Pandora for greater Wyverns gives all Air magic! Well, now everything is easy… I also cleared the Sentinel's Shield and equalized combat stats with Solmyr. The Mage Guild doesn't give Town Portal.
212 – I spend a day on another Dragon Fly Hive and getting Expert Air.
213 – I take the Ring of Life, split my army at a rampart, next to which Solmyr grabbed a Dragon Fly Hive last turn. Tamika with Logistics brings up the army, I attack.
I have 13-25-27-(170), the opponent has 22-15-16-(300+), but the mage has neither Armor nor Attack. In his army there are 50 Wyverns, 6+5 Angels, 17 Naga Queens, a couple of Genies, and 20 each of Magi and Golems. I have 1000 Skeletons, 63 Wyverns, 15 Knights, and 3 Angels. Using Tactics, I hide in a corner, planning to shoot everyone with Water Bolt for 850+. The mage casts Mass Haste, but seeing that his troops deal almost no damage, he surrenders!
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Logs, the boots were nowhere to be found. Nor was a portal in the guilds of the three towns. I fell far behind in speed, despite having Dimension Door and fly. And as for the path to the opp, not only is it not fast — there simply isn't one. Thanks for the game.

I made some silly mistakes in this game but my map was just too good to lose. Thx for game.

Thank you for playing!

Thank you for the game!

Thank you for the game.

There were a lot of blocks, and the layout in general was tricky, but I managed to sort it out successfully! I didn't take a single Dragon Utopia until the second month, even though I had 30 attack! I built Dimension Door in my contested zone, and eventually took 2 Dragon Utopias—one from the opponent—and the opponent's Town Portal.

Thanks for the game!

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Thanks for the game!

I made some silly mistakes in this game but my map was just too good to lose. Thx for game.

THX for game too!

I started pretty well, but the damn long roads led to a standstill – I was running around like a cornered lynx, losing momentum turn after turn. In the end, I didn't have those crucial 3-4 days to grab a couple of Utopias and equalize the stats (the meat was at a good level).

In the first week, I couldn't afford to buy more than 4 heroes, but I did place birds. There's a cons and a stable near the road. Yog settled into the mains.

In the second and third weeks, I took a secondary Citadel and Dungeon, cons 4 with GS, 3 with GS, 4 with GS. Because of such large cons spread across three respawns, I had to keep transferring troops and sometimes returning them without entering the cons itself :rolleyes: :rolleyes: There were no clues, the respawns were inconvenient, the exits to the treasure chambers were deep in the rocks or behind a mountain pass three days' travel away. Since there were many angels and we had oil, we pushed through the GO (Griffin Roost and Necro Cones) at the end of the week. We captured the opponent's main. There, Vives are upgraded, cows and a resource depot are parked, likely for their future upgrade. Nobody is home. According to scouting, there's nobody within two days' travel either—it's unsettling.

In the fourth week, I delivered three birds (that makes 7). We repelled the opponent's Inferno secondary, which had been built up to a Castle. Meanwhile, Juanito appeared on my rocks, recovered the +5 cap, and doubled mana at the waterfall. I rushed over there. According to the tavern, my army power is greater, the best creature there is a Griffin Vive, and the stats are comparable. I approached to then chase his main (the mage guild + stable are promising). And then at night, I see that Tazar can fly. Good thing he flew into my secondary and stayed there overnight.

We caught up, FB. During the fight, Juanito (owner of the lvl 5 cap with 180+ mana against my 40), seeing 11 angels, asked how many cons I had been fed. Three :D In the FB, tactics, oil, and the ability to interrupt his mass haste at the start of the round on the catapult's turn, thanks to Yog's skill, helped.

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On the first week, I couldn't afford to buy more than 4 heroes, but I did place birds. There's a Griffin Conservatory and a stable along the road. Yog settled into the mains.

On the second and third weeks, I took secondary Citadel and Dungeon, Griffin Conservatories 4 with Grand Elves, 3 with Grand Elves, 4 with Grand Elves. Because of such large Griffin Conservatories spread across three respawns, I had to keep passing the army and sometimes returning it without entering the Griffin Conservatory itself :rolleyes: :rolleyes: There were no clues, the respawns were inconvenient, the exits to treasure zones were deep in the rocks, or required going around mountains three days' travel away. Since there were many angels and oil, we pushed through GO (Griffin Rocs and Grand Necromancy) at the end of the week. We captured the opponent's main. There, Wyverns were upgraded, cows stood around, and a resource storage for their future upgrade most likely. Nobody was home. According to scouting, there was nobody two days' travel away either, which was eerie.

On the fourth week, delivery of three birds (that makes 7). We captured the opponent's secondary Inferno, which had been built up to a Castle. Meanwhile, Juanito appeared on my rocks, captured the +5 cap and doubled mana at the waterfall. I rushed there. According to Tavern, my army power was greater, the best creature there was a Grand Wyvern, and stats were comparable. I approached to then chase his main (log + stable gave hope). And then at night I saw that Tazar could fly. Good thing he flew to my secondary and camped there for the night.

We ran up, fight. During it, Juanito (owner of level 5 cap with 180 mana against my 40), seeing 11 angels, asked how many Griffin Conservatories I had gotten. Three :D In the fight, tactics, oil, and the ability to break his Mass Haste at the start of the round on the catapult's turn, thanks to Yog's skill, helped.

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Confirm.Thx for game.

Hard start,but things were starting to go in good direction.On 116 opponent gave up.Thx for game.

Tough start, but things were starting to go in a good direction. On turn 116, the opponent gave up. Thanks for the game.

Thank you for the game.

Good respawn with a lot of gold and 2 Griffin Conservatories. On day 113 in the tavern I saw Galtran. I sent him to take a Pandora's Box successfully — 5K experience and Loga. On day 117, Gosha with 222 skeletons is standing on a Conservatory 2-4, I finally checked 3. On day 122 — 8 angels. On day 125, the first Dragon Utopia gave 3 КВ. On day 131, a max Dragon Utopia. No КЗ. On day 147 — 10+ Archmage towns, 1500+ ghost skeletons taken from the main. Though the opponent has Nela and combat stats higher than mine. On day 211, I checked Nela — not many troops, but there are both brown and regular bears. On day 212, Gosha attacked with a КШ of 2000+ regular skeletons, 14 ghosts, 17 archmages, 16 regular Necro Horses — this is a victory, even though Nela is a great hero and there could have been 25 brown bears, but there wasn't enough gold.
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Found a bunch of Dragon Utopia-КВ, a teapot, wings and many other things in 2 copies, stats around 40, only missing a sword for the alliance, searched for КЗ in Dragon Utopias for a long time, but found it next to the Dragon Utopia behind the golems :D , saw oppa-Town Portal, Dimension Door, in FB I have all magic and stats more than 4 times higher, so 1500 blue bones didn't matter.
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That happened once. The treasure zones I got were useless—the center was off-road, huge, but besides skels I found nothing in two weeks. Three necro-arts against a dozen Dragon Utopias couldn't pull through

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It started a bit rough, but my opponent didn't have a good game.

Thanks for the game!