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17.05.15 Sky21044 (blue, Inferno, Fiona, Gunnar) lose Sevan_80 (red, Castle, Christian) 6lm10a 131
We played on full random; after several restarts, Inferno came up, so I decided to play — my opponent had run out of restarts. To be honest, I don't have much experience playing SoD, but now I know that Inferno here is junk, the dregs among the factions, as is Tower, imho.
The Necropolis heroes didn't click for me, so the first week was played, let's say, unimpressively — we mostly opened chests for gold and resources. I miraculously managed to take a swamp village without messing up. The thing is, bugged one-way portals (entrance and exit) were generated. The exit portal is right on the road and blocks passage, looking like a mountain. I see identical one-way portals of the exact same color on another territory — in total there are 4 of them, 2 entrances and 2 exits, all the same color. Having blocked one of the exits, I take a risk and jump with my entire army — 2 Efreeti, 4 Demons, etc. — at 115 and take the village. There was honestly no clear way out until the end, whether there was an exit or not; in short, I got lucky, bought a hero there, and the two of them managed to pull through in a circular route.
I build structures 1-6 without Pits in the Citadel. By 121, Gunnar enters as the 9th hero; I take the resources (they've been traded, Pits aren't viable), run out of the castle toward the computer — a block of 9 Unicorns guards a ring of +1 speed; I take it, losing everyone except the Demons and Efreeti. Essentially, from my castle to the computer it's a maximum of one and a half turns' worth of movement, and a whole week went by. Anyway, we play on; I scout the Griffin Conservatory, but there's nothing to take it with. That's when I started thinking: 5 Efreeti and a dozen Demons are worthless, Gogs don't work, Pits are expensive in resources, and it's not always possible to upgrade them for demoning from the second tier. Well, I took Tower, and that needs resources too. The mines helped a bit, and by 124 or 125, when I was on a speed boost with 5 Efreeti, my opponent crashed into me with 5 Cavaliers, 24 Archers, and various rabble. And that was it — I had nothing to counter with. I didn't surrender, but I lost the Efreeti and managed to escape. A petty war started; my opponent took Conflux, bought Birds there, and came with Labetha to the Tower, into which I had invested a considerable sum, hoping for Nagas by 131. He takes the Tower, thereby claiming the Nagas for himself. Well, fine — I tell myself for the third time, buy up at 131, transfer to Gunnar, who is standing by a horde of upgraded Earth Elementals, kill them, and then I simply can't handle the maxed out Unicorn — just a nightmare, gg.
It was a good experience either way, and thanks to my opponent, who wasn't too upset, even though I didn't live up to his expectations...
