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Good start with good skills on alkin plus could work with ciele to get boots and gloves. We had some early contact but none of us were interested in rushing opponent. Went to t-area and got a couple of good arts, but it was small and I quickly got out of it again.

Went to new t-area and started making skells since i had 25% arts. This t-area was bigger but not very good and I still hadn't seen a tope. I lacked control badly but went to new area where I saw a tope. Tope was nice and gave HH but still no control. I built 4 guilds but they gave nothing. Now opponent came and started taking my towns, but I saw a new tope and finally i got air book. It was last minute cause next day opponent rushed me with a huge army, but I could DD away into safty.

I could get the Health combo and unite my armies. Had 9 hydras, 20 angels, close to 100 wyverns, 1 k skells and more. Took my town back and upgraded wyverns. Went towards a Castle town but opponent sat in town so I kept outside. My stats were clearly better but hard to kill 3+k skells with a destroyed catapult.

I went into unexplored area while opponent took some towns back. I had the mana combo but forgot to put it on so I ended 1 day with 14 mana. This was a mistake that could have cost dearly, but it turned out to be an advantage. Opponent saw this and left the Castle town thinking I couldnt reach it, but I had the mana combo on and could take it. Could upgrade my 20 angels which led to opponent giving up. TFP.

Thanks for playing!:D

Started without rests. "Why rest?" - I thought. The respawn at the top corner is decent money. Eislinn took Earth on 111 (though, later I couldn't expert Necromancy for a long time). There are Septienna, Izra, Vidomina, Dessa and Solmir. Seems like everything is not bad. On 112 I saw Kirry there + noticed that he has double. But I also scouted the external market - which I decided to play around. The opponent turned out to have two elf external dwellings from the start and Kirry was leveling up great. Eislinn leveled up so-so. Hirolvai played the late game excellently, but if I had KS or Shackles or Dimension Door, I would most likely have won. Thanks for the game!

To say that this was an easy win would be an understatement. It's almost embarrassing to win so easily. If Bishop wants a rematch, I'm willing to play up to 2 more games, as I told him right after the match. Thanks for the game!

Got pretty good start but lacked money and wasnt able to exspand very much early on. Hack got good skills but lacked speed. I had one tope and could take it early week 3. It was very good and gave blue hat and bliss. I could double mana and went to t-area in swamp but it was pretty empty. Then I went towards opponnet thinking I was stronger, I saw a con and a couple of boxes in his areas I wanted to take.

I came to close and was attacked. He had much better army but I had better stats and a 1350 implo. Mistakes were made on both sides, but I was lucky his resistance and 3 to luck and moral didnt give much. I should have summond elementals or surrendered but he didnt take advantage of his blind, so in the end I did enough damage for him to give up. TFP.

The opponent asked me to write up a report because the Russian-language save didn't let him review the game:
So, we started by taking all the restarts, the deals for both of us were mediocre, once I got a conflict but the opp restarted there, then some junk showed up like a PieDrake with 5 gargoyles and the like...
In the end a deal came my way. A loser hero with 3 grandlies showed up, all the heroes were weak but there was one necro, so I decided to level him; after a while I dug up a couple more necros, the main one became Clavius, I unearthed him on 113 and he leveled on the first day so-so.
I was very unlucky that my zone, where the exit to the treasure and to the AI was, got flooded. I ran the other way, there was a portal, on day 2 I popped out into the treasure and started stacking bones... as it turned out, necromancy saved the situation, because across all the territory I scouted there were only 2 dwellings of 10 pixies and 1 mini conlux. With what I'd stacked I started climbing into 3 maxi cyclops caves, where they beat me up pretty good, but on the plus side I built 4 GMs on 125 or so, where the TP was.
The roads were middling and the tempo really suffered, then for the whole third week I started hitting utopias, of which there were 3, and inside them was wild bad luck - out of 3 utopias (3, 1, 1) the only useful thing was the red orb.
I had to break the 3rd utopia with a loser hero because the main hero was 100mp short of reaching it while the opp was right there... in the end after 3 utopias the army I had left was 130 skeletons and 3 red dragons (I'd stacked the dragons in 2 stashes and a portal) and I rebuilt a Dungeon from scratch all the way up to dragons!
On 141 the opp finishes off the remnants of my army and I buy myself off... then again misfortune: my super-treasure turns out to be the size of one straker move, with 1 dwelling))) and 3 caves)) guarded by crowds :D
There's nowhere to run, so I decide to take a risk: I run, capture the opp's village, and from there into his treasure... there I necroed nicely and found the long-awaited control!!! Besides the main hero there are 2 well-leveled necros - Tamika and Sandro.
With their help I stacked 1400+ skeletons by the time of the FB, assembled the Armor of the Damned, and good chances to win the game emerged. But probably already out of fatigue I made a big mistake - namely I left 200 mp to break home when I needed 300, because my Clavius hadn't leveled Earth. As a result the army got split in two - one part with the Dungeon shooters (pixies) and the dragons (12 of them), and on Clavius 20 cerberi, 5 angels, and 1400+ skeletons... The opp reaches the Dungeon with his full might, kills one of my good necros, the second one with the dragons fought back - I lost 10 reds but killed 4 firebirds and 56 air elementals... then Tamika attacks Clavius and walks into the Armor of the Damned... the big problem became the Vial of Life... Tamika had 3 birds, 4 angels, 40 water elementals, 14 psychics, 1900+ skeletons, 6 mages... I took down everything except the angels and the skeletons, I had 3 angels left and started chopping through the enemy skeletons, but the advantage in stats, the vial, and a 500-skeleton lead decided it. I surrendered!
The opponent did great, good luck in the final!!!