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In the first week, I almost lost due to 6 marksmen with high morale, but I managed to build up some skeletons later. I took 2 minimum cons and had much more HP, plus better stats. The +3 duration artifact made the battle harder than expected (he only had 2 spellpower), but I won in the end. GG

We took a restart on 112, after which I started playing thanks to 9 elves from the start and capturing a town on 111. However, gold turned out to be a bottleneck. I barely managed to dig up two thousand, but finished the week with 4 heroes and wood with pegasi in the fort. I captured one mine for 50 gr. harpies. I moved to a secondary hero along the wasteland (the only road was blocked by 10+ liches).
On 121 I captured Conflux. Ivor attacked the vampires guarding Pandora's Box without reinforcements. Quite risky, but it paid off. I got 15 storm elementals. On 122 I brought the growth, killed the pegasi for a 2nd level spell. Then the opponent shows up. Nothing to do but split up and attack.
There — 28 gogs, 4 efreets, and 100+ imps. Arlak at 3rd level, no mana.
I have — 15 storms, 20 elves, 10 pegasi, 5 dendroids, and 35 centaurs. Ivor with expert archery and mana for 1 Slow on the efreets (3 rounds).
In short, I slowed them and shot everything down without trouble, especially since the battle was on grass.
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Not so nice map but Hack with great skills. I catch Tamika by surprise early wk3 and killed her while she was in town with no army. Next day Solmyr attacks and I was forced to surrender, not enough spell points and a lot of army lost to chain lightning. I buy Hack and more army from town and return back to action. In the meantime, the opponent got Tamika back, sends her with the main army towards purple, and Solmyr with a secondary army towards me. But now I was able to cast mass haste and kill Solmyr before he had a chance to cast a spell. Next day, I came close to Tamika, and the opponent surrenders. Thx for game.

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It turned out to be a difficult start for both, but Kir was ahead.

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Finally, the two-week epic has come to an end. Surprisingly, it ended with my first victory over an experienced, strong opponent!) It started great, I quickly captured the computers, in the dungeon I put Minotaurs in the citadel + external dwelling, and for the Barbarians I put birds in the citadel. Although I messed up, I didn't plan for the portal option and while going to the Inferno computer to be safe, I took 2 dwelling upgrades of Demons, which prevented me from portal +6 Minotaurs by week 1 day 2. The real mistakes started after the beginning of the 2nd week, when the computers were killed and I had to spend a long time deciding where to go, because in the Castle treasure zone there were strong guards. The timer, as usually happens with me, simply ran out... Upset, I ran to the only Griffin Conservatory, hoping it would be at most level 2. In the end, because of the rush due to the abundance of fights along the way, my main hero didn't reach the destination by half a turn twice!! It was a catastrophe) I thought about giving up, but the Conservatory turned out to be level 1 and that was luck which gave me a chance. I returned to the treasure zone, recaptured a Pandora's Box with 15k gold from the horses, exchanged resources at the market and built Bears with the Castle. There turned out to be many Dragon Fly Hives in the 1st treasure zone and they ended with a level 3 Dragon Utopia which gave КЗ!! By week 1 day 3 week 2 I managed to assemble the Wizard's Well, which helped a lot later on... In the 2nd treasure zone after a Pandora's Box with 30 Troglodytes I stumbled upon a 2nd Dragon Utopia, which gave КВ!) After that I decided to clear the opponent's nearby treasure zone) There I found many Dragon Fly Hives + 2 Dragon Utopias for stats. Mana from the dungeon became very plentiful, and if I weren't a noob, I would have gone to kill the opponent via Dimension Door + Fly to the main, but I thought the rules forbade doing this without breaking ГО:smile43: Therefore, I tried to catch the daddy on the map through Scuttle Boat, but ran into Lokhors... By week 1 day 4 week 3 the opponent attacks the citadel and stays there to spend the night. By this time I have Archangels in the Castle and there is no point in dragging it out, since the opponent next turn either goes to the dungeon and doubles the mana, or goes to the Castle and upgrades his Angels and buys my Archangels. Nothing to be done - I attack) I have an advantage in stats, the opponent in army. He has Bracers of... and Cape of... I start the battle with Lightning Bolt to disable the archers, the opponent casts Haste, but even under Haste the opponent has no speed advantage. And like a true noob I cast Haste and knock off the retaliation with my Archangels on his Wyverns, intending to charge with Monarchs, but this doesn't happen because the Pegasi move next and the opponent casts Slow) And then I realize it's GG, because he attacks first with everything) I get lucky and resistance triggers on 2 stacks, I manage to protect my Monarchs, the opponent hits the secondary stacks, I cast Haste and hit his Wyverns with Monarchs, cutting off half (because daddy Krack doesn't spare anyone), morale triggers, and I hit with Luck and cut off the entire stack of ~100 Wyverns. GG!! Dzhavdet, fellow countryman, thank you for the match!!)

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