In the first week, I captured an external dwelling of Green Dragons on the respawn of
my Rampart town. So at the start of the first week, I was running around with
4 Green Buddies. But since I'm a crawler: I attacked with two companions 10-19 Mighty Liches for the Black Market with Artifacts. I wasn't afraid there might be up to 20 of them, because on Septienna there's a Death Wave for 40 damage and 20 mana. I went for them, and what do you think?))) :D :D :D HELLO DOWN!!! DEATH WAVE AGAINST LICHES???? ARE YOU SERIOUS???????????? :smile04: :smile52: :smile20: Minus one Dragon at the start of the week. Attaboy!:smile41: The map is miserable, there are no objects for an army either in my underground respawn or in the opponent's respawn! And why would there be? :mad: So I headed to the center, because the corner seemed somehow lousy. At least, what I could see from my scouting range was boring. In the center I took a Conflux village, cleared a box for 35 Elementals. From the central town I went down into the underground to zone 20, from which, according to the template layout, there should only be exits to the
purple and
pink Dungeon towns. But the teleporter bugged and gave a passage to someone else as well :smile08: So
my opponent had a passage from zone 22 directly to my
purple opponent. Just amazing. :confused: In the underground, in zone 20, I found the first Griffin Conservatory for 2 Angels, and a Dragon Fly Hive for 8 Wyverns. Then I made my way up to "my"
purple opponent, but the road around the town is terrible - it's closer for my opponent to go than for me:( So the only useful thing I found there was a Griffin Conservatory for 2 Angels. Since Shakti was without Logistics, but with Expert Earth, Armorer, and Air, things were going very slowly tempo-wise, but pleasantly in terms of losses. Returning back to the underground, I went to kill the
pink Dungeon opponent along the way. En route, I picked up a Dragon Fly Hive for 8 Wyverns. In town, I raised mana and turned around to go into the treasure zone. On day 135, I broke through the guard there, but actually started operating there only on day 136. On day 137, I took a Maxi-Griffin Conservatory. True, before that I made a mistake and lost an Angel on one of the guards, so there were 7 of them and 16 Ducks. On day 141, I picked up another Griffin Conservatory for one Angel. But then
the opponent appears :eek: :eek:
With Dimension Door from his neighboring treasure zone and cuts off my Sandro on a Green Dragon. The army was scattered across 4 heroes, if he had gotten to it - that's GG! But the game continued! :smile01: I picked up another Griffin Conservatory for 2 Angels and prepared for battle, exchanging a few resources for a ransom, just in case. True, I didn't exchange everything down to zero; firstly, I was planning to rebuild the useless Mage Guild, and secondly, I wouldn't have had enough resources for a full ransom. So I exchanged the surplus of the prevailing resources.
On day 143, my opponent attacks! He has 5 mana, I have 80. Shakti's stats: 8 / 10 / 4 / 8. Expert Offense and Expert Armorer. Galtran: 10 / 11 / 9 / 8. Also Expert Armorer and Offense, Expert Air and
Advanced Earth! And he doesn't have Mass Haste - Haste is missing!!! Otherwise, I would have basically been toast and wouldn't have gotten up. But with Mass Slow and Mass Haste, I outsmarted the opponent, who had ransomed on 2 Angels and 230+ Skeletons.
I had 13 Ducks and 5 Angels left.
The game continued! Because I didn't have control. And the opponent, after replenishing mana, attacked again in 2 turns. I ransomed and continued rebuilding the Mage Guild in hopes of getting control, simultaneously breaking through the corner treasure zone from the
pink opponent. On day 212, on the fifth try, I got - Town Portal,
on day 213, on the third try, - Dimension Door. I immediately jumped into an uncleaned treasure zone for the
Maxi-Dragon Utopia, which the opponent had scouted incompletely when he was chasing me. There were Wings, Book of Water, Dragon Scale Armor and Boots of Resistance. Then I went to clear 2 treasure zones; they were small, but gave +2 Speed, some Ducks (2 Dragon Fly Hives, both for 8) and another
Dragon Utopia of three.There was Lion's Shield of Courage +4 All, Sentinel's Shield for +12 -3, Book of Fire and Shackles of War! After capturing this Dragon Utopia, I did a save. And as usual, after the break, I started doing complete nonsense... First, I took the opponent's swamp town.
Exposing myself without strong spells and normal Spell Power to an attack. If my opponent had attacked - he would have won!!! Then I just ****ed up 2 days running around following the opponent's tracks. Useful stuff - visiting the University and that's it!!!! FOR 2 DAYS!!! :smile20: Then, instead of rushing toward the opponent along the road, I hopped through 2 Dimension Doors to his Castle over impassable terrain - DIDN'T REACH!!! IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek: Just 4 consecutive worst moves of the game. Let the opponent raise 500+ Skeletons and so on. Good thing that after taking the Swamp, Septienna picked up the Cloak of the Damned. That's why I was going to the Castle, actually. But the opponent apparently didn't understand that I'm not afraid of his 30+ Spell Power. And he attacked himself. He wasn't afraid, because he had a huge pile of money. And if anything, he wanted to ransom. Who knows what I equipped on a Low Timer in time trouble. He probably didn't know about the Cloak and even more so about the Shackles. But oddly enough, I had everything needed equipped. And in the final, the stats, 16 Gold Dragons, Morale/Luck, the Cloak of the Damned, and the Shackles played in my favor.
GG WP! 
Thanks for the game.
