Game #802 | phipo's game

Really interesting match. That Jean bought the fey-dwelling was a surprise and an excellent move. 

Game decisive were in my view mainly two things: I lost all units apart from leader and hero in turn 2, which really sets back the whole game a couple of turns, and that Jean had 3 dungeons not very far from his cities, it seemed. This might be a result from the setting "many resource structures". The army he came up with afterwards was very strong and could hardly be beaten even with a luckier play from me. My first successful conversion was a mature shock serpent. But it was too little too late.

Thanks for the screenshot-report, Jean!

My first game with Phipro turned out to be very interesting. I like to play with new opponents because it's challening since I don't know their playstyle and they can surprise me. Also I always have to play very carefully because a loss might result in some severe damage to my rankings  but it is exactly why I am playing these games: I want competition and want players fight for the victory. 
My start was excellent: the second hero was also theocrat and I got a dragon dwelling near my domain. Since I didn't have a lot of problems with research I first researched evangelist giving my heroes the normal attack of the convert ability and later studied exalted martyrs since I was slowly leveling up 5 tier-1 units.
I first spotted Phirpo's heroes here:

He lost many units at the beginning of the game but later managed to take plenty of objects with his heroes playing all the tactical battles very well (using the key features of his heroes like twistling roots spell of archidruid, very well done)
He had a small army going into my direction (while I was busy in the underground).

And he completed a quest from a fey dwelling.

He went further.

And I decided to vassalize the dwelling to try to make him return to it and capture it from me. It worked so I got more time.
I was really busy in the underground because I was clearing THIS XD:

I guess you can imagine how many units I got here. About 9 tier-3 guys (6 from the dungeons and 2 warbreeds, 1 troll converted).
They only thing I needed after it was to come to Phirpo's domain which had some armies there but for sure not enough to defend.

Phirpo returned to the dwelling and I was able to finish leveling up my units. I also built several exalted and support units in my cities and that was enough to defend my empire. At the same time I attacked Phirpo's domain and he conceded.

Phirpo definitely showed a strong level of playing here, he managed to scout the map very well with zephyr birds and level up his heroes fast. He was unlucky with some roaming units too so in the long run I managed to win. 
Thank you for the game, Phirpo, and I'm willing to give you a rematch

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Nice to meet you  How are you?
The settings look fine for me, I've already joined the game and ready for a serious fight.
Good luck & have fun!
- Jean

pw: pg
mods: balance 1.24 & no rapids

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