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Dom's water elemental micro is considerably better than Blarg's with the wolves but they both lose one unit to the centaurs. Only Blarg has reinforcements queued since Dom's party is already large. The farseer waits for a few extra gunts and creeps up the right side of the map. Dom decides to cross over to the right side as well and fight his way down. Both players begin towering their main bases at this time.
He also notices the empty creep dens and decides to check out the enemy base. Seeing towers, Blarg dispatches wolves to harass them while his farseer runs away. Dom's minimalist defense forces (Blarg has -no- defense forces... maybe they aren't that minimal) kill the wolves as he overreacts and town portals his hunting party back to the base. Seeing nothing, the archmage runs back to the last creep den to for a tome of greater experience, leveling up to 5 while Blarg's farseer is still stuck at level 3 and the blademaster hasn't even fought yet.
Blarg feels complacent after sending in the wolves (he didn't see the army Dom ported in) and starts building a bestiary and expanding to the lower right corner just as his second hall is completed. He then goes creeping to the left with both heroes and - still - only three grunts. Dom has yet to expand, but he's upgrading to a castle and upgrading his weapons well beyond Blarg's. Blarg builds towers at the first expansion and discovers he wasn't a moment too soon.
Having seen Blarg's wolves approach from the right, Dom attacks down that side running into Blarg's corner expansion under construction with a superior force of eight footmen and the archmage, plus three mortars. Blarg senses doom approaching and cancels the building, sending all (five) of his military units at the second expansion to defend it. The orcs are outnumbered and outleveled but then several things happen. Blarg's towers finish construction simultaneously, just as they are surrounded by footmen, body piercing everyone in sight. Dom casts a horribly-aimed blizzard that buries the rest of his footmen while doing minimal damage to the orcs. The archmage runs away with 50hp and Blarg briefly gives chase, but needs to return to base to kill the remaining mortars before they hurt something. The blademaster has been exploded down to 50hp as well.
Blarg has the vastly inferior force, but trusts the horse guys to fight on his side and attacks. The clearing is sealed off by a solid wall of orcs, humans, and centaurs. Dom's archmage tries to escape but is eaten by wolves. The blademaster dies at the same time. Satisfied with the hero trade (not to mention getting his ass kicked,) Blarg's farseer town portals and joins up with the raiders left in reserve at the base and both players take a minute or two to think about strategy. Blarg upgrades to a fortress (finally) and expands to the lower left corner.
After deliberating what to do for a while, Blarg towers the lower right corner, summons a tauren chief, builds a spirit lodge, and starts building wyverns and upgrading weapons, apparently not noticing that his first gold mine is about to collapse and make beast armies more difficult... Dom scouts with gyrocopters and tries to get cute with a gyro flying across the middle of the map but it gets crushed by harpies. :) Blarg foolishly goes on the offensive, sending his wolves to attack Dom's expansion. Not seeing any resistance, he charges forward with the remnants of his defensive force.
Seeing a golden opportunity, Dom attacks while the wounds are fresh. He runs up against the left corner expansion and attempts to take out the towers with elementals. Remember those wyverns Blarg was building? Right now, so did he. The orcish wyverns rush to defend the expansion along with the tauren chief, farseer, and a few riders, killing everything and foiling the invasion. Blarg takes advantage of the lull by expanding to the lower right corner (again) and placing sentry wards throughout the map while Dom expands to the upper left corner. One of Blarg's witch doctors gets more of an eyeful than he planned when he runs straight into a human invasion force, this one including anti-air riflemen (nice response!)
Blarg sends out his remaining defenders but a combination of prior damage, shitty microing, and Dom's well balanced attack wipes them out with only a few human casualties. Having seen how slowly Dom tends to attack his expansions, Blarg decides to sacrifice the corner expansion and build up his forces in the fog of war, covertly producing raiders and wyverns and relocating them to the front of his main base out of Dom's view. Peons frantically drag sacks of gold from the rock as the human lazily shells and elementals the towers into oblivion, then charges in for the kill.
Blarg's remaining forces - raiders, wyverns, peons, everything - rush in behind the attackers. Several wyverns are brought down by the blizzard, but the orcs prevail. Only the archmage is left standing and he uses an artifact to escape with less than 20hp, only to die of wyvern venom in the protection of his own base. The expansion they had worked so hard to destroy had only 690gp left when the hall fell. Both players retreat again to rebuild their forces.
Blarg frantically casts stasis traps (the only time I've ever seen the damn things work) to slow the humans down while building up raiders. When a large party of raiders storms from behind the towers to kill one elemental, it's an effective show of force and the humans back down.
Dom realizes he's being out-mined and is determined to put an end to it before he risks attacking Blarg's primary again, expanding to the 9:00 upper position. The workshop researches flares and Dom launches three, two in the lower corners and one at 3:00 lower. He then goes in for the quick kill on 3:00 (the only expansion without towers) with the archmage and a huge group of mortars, not bothering to check 3:00 upper or ever noticing that Blarg expanded to both positions. Blarg's farseer and raiders rush to the defense, killing the archmage and a few soldiers, but they all die, largely due to blizzards and mortar fire. Blarg sacrifices the expansion and builds more raiders, gathering them around his revived blademaster and hoping no humans wander northward.
