Here's my recap of the finale of TopKilla's Expedition Tournament.

Here is a playlist of all 7 videos, almost 50 minutes. (Sometimes I drag on too long about a subject, it's just me finding words in English, my second language.)

Or you can view the videos seperately. If you are gonna watch just two, be sure to pick chapter 3 and 7.

Chapter 1: First talks and outposts
Chapter 2: Day 2-6
Chapter 3: Specialists special
Chapter 4: Mines and attacks
Chapter 5: Day 9, more vision, less confidence
Chapter 6: Delaying Connor, Yottawatts rising
Chapter 7: Until the very last minute and driller

Eventually it resulted in the following outcome:

Great recap Stefan. Good game!

when i see it again. red send attack ?? just suspicious at chapter 7 before 10s.

red has a lot of specialist to send with 297 drill. but he choose elder and admiral ? it is only 2 specialist on sub !

admiral is ok. elder ?
he can send admiral, "thief!" and warhero or assasin to take the mine for real attack. guaranteed win that mine. i am not sure if red is deliver good attack there.

but all is happend already so congrats to the winner.

There were various pirates in play, Connor had a Double Agent, Helmsman and Lieutenant. That combination of specialists made it really hard to push an attack with lots of drillers (needed versus his kings bonusses). Connor also had saboteurs and assassins in his next hire.

Also, The Stash didn't have vision of Triton where many of the specialists were, so I feeded him information when needed, but that isn't the same as being able to calculate everything yourself with the time machine. This particular attack was scheduled to leave at a moment when Stash was asleep, so he knew about all the specialists, and probably decided that lots of drillers would work against his three kings, and his Elder would prevent any of Connors specialists to take part.

So the Elder seemed like a good choice, and also he had my King as a possible backup, I could gift it at any time I wanted. The admiral was good to get the sub there early, any other specialist with a combat effect would have been useless because of the Elder.

We just never calculated the possibility that Yotta was gonna give his 2 kings away (a bit after 1 minute into the video), for a total of 5 on Connors side.

Thanks for watching, Crisismana!

There really was no other move. The attack with the elder was the only option against what Connor had for defense. If I had attacked with anything else, I would have lost to a double agent or an assassin. The only way Connor could defeat my attack with the elder was to use a martyr, another elder or to have enough drillers/kings. It was nearly a guaranteed win until Yotta gave Connor two additional kings and gifted him drillers.

At that point, the frustration hit its peak. There was next to nothing we could do against 5 kings.

To be honest stash, I felt that the biggest mistake you guys made was taking so long to attack. I felt like you guys could have beat me easily but we're just biding your time/organizing specialists. Time was on my side so I was okay with it though.

I attacked as soon as I could move in that direction. There was a lot that went wrong . :/

All good, good game.