Had a pretty rich map in gold but no dwells. Got some free basilisks from bron though, so army was fine. Had to go far offroad to reach 2nd area and it was guarded by pack zealots on grass. Went futher into emptiness but found a coulple of usefull arts at least.

Early week 2 I bought most of my army and passed 46 monks to go into the middle. Taz got bad skills but since I was there much earlier than opponent and could find the hive area pretty easily I was confident of the win.

Unfortunatly hivearea was in sand and almost empty and opponent had found the grail and boots and could dominate the map completly while Taz lacked good skills and speed, so the game ended in defeat.

Well played by opponent but no doubt finding the grail so early made the diffrence. I believe the rulemakers on HW was a bit to fast to allow the grail in all situations. It is still massively unbalanced that one player has it in his backyard.