In the first 2 weeks, I was behind, mainly because I didn't build an efreet power stack; instead, I decided to scout more zones but didn't gain much from them and built a nixie and a citadel. I found a hill fort and a box with 50 wolves, so I upgraded them and most of my native army. Illor was offered fire 1x and water 2x; on level 9, he got earth, so it was okay. He didn't get logistics or archery, though. In week 2, we went in different directions, and I think my opponent could have attacked me when I had no money to surrender, but for some reason, he decided not to. Then, I picked up many of the scrolls that were lying around; I think 6 of them, most of which were garbage. The last one, guarded by a horde of satyrs, was a Death Ripple, and I had access to this on both sides. It didn't give as big of a boost as I expected because, in the treasures I visited, I couldn't get a sufficient army to take Tope. Finally, in a rough treasure, I found 2 hives and 2 pickets and boots of speed. There were like 7 Topes on each side; I started clearing them 2 days after Crag. The last Tope gave a blue hat, so my advantage of having both Death Ripple scrolls was lost here, and I had a weaker army because of no sultans. I did manage to develop 2 side heroes, Gretchin and Sephinroth, who helped me clear the rest of the map easier. This time, I decided not to care so much about the towns and focused on getting more army and upgrading them. Even though I had more fast heroes than my opponent, there were a couple of moments where he could have caught me, but he didn't have view air (neither did I). With the timer running out all the time, I made some minor mistakes but managed to get more cyclopes and wyverns and upgrade them both. I sat in a fortress town so Crag wouldn't upgrade his wyverns, even though this put my main hero on the spot. He didn't attack me, though, and in a black market off-road in the desert, I found a +2 speed cape. With this, I had a great advantage, and it turns out Crag didn't have leadership, so his morale was very bad too. Thanks for the game!
Thanks for the game! You should have played more actively in the middlegame; then you could have won. GG!

