I got dealt some crooked and awful position. All roads are either blocked or lead to a swamp treasure with a one-way portal. First days I hung around the spawn. Found a conflux, a stable in the middle of nowhere, and a box with 5k experience. I ran six heroes around for gold, barely managed to stuff creatures into the citadel by week 1 day 1.7. I got Crag Hack out onto the grass through rough terrain and lit up almost the entire treasure zone from the tower. Smiled) Behind the archmages, a tome of earth was glowing. But then I got really tense: I don't use calculators, I roughly estimated the guard's strength and it came out to those damn archmages at 80+. No mass haste delivered, no tactics either. The whole army would die there. I was deep in thought, and on top of that the opponent got control and started taking beehives from my treasure zone… The queens decided everything. They were just singing: "Can you face me? But now you can kiss my ass, goodbye!" Somehow Yevhen Hudz immediately came to mind with his French lady who trolls so sweetly "kiss my je pas-pas". A sneaky phrase for an old fetishist and lover of female posteriors. I got angry and boiled over. You sit there kneading profanity, while the opponent controls and flies around the map. Risk it and drink champagne. I attacked, the archmages turned out to be 70+. I endured the first round under stone skin, and then the wolves and company one-shot them all.
With the earth book it got more fun. I gathered 40 wyverns, a few angels. No utopias seen, nothing interesting on the map either. I decided to pay a visit. Gunnar greeted me with implosion. I threw mine in response. In the second round we traded mass slow for mass haste. Combat stats a bit higher, army too, plus Crag Hack is always Crag Hack.
Grateful for the game. Good luck in the future!