By week 1, day 27: Scouts along a very long chain scouted and captured a level-1 Conservatory, found 4 more villages. No Pit Lords and none expected — perhaps priorities should have been changed, not exploring the map but beating up stacks. Still no money for a Stronghold. Captured 2 more external dwellings of Hounds, 1 of Gogs, 1 of Lizards, found 2 more Hives, one guarded by almost 50 Manticores, the other capturable. Necromancers are already 2.5, Skeletons 200.
Day 133: lost an Angel guarding a capturable Hive. Day 134: reached the 1st AI, day 135: captured it, found 2 Conservatories on his respawn, 3+2. Found a Dimension Door scroll, everyone goes to look for resources, but there are no resources. Captured 1st stat artifact from the AI — a small Axe, Bilyat. Day 137: 500 Skeletons, 35 Demons.
Day 143: capturing a Sword +5 All from heavily Morale-boosted Angels, -70 Skeletons. Day 144: Helm +4+4, contact with the opponent, a Dragon Utopia found on his respawn, building a chain, the closest well — only with a loss of 2000 MP(( Day 147: on slow roads, even with Dimension Door barely reach the Dragon Utopia, 20 Dragons, 700 Skeletons, 7 Angels, 135 Demons.
Day 211: a royal gift from the opponent — КЗ in an uncaptured Dragon Utopia, no Earth magic on the main hero) I lose confidence in having already lost the game (at this pace). Earth magic is on 2 other Necromancers, everything speeds up, the timer smoothly slides from 50+ minutes to zero. Day 213: spend 1.5 days on another Dragon Utopia next to the first, but it's somehow already taken, I capture a Cap and +3 All, Boots, together with Logistics you can start to make it in time. The opponent's main hero is defeated, Angels are upgraded, by day 217: 900 Skeletons, 230 Demons, 42 Vivi, 8 Archangels.
Day 223: ran around, killed 5 more Angels in the wild steppes, total 15 AA, 1200 Skeletons, opponent surrenders.
Thank you for the game and for understanding — in a rush during loading, I accidentally added 9 minutes to the auto timer and didn't even notice (was playing with a fever, a poor excuse, I'm quite the bungler even when healthy).