Nightmare roads (more precisely, one road to a dead end, and even that blocked by a stack of 27 upgraded Gorgons), at the start of week 4 only one castle (my home) and Kyrre
with mega-leveling (Water Magic, Ballistics), no stable and no movement artifacts. But luckily hit 3 Dragon Utopias +15 all and a colossus at level 5. Squeezed the main opponent, who was nearby, and on the next turn caught an army on a boat. 1:0
Thanks for the game!

Restarts chose and a twisted road was dealt, leading into an adjacent zone on a swamp. So events developed, frankly, not quickly. However, future objects were visible, bones accumulated little by little, and I progressed through the map. Then, alas, everything became even slower - Tamika never got Earth Magic at all (had to hire Conflux from a village in the last slot already in the late game), and the Mage Guild just wouldn't give anything useful, scrolls missed too, and it was as if Dragon Utopias didn't exist on 6lm. The home super-treasure zone on the swamp (and, by the way, also without any Dragon Utopias at all) was very far from the others without control.

The opponent controlled a very modest territory, but the stats shone incomparably better than mine. I understood that as soon as control appeared there, it would hurt me a lot. By and large, that's what happened. To make it hurt even more - I left my army on a boat, classic style.

The difference in skill level, apparently, is too great. But I am owed one more game :-)