"only XL-5"

I played a challenging round; my development was very slow, and I only went for cons on the third week—before that, I was just running around the map with some trash (luckily there were many roads). We met twice during the third week. In the first encounter, I attacked; I broke through using tactics and mass haste, killing an angel and 4 ducks, while in response, a bolt took out two bears—buyback. At the end of the third week, Tazar suddenly flew over the mountains and attacked Dessa! The opponent started the second encounter with a 900 explosion (minus 4 angels), but that also exhausted Tazar's mana. I kept waiting for a buyback, but there was no one to buy back; in the end, Tazar simply retreated. I managed to save an angel, 4 thunderbirds, and one bear. A rather sweaty game against Tazar with control lay ahead, but then a TP scroll arrived, which I used to quickly build up the tower in the Tower village, and it immediately gave flight and DD. After that, I just needed to outrun him or catch Tazar with chains, but the maximum Dragon Utopia that stood between us settled everything even faster. Thanks for the game!