Inferno tactics.

If the map isn't hopelessly resource-scarce, I quite often build Ifrits in the first week, about 200%. You don't need that many resources; for example, compare: 1) how much wood you need to build Riders – 35, 2) how many resources you need to build Unicorns – 15 wood + 10 crystals + 10 gems. Try gathering and building them. And sometimes it works. Ifrits are probably the easiest of all level 6 creatures to build. In the second week, you buy 4 Ifrits (or 5, if you've also built a Stronghold), gather meat (Imps + Gogs), and easily clear the entire territory, and by the end of the second week, you manage to build a Castle, Dogs, and Demons (possibly Broodlings). At the beginning of the third week, you have a Capitol + Warehouse; by the end of the week, you have Devils. ________________________________________ For example, yesterday we played on a resource-scarce map. And on the 7th day of the second week, the following situation arose: we had built a Town Hall + Stronghold + the first 4 levels of monsters. We faced a difficult choice: build Ifrits so that we would have 5 of them on the 1st day of the third week, or build a Castle (so as not to have to wait another week for the Capitol). On the advice of my opponent (Ewgeniy ;)), I built Ifrits, although I was leaning towards building a Castle, since there was almost no money on the map. And I didn't regret listening to him: by using the 5 Ifrits I bought on the 2nd day to defeat 15 Diamond Golems, I gained access to a rich territory, and as a result, I managed to build a Castle, a Capitol, and Devils this week. Conclusion: if I had built a Castle on the 7th day, I would have spent another 5 days in the Castle waiting for the Capitol, then I would have built Ifrits (but it would have been too late for Devils), I wouldn't have leveled up my hero in that time, and I wouldn't have discovered a new respawn point or Castle.