In different corners of the spawn, 2 + 1 Griffin Conservatories were scouted; in the minimal zone, purely Grand Elves and Centaurs, at the start of week two Alagar gets wiped out because, due to the empty spawn and the adjacent zone leading to blocks (all resource mines and most of the adjacent zone were cut off by road-blocked areas), there was no money for development and buying creatures. On the first week I could only build 1-5, probably even without a Citadel. But on day 121 I was able to take a native computer guarded by 6k. Same for my opponent—Brown was a Swamp player. There was no road to Green.
We went into the late game; rebuilding the Mage Guild gave nothing until I rebuilt the 5th level and did 4 rebuilds of the 4th level. My army was behind in stats for a long time, but I systematically farmed Hives and searched for Dragon Utopias.
When Count began to press his advantage with a serious Tazar with 18/40 stats, capturing towns with supports—I went searching for the remaining part of the Elixir (the flask) and AOTD. Only after finding everything needed to counter Red's expansion did I start "sleeping" in the recaptured towns of Kiryu; meanwhile, the opponent didn't attack twice, even though my advantage was probably not noticeable—but I deliberately "exposed" myself, because besides this there was almost nothing left to do, and I was counting on the success of such a battle even against a leveled-up Tazar. In the end, I managed to upgrade Archers in a town rebuilt right under the opponent's nose and slightly thin out his army with Armageddons. On my turn, after capturing an important central town, I was about to attack Tazar in the field myself, when the opponent got frustrated, wrote "GG", and didn't wait for the Fly.
Thanks for the game.
