only XL-6

At first, I thought I had lost on the rests. For 3 rests, I just kept resting into hideous blocks or spiral roads. In the end, the opponent played their schedule while still having 2 rests; I thought it was a tide. To be fair, there were Tazar, Gundula, and Dessa. I managed to squeeze bears into the Castle on week 1. But I was severely short of money. Taking the Minotaur dwelling helped. With 6 Minotaurs, I tangled up, and with Dessa, on the final moves, I took the swamp where the AI had squeezed a castle on 122. Life started to improve. I sent Brona with 6 Minotaurs after the mines, and using the ducks the AI hadn't bought, I started collecting the swamp respawn. In the end, I took boots +600 with Dessa, gathered resources, and leveled up, which is a decent result. With Taz, I took hives and objects, took the ramp, and immediately started building the Mage Guild there. I set up flight right away, but rebuilt level 4 into Town Portal 5 or 6 times. Not waiting for Town Portal and seeing the growing stats of the opponent, I jumped into utopia, dumped a bunch of devourers and all the birds + bear + 2 ducks there, and got КВ and КШ. Well, at least it was already clear that I needed to gather more army than the opponent. Then with Dessa via Dimension Door (had a scroll on 137), I took the monster dwelling and on 141 took the second utopia. That only gave +6 all, but life became great. Then Taz gathered various things, and Dessa took whatever could be reached with 2 Dimension Doors. Dessa had no land, but survived anyway. On 144, I started taking villages and cities from the opponent, killing own-noobs, killed a leveled-up Solmir. On 146, after I upgraded 9 bears and 55 ducks, the opponent surrendered. Lucky that the opponent didn't rebuild control.

Thanks for the game!