Favorites, to battle! - 11 - The Battle of Favorites! - 11

We played without OH. That's why I didn't take Res, in part because the first week of the match was essentially lost due to reviewing a disputed situation from the previous round and the opponent's incorrectly specified ICQ.
In different corners of the spawn, 2 + 1 conservatories were scouted; in the min, with just Grands and Centaurs at the start of week two, Alagar falls, 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 blocks via no-road), there was no money for development and buying troops. On week one, I could only build 1-5, probably even without a Citadel. But on day 121, I managed to take my native computer with 6k guards. Same for the opponent; Brown was Swamp. There was no road to Green.
We went into the late game; rebuilding the Mage Guild gave nothing until rebuilding level 5 and 4 rebuilds of level 4. I was behind in stats with my army for a long time, but methodically shook Hives and searched for Dragon Utopias.
When Graf began to press his advantage with a serious Tazar at 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 repel Red's expansion did I start spending nights in the recaptured towns of Kirj, while the opponent did not attack twice, though my advantage was hardly noticeable. However, I "set myself up" deliberately, because besides this, there was almost nothing left to do, and I was counting on success in such a battle even against a leveled Tazar. In the end, I managed to upgrade the Archangels in the rebuilt town right under the opponent's nose and slightly thin his army with Armageddons. On my turn, when after capturing the central important town I was about to attack Tazar in the field myself, the opponent lost his nerve and wrote gg, without waiting for the FB.
Thanks for the game.