"Two Seasons: Winter - Spring 2019-2020"

We mistakenly played XL h3dm1 with Castle towns without level 5 guilds. So I traded down to zero on the external market, placed birds and bears in the Castle, and took 2 bird dwellings. After that, I managed to pull ahead of my opponent by breaking through blocks, while my opponent got a bit stuck. But he chose a better path toward Dragon Utopias and started suffocating me with air control. I figured out where the control was and rushed there; he tried to steal it from me, but the timer choked him.

Thank you for the game!

My first similar experience on the sod, but overall, it turned out wonderfully playing without 5th skill.
At the start, I quickly broke through, made some splits, gathered about 40 all valuable, but since we were playing, as it turned out later, xl, the roads were long, scouting was also slow with blocks, and the resources in the storage remained unused as needed.

At the same time, my opponent immediately made a smart investment in the army, traded all his resources, and with brute force felt more comfortable moving forward.
After taking the home Griffin Conservatory, I had 2 development paths, and I chose the route with Dragon Utopias without КЗ, instead of the swamp spawn with a single Dragon Utopia)
I must say, this decision was largely driven by searching for a town with a mage guild, and the idea of grinding with a wild penalty didn't appeal to me much.

In the end, I started with a max-level Dragon Utopia) the losses were terrible, of course, but Taz endured. Among other things, it gave a Helm of Heavenly Alignment. Later there were many more Dragon Utopias, but all of them without КЗ. The day before the finale, I positioned Jedite near the Prison in that area with air control. And on the final day, seeing a flag near the town, I realized I had to act immediately.. there was a beautiful chain from Taz through Prisons, with a defeat of Loins at the end, who was supposed to take the max stack and jump up, but I was sleepy and misjudged the timer.

P.S. The Pandora's Box with all the land was near the Rampart village, as was the КЗ in the next Dragon Utopia for Tazar :o

P.P.S.
Now I realize that, even if I had jumped with control at that moment, hauling everything back would have been hellish, of course, because successfully executing my plan required a lot of time to dig up heroes with 25+ mana, and quite possibly Taz would have had to be defeated.

P.P.P.S.

And I was thinking, like a man, to build in Castle and not show off)
Town Portal on the second try :o

Thank you for the game!