After taking all restarts, we started. The respawn wasn't very good — one road led into Red Dragons, another into a pack of Arch Mages. Eventually, I broke through into the underground and captured the Necropolis castle there. I discovered a horse spawner behind a pack of undead Necropolis horses (Dark Knights) at my respawn — took it at the start of Week 2, then a couple of Dwarf Cottages (one was max), and a Wyvern tree. Then I galloped into the snows — there was a level-1 conservatory there; after that, I took a conservatory near the castle which had 3 Angels. Then on the third week, I galloped into the artifact zone near the Necropolis castle underground — there I took the Pendant of Mastery from a horde of Magi, a Dwelling of Devils and Efreeti, and at the end of the third week — a max Dragon Utopia (5 Black Dragons) — gave junk (a red orb, a helm giving knowledge +12 and -3, and similar shield and wings). After that, I galloped and hopped to the surface (too bad there was no Air Magic — jumping was expensive), positioned myself in front of the Red Dragons at my home castle, where I had built Angels the previous day; I immediately took 4 Angels from Valeska and upgraded them there, then flew and hopped to the opponent. I attacked — and was stunned by the size of the army — almost 100 Grand Elves (and this was only the 4th week), 6 Green Dragons, and other meat (turns out the opponent had as many as 3 Elf spawners and one Dragon spawner!!!). Meanwhile, I had only 70 Marksmen total (some were killed when I took the horse spawner — the horses immediately got morale and on the first charge killed over 20 Marksmen). I started casting Implosion, though it wasn't very effective — low spell power, but I had a lot of mana. I resurrected my Archers; the opponent cast Mass Slow on me. For a couple of rounds, I did nothing — shot at the Elves and cast Implosion (afraid to charge them under direct arrow fire). But then, when the Elves were down to 20 and the Dragons to 2, I moved everything forward. Eventually, I killed them off, losing all my Marksmen, a couple of Archangels, I think 2 horses, and several Griffins.
Thanks for the game.