Catch
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The save files of the respected Catch were analyzed, and it was concluded that when the turn transitions from the 4th to the 5th day, the computer does not act as it should according to Catch (i.e., the save file does not reflect reality).
I am familiar with such situations where the computer indeed does not act as it logically should.
Based on my experience, I can say that in such situations, when a computer, superior in strength (and even a weaker one), is left completely alone and without a Castle, it will attack a Castle with a 90% probability, especially when it is within its reach. It may not attack only in two cases:
1) The opponent's strength significantly exceeds its own.
2) A game glitch (which may be the case here with the English version of the game).
Since in Heroes 1, the computer's moves when skipping a turn are strongly influenced by the actions of the first player (the computer), the actions of the Barbarian in this case are absolutely logical and consistent:
When skipping a turn, the yellow player, left alone, attacks a less powerful opponent (red) and captures its Castle. The Barbarians scatter in different directions so that they cannot be reached in one game day.
Despite my respect for Catch, I was unable to achieve the situation where the yellow player does not attack the knight and does not capture its Castle, for the reasons mentioned above, and numerous replays with skipping a turn only confirmed my assumptions, so Catch's save file was not accepted.
//I am not considering the situation with the computer's inaccessibility to the player in this case//
P.S. Of course, I know how to make the yellow player not attack and not take its Castle, but I think that Catch is not a cheater; he simply encountered a glitch or bug that is present in the English version of the game.
Well... I did play on the English version, so formally, I violated the rule stating that I should play on the Book version. But... I disagree that the computer's moves in my version are called a glitch or bug, as this usually affects localized versions, and it is more logical to consider the computer's scattering in the Book version as a glitch or bug. And secondly... if it were impossible to make 5 days pass on the Book version, I would have asked not to accept my save file, but, as Nzol showed, this is possible, and I think that I would have achieved the same result on the Book version. In the English version, I also had to struggle a lot to make the computers act exactly like that.
P.S. Yes... one more thing. Before this tournament, I didn't know that the computer's moves in the original and Book versions are so different; doubts arose only after completing the playthrough. Before that, I played in various tournaments, both on one and the other versions, and did not notice any differences, so, not having the opportunity to play on the Book version, I played on the English version without any ulterior motive.