Confirmed.
This is my first report and my third online game overall. I don't know what the resource distribution was like, but I think it was above average. In the first week, I had horses in my castle. I found 4(!) resource crates. There was a maximum-sized army guarding the castle. I took 3 crypts. I didn't have enough wood to reach the hiding spot, missing it by 2 squares. On day 125, I decided it was time to open the resource crates and attack my opponent because I didn't see any other options: no secondary resources, no mermaids, not even a single nagabank. I had two medusa huts and cyclops. Gurnisson became my main hero – his ballista, with the Artillery Expert and Offense skills, was scattering everyone left and right. It's a shame that you can't get it from resource crates. I went to an unexplored resource crate (a hundred griffins) hoping for a level 2 creature ==> I stepped on it, only once, but it was like a minefield. 5 horses, 12 wood, 11 pegasus, 8 centaurs, and 9 elves (I took them as fodder) with a 9-4-1-2 party died a heroic death, taking the lives of 68 griffins out of 200... (((
There was nothing left of my army, so the game was practically over. But I still ran around, exploring the map and checking the resource distribution – would I be able to open at least one more resource crate? I didn't have time...
Thank you to my opponent for the game – he developed well, unlike some others.