We started without restarts. I was born on the street with three stacks + an external dwelling of Troglodytes near the castle, totaling 170 Troglodytes. On the first day, I upgraded them and moved forward. I had a lot of gold, broke into the underground, picking up 2 Dwarf Cottages (100+75 Dwarves) along the way, a couple of crypts, and leveled up nicely: first I got Armor, then Earth Magic, and then Logistics. I took Inferno as a secondary town in the underground. End of the first week: in my main town, Gremlins with a Citadel, in the secondary town, Demons with a Citadel (accidentally built a Citadel instead of Efreeti:smile35: ). My opponent had a secondary Dungeon town, and I had just revealed a passage to the Dungeon lands. I came up with a plan to go on the second week and take it from Mephala, especially since I already had 200+ Troglodytes available and good stats. From the observation post, I revealed a treasure zone with Wings for 100 Crusaders, which also guarded a Preserve:smile03: The Dungeon turned out to be behind the mountains, and Shakhter just wasted time :(. So, I split off in my main town to buy a spellbook, take a Pandora's Box guarded by a horde of Orcs near the castle, and go for the Wings. And I sent a scout hero on 2 Harpies with archery around the mountains. Then Torgrim chases him off with 3+3 Dendroid Soldiers. It was a fun battle :), they chased the Harpies for about 10 minutes, but morale decided it, and my scout hero retreated, killing one Dendroid. Shakhter enters the treasury on day 133, kills the Crusaders without Mass Slow, takes the Wings, a minimal Preserve :(, a couple of Pandora's Boxes (35 Rakshasa +15k experience), a Shield +6, a Sword +5, visits the Library and... It's day 136, I have 2000+ gold income, but I didn't find any Utopias or Naga Banks, so in case of breaking through the ГО, I don't have gold for growth. There is one explored Preserve in the underground. So, on day 137, the main hero flies to the Well, which is next to the ГО, on Harpies, and I gave the troops via a complex chain to a scout hero without a spellbook, who takes a trash Preserve. I lost all the Rakshasa and an Angel. I'm not too upset, since morale wasn't great anyway. On day 141, I transfer troops to Shakhter, buy troops from my main castle + Efreeti (without the new week's growth :)). Then from three sides via chains I transfer everything to Shakhter, who flies over the ГО, but the opponent's castle is not visible :(. If he had attacked me at that moment, I would have lost. Turn passes, I breathed a sigh of relief, visited the Stables, and fly into the underground, taking the Golden Bow (which was previously revealed by me, and also by Mephala!!!). Mephala transfers to the secondary town, pulls up troops and... is three hexes short of reaching Shakhter. Meanwhile, Shakhter defeats the Black Knights guarding an artifact +4 to Spell Power and a Graveyard, but I don't take the artifact itself, afraid that Mephala will catch up. Mephala has Spell Power = 1, so she really needs this artifact, but she doesn't reach it :smile03: On my next turn, I sell all resources, buy what I can afford, take the armor from under Mephala's nose, and attack. In the final fight, I had much higher stats, 7 Efreeti, 8 Manticores, 19 Medusa Queens, 10 Beholders, 3 Angels, 260 Gr. Troglodytes, 12 Gr. Harpies. Igor had 30+1 Gr. Pegasi, 12 Gr. Unicorns, 38 Dendroids, 10 Beholders, 45 Grand Elves. Mephala had Advanced Tactics, while I had Expert :smile03: So, I corner the shooters, block the Grand Elves with Angels, who never even got to shoot. Then a standard shooting gallery under Mass Slow with the Golden Bow.
Thanks for the interesting game!