Mini-Tournament "For Sale"

Congratulations to VBN on his well-deserved victory and to Invisible on his unexpected, and I think even surprising to himself, third place. I won't go into too much detail about the walkthrough. My game was straightforward, without any complicated maneuvers. Let VBN "take the lead" as the winner. Regarding what might not be clear from the attached save files, I'll explain that I gave Bron the "Thunder" artifact. He used it to clear everything he could on the water with 1 captain-centaur. I took Necropolis with Dess. I took the Stronghold with Jelu. Thunder, fleeing from the outsider, moved to the Stronghold. Also, I can note that in the battle for Thunder, I only lost 5 captain-centaurs. Mullich with expert leadership and ranged attack (plus an artifact for luck) is a killing machine. There haven't been any HW tournaments for a while now, and that's why I have a big, unresolved question: why did everyone, except VBN and Invisible, slack off? Okay, I'm "fed up" with HP, but what about the others?!