We started immediately, I liked the layout - 2 external dwellings of air elementals, 1 pixie and 1 phoenix, but very little money - only piles, not a single chest or bank.
On 117, an encounter at an Inferno secondary hero - Invisible didn't believe I'd go for the horde of greater basilisks and allowed me to break his chain.
Build - fire elementals in the citadel with a thousand and only 4 heroes. Monere at level 4. Picked up 2 rings for the Elixir.
121 Kyrre buys a scout hero off me, partially solving my financial problems, I take the secondary town.
There are 2 Griffin Conservatories there - Kyrre already took the cheap one, and the second is 3-4 with a stack. If there had been 4 Bless, I'd have gone for it, there were already fifty air elementals and a hundred gremlins, but with only 2, I didn't risk it, especially since there was some more cash on the way. I ran through the upgrade locations.
125 news of surrender arrives - the opponent couldn't handle the max Griffin Conservatory with a scout hero. I declined the offered auto.
The post-mortem revealed that my layout was completely losing - by 131 Kyrre could break the Grail with 8 angels, there was nothing to oppose it with.