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Kash (red, rampart, Ivor, Ivor) def KostyaN (blue, Castle, Valeska, Valeska), 2SM4d(3), 2.3.4.

We played for a long time, in several sessions, I don't remember everything, but I'll tell you about the finale, otherwise some people here are calling me a "talentless hack." )

224. At home – all units + a stash of pegasi + two dryads.
Secondary – Necropolis – liches with a stash in the Castle.
Secondary – Inferno – ifrits with a stash in the Castle.
Two conscripts – 7 angels. Minimum troops, traditionally and consistently losing.
225. Things started to improve. Utopia – tier 3: Titan armor, +5 shield, water spellbook.
226. Titan sword for 170 gold golems. Utopia – tier 2: helmet, water spellbook #2, and some other junk. I send Ivor home, the scrubs are gathering the remaining troops there. We are not blessed with wisdom, so we buy a cloak of resignation.
232. I'm planning to go on a campaign tomorrow, but Valya gets ahead of me, attacks – 40 hydras.
233. Okay, I'm staying home. Partisans are scouting a bit, managing to kill a horse and a few archers. The opponent camps in front of the Castle, offering surrender. I smile.
234. The finale.
Valeska, level 18. 7 archons, 44 horses, 83 griffins, 174 archers.
expertise: attack, leadership, tactics, air, advanced archery, ballistics, basic wisdom
Ivor, level 20. 7 angels, 5 dracols, 21 pegasus, 130 dwarves, 16 dryads, 14 elementals, 42 archers.
expertise: attack, archery, leadership, luck, earth, water, advanced air.

Turn 1. The opponent uses mass haste, breaks down the doors, but is hesitant to enter, saying "come out."
In response, I use mass slow. Everyone is on defense, the archers take out a group of horses, minus 5.
Turn 2. Towers and archers take out another 5 horses, the rest wait, giving the opponent a chance to speed up and enter the Castle, so that I can then slow them down again and attack for two turns. But Kostya strikes down my archers with lightning. Mass bless.
Turn 3. I wait, the opponent uses haste and enters the Castle. Slow, and that's pretty much it… Everyone just beats up the archons and horses. + luck, + battle discipline.
Turn 4. Angels and pegasi attack the archers, the rest finish off the archons, horses, and minimize the number of griffins. Valya, left with a few archers and griffins, bravely continues the fight with now a simply huge army, ignores offers of surrender, and dies a heroic death.

In fairness, I'll add that I don't see how Kostya could have won this battle, my advantage was overwhelming from the start, mainly due to the stats.
I respect his courage and thank him for the instructive game.