Flooders Tournament for HoMM III Online

Revan (blue, Empire (Rampart), Revan (aka Ivor)) Def Zybr (red, Rebels (Castle), Valeska). WOG 3.58f

It all started relatively calmly — I spawned next to three garrisons blocking 3 out of 4 paths. In one there were traitor fanatics and crusaders, in the second there were snipers, and in the third Sylvan archers and centaur captains. All three garrisons were upgraded — the deserters knew when to leave, and they also planted some stumps, and the area around the shooters was mined O_O. In short, I chose the only path and began slowly clearing the map. Early on, I was quite surprised by the goblins under Alamarr's command, who resurrected them once — they noticeably battered the pikemen. I took a Succubus as my commander for the fire shield and seduction :D Around day 113, I picked up a red chest that gave me a choice to upgrade either Earth or Leadership to Expert in 7 days — naturally, I chose Earth. But up until week 3, I was still running around without the book, and Slow wasn't in the castle. Revan found Gelu(!) and started cranking out snipers. And I also managed to stumble into his turf. The opponent generously let me go, and we started exploring the map and WoG. With the help of the home mirror, Valeska returned home (week 2), took cavalry (2), and went to break through the garrison with crusaders and fanatics. In a dark chest, I got a choice between 1k gold or upgrading to champions — I naturally upgrade, putting one as a squire. Killed almost all the shooters :( and the champions. Then I took another growth of theirs; in the dark chest, I upgrade again, but put a champion back as a squire. Next, the Griffin Conservatory for 2 angels with upgraded dwarves and a healer commander. Again, almost all the shooters were killed, but 2 angels were worth it! 1 straight to squires. I go to claim the external dwelling for swordsmen, cavalry, and archers (got 6 cavalry :). The end result was 13 champions, 1+1 angel, 22 crusaders, and 44 archers. I cleared the territory, took the growth in the castle, and now have 18 cavalry. I broke through the Rampart garrison, and as can be seen in the first screenshot, every garrison is mined, BUT(!) the mines didn't trigger for a while. This had its pluses — clearing garrisons was much easier — but also minuses — Revan and I couldn't fight battles. Oh well, in general, beyond that garrison I also cleared stuff, but didn't find anything particularly valuable. However, a funny event occurred that deserves a separate mention.
"Valeska's Dream".
It was a cool summer evening. Valya set up camp near a forest, and the army settled in for the night. In her dream, she saw Ivor (who by then was called Revan :D; it's also worth adding that by then he had found Amadeus's watch (a demon, in short)). In her dream, Valya was essentially controlling Revan: she attacked wandering crusaders, summoned a demon, and struck with Armageddon, wiping out almost the entire enemy army (i.e., Revan's), and smiled contentedly. But then suddenly everything went dark in her eyes, everything was shrouded in a black haze, and then... a script error! The game crashed!
We reloaded, played on, I ran to the teleport, trained in the snows, started actively clearing, capturing the tower, breaking through a garrison (where I discovered that the mines work!)(lost one champion). Also in the snows, I found another dark chest that upgraded my angel, resulting in the archangel going to squires. I took another Griffin Conservatory for 3 angels, and the next day I saw Revan's army one day's march from my castle. I realized I wouldn't make it back to the castle and went looking for luck in the form of a town portal mirror. When they stormed my castle, I saw the enemy army, got scared of their training, and decided I should also power-level my army before the battle. I chose not to fight for the remaining castles and went into the dungeon to take neutral Inferno. Since I didn't have 80 snipers in my army, the clearing was a bit harder, although 26 champions with charge hit everyone very, very hard. But then a misfortune occurred: as it turned out, the passage to Inferno was guarded by 49-99 angels(!). Realizing this isn't SoD and those angels would have 400 HP each, and even considering 10-15 charmed ones, I'd hardly be lucky to win the battle with acceptable losses, so I headed upward hoping the passage wasn't the only one. Up top, I broke through 49-99 werewolves that I didn't even see — a tower blocked the view, and it wasn't clear who exactly was guarding the passage (since they were guarding a Pandora's box, I knew it was tier 4). And then my second major misfortune in the endgame occurred — the werewolves converted my stack of upgraded angels (my second striking force after champions) to their side. Oh well, no point in crying about it, though the Pandora also gave me 25 upgraded demons (just great...). I move on, beat 49-99 nagas (220 HP + upgraded stack!), pick up some random trinkets, and hit a dead end... By that time, my towns were already taken, and Revan was hot on my heels. I wanted to do an FB, but the glitch cropped up again, so I'm only attaching a screenshot of the final armies.
There. Thanks to Revan for the game. WoG can be forgiven for many things, but the FB glitch is completely unacceptable :(