numOne (red, Castle, Valeska, Valeska) def Hermit (blue, Swamp, Tazar, Tazar), balance, 227

Another intense game, but this time with a more favorable outcome for me. By the end of week 3, I have 7 towns against the opponent's 2, I put +1000 everywhere, built Angels at home. Tazar, on the other hand, stayed too long in his native swamps and paid for it.
Starting from week 4, there are constant skirmishes where, although I am inferior in terms of parameters, I gain the upper hand with superiority in meat, gradually pushing the blue player off the map. We split the treasury roughly in half, I acquired a chain of 400+ and kill Tazar with Chain Lightning without much trouble.

Thanks for the game and for the auto!

That's exactly how it was. The passage was guarded by a group of Cyclopes; the second one was not found at all. In the treasury — a horde of Genies and many Manticores. On the first [treasury], Hydras in the Citadel, but I didn't capture the secondary one, where the Basilisks were sitting — though it turned out to be just one. On the second, there is a Medusa Shrine with max Dwarf Cottages, then a max Conservatory, more Medusa Shrines, and on the third, I attack the GO, but I make a mistake in choosing the direction and end up at the GO on the opponent's respawn. There, though, I take the max Naga Bank and a Chain Lightning scroll, turn around, and with the growth I managed to buy, I go looking for the passage to the main treasury. I see the passage guarded by a stack of Vampires and a stack of Pegasi. I take a Medusa Shrine and a Cyclops Shrine. By the first battle, I had Expert Earth and Air, but there was no View, no Haste, no Slow in either of the two Mages' Guilds Level 1 I built. Still, I considered Tazar with 6 Hydras and 3 Angels (one was sacrificed at the GO) to be a very strong hero and boldly went across the sand into the dark, but then Valeska attacked in all her glory with a bunch of upgraded troops — over 200 Halberdiers alone — and Mass Haste, and proved that this was a mistaken opinion... Actually, I could have built two Mages' Guilds Level 3 the day before, but for some reason I didn't. I ransomed myself with the Lizardmen. I bought back Tazar, bought him Dragon Flies, and then through the sage Xyron, I learned both Haste from Brissa and Slow from Void, and went again as if into the treasury, but actually to provoke Valeska. I managed to cast two Chain Lightnings, killing two Angels, two Champions, and some smaller units, and ransomed myself. I bought back Tazar again, finally broke through the Cyclopes and the horde of Stone Golems behind them, and went into the treasury again. The opponent had already broken through the Vampires, and I entered through that passage — I had money to ransom, but to my surprise, Valeska did not attack. The next day, I grabbed two mini-hives and Magic Armor, and Xeron, at the Swamp respawn where I had broken through the Cyclopes, found a View spell and from there saw Valeska as clear as day, moving almost parallel to Tazar behind the mountains, and a chain leading to her. She had many more troops and Angels again — I thought they were from the Conservatory and was happy when I killed them, but it turns out they had been built. She and I were about to meet. With Expert Pathfinding, I managed to take 3 hives almost right under her nose and got 35 Wyverns. The opponent attacked. Overall, I might have been able to win, but he significantly reduced the Wyvern stack with Chain Lightning, and I had to ransom again. Then I found a Fly scroll and took another three hives, but while I was in the treasury, the opponent captured the capital, and despite having 30 Wyverns, I couldn't do anything against the huge army and Chain Lightning.

Thanks for the game!