Confirmed. Interesting game.
Even though after my restarts I got a rather weak start (archers weren't built, only 20 of them, and on the road near the castle a stack of lizards was guarding resources - I had to go around), by the second week I more or less got going. The respawn was too stretched out and cut off by mountains, I couldn't orient myself quickly, so I grabbed 2 external dwellings of archers and the second external dwelling of swords only on week two. Once Shakti appeared, I realized that I simply wouldn't have enough fodder to overcome him, so I rushed to the treasure zone, which fortunately was Castle-aligned. When the miner was standing a few tiles from my capital, I paid 20000 gold for the titans, which allowed me to buy everything out to zero. The next turn, the pandora's box gave me all of level 5, but the opponent had a portal and a constant advantage in fodder... I ran around, ran around, but no miracle happened - they cornered me in the Inferno basement; the choice was either to run and clear the treasure zone, but then Shakti would get reinforcements (6 angels and who knows what else), so I decided to attack. After the setup and mass haste, they hit me hard - oh man, I typed gg.
Thanks for the game.