After watching the replay and then reading your posts, I noticed that it was Winrael, not Wingael! Or are you so blind that you didn't see the greenish aura on the elf, and it seems the elf was wearing a ring that reduces speed in the late game, which isn't very effective... This hero has a terrible ability, so he should have leveled up faster than Argath. He should have focused on leveling up in light magic until Divine. With several cities, he would have been easy to find, and the cyclops would have fallen after the first attack on the elf. The leveling strategy was a failure.