We played full-random on light. All restarts were selected. It didn't seem to give much, but I still didn't find my own mines on the first week. And this is the worst build option for Castle (see Wicc's "notes") - griffins with bastion (+external dwellings of griffins and swordsmen) in the Stronghold.
I played like a fool for about two weeks. I didn't even know who to make my folder ).
But Pasha was in no hurry to kill me, and by some miracle, I reached the treasure zone in the middle of the third week.
Intuition pointed me to the right treasure zone (besides, although it was snowy, it was closer), and Shiva's expert reconnaissance + pipe helped me get oriented quickly. 2 external dwellings of angels, boots, 2 hives, a sword +5 to all, golden bow, Dragon Utopia... overall not bad. Although I got beaten up pretty badly there, by 211 I already had 6 archangels (+2 brought from external dwellings).
And then Solmyr appeared. I put on the red balloon for reliability and went into battle.
The opponent closes off the gremlins, but after the first volley of monks, which leaves 38 caps, it's GG.
Thanks for the game, light and random.