played a year ago in Kiev with the same towns (took my revenge)
Full restart, ended up on top. Scouting revealed the path directions. The AI Conflux took on day 115, painted an external dwelling of Air elementals there, built dwellings 1-6 in the Stronghold and a portal. A level 7 Miners with Water and Bless.
On week 2, 100+ Troglodytes and 31 Air elementals take a Griffin Conservatory with 3 Angels, a couple of Dendroids, then a couple more Conservatories, resulting in 10 Angels and two Dragon Utopias, stats and most importantly a Tome of Water. 2 Dimension Doors and rush to visit the blue player. On day 131 gathered all the bank and a couple of days later caught Moner on the last tile without an army.