20.07.11 Piterius (Castle, Loynis, Dessa) def R55Max (Rampart, Elleshar, Elleshar), 8xm12, 135

I had one rest left for the two of us when it gave a decent pile of gold and a good starting army. The respawn was great, got cavalry in the castle, an external dwelling of pikemen and griffins, also 2 more monks, but I painted those on the second.
The only road turned out to be an arc around the castle to the very corner of the map, then from the corner upwards to the nearest metro was 2 days of travel. Eventually around 116 I ran somewhere with Dessa, got met by Elves, they shot about 15 of my marksmen, I bought them back.
I'm sitting in the out, have to run there again, darn it, cut off from all prospects of something tasty! There was also a path from that ill-fated metro, but it only led to dead-end snows. Having run there by 126, I decide to push toward the red player anyway, set up angel dwellings at home, while the opponent had already popped several computers, which was pretty disheartening. Plus three ramparts on the map demanded a speedy resolution.
131 I take a hive near a teleport leading into territory controlled by the opponent. Apparently the red player has things to do elsewhere too :).
Then a bunch of resolutions, I take a rampart with Dessa, presumably a former computer's since it's poorly built, a scout reveals several more directions and a Flux citadel. The angels still haven't arrived, each turn could be the last, but the opponent hesitates, kills my scouts and moves the army away. I run to a four-way junction, there are 2 unclaimed hives, the wyverns count became 24, and then reinforcements arrived in the form of 3 angels, 20 mages from the box, 13 monks, a few archers.
The red papa arrives, stats are worse, few elves, 5-9 cavalry, a stack of wyverns, dendroids and dwarves, only 5-9 angels raise doubt, but the boosted papa was revealed on their 6 single units, so without much thought I attack.
On tactics I blocked three shooting stacks and managed to shoot down the angels, wisps and cavalry before the opponent's 200+ mana shot down my shooters ;).

Thanks for an interesting and tough game!