We didn't take the rests, although I had a one-way passage with 20+ trolls guarding the pendant of resistance, another respawn artifact - dead man's boots - also nothing special, but there were plenty of archers given to both Ivor and the second hero, so we could fight. On 124 I took out the brown computer (tavern) and got stuck for 3 days( trying to break through passages to mines and chests. Little gold, so only unicorns in the Citadel. On week 2, the opponent revealed Turis in the tavern with stats twice as high, while I kept scraping together gold for buildings and recruitment (but lucky that I had 2 heroes in the tavern, both with elves). I got even more upset when the road to the 3rd castle (Conflux) was blocked by upgraded cyclops and a pendant against lightning... (apparently the generator decided that since I had elves, I didn't need stats), but the opponent decided to force the pace (the turn before this I had already offered an auto, now he didn't ask for it anymore).
Thank you for the game