Strangely enough, on the first week I was blocked from all sides.
1st direction: a crowd of orcs, nearly 50 groups of dragonflies, a crowd of wivs.
2nd direction: 100+ nomads
3rd direction: a crowd of medusas

There was no question of capturing the same-color town. I'm hanging out at the respawn with 4 heroes.

On the second week, I took the mini-con, fought through the wivs to the village. And on day 125, oh how wonderfully I played: I defended the hive using jinns, regretted not sacrificing the fairy and lost an angel :smile35: I'm tilted. I had already dreamed of putting Monera on that angel and practically won the battle in my head :D but in vain. One thing is pleasing: Dessa ate several boxes and a level 17 expert earth and air. There are 2 Dragon Utopia

On the third week, I slowly start building the MG. I exit through the nomads, see one-way monoliths; I thought it might be possible to reach the opponent if one of them was blocked. On day 135, I capture the second tavern. I come to a fork toward the crimson or pink—a Dragon Utopia and boots are visible!!

On the fourth week, I take all those things. I start building MG in the ramp hoping for DD or even some kind of control. Also took home Dragon Utopia.

By the fifth week, I have no idea where to go. I meticulously check absolutely every scroll. NOTHING. AT ALL. Not even anything resembling control. I left the crimson respawn and went deep into who-knows-where.

As the autopsy showed, there was absolutely no scroll with control in my accessible territories. BUT there were TP and fly in the tavern. If only I had known, of course I wouldn't have built MG in my own town or at the opponent's ramp MG. If only I had known... Also, the only passage to the opponent was through the pink. The map turned out bugged. Also, the one-way monoliths led nowhere.

Meanwhile, the opponent emerged. Took the Castle. Killed my Gundula with 3 angels. My plan is to bait him by nesting in the Castle. I'm thinking about how to do it. But they are approaching me at such a pace that it seems I barely have time to sit in the ramp. There was one turn where I almost went grey—he missed me by 3 cells with shackles, having lulled my vigilance since there was no air sight. But thank god, it worked out.

FB: I kill the ballista. On the other side are shackles; I'm starting to like this. This is exactly what we counted on :D There is also a cloak there. And we start a shootout with lightning bolts.

In the end, I kill the dragons and angels. I pray that the opponent runs out of mana. HUH. He did! I even help him along so these skeletons can be finished off faster with lightning. Opp says "I believe the towers will run out of arrows" :D What a pervert, I think; oh well, I drain my own mana and think: this is it, I won, I f@#%ed them, now I'll go bathe and eat—basically making plans. How surprised I was when on that same turn Galtran attacked me; even if his troops were just for show, mine weren't either!!! During the battle, I cursed that I didn't buy aura unicorns for resist, cursed myself for draining my mana, and also cursed that I hid in the Castle to avoid showing stats—I should have bought more troops, although he might not have fallen for the bait.

So in the end, I'm left with 1 wiv who hits gremlins due to morale, and there remain 6 gremlins, a shooter, and GG. I regretted wearing the luck-ruiner, thinking maybe morale would smile upon me, but that's just theory...

Overall, it was an epic fail. Nevertheless, this is my best game this year. Or rather, the game itself turned out to be crap. But its finale was very interesting and unpredictable. Respect to Helllight for the will to win and

Thanks for the game!