He restocked the first one – peasants, bows, an outpost on a compact respawn point. The second time gave him the same external dwellings, but the respawn was spread out and there was an orcish horde of archmages blocking the way to the secondary base. The game didn't start well right away; I don’t even remember when I last played Humans with such a slow pace. Training only started from the fourth week, horses appeared at 1-4-7. With great difficulty, he broke through to the treasure zone, where they met Hafiz. They both took some Dragon Utopia resources, I drove the mage away from the Temple, and grabbed some money. There was a thought to eat up small banks with Rutger, but Hafiz returned very quickly, so I had to return the money. :)
We crawled around the map for a month - I took my native secondary base, the mage dug up artifacts for knowledge and summoned minions. 45 cats under minions with 50% initiative is evil. That's how he cut down my entire army. Even meat from the capital wouldn't have saved me, which I didn't manage to reach.
Thanks for the game, good luck in the tournament.