Tower tactics.

It's bad manners to deliberately portray your opponent as an idiot. Rudeness is just one of the forms of rage.

Not an idiot, but a noob. There's a difference. "Game tactics" derived from playing against the computer and posted on various forums as "advice" have largely disappeared with the advent of the internet for most people. Your story was very similar to such a tactic. But most importantly, you didn't mention that we're talking about playing on a fixed map, a pre-designed map, and not one generated by a random map generator, and this misled me, because the topic seems to imply playing on a random map. And a fixed map is a completely different game, with different strategies, different priorities, and a different approach.

I don't care about good or bad manners; I'm not obligated to be some fluffy, kind hamster, especially online. I follow the forum rules – I don't swear. And I don't care what anyone thinks about it, whether it's good or bad.

I don't like playing random maps, it's too boring, and what's wrong with Multiplayer on custom maps, where all players know all the subtleties and nuances of the map, and can plan what to spend their time and effort on?

Nothing is wrong with it! In many ways, it's even better, more balanced. It's just a completely different game.

For example, on random maps, Warriors are dominant, while on fixed maps, Mages are. On random maps, the Necromancer is powerful, with a legion of skeletons, because there are plenty of places to raise them. On a fixed map, the Necromancer can be quite mediocre or even weak, depending on the map itself, etc.

I've already explained why I didn't have any economic difficulties, and there's nothing new about it: looting, looting, and buying only what's necessary. Even if I don't buy 'what's necessary' right away, it doesn't matter; there's still enough for an army capable of attacking. About the Necromancer... Well, his vampire skeletons were useless. And the Knights ran into a Naga, who only slightly outnumbered them and died almost immediately. The Necromancer held on by resurrecting, but I had that too, as well as incomparably more other magical abilities. A stack of skeletons isn't scary either, especially when their leader has almost no other troops and mana left.

If the numbers I provided confused you, I still don't understand how it's possible to win on that map, or on other maps that I like, in the first week.

Nothing confused me except the confusion between playing on random maps and fixed maps. It would have been nice to mention that right away. And I didn't say anything about winning in the first week.

I would gladly master the art of online warfare, which you value so highly, but perhaps in another life. In this one, I've already spent too much time on games, so I'm happy with just relaxing with friends for fun, rather than having Olympic ambitions. I'm sure many will agree with me.

Suit yourself. Play whatever you want with whoever you want; I don't care.

And if you don't understand what I'm talking about, stop playing anything immediately. It's dangerous.

Is there something special about it that's not so easy to understand? Then I don't understand, because I don't see anything like that.

Whether to stop playing immediately or not, I'll decide 100% without your help.