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I started playing this layout only because I got 2 heroes claiming the papacy and because of the Evil Eye external dwelling. On 111 I bought Broghild and Crag, who worked together until the end of the game and pulled it off.
On 112 I take the Evil Eye external dwelling, build a portal, discover that one of the roads is blocked by 10-19 champions. I don't take a restart for the reasons described above, although I regretted it later, because on top of everything else, Medium also had a double. On 113 I upgrade the Evil Eyes, Crag takes 60 gr. Troglodytes from Pandora's Box and Broghild runs along the second path, which is full of archers.
On 115 I reach the guard of my treasure zone, I see a block of 50-99 pegasi guarding a Phoenix external dwelling and resources. Nothing to do, I have to fight. With great difficulty I took the external dwelling, lost all the Troglodytes. 25 Evil Eyes and 26 Harpies remain. Broghild on a Phoenix runs up the path to capture a village, I prepare chains to pass everything back to Crag, who at that time was running around the stat boosters on the respawn, got Advanced Logistics, Earth Magic, and stood by the champions planning to fight them on 121.
Week results - 1-3 in the Citadel with a portal, all three levels upgraded.
On the respawn there's 1 Dragon Fly Hive and an Evil Eye external dwelling. Nothing in the treasure zone either. It's a whole week's run to the village. On 121 I buy troops, trade to the max, and fight the champions, breaking out into open space. There were 14 champions, I lost a few Troglodytes. Along the way: a stable, a +3 sword, a teleporter leading to another teleporter to the opponent, and most importantly - a Naga Bank, which is absolutely necessary.

122 I take the Naga Bank, max version I think, find shackles of war behind a Medusa pool, attack them with 3 phoenixes and 4 pixies, lose a phoenix to them, they kept freezing me. I run further along the path, decide not to touch the opponent yet, tempo is more important. I find a Griffin Conservatory - minimum. On 124 I run to the central village, capture it, smash Broghild into it, use him to jump into the teleporter at the village, a scout hero kills the red scout. Broghild stops at the hive in the adjacent zone, seems quiet. Army: 2 phoenixes, 1 angel, 35 harpies, 45 gr. Evil Eyes, 80 Troglodytes (Shakti came on 121)
They didn't attack. Next I take the tree, visit the library (which played a major role later), split my army. The scout heroes pass the army to Crag, and the boosted Crag runs along the second direction while Broghild stays overnight in the castle.
Crag first finds 1 Dragon Utopia, then a second one, also 2 Griffin Conservatories with 3 angels and 1 hive. Broghild rushes there too. Takes the first one - a bit of stats, at the start of the third week - the second one, with the Tome of Earth and Wings.
Both heroes are roughly equal in level and well-leveled up. All game I thought about who to make the main hero, since there aren't many hives on the map and Crag doesn't have Wisdom upgraded, unlike Broghild. On week 3 I start building level 5 every day. Meanwhile Crag runs around capturing villages/opponents, while Broghild, who learned Town Portal in the castle, flies around, hits Cyclops stockpiles, and collects resources for the level 5 building.
On the 5th try I build Dimension Door. At the same time I capture the opponent - a Swamp player. 141 I upgrade the Wyverns, which already number almost 70, and buy out. Watching the turn I see the red scout take a Conservatory on the respawn of the Swamp opponent I captured and jump to the teleporter that I revealed at the start of the second week while visiting the library. The tavern shows this same scout stayed with the power stack. Broghild has Town Portal, 2 DDs, a close passage to this teleporter, and the shackles. Well, in the end, if I can't reach him or make a mistake, I'll return home and Crag will continue moving with the power stack.
I jump into the teleporter, Expert Scouting immediately reveals the scout with a pack of angels and 20-49 gr. Psychic Elementals sitting in a village, and beneath him Monere was also sitting on an angel. GG.
Thanks for the game)

The secondary town was very far away, I only reached it on 121, and both exits to the center were halfway there, which was a big strategic problem because it left no chance to fight for the central villages on the second week (impossible to quickly buy out and merge at such distances) and guaranteed the secondary would be cut off from the main. Despite this, I decided to take the secondary anyway, since why refuse a double, and besides I was sure the opponent had strong resources, since he didn't restart this double, and his turns on the first were very long. I only broke through one of the entrances to the center and sent a scout.
In general, it turned out as expected - on the second, my flanks were isolated from each other. I left the week 1 army and the buyout in the secondary. Monere split back home, took Griffin Conservatories 2+3 at home, a couple of Dragon Fly Hives, the library, Naga Banks, built a portal at home for merging. The army from the secondary went to the corner village. The portal built on the 4th try. I split Monere in the corner - there's a huge treasure zone there, but without Dragon Utopias and not particularly rich. Broghild was already showing stats, so I didn't want to stick out into the center, especially without Dragon Utopias there was no way to fully buy out and upgrade. Next I cleared the treasure zone, built Dimension Door at home, built it on the 4th try. I finally found a mini Dragon Utopia at the very edge of the treasure zone with no useful artifacts. I mostly bought out and planned to take another Dragon Utopia in the adjacent treasure zone the next day. I needed somewhere to stay overnight and replenish mana. I decided the village was the safest place, since from the central village Broghild could reach any of my dwellings, but flanks, unlike the corner village, could be discovered by viewing. I still wasn't ready to fight against 70 Monks that day, since I hadn't upgraded and Monere had about 20 mana left, which Broghild would immediately figure out with Vision. So I decided to boost up. I probably should have left Monere outside so he would show up in the tavern - his stats were already close to Broghild's thanks to the stat boosters. Maybe then Broghild would have found something else to do and wouldn't have come scouting me. The next day, after the Dragon Utopia, additional purchases, upgrades, and mana replenishment, Monere would most likely have been stronger than Broghild and could start fighting for the map.

Thanks for the game.
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