Tactics for the Swamp (Fortress).

Gelimer, you've lost a lot of momentum. If you had played a bit more strategically (building up, moving without penalties), you would have achieved more and sooner.

If the opponent's advance through the water creatures was legitimate, did I have the right to rush through them in the first week?

The rules are the same for everyone!
Naturally.

(Maybe you should have gone through the water creatures to rest and meet them later).

As for Verdish, he's just bad. If you had focused on building up armor (since he's a warrior), you wouldn't have had the question of who to send into the hive.

Personally, my preference is to build a capitol and then raise an army, otherwise, without money, you won't have an army anyway.

That's a noob strategy. It's the standard noob strategy of all beginners. With it, you will always lose if you play against real people.

By the way, in my game, the enemy never came, even though I had advanced quite a bit.

Anyway, on this map, I started with a slightly different tactic; we'll see how it ends.

What enemy? Where didn't they come? What do you even think will happen in the end??

You're comparing a game against the computer to playing against a real person! That's nonsense!!!