I got to choose color and town third, managed to grab Conflux.
It worked out great, air magic was built, heroes with air spells, plus moner from the start. At respawn I took a level 2 Griffin Conservatory, three Dragon Fly Hives for 16 Wyverns, two external dwellings of psychics, chests for experience, for gold, for 50 pixies, 5 dwarves, a level 3 Dragon Utopia (gave shield +12, armor +4 attack, defense, and garbage). In the Dragon Utopia, all the birds and the feast were consumed, I broke through rusty dragons at 122, managed to eat a Dragon Fly Hive (4 Wyverns). And immediately met blue and green. My stats were the highest among everyone, but by the number of towns it was clear that Gomunguls in the center with 116-117 had eaten there, if not everything, then practically everything. The exits with Akella and RozenKran were very close to us, while Gomunguls had the entire treasure zone to himself, and even though the stats there were not very scary, obviously he had managed to get control or a good stack of meat. At the start, I decided that Akella and RozenKran had teamed up against me, so I raised the alarm, asking Gomunguls to join our skirmish, to which Gomunguls was in no hurry to respond :). I attacked shakti on my turn and didn't even let him buy me off, killing him in two turns. After that, it was a matter of technique, I ate two libraries, solidified the alliance with Gomunguls, and chased after galtran to the blue respawn, where galtran had eaten a Dragon Utopia, the stats there grew and there was more meat, but Gomunguls had already delivered the Fire book to me, so after casting Armageddon, I easily bought myself off, leaving RozenKran to the mercy of the green :), on his turn Gomunguls finishes off the red, gg wp :)
Thanks everyone for the game!
Special respect to Gomunguls :smile54: