Both took 2 respawns.
My respawn was complete junk, a tiny one in the middle of the map! 1 external dwelling of Minds, + played with a timer of 16+4+1 min. I couldn't keep up with anything and lost my army 3 times, thought about surrendering. When
I didn't build Birds in week 1. Built only on week 2, had to dump all my resources, and immediately lost one Bird on a Medusa nest due to lack of gold.
Well, then I waited until week 3, took 4 Birds, cleared the Griffin Conservatory +2 Angels, right at the conservatory, and lost 1 Bird. The timer was really messing with me, not letting me properly think through my moves. Then I figured out how the timer system works. And the game started rolling (clearing Dragon Fly Hives, 6-7 Dragon Utopias, was missing a Breastplate for the alliance. +1+1+1+1 Finale was one turn, Chain Lightning dealing 1900 damage, and the opponent writes gg
The map was weird: I visited 3 treasure zones, not a single Dragon Utopia. Opponent had 7. Thanks for the game