Winter 2014. Automated submission of seasonal reports.

The game gave me a template with 3 home cities. One of them is blocked by Dragon Utopia guards, the second one is far away down the road and is guarded. Money is tight. For some reason, I started leveling up Craig, even though Barbarians almost never trigger diplomacy.
Attempts to fight with other units led to slowly draining my army, and in the end, I was completely wiped out by 80+ zombie groups.

Thanks for your time.