We started playing without restarts. Roads, as usual for blue, only 2 on the balance, but there are a couple of Dwarf Cottages, an upgraded level 2, and Mullich as the 8th hero. On day 113, I took the Dwarf Cottages (10+15), then went off-road to look for adjacent zones. Along the way, I found a necklace of +1 speed and an external dwelling of pokemons. On day 117, I captured the conf village; Mullich has Logistics and Air Magic, and under the village I took a cloak of +2 Sp knowledge. In the village, I build a guild, and it gives me a crazy draw: 5 water spells) I curse and don't take the offered Literacy for Fionn. But Stracker has the Haste I need.
I hope to pick it up somehow later. At home, horses + griffins in the Citadel. Caitlin captured some resources with 2 champions, a ring of +1 Attack/Defense, and an external dwelling of monks. In the long corridor on the road from the conf towards the center, a Griffin Conservatory is visible.
Day 121 - I kill 17 fanatics with Mullich off-road for a shield of +3, then I scout the lookout and see another flail +4, and then a portal behind minotaurs. I decide to skip the conservatory and run further.
Day 122 - I captured the flail and a crystal mine. Stats are good, something like 11-9-4-4, super for the balance.
Day 123 - I bring up troops, break through the patrols. On the other side, serpents; I kill them too, then immediately a level 3 conservatory on lava. I kill it with a loss of 3 marksmen. A risky ramp-up. They gave me Offense.
Day 124 - They don't attack, so I scout the lookout and see that the area is a dead end, but in the neighboring central zone there are 2 conservatories. That corridor road with the conservatory leads right into it. I break into the conf, ramp up on an angel along the way.
Day 125 - Red flags are shining very close to the conservatories. I fly forward at full speed, grabbing a level 3 conservatory on grass along the way.
Day 126 - Clavius runs out, grabs one of the conservatories + a pandora, can't reach the second one.
My turn - in a panic, I fly Mullich forward without an army, take the central necro, realizing the scout hero won't catch up with me. The guild is canceled. I curse. I build a tavern, transfer the army to Mullich through a bought tarantula. Through stables, I attack Clavius.
FB:
Mullich 12-10-5-4 (28) exp Off, Leadership, Air Magic.
Water spells level 1 and Arrow.
59 marksmen, 6 angels, 120 spearmen, 5 champions, 6 monks, 9 swordsmen, 20 griffins.
Clavius 5-4-8 (7)
48 magogs, 130 skeletons, 30 demons, 1+1 angels, 7 pit fiends, 10 wyverns.
And then I realize I'm incredibly lucky. The necro with 8 Sp has only 7 mana. I get oil to the face right away. I Dispel the archers, fire a volley at the magogs, -15 of them. In the second round, I Dispel the angels, repeat the volley at the magogs. The opponent's angels take out my monks, I take out their angels with mine at the end of the second and start of the third round. Then dancing around the landscape, with no real chances for the opponent; he runs away with 12 magogs, having killed only one angel, 5 monks, and a few archers, spearmen, and griffins. We run around for a couple more turns (I retrained Mass Haste from the arriving Fafner), and the opponent types "gg". Thanks for the game!