Outlaw!

In the first game I fought against the computers, no Griffin Conservatory was visible, only a couple of Dragon Fly Hives. 1,2,3,4,6 in Castle. In the second game I finished off the computers and went into the treasure zone. I cracked the first Dragon Utopia only on turn 137, got KZ and SHO. Afterwards, my opponent and I were devouring the map. The finale happened on turn 231, the Power of the Dragon Father and Armageddon sealed the deal. Thanks for the game.

The slow ones were expensive. On the first week I took an external dwelling of Eyes, built 1-4 in the Citadel, also took the Necromancer, installed Vampires there, and took an external dwelling of Vampires. On turn 122 I upgraded the Vampires and went to take Griffin Conservatories. I killed the Snow computer, never made it to the Barbarian, too far away.

Behind the Tower, the treasure zone was snowy, I took a couple of Dragon Fly Hives there and left. Tamika with Eyes, Skeletons, and a Hydra from the Refugee Camp was breaking through into the treasure zone for the Necromancer, but after breaking through several blocks, only 20 Eyes remained, and before the next block I had to turn back, and again — I had to run very far. But the Miner got Diplomacy.

On turn 134 I break through four main guards, including Phoenixes (with Vampires alone), and enter the main treasure zone. There I took an Underground Cartographer, which revealed that the central treasure zone had no Dragon Utopias. I took several Dragon Fly Hives, joined a couple of stacks of Eyes, and crashed into a Flaxeder's village to learn Visions (only got it in the fourth Mage Guild level 2). The Blue Barbarian, meanwhile, took over my main.

I reclaim my main, Shakti runs to the underground treasure zone for the Necromancer. There Diplomacy begins, I take three Dragon Utopias, which give KV, KZ, a Cap, and decent stats. The opponent takes all my towns; at some point I end up with no towns at all. There was also a moment where the Miner barely missed reaching Labetha with an army. Thanks to the Underground Cartographer, I take the Dragon Utopias the opponent didn't take, join whatever joins well with my stacks.

The opponent has several heroes with control, almost all towns except one or two, while I have a bigger power stack. I wait for the opponent to make a mistake, continuing to join. On turn 231, Labetha riding a Phoenix attacks the Miner in a town, casts Armageddon for 980, and can't retreat due to my Shackles, leaving me the Cap, Cloak of +2 Speed, Necklace of Speed, and Titan's Cuirass, while Deece with the main army remains in the native swamp. I couldn't not attack, of course.

Stat-wise I had slightly more, plenty of power stack, good magic too, twice as much mana — I never expected to lose here; the assembled Dragon Artifact was a surprise to me. The Red and Black Orbs were lying on the map, I saw them, but decided I wouldn't need them, and the Red one probably wouldn't have saved me anyway... Thanks for an interesting game.