Outlaw!

The only breakable path on the 1st day led to a necro-comp; out of pure carelessness, I gave him my main warrior, Luna (who wanted to get a +3+3 shield behind the fish and a kettle behind the horns). On the second, I broke through the other directions; diplomacy was going very sluggishly despite material independence (had up to 50k). At the start of the 3rd, the opp takes the castle, near which is the only respawn with normal guards—but that's also where the lookout and stables are—the enemy with DD covered it immediately... I could have risked it, but decided to go off-road to reach another road network, and ended up under the opp anyway.