We played in several sessions; for the first 2 weeks, my family kept distracting me, so I made mistakes, the main one being a complete wipe in the middle of the first week - a zero-mana Solmyr with 20 lizardmen, 10 gnolls, and a fly couldn't overcome 95 gr,imps. Also, the resource distribution was poor - 2 strategic chests gave artifacts... Plus, the Tower computer put up a good fight - it took back the castle twice with just one unit left :). So I barely managed to build up momentum. Needless to say, I could only enter the first hive on day 131, but then things took off; a refugee camp gave me a gold dragon, immediately a few more hives, I kill two more computers, a Griffin Conservatory, a quick Town Portal to the Conflux, perfect leveling for Tazar. But nonetheless, by the end of the month, Valeska appeared with stats of 30, full control, and a decent stack of red dragons in addition to the rest (as it turned out later, there was a Dungeon and 3 external dragon dwellings...). I thought it was over, but the opponent decides to clear the large sand treasure zone, while I calmly go clear the other direction.
In the end, I got 175 birds, upgraded, had a good stack of horses from two Castles and an external dwelling, 16 archers (the opponent had about the same), full control long ago as well, an elixir, +2 speed, and nearly matched stats. I cast Scouting near the castle - I see a blue area with external dragon dwellings - I fly there. There, I immediately kill a scrub on 3 archers (he was apparently preparing to take the castle by the end of the week), then a couple more scrubs, I take the external dwellings, and the opponent decides not to continue.
Thanks for the game!