Outlaw!

The only breakable path on the 1st road led to the necro-comp; purely out of carelessness, I gave him my main warrior, Luna (who wanted to get a +3+3 shield after the fish and a kettle after the horns). On the second, I broke through the other directions; diplomacy was going very sluggishly despite material independence (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 taken a risk, but decided to use the off-road to reach another road network, and still ended up under the opp.