We played without restarts, I think. Shakti came in with three stacks; on day 111, I break through the guards of 2 Dragon Fly Hives and a Griffin Conservatory, checked a few, a power spike of 6 heroes. A restart was tempting, there's an unpleasant block of 20 gr. liches blocking the road from the Castle to the fork; not only is the guard unbreakable, but to break through it, you still need to go around, and a prison blocked the road. However, Shakti has logs and 150 Troglodytes, so I decided not to restart and check one more day. On day 112, I killed the Dragon Fly Hives; there was almost no chase growth, since the second hero in the tavern had 12 Gnolls, which were eaten back on day 111. In short, I entered the Griffin Conservatory with 115 Troglodytes and 10 Ducks. I came out with 8 Ducks and 40 Troglodytes, but there are 2 Angels. Scouting revealed another Dragon Fly Hive, a Shield +5, and a Cauldron; again, I didn't take a restart. On day 113, I killed 98 Magogs, took the Shield and Tyraxor for the Dragon Fly Hive, while Shakti went for the Cauldron and scouted a Cat nest and a couple more Dragon Fly Hives; I still didn't restart, even though I knew the drop there was good since there was no restart. Oh well. 48 Archmages with +6 all devoured almost all the chase growth, but then EVERYTHING that Miner came across dropped. On day 117, Cats in the Citadel and a portal; Miner in the secondary town replenishes mana. Then on day 121, a Stable and near ГО to 15 gold; I reached it by day 123. There I immediately caught all level 4 magic, Wings, Coffer, Hat — basically everything needed. On day 125, the opponent arrived; stat-wise he was worse, but he had an advantage in meat; a stack of Skeletons and Ducks with Haste could have made the difference. So I took a risk in the central Castle, wiped out the Angel stack and part of the Skeletons, and bought back; there were Shackles — if I hadn't pulled it off, I'd have lost. Well, then I replenished mana and caught Galtran again, this time with a buyback; I cut down almost his entire army, and was left with 20 Ducks myself. But by day 131, I quickly improved my position with Cats and upgraded the Ducks in my secondary town, took a couple of Dragon Fly Hives, caught Pandora's Boxes with 12+12 Efreeti in the center, and then it was just a matter of execution. On day 136, I killed Gosha in the Castle.
Not a bad game, except for the ending. I kill Gosha, and in AS get a message of this sort: that I supposedly violated a rule two turns earlier, ON 135, by first visiting a level 3 shrine and only then killing the guard, thus saving movement points. In short, there was some kind of meeting with some judges while we both moved on 135, and my opponent offers me a draw and a replay — I almost froze. And all this after we started continuing from save 133 today; I gave him auto, I don't know why in a tournament, but I did. I almost started believing this story myself when we loaded the auto, and that object wasn't even visited. OK, I write "thanks for the game" and go to check the saves. When I enter AS, there's another long rant — a conversation with himself — like, "again there's a violation," and then he refutes himself, like, "I rewatched, everything is fine," and he never even wrote "thanks for the game."
This is the kind of game ethics you sometimes encounter....