We resurrected a couple of times from 3 castles and immediately started playing.
Luna gets a diploma on the first day, a Dragon Utopia stable (inconvenient), a couple of hives and a couple of hidden Air Elemental stacks. The map itself isn't very impressive, but because of the diplomacy I decide to take a look.
On the second day, I found an external market, 2 more hives and realized the map has 2 native towns, meaning it's very poor in Dragon Utopias and goodies. I decide to play.
By week 1, day 17, I gathered almost all the goodies from my spawn (Town Portal scroll being the most interesting), left 2 hives for week 2, day 1 and then passed them along the chain to Luna. By the way, I collected 30 Angels from 4 hives! Not a single one was maxed though.
On week 2, day 2, I break into the first intermediate territory and immediately get a join of 35 Ogre Magi.
Week 2, day 3: another join of Ogre Magi, now a hundred. I free Srakar from prison and reveal the underground cartographer. He showed me 3 hives nearby and 2 more stacks of Ogre Magi, one of which joins for free again, totaling 179 :cool:
All 3 hives turned out to be mini; I spotted 2 Dragon Utopias I can reach within 2-3 days, decide to take them and then the home one.
Both turned out to be trash — the most useful was a Crown +4/4. I take the home one on week 2, day 7 and it's exactly what we needed: 2 tomes of Air and Fire, perfectly suited us.
While running for the Dragon Utopias, I joined another hundred Air Elementals and 25 Phoenixes.
Immediately get Vision (by this point 5 Mage Guilds built at 2, none gave it), I see 20 Wizards and a Pandora's Box which the opponent broke but didn't take. It has 5k exp :(
Week 3, day 1: I see Adela but she goes as a secondary diplomat, the main hero is Ciele. I join 30 Black Dragons for gold and attack Adela. She has 6 stacks of bears, 30 Black Dragons, 30 Pegasi, 1+8 stacks of Black Dragons, 8 stacks of Cyclopes and about 20 Phoenixes.
The Wizards cast Mass Haste, the opponent casts Slow in response, and I follow up with Mass Haste.
He positions himself so that by the start of round 2 I cast Berserk on 4 stacks and finish off the rest. In the end, I never let him take another turn for the rest of the battle.

Next, the path leads into the snow because a fat treasure zone was spotted there, but on her turn Ciele occupies a Necropolis town there.
On the way to the town, I join 32 Black Dragons, 27 Wizards, a Sword +5 all stats, and a mini Griffin Conservatory. Ciele has a mana advantage of +100, but in combat stats it's roughly even. Her army has 80 Black Dragons, 4 Ghost Dragons and a few Scorpicores. Immediately Mass Haste and an attempt to break into my Black Dragons fails because there's -3 morale and the main Black Dragon stack didn't move.
And then I realize I still don't have Slow :D
I had to use Mass Haste and cut down the Dragons and Scorpicores, after which the opponent surrenders.
Thank you for the game!