OFB-8

Opponent took all the restarts, I still had two left.
Start underground, Gunnar in the tavern, boots under the castle - everything's great, we play. There are two roads, seems like no problems ahead, I illuminate the first road with the scout - there are Storm Elementals guarding the passage - clearly this doesn't lead to the opponent, the other passage is guarded by 20-49 regular Dwarves - looks like it leads to the opponent, but to break through to the Dwarves I need to kill 70+ Fire Elementals for a prison. On day 112 I attack them and leave all my meat there + 60 Troglodytes, spent about 10 minutes thinking whether to take a restart or not, but I decide to play, there's a decent amount of gold and an external dwelling of Eyes, with the opponent's caravan I should kill them, I break through the Dwarves and what was my surprise when I ran into 20-49 Dragon Flies guarding the exit to the snow (and the opponent is Swamp). In short, things immediately turn sour, there's no point in going into treasure zones with 60 Troglodytes, no passage to the opponent in sight... At home in the meantime, Cats are being built and Müllich with two Cats goes to take the external dwelling of Eyes, guarded by 10-19 regular Elves, then street magic happens, exactly 19 Elves with Grand Strike, they split into 5 stacks, morale procs for them exclusively on Grand Strike, every single round, while I have +3 morale on Cats, not a single proc - a loss, I leave a couple of Elves... The game is starting to make me nauseous. Gunnar goes into the dark unexplored area - looking for a passage to the opponent, meanwhile finding another external dwelling of Eyes - I capture it on the second one, and a Dragon Fly Hive with 6 Wyverns. Finally I find a gate, which is three days from the castle, I jump there with a strong army (2 Cats+44 Eyes+6 Wyverns+a few Troglodytes), and trudge another three days through the swamp to the opponent, who of course meets me with a castle and full buyout in it. I eventually kill the opponent and move on, completely cut off from growth, even a chain of 16 heroes probably couldn't have carried everything, no other passages home, I buy all the swamp meat, upgrade the Serpent Flies and with 44 Eyes+2 Cats+10 Wyverns+swamp meat I go god knows where. Due to lack of scouting, I pass by two Dragon Fly Hives, waste two days on a Griffin Conservatory which is level one, I start heading back to the two Dragon Fly Hives to grab two Dragon Utopias that I revealed, meanwhile at home a Mage Guild is built - no control. Gunnar's leveling is a delight, it was absolutely perfect, impossible to imagine better, armor, air, wisdom, earth, archery (under a stack of Eyes) and offense - a candy.
And so I'm heading to the two Hives that I missed with a mighty army of 19 Wyverns +1 Angel+40 Eyes, and the timestamp is 136, and near them the Red player appears, with up to 10 Angels and other strong stuff, one good thing - their stats are even lower than my poor 11-11. But of course I can't fight, because Gunnar doesn't even have a spell book (I forgot to buy one in the swamp, and there were no other towns on the way) - there's an option to buy off the opponent to somehow get home, but that means giving up the Dragon Utopias and the whole center... I go down into the dark... There I find two Hives with 20! Wyverns - that decides it, with caravan from the swamp (+4 Wyverns+9 Gorgons+Wasps and such), which the opponent started cutting off too late, I easily take the first Dragon Utopia, in it a Blue Colossus, and then the second one - in it junk (a Red Ball which isn't needed against the Bronze Dragon and +15% Boots), in a Necropolis village (captured in the zone with the Hives of 20 Wyverns) I build a Mage Guild (eventually it gives Town Portal). I leave into the metro, there's another Dragon Fly Hive + Griffin Conservatory (1) + Dragon Utopia, in which an Elixir is waiting - beautiful.
Meanwhile, the scout hero with full buyout starting from week 4, runs from the main to the treasure zone, there he finds a Griffin Conservatory level two, a Dragon Fly Hive with 6 Wyverns, and a Dungeon village.
The Bronze Dragon leaves to take my swamp, but gets very exposed to my scout heroes' hit-and-run. Then he goes back into the treasure zone, starts running to the Griffin Conservatory.
On my turn I take back the swamp, upgrade Wyverns, another Dragon Utopia, and with two Dimension Doors I reach the Bronze Dragon - Fireball without options.

Thanks for the game!