Half the respawn was blocked, but five hives were visible. In the end, there turned out to be 10 of them and a Griffin Conservatory (3) at the respawn. An inconvenient respawn — ГО from the main takes 2.5 days to run. That's why I only reached the center on day 125. In the center, I grabbed a couple of hives, a box for all magic, etc. On the third week, I went for the opponent and made two mistakes in a row — first, a misclick locked me in so I couldn't hit with my vivs (and there were about 60 of them), and then I blundered: instead of taking down Crag who was standing on angels at the start, I just did something stupid (to put it mildly)...
Then we played cat and mouse for two weeks... On the fifth week, the opponent asked for auto because he forgot to remove the war shackles during the split. I didn't give it... Next turn, I attacked his troops and the opponent left.
I have 88 vivs, 7 angels, 13 ogre mages, 29 demons, one sultan efreeti, all magic (expert air and water), 250+ mana.
The opponent has 25 vivs, 5 angels, 14 ancient beasts, and a lot of other meat.
In terms of stats, Marius was not inferior to Crag Hack, so I don't know what would have happened if Marius had Fireballed Crag Hack...
Thanks for the game.