"Newcomer-2014. Summer"

Started without resets. I had an external dwelling of hydras, cyclopes, 2 orcs and dogs. Far away, behind 100-249, there were sniper birds. SHIC! On the first I placed the hydras in the castle, but I didn't open the external dwellings. Start of the new week - WEEK OF HYDRA +5 units. And my opponent has them too! Within a couple of days he scares me saying he bought them all out... while I'm wandering around without money, losing what little army I had.
Sephiroth (the one with +1 crystal) with 1 hydra gets the ground and finds an Armageddon scroll. A plan is brewing, but I need 5th-level Mage Guild, which in a Citadel is by definition impossible. I find a dungeon and funnel all resources into the guild at maximum speed. Meanwhile, the magic girl gets Fire, Sorcery, Intelligence, and Air. Makes everything expert and gets the Fireball spell. That's it - I wait for the opponent with any force, as long as I manage to build the Mage Guild in time.
In the end, Sephiroth is level 18 with 12 spells and Gunula, as the main, somewhere around level 16. The opponent comes out through ГО (I was planning to break through in a day or two myself) and naturally attacks the defenseless magic girl, who had 28 ogres purchased in advance to avoid dying after 1300 damage. Everything goes smoothly because reconnaissance with spies showed that Shakti doesn't have a Masks. After Armageddon and fleeing, Gundula's army is three times larger - the finale has no chance.
Thanks for the game - won this way for the first time)