Started underground but with the Observatory an external dwelling of Efreeti + Dragon Utopia + 3 forks in the portal, underground secondary [mine] and ГО were visible, decided to try, ГГ made Jabbarkeel, broke through the portal to the surface on the other side of griffins [guard], army was weak decided not to go in, successfully lost the entire army on another approach to the underground secondary where I got blocked by a guard of horses on the road, had to twiddle my thumbs for 3 days with 4 Gogs, but I still placed the Efreeti + Pit Lords in the Citadel, on the 2nd things started getting a bit better, broke through to the surface, collected Shield + 4 Cloak +2+2, took the external dwelling of Efreeti and upgraded them, at the end of the week broke through to the underground Treasure, took a Pandora's Box for 10k gold, a prison with Corbac 10th level with Logistics [skill], Boots [of Speed], bought Defense with Jabbarkeel at the University, built 3rd level Guild + Castle, had enough resources on the 4th and 5th, but only basic Wisdom decided not to build yet, on the 3rd upgraded the Pit Lords, brought [creature] growth, took a Pandora's Box of 10k experience, broke through a guard of 60 Gorgons for experience + Armor + 1 [skill] level, raised some Demons from a dwelling, used View Air all this time to track the movements of the opponent who was leveling a Mage and broke through to my underground secondary [mine] through rough terrain, broke through the guard of horses and took a nearby Dragon Fly Hive, took the external dwelling of Devils (native Treasure), broke another Pandora's Box, which gave the entire 4th/5th level [skills], but only basic Wisdom, broke into the secondary [mine] took a Dragon Fly Hive for 6 Dragon Flies and ran to the main [town] to replenish mana, Grindan appeared next to the road near the Dragon Fly Hive with a run [of growth] of 10-29 Dragon Flies and up to 10 Horses, Jabbarkeel with Advanced Logistics and Boots could reach him, ran there and nearby there was also a big [hero] with the rest of his power in the form of 50+ Grand Elves, attacked him, the next turn Grinya holed up in the castle, blocked his exit after which he himself attacked with 18 Dragon Flies 8 Horses and some meat, I had more power and stats + there was Anti-Magic from the Guild just in case, ГГ.
Thank you for the game!