On the first road, I only managed to reach the Necropolis, built Vampires, and the cost of maintaining them severely hampered the game. Throughout the second week, I wandered off-road, chasing a Unicorn and two Conservatories. On day 13, I started taking a decent Hive forest – but I had to quickly change my plans – Alkin arrived with high stats and troops (the joins were all mediocre). On day 14, I took an auto-join, which took me 3 days, and I sold almost all other joins – but I failed due to inattention. Then, I was lucky enough to snatch 120 Vivs right under the opponent's nose; he wasn't expecting anything and attacked with Alkins and 90 Vivs, divided into 3 stacks. Otherwise, with excellent magic and control, he could have easily killed me (I only had Oil and Mass Shield).