I didn't use any restarts at all. I was lucky because I had a great starting area with a behemoth dwelling and 4 resources, one of which was near the town. In week 1, I took the dwelling, another stronghold town, built behemoths with the citadel, and finally cleared the purple dungeon and built a Portal of Summoning there. I took my remaining resources early in week 2 and had a strong army, so I decided to attack my opponent. By the end of the week, I was in his area, but he managed to bring his army back to town, so I decided not to attack. I returned to find some topes and build a magic guild to get Teleportation, Double Damage, and Flight. I got some good artifacts from the topes, but I couldn't get Double Damage, even with 4 fully built magic guilds and numerous boxes and scrolls, so the game went deep into month 2. I got Teleportation and a Flight scroll at least. In the meantime, my opponent got Double Damage and started to take my towns with the Monere/Gunnar combo. I was fighting back with Hack/Dessa, but I couldn't attack Gunnar due to a lack of movement and didn't want to attack Monere either because he was waiting for me with firebirds and Armageddon. That lasted until Monere took my main town, and I decided to attack him finally. Armageddon killed 8 angels and 5 ancients, but I resurrected 4 angels and killed Monere. That changed the course of the game because I got another boots for Dessa. I leveled him up a bit in the next few days, and finally on 2.4.5, I was able to attack Gunnar. He had no chance against Hack with 47 attack and my army. I did all the work with 21 angels, 84 wyverns, and 74 t-birds; 46 ancient behemoths were just spectators. Thanks for the game.