We did a bit of restanding, fought against the non-detaching 1-stacks, and ended up playing a layout with middle roads, where I had a Dungeon co-op opponent, and Javdet had Conflux. Two native heroes arrived. Air elementals weren't built, but there was an external dwelling on the respawn.

On the first turn, I captured my co-op opponent's Castle, which had a thousand [creatures] and upgrades up to Medusae - everything was bought. There was no time to chase after the brown heroes, and it was generally dreamy to just look around, as Javdet started popping up in my swamp Castle :rolleyes: on day 116, took the crypt, and ran away, only to keep returning and bothering me. Thanks to ignoring brown, two heroes with the +350 specialty, and found piles/chests, plus the market in Dungeon for ore, the Griffins were built) I wanted to immediately take the Dwarf Cottage with a scout on day 117, but it was up to 250, and my troops were only 2 Griffins and 1-stacks, so forget it.. Got a bit upset. Very little money.

I moved the army to Monere, took the Griffin Conservatory level 2 without losing any Griffins) Fire was offered - didn't take it. Brown retook his Castle, built a Manticore, bought them all :D . I moved the army back with the scout to retake it, and Monere got defeated in the main fight. No money to ransom him, so we camp out... When he was ransomed, I took the Dwarf Cottage - 20 dwarves, stopped by the Tree of Knowledge (got Wisdom), raised Attack at the Arena, and headed to the Castle, but through a different portal, since I really didn't want to run into Javdet. There was swamp terrain there. Spotting blue, I see Kyr'ye run out of the portal and could either head to my Conflux or follow me. I even had suicidal thoughts of turning back and attacking just to end the game. There was an advantage in stats, the entire army was upgraded, unknown number of Angels. Monere had 5 mana and Power 1 without any mass spells. I wanted to check Kyr'ye. Nearby, I had my two money heroes and another one with Advanced Air and a View Air scroll :D Felt sorry for them all)) Since every copper was precious, and from the week 2 growth only the Griffins were bought, it was decided to sacrifice Aenain. But he just missed reaching by one tile (estimated after I moved him to a mill on the road), so I pulled him further away. Wasn't meant to be. Nagash ran past Kyr'ye into the portal that Javdet had come out of, to scout the situation. To attack or not to attack... I remembered games where those who ran off in search of fortune won)) And Monere ran forward along the path, without looking back) Kyr'ye ran after him.

In that zone there was a Dungeon village; I took it. Nearby, an external dwelling of Draconians tempted me, but I resisted, no time. Next, the choice was either to go towards the swamp pink computer player with an external dwelling of Hydras, or towards the purple Dungeon. I headed to the Dungeon, stopped at a lookout point by the road - the Castle was nearby, as was the purple hero, but movement points were already gone. Overnight, purple built the Castle towers, left it empty, and blue cut down my scout)) Thanks) I arrived at the Castle, doubled my mana, and took a defensive stance. Captured the mini Dwarf Cottage with scouts.

Kyr'ye attacked. Writing from memory, details might be off. Stats were 7 10 1 30 mana, as it turned out, a ring for two rounds of magic, an artifact for +1 speed, one luck, neutral morale. Army: 70+ upgraded Centaurs, an Angel, 7 upgraded Dendroids, 9 upgraded Pegasi, 9 Air Elementals, 12 upgraded Water Elementals, 4 Unicorns. Didn't bring the Grand Elves, left them with a scout. Monere's stats were 7 3 1 60 mana, a luck artifact, two Griffins on morale artifacts. Army: 2 Angels, 4 Griffins, 16 Air Elementals, 13 Faerie Dragons, and 1-stacks of Faerie Dragons.

Javdet cast Slayer and Mass Shield, while I cast Dispel and Cure, since I had no Haste. The towers helped. At the end I played a bit stupidly, forgot about the speed artifact, and his Air Elemental with 1 HP outsped mine, so Kyr'ye escaped + I lost an Angel. But it's not certain that 16 Air Elementals would have killed the remaining Dendroids afterwards. Then Monere moved to push the situation towards the portals. On the way, he intercepted a scout with Grand Elves, and suffered attacks from mages in the village.

Since Nagash had scouted the exit from the second portal, I saw Kyr'ye camping on Air Elementals. Aenain did a redraw [Resurrection? Spell redraw?] on Griffins and won the game) Even without the redraw, Monere could have passed the Griffins to him, but this was more fun)

Thanks for the game!) Also thanks to the purple computer player and Aya)