OFB-9

On the first respawn, I didn't get out right away, leveled up a bit, took a Centaur stack, set 1-6 in the Citadel, have 2 Griffin Conservatories. On the second one almost immediately, on 121-122, I took both Griffin Conservatories 2+3 with Mullich and ran to the metro. It generated buggily - never found an exit to my own bot. Ran to the center, scouted a lot of metro and teleports, took 2 Dragon Fly Hives, then found another one and started killing Dragon Utopias from week 3. Since there was little meat - 5 angels and 16 Wyverns, the first 2 Dragon Utopias were tough - only Kyrre's stats saved me - 17 12. The third Dragon Utopia gives a Cap of Silence. By this time I had built GM4 in the Conflux village with Town Portal. With full control I start eating up the map. Blue is doing the same, squeezing bots. On week 4, Mullich with expert scout spots a Dragon Utopia, I take it, then cast View Air - blue heroes are nearby. I decide to visit to see what's what, misjudge the direction and kill two scout heroes, never seeing Claudius. The next day I go there again and see the main Necromancer hero. There are 20-49 grand liches, a ton of skeletons, and single units of horses. I attack, didn't put on Shackles of War because I could just take damage from magic. But he has Orb of Vulnerability equipped, and almost immediately after I halve the liches, he tries to buy me off. Then more running around - looking for meat and counterarguments against the Orb. I end up gathering 21 angels, but there's no Castle to upgrade them anywhere, and 56 Wyverns which I managed to upgrade to Monarchs. I spotted all parts of Armor of the Damned, didn't get the last one in time, but it was near one of the villages. Made another sortie to the opponent - ate a Dragon Fly Hive right under blue's nose, a mini one though, a Necklace of Swiftness 3/3 was just lying around and I took a spellbook. Attacking was not reasonable, since Claudius had Mana, there appeared 5-9 angels, 20-49 ducks, and upgraded skeletons. I continued eating everything I see - ate a Dragon Utopia on the K3. Finished gathering Power of the Dragon Father, found an Armageddon scroll (had one before too, but somehow sold it at the market, thought it wouldn't be useful...) Eventually on 225 Claudius takes my Conflux village with Town Portal built and stays the night nearby. By that time I had 2 more leveled heroes with logistics - Nymus and Taz. The vile Necromancers killed Tazar on 221 near the stables. So Nymus takes Conflux back, the scout heroes attack Claudius - he has plenty of power and good stats, 8 angels, 24 ducks, 34 power liches, single units of horses, a couple of ghosts, 5 fire birds, but Orb of Vulnerability is equipped. Kyrre collects the last artifact of Armor of the Damned - even with it, combat stats are 29 26, I put on 3/3 morale-luck, a couple more regular artifacts for the same, equip Shackles of War, +3 to speed, a Ballista, and attack. I take out everyone except the skeletons, though they almost killed all the grand units - 8 remain, there are 2 stacks of grand flies, 10 each, and 12 grand pegasi, 56 Monarchs, 21 angels, 20 grand ponies. I remove the retaliation from the skeletons and pile on with morale and luck. After 3-4 pile-ons, blue tries to buy me off, but seeing the Shackles of War - admits defeat.
Thanks for the game!