OFB-9

I did not go to the first spawn point, leveled up a bit, got a stack of Centaurs, set 1-6 in the Citadel, have 2 Griffin Conservatories. On the second one almost immediately, on turn 121-122, took both conservatories 2+3 with Müllich and ran into the underground. It generated bugged - couldn't find a way to my own bot. Ran to the center, scouted a lot of underground and teleports, took 2 Dragon Fly Hives, then found another one and started clearing 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 helped - 17 12. In the third Dragon Utopia they give the Skull Helm. By this time I built mage guild level 4 in the Conflux town with Town Portal. With full control I start eating the map. Blue are doing the same, squeezing bots. On week 4 Müllich with expert scout spots a Dragon Utopia, I take it, then cast View Air - blue heroes are nearby. I decide to drop by and see what's what, misjudge the direction and kill two scout heroes without ever seeing Claudius. The next day I go there again and now see the main necro. He has 20-49 power liches, a ton of skeletons, and a few horsemen. I attack, didn't put on the Shackles of War because I could just get hit by magic. But he has the Orb of Vulnerability equipped and almost immediately after I halve the liches there is a buyout. Then running around again - looking for meat and counterarguments against the Orb. In the end I gathered 21 angels, but nowhere is there a Castle to upgrade them, and 56 Wyverns, which I managed to upgrade to Monarchs. I lit up all the parts of the Armor of the Damned, didn't manage to get the last one, but it was near one of the villages. Made another foray to the opponent - there I ate a Dragon Fly Hive right under blue's nose, albeit a minor one, the Necklace of 3/3 was just lying around and I took the spell book. It was not reasonable to attack, because Claudius had mana, he had 5-9 angels, 20-49 dragons and upgraded skeletons. I kept eating everything I saw - ate a Dragon Utopia at КЗ. Finished assembling the Power of the Dragon Father, found a scroll of Armageddon (had one before, but sold it on the market at some point, thought I wouldn't need it...). In the end, on turn 225, Claudius takes my Conflux town with a built Town Portal and camps nearby. By that time I had 2 more leveled heroes with logistics - Nimus and Taz. The treacherous necros killed Tazar on turn 221 near the stables. So Nimus takes Conflux back, the scout heroes attack Clava - plenty of power there and good stats, 8 angels, 24 dragons, 34 power liches, a few horsemen, a couple of ghosts, 5 firebirds, but the Orb is equipped. Kyrre collects the last artifact for the Armor of the Damned, - even with it, combat stats are 29 26, I equip 3/3 morale-luck, a couple more regular artifacts for the same, take the Shackles, +3 speed, ballista and attack. I wipe out everything except the skeletons, though my grand elites were almost all killed - 8 left, I have 2 stacks of upgraded Wyverns of 10 each and 12 upgraded Pegasi, 56 Monarchs, 21 angels, 20 upgraded Ponies. I remove the retaliation from the skeletons and pile on with morale and luck. After 3-4 pile-ons, blue tries to buy out, but seeing the Shackles - concedes defeat.
Thanks for the game!