On the restarts I made a mistake and had to play against Conflux, but the opponent didn't go for phoenixes. There were purple and pink computers — Castles, so I decided to try rushing through a double, but there was no direct road passage through them. The opponent revealed Rion, and at the end of the third week I went at him with archers. I had to force a fight with double growth from a Castle a couple of weeks in against a diplomat's zoo — there were 40 cyclops kings and a ton of meat, the fight was totally unwinnable, so I traded and escaped on 5 horses. Then it was time to grind again, but this time I gathered more meat, a couple of Griffin Conservatories, about 10 archers, and went at the opponent again. I forced another fight, blew up a couple of his stacks, he killed all my meat except the archers and bought himself out. He had few towns left, so I went to finish off a Dragon Utopia in sight range, and in a Pandora's Box with bulls I got all the air elementals. The next turn I caught the opponent in a treasure zone. After Armageddon on the second turn, he had 50 swordsmen left; he ran away and decided not to continue.
Thanks for the game.