For the whole first week, I ran around with 5 heroes, but I set up ifrits.
On the second week, I encountered an opp in the center and, since they had Necropolis as a second castle and were likely more powerful, I turned around and headed for a treasure-on-the-way. There I farmed 30 ducks, 500 bones, 70 demons. No Utops, no control.
By the end of the third week, I went to a corner treasure—same thing there, but I found a Cloak of Renunciation.
Shitty Sraker with full control and two DDs snatched all my castles except for the corner village. Charna rushed through the center toward the untouched respawn of orange. Sraker attacked Charna and got wrecked, losing almost everything and nearly dying, all the meat gone. The result was: Charna - mega-power, Sraker - full control. We decided not to suffer and called it a draw.
Thanks for the game.