"Newcomer - 2015. Summer"

Hello, dear players! I haven't played online for three years after the victorious newcomer. I only watched streams of dads... Now, thanks to the organizer of this newcomer, I finally played again. And on a template I had never played before. Thanks, SKD.
We picked our factions. We were choosing between Dungeon, Castle, and probably Necropolis. OP took Dungeon and Castle.
We started after my two restarts. OP didn't take them. Although I didn't take a third restart only because I spotted OP, Mulykh, and Gunnar. I was hoping for his restart. OP didn't fall for it. I had a terrible respawn. The road from the castle was blocked by 20-49 elves. A three-day detour for all heroes through the forest. By the second day there were no restarts left, so I had to play.
In the first week, I led my heroes through the forest to the open area, killing everything that could be killed, throwing myself at all the quarries since the stone mine was also cut off... On day 114, unpleasant news: Gunnar ran into 20-49 Archmagi blocking the third part of my respawn behind the Cape. I had to spend the entire first week spinning around on 2/3 of my respawn without even thinking about pushing further. End of the first week: Griffins in the citadel. I could have built them in the castle, but I didn't have the money to buy them on day 121 and would have had to wait a couple more days.
2nd week. Things got a bit more cheerful. 5 Griffins cleared out the elves. Cleared the Archmagi. Stable. Only on day 125 did I reach the center. By then I had discovered two Griffin Conservatories. Both 250k. I didn't risk attacking. On day 126, a key moment in the game. I ran into blue's weak hero with an army. Killed everything. 10 ducks and 7 Minotaurs fell; I only lost 20 of my Pikemen. Right after that, I attacked a miner who was speeding around on an Angel. He fled. That was it. My plans for the game changed. Feeling that I had wiped out all of OP's army and he had a double, I decided to ignore the treasure zones and rush him. I split up to take the Conservatories. By day 134, I had taken three 250k Conservatories. Unfortunately, they all turned out to be doubles, and I went to hunt OP.
On day 141, I took OP's computer Dungeon, preventing him from buying the growth.
Day 143, I took OP's native Dungeon.
The chase for the opponent began. Air Magic wasn't expert. I couldn't find him.
By the fourth week, OP had one castle left, I had five. Dragon Utopia. It gave junk.
Day 211, max Dragon Utopia. Book of Fire and Water. No stat boosts.
The 5th week was a bit alarming. Losing in stats, castles, everything. Hiding from me, the opponent unexpectedly raised his stats to match mine. And I have no control. I rushed into the treasure zone looking for it. I only found a Dimension Door scroll. In the meantime, I was building the guild. I got Town Portal from the guild. And after building the fifth level, I could also use DD. Angels became Archangels.
The 6th week began with getting the blue cap from the Dragon Utopia, and Müllich and Gunnar captured a huge piece of territory in three days. On day 223, the opponent decided not to continue.
Ah, a big map. Played for a long time. Unlucky respawn. Lucky first encounter. And then three weeks of searching for the opponent.
Thanks for the game!