Bought the color, sold the hero choice. Started with -700.
Roads on the secondary were inconvenient; they were pushed through in roughly one direction.
Marusya leveled up well; on the first [week] I was busy with the economy, and as a result, got efreets in the castle + money for buying out units.
On the second contact with the opp, I didn't have time to bring the growth, but I decided to fight for the scroll behind the liches (40+); the battle was tough, but I got the TP scroll + visited the library, though there were no moves left to fly away. On his turn, Taz attacks with the growth; I trade a stack of demons for 10 ducks and buy my way out for 11k.
Then I run into the treasure zone on the opp's plain for that same scroll, but it turned out to be empty; after a couple of turns, Taz takes the box for the whole land. At home in the middle of the second [week], I finish GM5 — only resurrect is useful.
The power-grinding begins; I use demonize on the side without calculating HP etc., focusing mainly on scouting and eating half of the opp's territory; after three trash Dragon Utopia, I finally find a good one with КВ, eat it at my place and on half of the opp's.
Then I ate everything else, used some more demonize, and while scouting went to catch Taz; I took the opp's main with growth, and on the next turn killed Taz on the move
and an army on a sucker nearby, although that wasn't as important — mana advantage was nearly 500 (controlled both dungeons and mana doublers), army: 220+ demons, 52 monarchs, 60+ cyclops, 25 pits, 6 firebirds, 14 efreets, 4 giants + perfect leveling for Marusya; he had an order of magnitude less there.
Thanks for the game!