"Mirrors"

I had a successful trade, giving up dyes for 1800 and buying out Gunnar for 2100 (since Reddi banned Shakti, and I, having a gold advantage after the dyes trade, didn't ban anything). Jeremy shows up and immediately takes the absolutely essential Pandora's Box with 5k gold, the cannon rips through, there's an external dwelling of Minotaurs, good spreading out. As a result, thanks to Jeremy, by the end of the first week I take a couple of tough objects: Miniature Hives, a Camp of Mercenaries + artifact, and a Pandora's Box guarded by Nagas for 15k gold! The latter allowed me to easily buy everything on 121 and run to the other side towards the Griffin Conservatory and the Shield of 4 All. Next comes the recovery of the Dimension Door scroll, running around. Due to Gunnar's lack of timely earth magic leveling and Jeremy's skewed leveling, even with the Black Orb I don't go into the Dragon Utopia (a fact the opponent didn't fail to exploit). Fortunately, the Dragon Utopia was crap. The opponent sits in my Conflux, I attack his Jeremy through the Tavern, with a meat advantage but without the Red Orb being captured, for which I paid the price — the trade-off was unfavorable. Reddi, having the gold from the Dragon Utopia, easily buys himself back. Then I jump to his side, shave his Battle Daddy, and put myself in a position for a Dimension Door, buy myself back on Tactics, take the Black Orb, Red Orb, and the Dragon Utopia (albeit with losses of Swans and an Angel). As a result, the meat advantage is already there, but only mages are left, and I catch him on that once again. There's a good trade-off thanks to a stack of Cyclopes and Artillery with a cannon, and the next turn I cover the remaining meat with no gold left for a buyback. Thanks for the game. (2-1)