Bought color for 300
(I think so)
In the end, started as Barbarian with +4500. Chose blue, because on such a blocked template it's not as important to start as red, but it's very important to respawn yourself a good layout, since the opponent starts without money and might not like having little gold, or there are blocks and he will take a restart. As a result, he'll be left without restarts, and I'll pick a normal map for myself.
That's exactly what happened. Dark first took 111 on the block, then 112, after I got a normal map dealt and didn't restart.
In the end, at 111 I took 6 heroes, saw that there was gold on the respawn. Respawn in the corner and quite large, though with one road to the underground (the infamous blocked undergrounds 8xm8a).
Started clearing it, collected resources, upgraded the birds and managed to place creatures in the citadel by 117.
At 121, I cleared the +4 cap
122, made double mana and bought the book
123, cleared a +1 HP ring on the respawn for 100 fire elementals and went into the underground.
Then until 131, there were many interesting fights, and eventually in the center of the map I got dealt a bogged-down road to his village, where I arrived before him and attacked in the portal.
There he had fewer troops overall, and stats were two times smaller, without mass magic. Dark cast two slows on me at the end of the first and beginning of the second round, and after mass haste he surrendered. Thanks for the game.
