"only XL-3"

Sold the Castle for 4800
Took the color for 300
(I think so)

As a result, I started with Barbarians +4500. I chose blue as the color because, on such an overblocked map, it's not that important to start with red, but it's very important to get a good layout for yourself, because the opponent starts with no money, and he might not like that there is little gold, or there are blocks, and he will take a restart. As a result, he will be left without restarts, and I will choose a normal map.

That's what happened. Dark first took 111 on the block, then 112, after I got a normal map and didn't take a restart.

As a result, on 111, I took 6 heroes, looked at what was available on the respawn. The respawn is in the corner and quite large, but with only one road to the underground (the infamous overblocked 8xm8a underground).

I started clearing it, farmed resources, upgraded the birds, and managed to place creatures in the citadel by 117.

On 121, I took a +4 hat.
122, I made double mana and bought a book.
123, I took a +1 HP ring on the respawn for 100 fire elementals and went to the underground.
After that, until 131, there were many interesting battles. As a result, in the center of the map, I got a bugged road to his village, where I arrived before him and attacked in the portal.

There turned out to be less, and the stats were twice as small, 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. Thank you for the game.