"Newcomer - 2016. Winter"

Everything was screwed from the very start, shooter guards, everything was hard to break through, little gold, captured my own computer, and then having chosen a direction wasted a lot of time on it but besides Wyverns (which I lost a lot of due to Dragon Fly Hive guards), captured 1 Dragon Utopia minimal gave nothing there, helmet +12 knowledge... in short no troops, no gold, the second route through the opponent (or rather where he was already expanding and harassing me) the opponent ran to my main and the battle happened (although it was unnecessary and I already understood I was losing in troops)
thanks for the game

Confirmed. The starting placement (for me) was below average. On the respawn besides a max Griffin Conservatory there's nothing, the adjacent zone led to the swamp through serious guards, the portal off-road teleported me to the middle of nowhere, same with the second one. For the entire first week I ran along a very long road trying to kill the Dungeon computer. Ended up sacrificing almost the entire stack of Grands on blocks and Kyrre (unfortunate split). Pulled myself together, switched to Tyraxor, in week 3 squeezed out a Necro computer with a Capitol, got the cash flowing and after the first Griffin Conservatory the heat started. Spent 2 months grinding across the whole map, got into a bunch of Dragon Utopias. And in the end I came to the opponent for the final showdown. Thanks for the game.