"only XL-3"

Sold flux for 3000, and color for an additional 600. I used 1 restart, then I saw that my opponent had Luna but only 3 heroes on days 1 and 2, so I decided to play even though I had an average start. Nimbus farmed some skeletons (48), and with the gremlin dwelling, it was easier to break the hard 6k blocks because my 3k block was off-road and didn't see it. The town in the secondary area was blocked by horde magi and didn't have a lot of gold and ore. I went in another direction where 18 mighty gorgons were blocking the road, guarding a prison. With the help of a ballista + tent, gremlins, skeletons, and golems, I beat them and got level 10 Gunnar from that prison with pathfinding and archery. I had a one-way portal from the secondary area, but I went off-road instead, trying to find the Inferno AI. I didn't succeed, but I scouted boots + gloves and a hive. I took this hive (121), it was maxi, and I lost all my meat except for the 4 nagas. Then I took the gloves and boots and went for a con in my area, getting 3 angels. Then I got lost on the map; the zones were weirdly connected, and there was no view of air/earth in 7 towns. I went for a tope early in week 3, but it was full, so I skipped it and went for another one. That one was also full of dragons, but I didn't want to wait any longer and went in with -1 morale. I got punished and lost 3 angels + 6 naga queens. I got +3 all, sentinel, and +10 knowledge. I rushed one of my opponent's towns where I knew his main army was, but I couldn't really catch him. I built up the mage guild in my main town and got TP; level 5 gave water elemental. With the help of water elementals, I took the tope nearby the town I stole from my opponent, then built a library and got implosion, so I went for the full tope, but I summoned too many elementals with 22 spellpower, and the dragons went for the wyverns, losing 14 of them. This tope gave +6 all and some crap, but with the money and selling artifacts, I managed to rebuild the level 5 guild and got fly + DD. From here, everything worked itself out; with 3-4 fast heroes and full control, I cleared most of the map and stole my opponent's towns, while he didn't have many options. He managed to avoid me until month 2, but without full control, the end result was inevitable. Thank you for the game.