“Two Seasons: Winter-Spring 2016” Tournament. Online games for rating (reports, discussions).

Terrible blocking with one road blocked by mages, which cut off both my mines. I ran down the second road, barely scraping together resources and gold. Almost immediately I ran into a castle, but I saw a couple of hives behind guards that were impossible for me to break through at that time. I turned around, went to break the block, taking the bulls from the external dwelling and building them in the castle. I broke through and immediately ran into a second block on the same road of 5-10 giants guarding a Pandora's Box (as it turned out later, 10k) and an artifact. Gloomily I strayed off-road, blindly taking a level 1 Griffin Conservatory and the first minor dwelling. I spent almost the entire second week crawling through swamps, taking three more hives. The tempo was lost forever, the opponent, judging by the stats, was already in the center by then. Out of desperation, I upgraded the ducks and charged into a Dragon Utopia. Tier 3. I lost half of my already laughable army, and got nothing except +3 to all stats. On turn 132 I went into the center, where everything had already been picked clean. Immediately and deservedly got my ass kicked by Kirri with 60 ducks and magic.
Thanks for the game!