OFB-10

Banned Kyrre, sold Ivor, bought a color, decided to go with Gold. Took 1 rest, opponent seemingly didn't take any. Nearby the road: stables and an elven external dwelling, decent heroes in the tavern, decided to play. Already by 113 I regretted it. The road is extremely long (on fast units I only reached the nearest AI by 115), opponent has Deesa and Isra revealed. On the way to the AI in the adjacent zone I took external dwellings of pits and efreets, though all the pits were actually killed in the efreet dwelling itself, because (naturally) the efreets cast Morale in round 1. Thankfully all the elves survived. The nearest AI turned out to be Saira with a combined army, and 80 gremlins with 11 speed caused trouble. By the end of the week, my army: 17 grand elves and 1 efreet, no power stack growth. On the second week with buyout, I scouted a bit in different directions, took a Hive on 6. On 126, Deesa appears with a superior army and camps in the teleporter, cutting off part of my troops from joining up, and reveals "my" Dragon Utopia. On my turn, I fight a completely insane 20-minute battle with Grindan against 99 Earth Elementals for the Hive, transfer the army to Jabarkas, exchange resources to the max for buyback, and on the last steps attack Deesa, making a trade of something like my 1 Wyvern for his 9 grand elves, buy back, and await my fate of being killed without a chance on 131, since I have no money. However, the opponent doesn't attack, instead runs away himself to power stack. On the third week, I take 3 Griffin Conservatories with weak troops (2+2+4), in the max 1 angel dies. Neither Jaba nor Grini has a Log, no Necro either, the opponent takes the only Dragon Utopia, also takes the tavern of my nearest AI and penetrates deep into my territory. In desperation, I flee to the far AIs (pink Conflux and purple Dungeon) and further to the corner town from pink. In Conflux there's already a 3rd month guard, I find the Cape and Boots, there are Hives in the corner town zone, ghostly hopes arise. Meanwhile, Deesa rushes to take my capital, and there's really nothing to defend it with. The stats there are higher in army terms as well; let's say, all else being roughly equal, there are also nearly 600 skeletons... AND THEN!!! On my turn, right before Deesa's attack on my capital, in that same corner town zone I take this Dragon Utopia:



With control in 1 turn, I made my army (according to the tavern) stronger than the opponent's and sat in the capital's garrison, leaving Genova on efreets in the castle itself. Sanin, after considerable thought standing before my capital, finally decides to attack. Battle result: my 9 angels and 7 Wyverns remain, Sanin buys back with 4 angels and 90 skeletons. I have 2 heroes with full control, all scouts also made and studied. Should have saved; couldn't finish off due to objective real-life reasons, the win was awarded to me. Sorry it turned out that way, thanks for the game!