“Newcomer – 2016. Summer”

We hoarded until we had complete garbage as it seemed to me (2 Dragon Fly Hives, 2 Griffin Conservatories on my side). But it turned out there was a free GO (Hydras), even though it was 1.5 days away to get there. Kirya immediately showed a mama-type level-up with Offense and Earth Magic. I landed in the center on 123/124 and assumed that the adjacent spawn was the opponent's and that he had an Arch Devil GO along the way. I had no view of the ground, but I guessed where to run in the center to avoid hitting a dead-end branch. On day two, Taz flew into the center without roads and took the level 5 hat that I hadn't cleared (guarded by Arch Devils, I had nothing to beat them with at the time), but I had already moved quite far away. In the end, Taz, having eaten almost nothing in the center, ran to the adjacent spawn, and ate the entire center (Dragon Utopias, Pandora's Boxes, artifacts). There were almost no Dragon Fly Hives, zero Conservatories. Pretty poor in that regard, in short. But on the plus side, two Pandora's Boxes with 15 Minotaurs. I dug up a couple of decent heroes with Wisdom and Logistics, built level 4 and 5 in my Castle (Town Portal, Fly), retrained and started eating the center (which turned out to be huge) and also the adjacent spawn. Found КВ and КЗ, even though they were essentially not needed anymore. I assembled AOTD and КШ, saw that Taz had jumped far, far away (as the opponent probably thought) into the center to steal the Cape of Speed +2 and also climbed into a tomb. But Kiryukha with almost 4k movement points and Dimension Door caught up. КШ+AOTD+Shackles didn't let Taz escape.
Thanks for the game. Good luck in the lower bracket.