At home, an external dwelling of Minotaurs and a huge respawn with free stuff. A convenient adjacent zone with several roads and close mines. By the end of week 2, I took a green Castle, and at the start of week 2, with 19 King Minotaurs, I painted a couple more villages and started building a Mage Guild. By the end of week 2, I built Mage Guild level 5. Loot was fabulous (Town Portal, resources, Implore).
A couple of scouted Dragon Utopias were far away, and the Mage Guild was not giving Dimension Door for a very long time. Through resources, I took a couple of Dragon Utopias; they gave me КЗ for some reason, but also a Chalice. In the third Dragon Utopia, Max gave wings, ЧШ, and Gladius on 137.
On 141, after the 6th try, I finally got Dimension Door; I sent Gunnar and Gundula there. Both with Boots. Gunnar with Expert Air. That treasure zone on snow was the biggest on the map, and in it, from 3 Dragon Utopias, I picked up the Alliance.
By this point, there was an assassination attempt on my Castle, but Ed failed there and didn't make it with his mom to the rebuilt village with Monks and, on top of that, left a noob with power in the snows.
I couldn't resist such a generous gift.
Thank you for the game!