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I traded for about 3500 for the blue Stronghold. We missed the restarts; early scouting showed that the respawn is a bit difficult. On one road, there's a block of 5-9 cavalry; the second clearly leads to the exit and has many boxes, but they are behind archer guards. There were also golem guards slightly off the road. I bought 6 heroes, took a chest with Kreg, and it gave attack-artillery. I thought that if I take attack now, then later they'll give some crap to choose from, and since the ballista already arrived, maybe it will help a bit. The calculation paid off; in the skeleton, I got +4 chain, and I farmed the golems without losses by maneuvering around the ballista, then managed to break through the cavalry giving up only gnolls. Then it got interesting: I saw a bird cache, took it after killing 90 guards, then saw golems 50-99 guarding a box. I stood with Kreg to take it on 121. It turned out to be 15000 experience. At the same time, the scout showed that my respawn is huge, roughly 1/3 of the map; there were 4 Dragon Utopias on the respawn. Since there wasn't much point in rushing to ГО, I settled into the respawn. On 122, I took a level-1 Dragon Utopia and was disappointed; there was only a captain's hat. But I managed to upgrade 6 bears. Then I took another level-3 Dragon Utopia. There was a book of air, +6 cap, and +4 shield. I threw away all the barbarian meat, but it didn't matter. Then I jumped to double mana and saw 2 more bear caches. I took them and saw that the opponent approached with a not very large army (up to 50 wyverns, no angels). I brought some meat from the rampart, upgraded another 2 bears, and took another 2 Dragon Utopias. They also gave some cool stuff there, but didn't give КЗ or КШ. But then there was nothing left to do on the respawn; on 131, I broke through ГО and occupied the opponent's Castle. There was no tavern, but there was a guild. I spent the night there. On 132, I took the Dragon Utopia that the opponent skipped; it didn't give anything useful. On 133, scouting showed that the opponent had settled on a neighboring respawn; I jumped in and killed 3 suckers, but his Tazar was in the castle. I scouted Tazar and saw he had less mana than me. In the castle, there were only 50 ducks and various meat. For some reason, the opponent immediately cast slowness. I thought I'd cast fireball since I had the sphere. I cast it; one fireball killed 18 ducks at a time. Then the opponent attacked the angels, I didn't understand why. As a result, I cast another fireball on those sitting in the castle and slaughtered the ducks under a shield. As it turned out, the opponent didn't have powerful combat magic.

Thanks for the game!