"Newcomer - 2017. Winter"

A tough start in the underground - no huts, little gold, two exits to secondary zones along the path are guarded by Archmages and Ice Elementals. I leveled Shakti a bit on respawn and pushed out through the Pits. I emerged into an empty snowy respawn zone, turned around to break through the shooter spawn points with growth by week 1, day 21. I fight my way through - one exit leads to a wasteland of rocks, the second to another snowy zone. I run to the town, set up lookout, see a Griffin Conservatory far to the north, decide to rush towards it. With Bless, I cleared the Conservatory trio, right above it is a passage to the third level, I go there since there's not much else to turn towards.

In the third level, I grab 6 Hives, 2 Biblos, minor stats artifacts, meanwhile the opponent appears at one of the snowy secondary towns and moves towards my main. From the third level, I go through the rocks to the portal leading to my respawn zone, defeat the Miner, buy him in my main town, double-maneuver, and attack Dessa. I get Armageddon, sacrifice my 3 Angels and 3 Grendels for the opponent's 6 Angels, a buyback follows. From the army, 42 Grendels and 11 Minotaurs remain, then I move the Miner towards the GO and to the opponent's respawn zone, where I kill Dessa.

Thanks for the interesting game.