"only XL-4"

We started playing without restarts. As a result, both of us in the adjacent zone had to move through wasteland. Due to the lack of Earth magic and an unexpectedly long road to a village in one of the treasure zones, I only took the first Dragon Utopia on day 134. Gradually, a few more Dragon Utopias were found. We rolled a decent amount of stats. Town Portal appeared in a scroll on day 136; by day 142 I had re-specced Fly and Dimension Door. Having several leveled-up heroes with Air magic, I started capturing cities from my opponent. In the process, I lost a good scout hero, but I couldn't cut down any of his heroes myself due to lacking Tactics or Shackles of War. Overall, though, the takeover was going well. On day 145, on the last move of the week, I reached Vidomina with my entire main army. There was a big army advantage there: the numbers of dragons and angels were comparable, while he had 2k skeletons against my 60 grand elves. But my stats were lower by about 20. The battle took place under my opponent's red sphere, without any particular outs for him. Toward the end, Leadership also came into play — my dragons and grand elves became Morale-locked. As it turned out after the game, my opponent quickly got full control in the Dragon Utopias, but nothing decent for stats ever dropped for him until the end of the game. Thanks for the game!