"only XL-4"

No restarts.
There was an external dwelling for horses, archers, and two for monks at the respawn, though not close by.
Built up 1-6 in the fort, took my own AI. The opponent had a swamp triple. There were no one-way portals; I only found them in the zone with 3 Dragon Utopia, where I got the magic cap, gladius, and air book. In parallel, I didn't recruit (collected up to 500 skeletons just in case by the end of Windomine), there were great heroes.
A one-way portal cut me off from most of the map, which Valya treacherously jumped into on the third week. The army was very decent: 15 angels, nearly 50 zealots, 150 archers, 40+ crusaders.
I didn't go to meet Taz, tried to build up strength. Magic power was showing 10 higher; Valya ran off with a large reserve of moves in search of undiscovered treasures.
By the time the swamp father arrived, she found a Dragon Utopia with a kettle and KS, made archangels, and calmly spent the night in the captured swamp Castle.
Taz's armor couldn't withstand the howitzer of zealots and bowmen.
Thanks for the game!The opponent jumped in exactly on the day when I had finally gotten TP the evening before after several rebuilds. I planned to go there on the next turn to smash both fathers (Taz and Moner), and managed to learn more with Marusya, who had settled in for the night in a dungeon village. But then all plans were cut short by Valya with her gorgeous movement speed, who took the Tower and reached the dungeon, where she knocked out the support Marusya. Result: Valya took everything in the center with a heap of meat; I was left without control and a great warrior-support with logy. From my 2 Dragon Utopia, I got a chance for a good Armageddon (nearly 1600 damage) + finished collecting AOTD but without the crystal ball... Nowhere else to go - only to the center. Spending days building up Mage Guild in another castle, giving the whole map to the opponent to build up is suicide. I specifically went on foot to take the center to try and lure the opponent there, although because of the low timer he couldn't take my last village in the center, from where I could return the entire center to myself for at least 1 day :cool: . The opponent, with his move, of course settled in a castle on my path; I attacked, saw that KS was there and basically that's where it all ended, since 2 deadly ranged stacks under Valya and a golden bow wiped out practically any of my stacks with every shot. Thanks for the game!