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Group 2 has the saddest situation – only one game has been played.

Rollback 2200, no rests left. The spawn was very poor in terms of money and quite poor in one's army, despite everyone having 3 stacks. Only 3 heroes on day 1. On the other hand, there were 7 obelisks in the starting zone) To offset the poverty, the roads were good; as many as 3 led from the Castle.
Horses didn't spawn on the first one. The sawmill was blocked for a long time, but in the end, it wasn't that which decided things, but a banal lack of gold. On the positive side, I snatched the brown swamp with built-up samevs and a citadel. At least some army. At home, I put 1-4 in the citadel. I gave Gundula shooting at level 2, just to somehow break through with my crumbs. For artifacts, I took a sword +2 attack and defense.
On the second day, I broke through another road, went to the center, took a Rampart village there, and found a couple of hives and a consu. There was also a consa at home. Due to lack of money, Gundula had to simply run on foot from the swamp thither, fortunately, the roads were fast.
The guards of the uliks fell without problems, the uliks themselves too, although if the first one had been max — I would have stayed there. But the layout was too bad; I had to risk it. Took 3 hives of 6 samevs each, then a mini-consu. Then I crashed Gundula back home, took a consu 3 with the loss of 20 markovs and most of the meat. But the samevs were untouched.
On 127 in my corner treasure zone, I took another consu 3, and on the next turn a minimalku. Total 8 angels. Found a 5th one in the center, teleported there, took a 2 with Tiraxor. 10 angels, samevs still around 20, no more hives. Finally got land, as late as level 11. But I experted logu.
132 - Dragon Utopia 3, gave so-so: +10 knowledge, wings, КО and a flask.
134 - another Dragon Utopia, now a 2, sword of justice, armor +10 and dragon shield +3 attack and defense. Picked up a TP scroll and put gm4 in the Tower.
135 - entered a super-treasure zone, took 2 hives there: 8+4. The blues appeared; I cut off Dess and Vidomina for them with spoons in the swamp (former brown).
135 blue - Gunnar appeared, 11 angels, 16 samevs, 40 markovs and some other small trash. Stats 12-11-9-7, 20+ mana.
136 - did a TP with Gundula to the swamp, upgraded monarchs and missed Gunnar by 1 step diagonally (would have reached horizontally). Had to TP back to the swamp. 25 mana.
136 blue - Gunnar unexpectedly attacks, moreover without mana replenishment. In the 1st round the opponent made a mistake and left a cast for his angels, which got hit by blind. + I got lucky with morale and the shooters killed a pegasus, and ducks moved twice in the 1st round (slaughtered basilisks and samevs). My only losses were 6 markovs. In the end, the 2nd round started with slow on angels and a hit by my monarchs and angels. Killed 9 out of 11. In response, an impla flew at 5 angels, but this was clearly not enough. Thanks for the game!

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A rather poor start, and Valya with only one stack, but there were external dwellings of swordsmen and archers at the respawn, and the scout also revealed a native village in the neighboring zone, so I decided to play a fairly average setup.
On the second day, I started gathering Hive bases, also captured another player's Tower, where I began building a Mage Guild, then rushed to a super treasure zone, consumed the Hive bases there, leveled up a good mage who got Earth, Intelligence, and Air, and consumed boxes for all Air spells and all 5th level spells, but unfortunately crashed against the Shedy (Gray Beards?), miscalculating that they had 7th speed and with my super mage's morale on a fake unit they kill, and there were also Boots on him. Never managed to dig them up by the end of the game.
Went at the opponent, and unsuccessfully positioned myself against Labeta on day 132, who was very close and had 200+ mana, while I had about 20. The army there wasn't big, but I was met with Imp, summons, and Resurrection. Didn't have enough gold to buy him off. Fearing Blind on my only surviving stack of Vives, I retreat. I lose my entire army — I had almost 50 ducks and 5 angels. Easy game turns into hardcore. After that, I rebuilt Town Portal and Dimension Door, it got a bit more fun, but not much. Gurney never got Expert Wisdom until the end of the game; everything else leveled up except it. Dimension Door was only on Grindan, later Solmyr also learned it. For over a week, my towns were being taken from me, and I recaptured them again, each turn getting harder. On day 146, the opponent night-loops in my main with angels. I fly Solmyr in to hit-and-run, but Labeta turned out to be reinforced with 2 angels in one stack, I buy him off since I only had enough chain to afford one. Gurney runs in, and with Oil kills him in one round, artifacts drop and it's GG.
Thanks for the game!

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Looks like I got an 8x12 map. At the start, Bron with basilisks appeared – I decided to play. On day 117, I bought a Chaos Hydra and horses in the Fortress camp; I wanted to place angels, but I didn't have enough sulfur. On day 121, I got a Consort unit, then exchanged horses on day 122. On day 123, I attacked Ufrethin with my main army and a horse unit; it was a tough battle: I lost 3 horses, an angel, and marksmen, but the red player was left without an army. At the beginning of week 3, I took two hives; I wanted to take the box behind the Magmatic Orcs, but the red player surrendered.

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P.S. I still have two games on this save.