Pretty slow start for me, with small initial zone and swamp secondary zone. But playable, so i decide not to use my last restart. As saves showed my opponent got far worse start.
On the first week I took Castle, scouted, collected some reaources. With second week I got Grindan, who became the main hero. Found useful level 2-3 artifacts almost in every slot, went to treasuries. One of the treasuries was a good one with several cyclops stockpiles, 3 hives and utopia. Took utopia only on 134 with ressurection learned from Jeddit and shitload of mana from intellect on Grindan. It was pretty good with +5 all and angel wings.
Later took another utopia with some stats, on 137 i finally rebuilt full control. The next week was used to train some support heroes, make archangels and take some towns. In the end of the week I took all enemy towns, killed some heroes. On 147 he surrendered. TFP!