Anyways I played as a human Theocrat, while Marcus chose human Rogue.
I got off to a decent start and this time but the first ‘city’ I encountered was owned by some hostile wingy things, calling themselves Dragons. Two reds and a few wyverns. I was quite easy to avoid them on this map so they didn’t pose a threat. Sadly no easy chance for an easy takeover either. I started expanding, which turned out to be quite hard. Independent towns were quite far away, but right before I wanted to capture a Dwarven town, I could capture an Elven town from Marcus. That’s where the fighting started. Sure we had some dead scouts, but this was going to be serious. Marcus had the upperhand, recaptured the town and killed my stack. This was a major setback but since I now knew where his Throne city was, I decided to take my chances and go for it. Passed an inn on the way to add some more units to my stack and much to my surprise I ran straight by the guards and captured his throne city. Marcus had a hero with a few assassins nearby, but he knew it would be impossible to easily recapture his throne so he retreated.
Meanwhile at home I was vulnerable and it was no surprise that Marcus’s leaderstack showed up on my doorstep. I took the gamble and charged in to kill off his leader and secure the win… but… for some still unknown reason I forgot to focus fire on his leader and lost the fight, lost my leader and he could march straight into my Throne city.
Despite my awful mistake in the end it was a very fun and tense game. Congrats to Marcus. Hopefully I can redeem myself against Sindir or Faraner.