Playing without dwellings is pure torture; the only plus is Wing.
The guards are some kind of mean - shooters on one light portal, archmagi on a second "light-type" portal. Long zones, luckily there was a log. And still, I wasted time moving back and forth from one portal to another.
I had almost finished eating the treasure zone (this is where it gave out plenty - 2 Temples, 2 Dragon Utopias), when a message about surrender arrived; the opponent ran out of loads and ГО failed.
Thanks for the game.
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I could be wrong, but without the "New banks generate" option, ERMG often generates starting zones without dwellings.