What do you think it could be?

Here, I initially thought there was a valid reason to go to the swamps... the gold is obtained easily, and then you can build a Watchtower and use it to quickly explore the swamp... but Shakti gets a morale boost... why? And he doesn't have enough movement points to collect gold and build a Watchtower...

But then I saw that a chain of Manticores is being built... so, it's a suspicious save... but it's clear that the opponent (playing as Shakti) is still stronger than Alex... why would he cheat? But once again, my opinion is that it looks very much like cheating.