Confirmed.
The roads are slow, the wolves are not built. The map is very stretched out in all directions, but there is little money. I fell for an external dwelling of behemoths, but the guard was up to 99 lvl rag-troops (also guarding were level 3 magic and boots of speed, meaning it could have been nearly a hundred). I might have decided to take them on by the end of the week, but I just couldn't advance ballistics; instead, I found another external dwelling of behemoths guarded by up to 19 ogres. On day 117 I break it, and on day 121 I decide to break a nearby Griffin Conservatory with 2 behemoths. I scouted it with a scout hero - a two-layered dwelling, and I didn't want to retreat since there would be no need to double back. I attacked out of greed and was defeated. Serves me right.
Thanks for the game!