it did not affect the outcome of the game, it's just important to know for the future
playing Jebus Cross, red breaks through the GO, does something in the center, then, weakened and without mana, retreats to their own respawn, giving the center to blue
blue captures red's central town, runs further and sees a passage to a neighboring (as it later turned out, neutral) respawn without the GO! meanwhile red was not there, the GO itself is somewhere off-road, and the passage on the road is bugged due to a mine
but blue doesn't know this, yet it's obvious to them that red was messing around in the center, so they run into the neutral respawn and farm there
this is discovered after the game, which red won
question: what to do in such a situation if blue had won?
(с) Roger Zelazny