Two years a go (Gosh!) it was changed so that in team games a player is not defeated if they lose all their landmarks as long as they have a teammate who still has theirs. I understand this was done for multiplayer games where people rushed one player with fire lancers and knocked them out the match.
Personally this has had a pretty detrimental effect on skirmish games vs AI. AI are not good at closing out a match but they are pretty good at coming to each others aid and dragging out a match. Your AI teammates will generally patrol their lands and occasionaly attack but without conviction to do serious damage. It leaves it to the player to actually finish off the other team which is much less manageable (or fun) since the change in landmark lose conditions.
All I’m asking for is an option in custom/skirmish games for landmark loss to cause player defeat as it was on launch. The pace of the game has undeniably slowed to a crawl and I’d really appriciate it if these large changes to the game would not become mandatory in every mode.