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Yes, but if an alliance is allowed to win then that isn't really fair. They're playing to a different, and much easier, victory condition than everyone else. It also removes the tension of "when are we going to have to turn on each other?" which I think adds an interesting element to Dom3 games.

In any games I organise, at least (which recently has been none), alliance victories are certainly not allowed. Unfortunately this is difficult to implement in practice, because once the alliance is doing really well, generally people can't be bothered to then fight amongst themselves. Xietor and I won as an alliance in Alpaca, which makes me a hypocrite.