Rundown:
Full distribution. In other words every territory on the map is a possible starting territory.
Therfore - Armies per neutral territory
(non-distribution) DO NOT MATTER. Since EVRYTHING is in distribution.
Look at Armies per neutral territory
(in-distribution) This is 0! So, the game is like it should be.
Conclusion:
You are wrong, and should apologize to the maker of that game. Calling him cheater in a public forum is not polite.
but sadly everything indicates that the guy actively seeks to trick people into his weird template to get an easy win
No. It rather shows that WL has complicated settings and they can be hard to understand.
EDIT: The image is from Unity. But the same settings is shown in flash.
Edited 4/30/2017 01:09:14