by jeradc
I do know who michael is - but was still confused :)So, I did a bit of research, and found the pdf rules for TEK which has a section called "Playing with 2-Players" that does say "Players cannot form an alliance in a 2 player game."
However, in going back through the UTEK rules on page 30 there is a similar section called "2 Player Variant: The Lost Kingdom"
I had never read that section for UTEK, since I didn't want to learn a "variant" of the game, until I understood the base game.
The first sentence seems to clarify these are indeed the general 2 player rules though by saying "To play with 2 players..."