Okay, game over.
Finally.
But first ... on matter of spy. I think after warlords or 2.08 patch, spies can only be built in the city with scotland yard.
And as we all know, the Internet is a project, so there goes our grand plan. Also, the answer is no, settled specialist DOES NOT stay after capture (not very logical for them to do so in retrospect, even Albert Einstein flee to America). If it were any consolation, at least the Space Elevator is working.
Tried the suggestion of surrounding Gandhi's worker-recruiter ... it works:
Well, more accurately, it works with SAM Infantry. But with Mechanized Infantry, the guy flee ...
Well, my mistake for giving him an outlet ... so I surrounded him such that his only available route is to step into our worker-protected city of Uppsala.
Meanwhile ... just for the sake of fun, I razed one Gandhi (we are supposed to teach Gandhi how to war, aren't we?):
And eliminated Izzy:
And as to whether Uppsala worked ... nope. That terrified guy is still there, surrounded by out Mech Inf and MAs, dare not step into the empty city
Finally, I am glad its over. I am pretty sure we finally won ourselves the wooden spoon.
What a ride.
While we were fighting an uphill battle against Mongolia, Brennus and Hannibal took the opportunity to runaway with techs. The most crucial and fun part was when we killed Hannibal and then later fight against Mehmed, and finally the big showdown against Brennus.
There are places where we can certainly improved (such as not giving up cities to Gandhi earlier, but our biggest blunder of all must be not realizing the Internet will not survive the change of hand.
Great 3 months of playing, I am disappointed with some VQ members disappearing without even a notice, but I am glad that at least two others sticked with me to the bitter end.
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why doesn't anybody tells us abt the specialist and Internet when it mattered? 
