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Tonight I decided to train up a few hundred thousand extra Covert troops, jack up the Covert Technology Bonus, and then got Level 20 Covert and felt really good about my possible chances of Spying on an Automaton. Well, I threw 750K Covert troops at a Spy attempt on William, and... Blammo. Nothing, not even a peek. The Covert attempt to Spy was COMPLETELY rejected.
I also lost over 180,000 Covert troops in the process.
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That's right, I said 180K Covert fell in the attempt.
[ Luckily I still had my weekly bonus to use so I gained back some UU. ]
There went about 15-18% of my Army I have been working on... Oh well, someone had to be stupid enough to give it a try, might as well have been me.
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I suspect it will take a player who has Level 22 Covert, with AI Race, Covert Focus, and more Covert technology bonus Tech than God of AI herself to finally have a chance to Spy on an Automaton!!
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'Bad Affy' sez... "Well, with stupidity like that I don't even have the heart to pile on any more derogatory comments on the old fool!"
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