[TigerBlood]

Silly me. Assassination never works as a strategy because you'll always have a mage with the perfect load out waiting to mind hunt something. Other players are never limited by other concerns during a game and will always have the appropriate mage, army and gear to root out a harvester the moment they appear. And players only ever use one assassin at a time, never send them into domed provinces or use them in conjunction with more direct forms of warfare or other ploys.

I've been playing the game wrong. I realise that now.