Someone suggested that you can save & re-load a saved recorded game while playing it, I tried that and I could not, however in that game I caught the game cheating by building a 2nd castle for which it had not acquired the necessary amount of stone to build the 2nd castle (650 ST), and 21 walls (105), 3 gates (90), 2 keeps (250), 2/3 TC’s (200+), total 1295 stone from the 150 remaining from the 1st castle.