Procrustes
08-09-2004, 17:55
Hi,
Something odd happened to me when using spies to end a siege. I am playing as the French (vi, patched, hard, GA). The Spanish broke our treaty and attacked me across the Pyrenees. I drove them back and besieged their forces in Navarre and Aragon. I got the Pope warning - "finish up in two years or I'll excommunicate you". (He offered his daughter's hand in marriage at the same time - yeehaw!) I had a bunch of spies sitting around, so I waited out the first year and on the second year I assaulted the castle in Navarre and dropped three spies on the keep in Aragon - figured it would be nice to keep the port and some other buildings that were there. The spies all had a reasonable chance of success so I figured one would get through. Well, one did - a spy ended the siege, but I got excommunicated for it! I re-loaded, and instead of using spies I assaulted the keep (and destroyed all those building I wanted in the process.) This time I didn't get excommunicated - things worked just like always.
So, has anyone else found that spies don't work with the Pope warning? Was it something else I did?
Many thanks,
Something odd happened to me when using spies to end a siege. I am playing as the French (vi, patched, hard, GA). The Spanish broke our treaty and attacked me across the Pyrenees. I drove them back and besieged their forces in Navarre and Aragon. I got the Pope warning - "finish up in two years or I'll excommunicate you". (He offered his daughter's hand in marriage at the same time - yeehaw!) I had a bunch of spies sitting around, so I waited out the first year and on the second year I assaulted the castle in Navarre and dropped three spies on the keep in Aragon - figured it would be nice to keep the port and some other buildings that were there. The spies all had a reasonable chance of success so I figured one would get through. Well, one did - a spy ended the siege, but I got excommunicated for it! I re-loaded, and instead of using spies I assaulted the keep (and destroyed all those building I wanted in the process.) This time I didn't get excommunicated - things worked just like always.
So, has anyone else found that spies don't work with the Pope warning? Was it something else I did?
Many thanks,