Enemy assassins

[Vasiliyi]

Im currently playing as Arverni. The year is 203bc. As you can see I have carved out a nice empire in europe. In the early 230's my faction leader ravaged the italian peninsula sacking every city the romans had. I then left a small garrison in each city and let the romans take the cities back. I of course destroyed every building in each city, leaving the romans with a devastated economy. When I left italy to invade the sweboz, the romans left me alone for the next 30 years. In 205bc the romans started raiding my bordering cities.


What happened next really impressed me. In the next 2 years they managed to kill 6 of my generals. 1 of then was a client ruler of massalia, they killed my faction leader who was on his way to mop up the romans a second time. Then when I sent my fl son and fh they killed him and his brother. Its really frustrating, seeing I cant even go in with a general because they kill then before I can launch an invasion.

Not sure why I posted this, but I found my position interesting.

[Arthur, king of the Britons]

Wow, can't say I've ever experienced or heard of AI using assassin's so effectively... Nice story

[panten]

It is funny, because something similar happened to me in my Arverni campaign, even though with less grave results. While fighting the Romans, they continuously had atleast 2 assassins hunting my general and I almost had more counter-assassins than armies in Italy. I killed several assassins every turn, and had to, because the one time I had no assassins around they managed to kill off my most successful general who just stopped short of Sicily to await reinforcements (and by then trouble was brewing in Spain and along the Danube, while the Romans had ceased to be a military threat) and rested in a well defended city. Next turn he was dead. Ten years of exhaustive campaigning against the Romans who threw everything at me, finally plundering Rome and fighting the last resistance in Sout Italy, all ended by an assassins blade. As shocking as it was, it made the Arverni campaign my favourite.

[Arjos]

So that's where the vanilla Arcani come from! :D

[Antinous]

I had the same experience actually. Seleukid assassins were able to kill my prince.

[Vasiliyi]

Update:

I finally managed to invade italy with a fm, but it wasnt before they killed 2 more fms. I trained my own counter assassins. Turns out they had 9-10 assassins all over the place. I now have a network of spy-assassins all over italy, and im slowly taking cities.

[Ca Putt]

oh dear, that really reminds me of M2TW Inquisitors.

[-Praetor-]

When I saw this:



I laughed out loud , that´s some bad luck, never seen something like that before.

[Titus Marcellus Scato]

That'll teach you to mess with the Romans! If their legions can't kill you, their assassins will!

[Cute Wolf]

you must forgot to stick spies to your important FM stacks, and train your assassin to "silence" the enemy assassins.

well, if you let em have couples of 10 subterfuge assassins, and your FMs are trusting fools....

[Shadowwalker]

Impressive move by the AI.

Happened a few times to me as well (I never had 3 FM's killed in one round though).
Since then I always have assassins in every border town/fort and with every army. And a spy and a diplomat as well.

[vollorix]

Last time something similar happened to me was in vanilla, when Gauls managed to take out my 3 Roman generals ( i think, i´ve just switched to vh campaign difficulty, and that was the result ^^ ).
Now imagine if AI would be "aware" of the protection through your spies and assasins ( maybe it is, but only passively ), and would eliminate them first to get a better shot on your generals....o_0

[Atraphoenix]

I mostly make a sudden and unstoppable invasion it worked so far. I think my command stars saved my RP generals from assasins as I rarely had that problem. The main worry was losing my lowly garrisonned cities to enemy diplomats thanks to money script.