I am playing as Macedon which means that I have been at war with the Brutii for most of the game. I have thoroughly defeated them and driven them from the Italian peninsula. Their only remaining city is north of Patavium. Now I am focusing on fighting the Julii. To that end, I have sent a particularly skilled assassin to hassle the Brutii. They have one family member standing with half a stack outside the city and the FL and FH in the city with another half stack. I killed the family member outside the city and on the very next turn a new family member came out of the city and joined that army. I figured they must have had a son mature and had my assassin kill him as well. The next turn he was replaced again and I killed the replacement again. Twelve turns in a row a family member has appeared to replace the family member I have assassinated and been assassinated in turn only to be immediately replaced in turn. Is the computer cheating? I don't believe it is possible for sons to just happen to mature one after another for twelve straight turns! Especially since I killed the heir and TWO more sons appeared, one to become heir and one to take over the army outside the walls. This sucks!
Edited to add: I just went and checked on the next two family members to appear and neither were in the city (skilled spy says they weren't anyway) prior to the assassination and both new family members appeared at 20 years of age. The AI has to be cheating!![]()
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