Love thine enemy or ten reasons to rebel

[master of the puppets]

i have noticed that kings and faction leaders are untouchable. i had this one master assasin in the middle of egypt, and i made sure he had fun on his egypt vacation. i killed 12 family members almost all of them were a 100% success rate but there faction leader (pharoh ptotsom serefilites weird name even for an egyptian)always had a 3% rate i never lety my assasin touch him in the end when i beat that campaign (first one H/H) egypt and me were at a standstill and there pharoh had no family

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to king Darius III
yes your army is great
rich in purple in gold rocking the land as they march
one thousand deep and a tribute to your wealth
but send back your purple and gold send away your riches
for there stands then army of alexander
when they march the mountains crumble
when they sleep the earth is there bed
when they fight none can stand against them
darius take back your purple and gold send away your riches and bring forth real warriors!
this man was sent to death

[KiOwA]

Those faction leaders with single digit percentage chances of being assassinated can be killed, if you're willing to use reloading of saved games. Chances of assasination also seem to improve after a previous successful assassination in the same turn.

[rebelscum]

Yes, if you can't win .. cheat!

[doc_bean]

Those faction leaders with single digit percentage chances of being assassinated can be killed, if you're willing to use reloading of saved games. Chances of assasination also seem to improve after a previous successful assassination in the same turn.

I noticed I got worse results on successive savegames actually, on a first attempt I killed a general but then I made a stupid movement error (RTW should have a take back option...) and reloaded the autosave, next time my assassin failed, I reloaded more to see if I could reproduce the result and after a while he got killed everytime I tried.

[Akka]

RTW probably use the "save seed" feature, like Civ3.
It means that, if you do the exact same sequence of action, you'll get the exact same result on an autosave.
If chances seem to improve after a previous assassination, it's probably because, many times, your assassin get an improvement in stats and/or an ancillary with a successful mission.

[KiOwA]

Perhaps. I've noticed that if my assassin fails to nail a character, upon reloading and immediate re-trial of the deed, the exact same result will occur. But if I do something else before re-attempting assassination (especially killing other characters, those with a 100% chance to kill), the results may be different.