Help! My Generals Are Dying!!!

[The Shadow One]

Okay, I'm playing MTW as the Novogrod faction. I have conquered most of Asia Greater. Now my generals are dying by assasins. I'm losing about one a turn now. The game tells me to beef up security, but how do you beef up security? I can't even see the assasins.

Help!

The Shadow One

[Sensei Warrior]

There are several things you can do. Make sure the provs that this is happening in have border forts and watchtowers. You can try putting a spy and an assassin in the region I think they help root out an enemy assassin. They end up working like counter-intelligence. Emmisaries and religious variant of a bishop might help as well. You can also beef up the military force that is there, I think this reduces the chance of a successful assassination attempt against your general.

Other than that eventually the assassins will fail and the enemies high valor assassin will get caught.

[Hold Steady]

Yeah, or, build the KGB counter intelligence-agency (requires the relquiry and the Stalin Leader emerges event).

[derF]

Yeah, or, build the KGB counter intelligence-agency (requires the relquiry and the Stalin Leader emerges event).

lol.

No, but on a serious note as the first reply said you can use:

- Watchtowers
- Forts (available after watchtower)
- Spies (need Brothel i think)
- Assassins (counterspy)

Im usually not to bothered if my Zero star generals die because at the end of the day they are not essential.

Killing a 4+ star general is something only a Legendary Geisha can do with confidence. And as we all know, there are none in MTW.

[Saracen_Warrior]

Even if your general dies, hes replaced by someone with thte same stats. It is only bad if they attack right afterward for if its a orice or king. I think you type some cammand, like green general or something so they get replaced by lesss competent people.

[bretwalda]

Even if your general dies, hes replaced by someone with thte same stats. It is only bad if they attack right afterward for if its a orice or king. I think you type some cammand, like green general or something so they get replaced by lesss competent people.

I believe this is only the case when you get the message that your general died of old age... But if assassinated he is just gone for good...

This is a handy tool to discourage attacks from the enemy or pave your way of conquest by killing the enemy generals with 5* assassins from Syria...
Once I did it with the Sicilians and there was no HRE general with even 1*

[Procrustes]

Hi,

There is probably some 5-star assassin wandering around. Couple things that I've found to help:

- Borderforts/ watchtowers - best investment you can make in MTW.
- Keep your general in big stacks - the bigger the stack, the hard it is to assassinate him.
- Start moving your generals around the provinces - if an assassin has targetted him then you may get him when you drag the assassin across another border that has borderforts/watchtowers. (If nothing else it keeps the assassin preoccupied chasing one target.)
- Keep some emmisaries, spies and assassins handy - they aren't as effective as bf/wt, but they also catch the occasonal assassin.

HTH,

[The Shadow One]

Thanks for the info. I will add border forts and watchtowers.

Meanwhile, as I played last night, I did develop a kind of KGB. I placed two assassins in every territory. My, my but did the enemy assassins start to die. One after another they fell. Then I started to find out they were from, of all places, Poland and Egypt (in my game, Egypt has taken out the Byzantines -- thank you so much).

It seems from some of the messages that some territories develop better assassins. What are those territories?

The Shadow One

[mfberg]

Syria gives a bonus to assassins produced there. With VI you can push out some 5* assassins to start. If you aren't near Syria and want to make some assassins better target enemy clerics and diplomats or your own. I used to produce Inquisitors just to train my assassins.

mfberg

[Saracen_Warrior]

Ive had a 9 star general assasinated and replaced with another 9 star. Maybe its only in regular medieval, and in VI hes replaced by someone worse.

[Saracen_Warrior]

No edit button cus im new right? And generals dont die of old age, do they?

[ichi]

No edit button cus im new right? And generals dont die of old age, do they?

Generals die of old age

ichi

[bretwalda]

Generals die of old age

ichi

but this is only in VI... vanilla mtw does not have this "feature"...

[Saracen_Warrior]

Thats why i didnt think they died. I haven't installed viking invasion yet, even though i have it.