Re: The dreaded assassin
I find an assaisan useless without a spy. I put a spy to find targets for the assaisan. And whenever the enemy recruit spies/assaisans/dplomats, I kill them. I learnt that leaving them is a threat in the hard way. I was Scythia and I was netural with Mecedonia after cracking up Thracians. In 1 turn they attacked the spy had opened the gates. Believe me, my infantry is baaaad to their Royals. So I died miserabely.
"Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much."
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton.
Re: The dreaded assassin
Linking my assassin(s) with my spies has helped me enormously.
1) I'm suffering only one assassination every few years, rather than one every turn!
2) My assassin has eyes, and isn't forced to take on very difficult tasks just to have the opportunity to increase his traits.
For a while, I thought that assassinations were just random, that the AI would get a certain numerical chance to do them, whether or not they had an assassin piece in position--with a spy, I can see my enemey, and as someone stated above, enemy assassins, even highly skilled ones, are extremely easy to remove, i.e., kill.
"No Plan survives Contact with the Enemy."
Re: The dreaded assassin
The easiest yes, but a lvl 1 assaisan would have problems with a lvl 11 :P. I suggest you train them on Diplomats and Captains. You will lose quite a lot, but the ones who survive will be super assaisans. Also, if their any enemy assaisan around he'd be fine.
"Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much."
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton.
Re: The dreaded assassin
I always train up some super assassins and spies to protect my hiers, my faction leader seems to have enough security on his own. Never had him assassinated or sucessfully kill an enemy faction leader.
Makes me think of the days of shogun when you could train up some Geishas and just pluck them down like ducks with a machine gun.
Watch Towers also help btw.
If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you're already dead!
Re: The dreaded assassin
I have made my first super assassin.. by killing captains,actually of one rebel army... just post him next to the rebels and every round kill the captain.. when he was at level 11 I took him out to play. I have found that killing family hord members is very easy.. there you can take your pick of the asiest member to kill...
I think so far he has killed about 9-10 family members, makes battles in the field a lot easier!
carpe noctum (and their women!)
Re: The dreaded assassin
What happens if a faction loses all it's family members ?
"Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much."
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton.
Re: The dreaded assassin
Curtains.
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