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.
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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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Re: The dreaded assassin
I'm not so sure about that any more. I had Macedon down to one province last night in my 1.5 Brutii game, killed the Faction heir in combat and the Faction leader by assassination. There were still troops in the last city, and a small stack standing outside the city, but no family members. I ended turn, expecting to see the faction eliminated, but it wasn't. My spy checked, and in the one province there were troops but no family members, and no other family members on the map. So I killed all the troops in that last province and only then did I get the Faction Eliminated screen.
Re: The dreaded assassin
I was just looking through my family tree, and I realized that the assassin which had provided the impetus for this post was a super assassin.
Not only had he killed two faction heirs, but he killed my faction leader. A little later, my new faction leader's brother was killed as well. Fortunately, I had a prolific original faction leader.
So, final tally for this super assassin was 1 faction leader, 3 faction heirs.
This has raised a few questions for me:
1) Have others had experience with AI-controlled super assassins? (My enemy was Western Rome.)
2) I thought such a skilled assassin might destroy some of my temples, etc. He committed no acts of sabotage, in fact, I don't think I ever had a building sabotaged by the AI. Is this normal?
3) I killed this super assassin with a moderately-gifted assassin (maybe level three). The chance was very high (I think 95%). Isn't this a bit too easy?
Thanks
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