Wiping out a faction with assassins

[dagiz]

you know I really don't know if that would work. You'd probably have to do it all at one time to make it effective - getting all the family members in one year as when a family gets low, marriages start happening. And than that person gets listed as part of the faction.

not in RTW, but in MTW I did exactly what you are talking about to the Spanish over the course of two years.

[Antagonist]

Technically it's possible, i'm pretty sure, but with a large faction it would be extremely difficult, especially in RTW. I think I've done it once or twice with very small, weakened factions.

Antagonist

[Ordani]

Functionally impossible in RTW unless you get insanely lucky, because of the rate at which the AI generates new characters for factions hurting for them.

[Teleklos Archelaou]

It can work. You can even wipe out the roman factions and almost win the whole game without declaring civil war by doing this. I had captured almost the whole map this way as Julii and still was on ok terms with the senate. Mostly because I could achieve lots of missions taking back scipii and brutii lands after they collapsed and went rebel when I assassinated their leaders. A fun campaign.

[Oaty]

The way to do it is pick off the young family members first, then once the old ones are left they can no longer have kids or adopt because they have had 4 under thier belt.

MTW was to easy to eliminate a faction, and RTW a bit too hard. So maybe it will be better in MTW2.

[Upxl]

It’s possible alright.
I just wiped out the scipii and now my legions of assassins are being shipped to Greece for a major cleansing of Brutii Generals

[Avicenna]

But wouldn't it be ridiculously hard to get rid of the final family member? (faction leader) They usually have a 1-4% chance of death max.