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    Default How to build (and build up) assasins ?

    I'm sorrt if this is blatantly obvious but what buildings do I need to build assasins as the English ?

    I know if used to be a 'cunnywarren' or brothel but I am at a loss as to what the requirements are in MTW-2
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    Default Re: How to build assasins ?

    It's a brothel, same as in MTW. You need to build a tavern first, though.
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    Default Re: How to build assasins ?

    From the original title, I thought the question was "how can I build up assassins?"[1]. My novices get very low chances to kill. In RTW, you had good chances to kill other assassins and so develop your subterfuge. What's the secret in M2TW? Just go for the softest target and with enough assassins, eventually one will take off?

    [1]I've now edited the title to include my question.
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    Default Re: How to build assasins ?

    Cheers dude, Im sure I didnt have the option to build a tavern....

    Will have a look when Im not hung over
    Look what these bastards have done to Wales. They've taken our coal, our water, our steel. They buy our homes and live in them for a fortnight every year. What have they given us? Absolutely nothing. We've been exploited, raped, controlled and punished by the English — and that's who you are playing this afternoon Phil Bennett's pre 1977 Rugby match speech

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    Default Re: How to build assasins ?

    Quote Originally Posted by econ21
    What's the secret in M2TW? Just go for the softest target and with enough assassins, eventually one will take off?
    I have been wondering about that as well.
    Playing with the English, my assassins can't kill anyone, other assassins, rebel captains, all the tricks from Rome don't seem to work.
    I did kill the Scottish king though, when asked by the Scottish heir, with my 1 subterfuge killer with a 5% chance.

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    Default Re: How to build assasins ?

    I think that you realistically need to be either very lucky, or build up the assassin tech tree so that your assassins are starting off with +2 or 3 subterfuge.
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    Default Re: How to build (and build up) assasins ?

    a 1-skill assassin has 25% chance of killing a captain, but most of the time he manages to escape after a failure so you can keep sending him over and over (and hope the target doesn't accumulate too many anti-assassin perks)

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    Default Re: How to build (and build up) assasins ?

    A brothel lets you build spies. Upgrading that to an inn will let you build assassins. After building a few assassins in one large city, I got an offer to establish an assassin's guild there for 1000 florins. Now in addition to the random 1-3 subterfuge all assassins begin with, each one has a +1 subterfuge due to training. I've got one good assassin so far; I had to start on captains. I couldn't kill off anything else. He's up to an 8 subterfuge now, and still going.

    However, it doesn't look like you can transfer retinues around in this game, which will destroy one of my old tactics, that being to take my really good assassin and transfer his catamite/dancer/monkey over to a newly created assassin once the good one starts getting old.
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