Quote Originally Posted by Handel
It cannot be an escort, because the merchant is not killed or harned in any way. He is just out out of business. No military can help with this.
So this is just an exploit.
Actually, the failure screen told me that my merchant was trying to hire thugs to destroy the other merchant's assets, and i think a full unit of military grade troops would discourage most thugs :P

I'm still not going to use it though ;)