Quote Originally Posted by Foz
Yeah, the agents are especially annoying. As England, before I had even turned my attention to Scotland (let alone the European mainland) there were 3 or 4 Milanese spies in Caen, and a little bit later there are usually droves of assassins running around whacking away at any and all governors I have in Europe. It's insane, and I haven't yet seen such behavior from the rest of the AI factions. Enough to drive you nuts...
I have seen massive numbers of spies from Milan, but absolutely no assassins (atleast assassins who have either attempted to assassinate or sabotage my buildings (unless all those "natural deaths" were Milan's doing). In my campaign they mostly sent them after Dijon and Marseille which I had previously taken from them. They started going after these territories hard core when I started receiving 65% unrest penalties, threatening to cause those two places to go rebel. I have not seen any other faction so far put so much focus on spies.

I always wondered what that heartbeat I kept hearing when it was showing Milan's turn