How do I kill Spies which are in a settlement?

**Lorenzo_H** · 03-17-2007, 19:41

As the French, I am enemies with Milan, and I recently noticed that Marseille is a red face, when it has always been green. I suspected that Milan had put a Spy there, so I stationed one of my own in Marseille. Sure enough, there was a Milanese Spy, making the city unhappy. He has been there a while now, and I can see him at the end of every turn. I also put an assasin in Marseille, with the hopes that he would be able to kill him, but no such luck yet. How do I end the life of this wretched filth of a diseased vermin who is sliming his troublesome way through my city???

**Unorthodox** · 03-17-2007, 20:14

Well, having your own spy should eventually lead to the death of the enemy spy, so that might take a while.

What I suggest is that you keep your spy in Marseille, but every turn (where possible), take out the spy and perform a spying mission on any nearby enemy characters to boost his skill rating, and then return to Marseille. That way your spy will get better every turn, and eventually be good enough to catch and kill the enemy spy.

**Lorenzo_H** · 03-17-2007, 20:17

Yeah hes not a very good Spy to be honest. Until recently he only had a 46% chance of infiltrating a settlement!

Another question; Can Spies and Assasins work together? ie does putting a spy inside an enemy stack increase the assasin's odds of success?

**gardibolt** · 03-17-2007, 21:07

I found that I really needed to keep 2 spies in cities that were anywhere near Milan in order to have a good shot at stopping infiltration. Not only are they aggressive with their usage of spies and assassins, but because they're used so much they tend to be pretty powerful. Milan is the one faction that the AI plays pretty well.