Assassins: Waste of time?

[Slaists]

[QUOTE=Quillan]Assassins are like crops, they require careful cultivation for good results. The AI doesn't train its assassins, it produces one and sends it out to try killing everything. The result is that the assassin never gains skill, in fact it loses skill as a result of all those failures.

To successfully use assassins, do the following.

1) Pick a city to be your assassin's guild. Build no guild in that city, tech up to an inn and recruit your assassins there. Once it's offered an Assassin's Guild, build that.

2) Drop a spy in an enemy city. Have your new assassins go to that city and sabotage buildings. The church is the easiest building to sabotage. Over time and successful sabotaging, they'll get some bonuses. Your target is the third trait in the Conspirator line. This will give a +3 to subterfuge.

3) Once you have that conspirator trait, move on to assassinating people. Your initial targets should be rank 0 characters. 0 charm princesses are easy to find. 0 influence diplomats aren't uncommon. 0 finance merchants and 0 subterfuge spies you'll rarely see.

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if you want to preserve chivalry of a chivalric leader: don't do anything beyond step #2 above... killing (rather than sabotaging) kills leader's chivalry points quickly.

[Neoncat]

[QUOTE=Slaists][QUOTE=Quillan]

2) Drop a spy in an enemy city. Have your new assassins go to that city and sabotage buildings. The church is the easiest building to sabotage. Over time and successful sabotaging, they'll get some bonuses. Your target is the third trait in the Conspirator line. This will give a +3 to subterfuge.

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if you want to preserve chivalry of a chivalric leader: don't do anything beyond step #2 above... killing (rather than sabotaging) kills leader's chivalry points quickly.

Actually step #2 will lower chivalry too. Whats the idea in that? I really don't know. If you don't want to lose chivalry, you must use spies only in defensive way. Of course you can always put your spies next to enemy cities to get some info.