Quote Originally Posted by drone View Post
I don't know for sure, but judging from what Border Forts do in counterspying, I doubt credit would be spread amongst the spies.
No indeed, every spy would not gain valour. In fact it seems to be always the highest valour spy that catches rival agents (assuming border forts are not present). But my point is, that supposing you have 4 spies in a province, 3 with 0 valour and one at 2 valour. If the 2 valour spy attempts to counterspy against a rival agent/spy and fails, then do the other three 0 valour spies have a go as well? Supposing they do, they're also likely to fail anyway due to being lower valour, but the point is: do they even get to try?

Personally I'm leaning towards the theory of highest valour spy or assassin in the province acting as the nominated counterspy, but it's not easily tested - even in debug mode.