[Nagot Gick Fel]

Originally posted by tinkthank:
I'm afraid I don't understand at all, sorry.

Sorry for not being clear enough...

1. Do you mean by "assassin" that my job will be to eliminate a specific opponent nation (either by out-preaching or by conquering all provinces)?

Sort of - your job will be to make sure this nation is eliminated, however how this is carried out has no effect on the scores. If it's eliminated because of another nation, you'll still get full points.

2. Is this correct: If my first choice was, say, Caelum, and I get "assigned" my first choice by the algorithm you mentioned in your first post, then my job will be to assassinate Caelum and I will do this by playing the nation which the Caelum player originally wanted to play?
I don't understand which race it is I will be playing and against whom.

Maybe an example will help:

Assume there are 4 players, A, B, C and D, and preference lists are shortened to 4 entries for clarity.

A's preferences are:
1 - Ulm
2 - Man
3 - Caelum
4 - Ermor

B's prefs:
1 - Caelum
2 - Ermor
3 - Man
4 - Abysia

C's prefs:
1 - Man
2 - Abysia
3 - Caelum
4 - Ulm

D's prefs:
1 - Man
2 - Caelum
3 - Ulm
4 - Ermor

Let's call A's Ulm design Ulm-A, and so on.

Now let's see which nations will be played. A will get Ulm and B will get Caelum, since noone else chose them as 1st picks. C and D are competing for Man, so none of them will get it. Instead C will get Abysia, since it's still free, and D will Ermor, since his 2nd and 3rd picks are already used by another player.

So the nations and designs will be Ulm-A, Caelum-B, Abysia-C, and Ermor-D.

Now let's decide who kills who: A -> B -> C -> D -> A (A is B's assassin, etc.)

So in the end the player setup will be:

A plays Ermor-D (the Ermor that was designed by D)
B plays Ulm-A
C plays Caelum-B
D plays Abysia-C

The designs will be remade so Ermor-D uses A's password, and so on.

OFC, when the game starts, noone knows who plays what, the only info each player has is the design of his victim's nation.

3. To be honest, I can't remember at all which pretender designs I sent in; this was a very busy week. Does that matter?

I'll send everyone his victim's nation design with the first turn.

4. If I know whom I am supposed to "assassinate", won't they know who it is that is supposed to assassinate them (because I will be playing the nation which they wanted)?

Nope, it's their own victim that will play the nation they wanted.