Assassin strategies?

[Shovah32]

I can see this as a fun(and far too expensive for the effect, most likely) tactic for LA Ulm.
Get a blood economy running, get black hearts on those stealthy astral mages, use them to horror mark commanders in assassination attempts, with returning if possible.
Then comes the fun part: You send horrors at that province. Horrors who can home in on the now horror marked commanders - although marked and scattered bodyguards might distract them for a while.

[Taqwus]

If you really want to get evil with the horror marking, eventually you'd probably want to use Horror Seed. That's evil.

[Shovah32]

Its certainly a fun spell. But causing horrors to go straight for enemy commanders is just plain cool.

[Herode]

Last turn in the Victoria MP game, I set 5 ninjas with the assassinate order on a province held by Gath. Reading the messages coming with the new turn, I only see 4 orders computed, no news from the 5th one. Is there any limit on the number of assassinate orders by province ??

[BTW, this turn has also been my bad luck turn :
- earthquake on my capitol
- over the 4 assassinate orders processed above, 2 aimed a single standard commander (att 10, def 13) who defeated the 2 attacking ninjas (att 15, def 14) ]

[Endoperez]

If an assassin doesn't find a target, there's no message and no battle. Could that be the cause? PD commander's can't be assassinated.

[Herode]

Well, it depends on how targets are searched and found. I suppose all my five assassins could have found a target since the Commander who defeated 2 of my ninjas is still alive.
Is it possible for one single commander to be targeted more than twice in a turn ?

[Endoperez]

I quess so, since you said the same commander defeated two of your ninjas.

EDIT:
Addition to the above: it's probable that if assassinations can happen more than once, they aren't limited. It'd be extra work, at that point.


I'm not sure how assassins work, especially multiple ones. What if the assassin that did nothing targeted the commander that was successfully assassinated? With his target already dead, he wouldn't have anything left to do. I really doubt it works like that, but that might explain it.

[Gandalf Parker]

There is a helm that casts, armor that casts, weapons that cast, extra items that cast. I love to pile those on assassins (or seducers which I prefer over assassin)