| Edi |
February 18th, 2011 03:38 AM |
Re: Taking over territories with Assassins...
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Originally Posted by earwicker7
(Post 771367)
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Originally Posted by brxbrx
(Post 771363)
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Originally Posted by earwicker7
(Post 771354)
I think this is what was confusing me... I assumed that assassinating someone was unstealthing.
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assassinate and attack are two different things. the combat generated even uses different combat scripts
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Whoa... slow down, partner lol. When you say it uses different scripts, do you mean that the scripting you assign to your assassin in the normal orders screen isn't what it uses?
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No. what he means is that the mechanics of how Dominions runs assassinations are different from the ones it uses to run regular combats. I.e. to put it simply, the game has one script called "Regular Combat" and one script called "Assassination" and it runs the appropriate one for each combat. It has nothing to do with the combat orders of commanders.
As far as assassinations go, even the Abysian and other better assassins have a hard time against lots of opponents unless they have some equipment, mainly weapons. This is because an assassin with only length 0 or 1 weapons gets repelled too easily and can't get hits in and then dies.
I tend to use Abysian assassins in pairs, equipped with paired fire swords each, which can significantly increase expansion speed, especially when you have a scout along or lurking in the next province over. Two turns of assassination, then the assassins move on and the scout attacks the province, conquering it. You still have to be careful of tough opponents like cavalry commanders and barbarian chiefs. Elephant provinces can be risky, since they often have wizards. |
