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No, only up to the "unrest" number. It looks to me like Defense (or maybe just a higher random chance per province?) also gives patrols that can catch sneakers in Doms II. At least, I see many more scouts being caught in provinces without patrols (both AI and my own), than I did in Doms I.

BTW, my dragon pretender has devoured a few earth mother pretenders, without using special equipment. "They're talon-lickin' good" (tm). They were AI mothers though so they didn't have wicked equipment, and I think they may have had afflictions from sitting on my armies before the dragon arrived.

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