Re: Assasins
Pangea has a number of units I have fun turning into assassins with the heart. (at least in DOm 1 unless some fixes happened I havent tested) Some interesting tactics show up....
Such as using a Pan as an assassin. Expensive mage but it has some interesting bonuses. If you use an assasin now to take independents you need an army nearby to take the province. Its guesswork on when to attack. But if you have a Pan (with no maenads assigned to it) then maenads will appear and go to the bar to be assigned to a commander later. But they arent stealth so there is a fight. What this means is that the Pan will do an assassination, then a few maenads will attack the province. Basically they test the province automatically every turn. Repeat until all commanders are dead and the troops flee from the 3 or 4 maenads.
The same thing occurs in a different way if you use Pandemoniacs. With their blood magic they can cast "hellbind heart" as their first couple of actions in an assassinaton. This worked fairly often in turning the commander to your side. Of course the commander was usually not stealth so what followed was an immeadiate battle in that province between that commander and the units he used to fight with. Continue until the Last commander wins the province for you, then capture more slaves and move on.
[ December 10, 2003, 15:27: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]
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