[Pirateiam]

Originally posted by tinkthank:
OK thanks, will take a look. I played them and liked them a lot when I first got the demo....

PirateIAm: When you send out 8 equipped assassins in front of your army, and they only succeed say 50% of the time, isnt that like 400 gold + all that time down the drain? Is it worth it for you? Well it may be fun, so that's ok.
I have the worst of luck with Bane Spiders. I hate it when they die to measly little commanders, and they do so quite a bit when I use them. Sure the measly little commander may also die, but he wasnt a 150 gold capital-only unit which took me ages to get out there. Argh I wish I could use them B-Spiders better. Do you all have success with them? I tried the trick of having him take out indies; tried giving him a ring of breathing and going for neihboring water provs, but he gets licked by Tritons and only takes out about 70% of "normal" commanders at most. It seems he only has a great success rate against those 50g priest-types. Or am I doing something wrong?

If you equip with just a luck pend and anti magic pend - 15 astral your succes rate will significantly increase. Also do not use this tactic against any province (that is to risky) Only when your main army hits his main army. Even if you only take out 5 commanders it can push the balance to your side so when the main battle is fought you wipe out the rest. You can only use this as an ambush - maybe once or twice against a human opponent since most get smart and start adding bodyguards but it can make the difference. I had a Arco opponent that was mass communioning me to death but I used this technique just before I attacked and he lost all his communion slaves and I wiped his army out to the Last man. It saved my ***.