Favorite assassin

[Taqwus]

I'm fond of battlefield assassinations via mass-casting Ghost Riders when my Astral Windows or spies tell me a hapless AI pretender is out in the middle of a field away from a castle. Seriously, 'tho, Ethereal Stalkers are pretty nice if you can get them, albeit Chuzrael the Abysian Demonbred Slayer is much more entertaining.
A Heliophagus with a Black Heart and decent kit can also be unusually menacing, although not too stealthy IIRC. Black Hearts on high-stealth Glamour units could make for nigh-undetectable ones.
And if you allow mods... the Ashikagan Jonin, which I'm fond of prophetizing.

[PvK]

I like Succubi, since occasionally I get something interesting and useful besides just a dead enemy.

How about a druid scripted to cast Swarm, just for grins?

PvK

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by PvK:
I like Succubi, since occasionally I get something interesting and useful besides just a dead enemy.

Thats why I like Pandemoniums. 2 blood so they can cast "hellbind". If it works then you get a combat right after that of the commander fighting his own troops. If he was the Last commander then you watch his troops rout from him. You get the province and any equip the commander had.

Pans and Lord of the Hunt do almost the same thing. A combat follows the assassination as Maenads try to take the province. If you are using assassination for gaining provinces its at least TWICE as fast.

[PvK]

Nice techniques, Gandalf! Very nice... Hmm. So, if you wander through enemy provinces generating Maenads, the generated ones attack the province with no leader, and don't rout for having no leader?

What happens if you have a stealthy commander leading stealthy units, and that commander dies for some reason (such as a failed assassination)?

PvK

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by PvK:
Nice techniques, Gandalf! Very nice... Hmm. So, if you wander through enemy provinces generating Maenads, the generated ones attack the province with no leader, and don't rout for having no leader?

They rout also. But Maenads have a high morale. And even if both sides rout you know its safe to attack with the assassin.

I forgot to mention, even if there are more commanders there the maenad attack is a nice way to look at who is left for assassination. Sometimes my response is "oops" and move on.

What happens if you have a stealthy commander leading stealthy units, and that commander dies for some reason (such as a failed assassination)?

Hmmm I dont remember. I think they are lost as if they had routed to an unowned province.

[ May 07, 2004, 22:49: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
They rout also. But Maenads have a high morale.

Uh...what difference does it make if Maenads have high morale, if they automatically rout due to lack of commander?

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by Norfleet:

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Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
They rout also. But Maenads have a high morale.

Uh...what difference does it make if Maenads have high morale, if they automatically rout due to lack of commander?

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I dont know. But they do seem to stick around long enough to "win" the province fairly often when both sides are routing. Maybe its just luck of the roll and is in reality 50/50. Or maybe there is a difference in the timing of rout for attacker and defender. They just never struck me as starting their rout as early as the other side. Some tester could whip up something on a mini map and tell us.