assasination question / blood in the very long run question

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Boron:
an assasination attempt is a battle where you can't retreat right?

You can retreat, but if you do, then you will be killed. You must set your assasins to orders other than retreat or they will be killed as soon as they leave.

but if you set your assasins orders on retreat will he then assasinate an enemy commander when you give him the assasination command but if he is discovered by pd or patrolling troops retreat in another province ?

He will attempt to retreat to a friendly province if patrolling units catch him. If he makes an assasination attempt then he will retreat and be automatically killed.