Best way to play C'tis Miasma?

[Alneyan]

You don't know how many commanders are left, unless you attack the province (before or during the assassinations): you will then be told that you need to kill X commanders.

Once all commanders are dead, a scout is enough to take the province, as the enemy will rout right away.

[Agrajag]

Also, if one of your assassins has been ordered to assassinate but there was no assassination attempt, you know that there aren't any commanders left.
So, if you have two assassins assassinating in a single province, and one of them assassinates a commander and the other doesn't, you know for a fact that all commanders are dead.
You should notice though that assassinating commanders only works well against indies, because a normal player (or AI) can use his PD to make your assassinations useless.

Wow, so many S's in a single post :O

And, a funny quote related to assassinations: http://www.bash.org/?73185

[thejeff]

Strange, I haven't lost Empoisoners to any mounted commanders. No items or anything. A priest with bodyguards killed a couple, but fell to one with a skull staff and Raise Skeletons, as did Amazons.

Mounted commanders didn't seem to be able to reliably kill a skeleton per round. Sometimes they would, but often enough they'd fail.

[thejeff]

Of course, after posting that, I go home, play one turn and lose my next empoisoner to a mounted commander. When will I learn to keep my mouth shut.

[PDF]

Agrajag said:
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You should notice though that assassinating commanders only works well against indies, because a normal player (or AI) can use his PD to make your assassinations useless.

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What do you mean ? PD is useless vs Assassination, the PD leaders aren't targeted. Having a high PD helps discovering assassins, but you can't really count on it.
My preferred trick with any assassin (or even scouts !) is to give them a Black Bow and try to find the big enemy mages [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Cold.gif[/img]

[Alneyan]

I guess he means nobody will take one of your provinces with assassins alone, because of that PD. It's not quite correct though: an assassin doing a normal attack against 1 PD should win without trouble, and you will not always want to put PD in your provinces (if you plan on defending the province with a lone commander).

[Jurri]

The PD commander will also command any troops left by the proper commander. Thus it's not quite as simple to rout enemy armies with assassins if the armies have PD to support them. If the troops are undead/magical and the PD commander doesn't have the corresponding leadership this isn't an issue, of course.

[Agrajag]

PDF said:
What do you mean ? PD is useless vs Assassination, the PD leaders aren't targeted.

What I meant was that because PD leaders are immune to assassinations, you can't take a none-indie province merely by assassinating all the leaders and marching over with a scout, since the PD commanders will be there to lead the troops.

EDIT: And just now I notice that everyone else explained it for me, exactly like I meant it. Silly me for not seeing there is a third page.

[shovah]

i got 8 emposoners with skull staffs and talismans casting the spell that gives like 5 skeletons, the talisman is mainly to help vrs archers/flyers. my empoisoners did a huge amount of damage. also, can u assasinate while u r besieged? that would b fun with miamasa and high def fort. also i cant find any advantage to take the dark fort over mountain fort. same price but dark is faster to build and stuff

[quantum_mechani]

shovah said:
also, can u assasinate while u r besieged?

Yes.