Assassination n00b.

Jazzepi · #1 July 21st, 2007, 05:45 PM

If you're talking about the mind hunting spell, you need astral mages to catch them in the act. If you just have a handful of level 1 astral mages, it'll feeblemind almost all of their casters.

Jazzepi

Lazy_Perfectionist · #2 July 21st, 2007, 05:51 PM

Unfortunately, I have no astral access. So I need to know, is indie commander spam an effective way to waste their gems?

Actually, in hindsight, 2 pearls to attack one of my commanders without retaliation? Ouch.

Tyrant · #3 July 21st, 2007, 06:20 PM

Yeah, barbarian chiefs as padding does help since targeting is random.

Lazy_Perfectionist · #4 July 21st, 2007, 06:25 PM

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Micah · #5 July 21st, 2007, 06:45 PM

Indy priests are probably the best bet if you have the temples built already since they've got 13 MR, sacred upkeep and can actually contribute somewhat in combat with bless/banish. The 3 points of MR is the main selling point, since keeping your decoys alive is a good thing.

jaif · #6 July 21st, 2007, 07:40 PM

Isn't there a ring of warning that helps?

Jazzepi · #7 July 21st, 2007, 07:55 PM

That helps by giving you 10 bodyguards instead of 5 during an assassination attempt. Unfortunately mind hunt is not one of those, and it will not randomly pick a body guard. You have to recruit indy commanders if you want to not get hit by the spell.

Jazzepi

Ironhawk · #8 September 24th, 2007, 05:31 PM

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Lazy_Perfectionist said:
Thanks for the answers.

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Maraxus · #9 September 24th, 2007, 07:43 PM

Assasins:

You can recruit a simple assasin for (I think) 60 gold.
-> The assasin will kill around untill the first target is lucky.

Then you can equip an assasin with the skull earring, or have empoisoners.
-> The assasin will kill around untill some smart commander has some bodyguards.

Then, you can equip your assasin with the really expencive stuff.
-> The assasin will kill his targets, untill he runs into a province with good (~30) provincial defence and some patrolers.

Most of the time assasins simply don't pay off.

But there are situations...
Imagine the opponent attacking your border with lot's of commanders/troops.
Your assasin is in the province and kills one commander, who controlls half of the army. He is now warned and your assasin will have a hart time to kill another one but at this point, the other half of the army allready ran into your forces. Same with troops that have Mage support and then either the troops or the support fails to show up in the fight.

PS: And don't forget that the countermeasures agains a good assasin cost quite some gold/gems. If you manage to sneak up to an opponent research fortress, attack once or twice and then leave. He will likely raise provincial defence into the sky and summon some mean bodyguards, what means less defence/troops at your frontline.

Oh, iirc ... I think blood slaves made some really cheep chaff in Assasinations.

Burnsaber · #10 September 25th, 2007, 01:18 AM

One thing about assasins is also that they limit your opponent's chances at scripting his mages. Especially if you have "uber"-assasins who don't care about bodyguards. Suddenly scripting "Summon Earthpower, Army of Lead" is a dead sentence.

You can't believe how sad it is to see a Illusionist cast "Mass Flight" against an Earth Elemental. Or having Sauromancers cast "Leeching Darkness" against high hp assasins and killing their own bodyguards..