Assassination n00b.

Tuidjy · #1 July 23rd, 2007, 09:21 PM

> My ex used late game assassins in Dominions II. I think I have a snapshot of her
> "creative" assassins somewhere.

In the Battlefield FFA game, I had this wench stealing my Arch Theurgs. She
eventually got paralyzed by a petrify, and chopped to bits by five principles.

Caduceus · #2 July 24th, 2007, 09:54 AM

I'm still laughing about an ex-girlfriend good at assassinations.

Thanks for that

Gandalf Parker · #3 July 24th, 2007, 10:53 AM

That does seem worrisome doesnt it?
My ex-girlfriend was good at using assassins in the games. Just fantasizing? or Practice?

Warhammer · #4 July 24th, 2007, 06:31 PM

Kind of related...

This 4th of July we had a party at the house. A friend had brought some watermelon and was looking for a knife to cut it with. He wanted the biggest knife we had, but my wife kept on giving him the small ones.

Finally, he said, "I want the knife that you would go after your husband with, if he was having an affair and you found out about it."

"Oh! You mean THIS knife!"

lch · #5 July 24th, 2007, 06:51 PM

Gandalf Parker · #6 July 24th, 2007, 07:02 PM

Did she throw it across the room and stick it in something? That would have been perfect to go with "this knife".

In my house a suggestion like that would be very dangerous. We have 3 throwers. And the house is full of fantasy blades from dagger to swords. Too many to properly display.

sector24 · #7 September 23rd, 2007, 11:32 PM

I'm ressurecting this thread because I started a game as MA C'tis and I'm having trouble using the assassins for anything other than very expensive scouts.

My first question is, what set of circumstances would you employ an assassin rather than a mind hunt/thug/SC/etc.? There are so many options in the game, and I'm just not seeing where the assassin comes in.

Second question, is it worth giving them any equipment to speak of? I think flying boots are pretty much required, but even then the empoisoner's from C'tis are not very successful. I got the national hero assassin, and gave him a longbow of accuracy and 2 +attack rings. He had 36 attack, and against an indy mounted commander, he fired two shots that either missed or failed their attack roll, then got killed in one hit.

If you don't equip your assassins I can't imagine what a viable target might be. For instance, anyone that can summon usually kills you, which is basically death mages, air mages, elemental mages with gems, etc. Against priests, I get smitten about 50% of the time but I guess those aren't terrible odds. I can kill most of the indy commanders (with the notable exception above), but if that's all the assassin is good for then they're not worth recruiting.

Then of course there's the problem of not being able to pick your target, so any nation that "could" have any of the above in the province is asking your assassin to take on a suicide mission.

Is there anyone with fairly extensive knowledge of assassination that would be willing to share?