Assassin strategies?

[zlefin]

One thing i mean to try some time, if you're using a bless strategy, is putting shroud of the battle saint on assassins.
shroud is quite inexpensive as items go, and if you have a good dual bless, it should up the assassin's killing quite a bit.

[Agrajag]

With the eyes you can maybe understand that they can insert themselves into the mage's eye without his consent, but the hearts' description explicitly says that the chest wound is the result of "crude surgery"
and not the heart implanting itself into the "victim", so unless the heart is also a surgeon and has appendages and at least some knives and a sewing kit, it's harder to imagine it flying into your chest.

EDIT: manually inserted a linebreak to improve readability since the thread has been stretched by an unruly link.

[sector24]

Sorry about that, should be fixed now. I had to use the awful search function to find the post, and it adds tons of extraneous junk onto the URL.

[Dectilon]

How about a team of stealthy mages casting horror mark? : D

It might not be immediatly effective, but eventually that god (or whatever) is toast!

[Taqwus]

Dectilon said:
How about a team of stealthy mages casting horror mark? : D

It might not be immediatly effective, but eventually that god (or whatever) is toast!

Not particularly efficient, but perhaps an option for R'lyeh -- both through Star Children, and through Dreams of R'lyeh (hmmm, can one do a Returning from the dream? Repeated 'dreams + horror mark (x4) + returning' would be expensive, but it would also be irritating, and deliciously evil).

[Shovah32]

I can see this as a fun(and far too expensive for the effect, most likely) tactic for LA Ulm.
Get a blood economy running, get black hearts on those stealthy astral mages, use them to horror mark commanders in assassination attempts, with returning if possible.
Then comes the fun part: You send horrors at that province. Horrors who can home in on the now horror marked commanders - although marked and scattered bodyguards might distract them for a while.

[Taqwus]

If you really want to get evil with the horror marking, eventually you'd probably want to use Horror Seed. That's evil.

[Foodstamp]

Agrajag said:
With the eyes you can maybe understand that they can insert themselves into the mage's eye without his consent, but the hearts' description explicitly says that the chest wound is the result of "crude surgery"
and not the heart implanting itself into the "victim", so unless the heart is also a surgeon and has appendages and at least some knives and a sewing kit, it's harder to imagine it flying into your chest.

EDIT: manually inserted a linebreak to improve readability since the thread has been stretched by an unruly link.

Umm, Sombre has already covered how such things happen. A wizard did it.