Assassin strategies?

[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.

[Shovah32]

Its certainly a fun spell. But causing horrors to go straight for enemy commanders is just plain cool.

[Herode]

Last turn in the Victoria MP game, I set 5 ninjas with the assassinate order on a province held by Gath. Reading the messages coming with the new turn, I only see 4 orders computed, no news from the 5th one. Is there any limit on the number of assassinate orders by province ??

[BTW, this turn has also been my bad luck turn :
- earthquake on my capitol
- over the 4 assassinate orders processed above, 2 aimed a single standard commander (att 10, def 13) who defeated the 2 attacking ninjas (att 15, def 14) ]

[Endoperez]

If an assassin doesn't find a target, there's no message and no battle. Could that be the cause? PD commander's can't be assassinated.