The King is Dead!

[KoS]

In my recent Polish campaign, my sixty-year-old faction leader, Wladyslaw the Saint (the one you start out with), died at Antwerp after single-handedly destroying the Danes. How, you ask?

Assassination.



Only twice before has a general of mine fallen to a non-inquisitor assassin (both in Kingdoms; once in Britannia and Teutonic, respectively)... and even those times they were distant family members, not my leader or heir or even a good general. And a good commander he war - Wladyslaw had all four bars maxed out, including chivalry. It must have been a one in a million shot for that damned Imperial assassin, whom I clearly saw on his way back to Germany after his mission success in Holland.

Should I or should I not go after ze Kaiser and his Reich for this blasphemy? Or perhaps, to keep this alive, we could discuss times on which our generals have fallen to assassins. Is assassination by others towards you common or rare in your experience?

[TheTrueGreek]

you should return the favor to the godforsaken germans, show them how poland kills

[Iron Juggernaut]

HE MUST BE AVENGED!

WAR!

[Celsius]

Thats Germans for ya.

[Surgeon]

Kill them all! For the King!

In the M2TW campaign I usually always get my generals assassinated if I manage to grab a region in the ME or Africa. The Moors and Egypt just seem to adore assassins!

The worst case of assassinations I had was in the Kingdoms Crusades campaign where Assassins are UBER and have a 95% chance on just about any character bar VERY good generals and close family members, for which they usually have somewhere around 40% success rate! Spies won't save you there, you need to assassinate the assassins with your own assassins.

[Hader]

I dont usually get my guys assassinated....at least, not in about 75 years of play through a few campaigns. I am sure it will happen sometime though, and on like, my best general....dang assassins need to start working for me now...

[Shadow8]

one time i killed over eight egyptian kings in a row. turn after turn too.

[AWZC]

Killing the pope is fun...

[KoS]

Okay... it appears that it is the overwhelming opinion of TWC as a whole to pursue those damned Germans with all my Polish strength, and, after all, who am I to do anything but oblige?

For me, as I said, assassinations are extremely rare - it's barely ever happened, except for those three times, two of which were on Kingdoms and only once in Vanilla.

I, too, noticed what I believe somebody mentioned as to assassination success rates being virtually guaranteed in Kingdoms... perhaps this explains the rarity of this event's occurrence in my thirty months or so of play? :hm:

[mikil100]

Call a WAAAAGHHH

Pesky Germans.

Off topic, but you saying your leader single handedly killed the danes- I had a funny event where a ONE feudal knight charges into a generals body guard- got surrounded by them but kept using the charge emote to kill like 15 of the guard. was pretty funny.

[Djûn]

Incredible, I must say that throughout my entire 'career' in Rome and Medieval 2 I've never had my faction leader killed by an assassin. Although, this whole story reminds me of a fantastic little event which happened to me back in the sprite-filled days of Shogun: Total War. One of my ninjas who was far removed from my borders had been very unsuccessful in his attempt to gain honour such that I decided to send him on a suicide mission. After selecting an enemies Daimyo, I was pleasantly surprised to see a short cut-scene of my ninja nonchalantly leaning against a tree and firing a poison dart into the neck of the unsuspecting target!

I guess it just goes to show that 5%-ers can still come through now and again, only a matter of time... Worryingly enough!