Gandalf Master of Lusitanian Misdirect

**Huberto** · February 24, 2015, 02:41 PM

Tried another campaign as Vandals was interesting migrating to Spain and then...a single spy showed up, just as I settled. He's still there after twenty five turns misdirecting, razing and disrupting each turn with wave of his wand.

Basically the whole game the Alemans have been stalking me, but when they brought 10 star Gandalf to my region, the game stopped being interesting. Armies have come and gone, empires changed hands, but the one constant is Gandalf. My six/seven/eight star spy ranked up assasination has failed to kill or even wound him in over twenty tries (out of about 25 turns). 35% chance of doing so each try. About 85% of the 25 turns Gandalf has achieved critical success in whatever he chose, killing seven of my generals, and misdirecting my army and more importantly my workforce EVERY turn. He was joined by three other agents who did some damage but were killed by my spy. Not Gandalf, dealer of disruption and death.

Eventually I just got bored and quit.

Bring on Warhammer -- I'm ready for Lizards and Wizards.

**I WUB PUGS** · February 24, 2015, 02:58 PM

I require a screenshot of this Gandalf. I want to share in the lolz.

**The Roman Republic** · February 24, 2015, 05:50 PM

Originally Posted by I WUB PUGS

I require a screenshot of this Gandalf. I want to share in the lolz.

Seconded.

**Totalheadache** · February 24, 2015, 05:09 PM

My vandals are going strong in Spain! Almost got the whole peninsula..

Any rogue agent has been swiftly neutralised. I also wield the power of Arnor

Did you try moving generals or changing traits? Maybe he has a certain fetish for someone...

**Huberto** · February 24, 2015, 06:58 PM

OK but his game name isn't Gandalf, I just call him that. It's ___ a Godlike name. OK just checked it's "Theodon" (son of Theos?).

Anyway despite quitting earlier out of mild annoyance and boredom I went back and the reboot seemed to do the trick. I wounded him on the fourth try after rebooting. This allowed me to finish some projects and get to colonize a second region. But he came back!

Sadly, he wasn't the same Wizard after his injury. Still impossible to kill but much less effective as if his wounds had dampened his ardor. He only wreaked havoc half the time he tried. I managed to wound him again after five or six more attempts and he's never come back. So I'm getting on with the game. Perhaps it was all a wizardlike statistical abberation?

**z3n** · February 24, 2015, 07:17 PM

what we need is the agent stomper feature from mtw2, where you surround the guy in a football huddle of armies then move onto him and he rip.

**Mhaedros** · February 24, 2015, 11:04 PM

Originally Posted by z3n

what we need is the agent stomper feature from mtw2, where you surround the guy in a football huddle of armies then move onto him and he rip.

That wasn't a "feature" as much as a "bug" though

If an enemy has an agent who truly never fails and my own agents can't touch him, I would probably opt for reloading and trying again. An agent that tampers with your army can ruin all the fun in a campaign if he succeeds too often, but luckily it hasn't happened in Attila for me yet.

**Humble Warrior** · March 04, 2015, 04:48 AM

Originally Posted by Mhaedros

That wasn't a "feature" as much as a "bug" though

If an enemy has an agent who truly never fails and my own agents can't touch him, I would probably opt for reloading and trying again. An agent that tampers with your army can ruin all the fun in a campaign if he succeeds too often, but luckily it hasn't happened in Attila for me yet.

Everything is just `reload` for some people.

I enjoyed huberto`s little AAR. Little things like that spice up a game. We often have our super agents killing everything. It`s nice to sometimes see the AI throw a monkey wrench in the works.

**z3n** · February 26, 2015, 09:15 PM

what are you talking about it was the best feature ever!

**Kamos** · February 26, 2015, 09:47 PM

You just didn't have time to assassinate everyone the old fashioned way.

**master88** · March 03, 2015, 05:56 PM

This thread really got me cracking up but I was having that problem too as HUNS when I attacked the ERE. They sent out a champion and by himself he almost decimated me. Deleted that campaign and did it over. I don't mind super killer agents, I just want a great chance in crippling their abilities so much they are useless or killed.

**WelshDragon** · March 03, 2015, 06:19 PM

I agree that leveled up agents are a little to OP in Attila. IMHO, agents should have good passive abilities, like converting the populace, creating dissension in an enemy province, training your troops, making your people happy, etc. But their active ability success should be pretty low in most instances. How aften in history did one guy bring an army to its knees outside of Achilles?

**geala** · March 04, 2015, 02:19 AM

Happened surely quite often. Frodo did it for example. Wait, that may be fantasy, too ...

**Jugurta** · March 04, 2015, 04:40 AM

I don't know if it was just coincidence but in my WRE game i found that using Champions to kill enemy agents is way more efficient, my spies are all busy lowering corruption anyway.