Enemy assassin is really bugging me!

[Medieval Knievel]

I'm playing as England and about 10 turns ago a French assassin (I'm at war with France) parked himself just outside of Caen. So I quickly got the governor into a boat and sailed him to England for safety where I intended to keep him until the assassin moved on to somewhere else.

...Well, the assassin hasn't moved in 10 turns!!! I even sent an assassin of my own over to Caen to kill him but I only had a 25% chance of mission success. Needless to say my guy got killed. The French assassin is probably an even higher level now!

I have 3 questions:

1. What the hell can I do about this situation?

2. If I keep an assassin in Caen with my governor will it give him added security? I seem to remember that assassins in RTW could be used like this.

3. If I keep a spy in Caen with my governor will it give him added protection?

[Valiant.x]

Dunno about the spy, but keeping an assassin should help a little. The best bet is to pull your general out to the nearest settlmenet (Rennes).

[crazyj]

Good luck. Those French assassins killed my faction heir and family members in Rennes, Caen, Angers, and Bruges, in 4 straight consecutive turns.

[Medieval Knievel]

Good luck. Those French assassins killed my faction heir and family members in Rennes, Caen, Angers, and Bruges, in 4 straight consecutive turns.

Hence why I now have no family members outside of England. One was killed and I retreated the other one back to London.

My plan of action is to return the governor to Caen but take an assassin with him. Let the Frenchy have a pop at him and hope he doesn't die. Any better ideas?

[Spiff]

Use an expendable family member as bait, the assassin will likely have a low chance of killing him, and will hopefully get himself killed in the process.

[Fenris]

Yeah I don't know what the french feed their assassins, but damnit! They've killed 2 times my faction leader in 5 turns, and now they have assassins running all around. They're almost dead, pope hates them (0 star, but not excommunicated) and if I attack them the pope says he'll excommunicate me, the pope is from my faction and I'm full star with him... huh... Normally I'd attack and get excommunicated and the papal elections I would get one of my cardinal elected (I've got a wide majority of cardinals), but the pope is 43 years old right now...

[Lionel-Richie]

Milan has one of my cities literally surrounded by assassins...the spam is almost ridiculous. Luckily most of them are 0-3 skill and I keep high level spies in that city and use my assassins to pick theirs off

[SPARTAN VI]

Same, the milanese have two spies circling one of my settlements. No deaths by assassin just yet. I actually have two spies in the town they're camping by... just to keep disruptive spies out. I wonder if it has any effect on assassins.

On the other hand, my level 9 assassin is a killing machine. Two milanese cardinals and two milanese generals/family members have meet their end by my knife-throwing killer.

[Vann7]

Two are better than one ,use assasins in combos with another spy or assasins. I have a Master Assasin right now and a near master spy. i leveled both together . I send a spy to a low protected city ,then later send my assasin to sabotage a couple of the easiest building. move your assasin and spy to another city and do the same. by that time ,your assasin will have enough experience to kill rebels captains. priest or diplomats. use your spy on any enemy. to kill more powerfull enemies , i use two assasins +spy. if my assains fails a mission ,he always survive. or course if something goes wrong there is the save option.

[Medieval Knievel]

Well I sent my king over to France and I put an assassin with him to keep him safe. All that happened was that the French assassin kept trying for about 3 turns until he killed my king. The very next go my assassin got killed trying to kill the French assassin.

Did the French find a hidden crate of Asterix' magical potion?

...or course if something goes wrong there is the save option.

Now that's just plain cheating!

[FriendoftheDork]

I haven't had much difficulty with AI assassins. Only the french have bothered me, using about 4 of them repeatedly to kill one of my family (he was a weak one anyway). Then they mostly just stayed. I tried to kill their assassins but failed so I let them be.

What makes me wonder is that not one AI assassin has even been KIA'd... while I've had this happen to me pleny of times. If I didn't reload once in awhile I wouln't have had assassins at all.

[pero]

my suggestion, is train up the assassins and try to get rid of the enemy ones. And keep assassins with your generals to.