Even in peacetime, merchants can be made to disappear, priests of a different nation found dead in their churches, and a seat on the College of Cardinals can become available. The assassin is usually used prior to an invasion, taking out military leaders, diplomats and buildings in order to put the target nation at an immediate disadvantage. One of the easiest ways to get the best out of your knife-man is to use in tandem with a spy – the latter steals into settlements and identifies a target, the former takes care of it. However, they can be either invaluable or a dead weight to your cause depending on how they perform.

A Note on Assassins and Faction LeadersĪssassins are perhaps the most violent of the agents, dealing directly with death.

Watch your back, though – there are all sorts of shady types here…

Buy him a drink, and he shall be happy to discuss business over a pint. For here is another useful man to be used in our quest for domination – the assassin. Now leaving the shady building he lives in, we must go slightly more up-market – a nice inn perhaps.

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