wolfthe3rd
Legionary
posted 22 October 2008 02:52
EDT (US)
2 / 22
I've taken out a handful of faction leaders in my time mainly barbarians but i think one of the most important was the egyptian pharoah i think
ShieldWall
Legionary
posted 22 October 2008 05:16
EDT (US)
3 / 22
I don't know about a single pivotal assassination, but I once did a whole string of them against the Julii and put them out of the game because of it. I was Greece, working my way up through Italy, and the Julii hadn't many family members but controlled a lot of Gaul, which I didn't want to get involved with at the time. So, how to make those cities rebel? I got a pair of assassins and they slashed and stabbed their way across the map, a few I bribed, most I just killed. It got a bit complicated because the Julii were replacing the family members almost as fast as I could kill them. But finally I narrowed them down to just three. The heir I besieged and killed in a town, the leader and final family member I cornered in the open and killed in the conventional fashion. No more Julii.
Brutiangodofrock
Legionary
posted 22 October 2008 15:21
EDT (US)
6 / 22
I have had all the family members of the S.P.Q.R assassinated, eventually. I sent almost numberless amounts of assassins at them from Patavium and Mediolanium ( i was Britannia and the Julii had huge stacks in their last 2 cities so i didn't want to bring my armies in yet and i wanted to take Rome as there weren't many cities left i needed (having taken all of Europe except Italy and started into Asia.) So i tried to kill all the family members to make it rebel, sent loads and loads of my assassins to it (who knows how many died!) and it succeeded and the Julii attacked it the turn after, lost and tried again, and won meaning both Arretium and Ariminum were pretty much defenseless and Rome has about a Half Stack. No match for my Chosen Swordsmen and Heavy Chariots. It cost loads to get all those Assassins and it probably would have been cheaper to get a few armies and destroy Northern Italy but once i started i HAD to continue.
remulu
Legionary
posted 22 October 2008 20:54
EDT (US)
8 / 22
well,its not the most important assasination I have ever acclomplished but as sassanids in RTW:BI I had an assassin which I decided to randomly send against the Eastern Romans...he had a 5% chance of succeding and somehow on the first try he got the general:P...it ususally takes a horde of crap assassins with 5% chances to kill any generals:P:P
Andalus
Legionary
posted 23 October 2008 07:47
EDT (US)
10 / 22
I do that as well. Especially if I am about to attack the faction in question, and I want to avoid them getting some new units for which they have just built the relevant building.
But I am more of a spy spammer myself: I flood the map with spies. If I am at war with a faction, every one of their cities will have at least one spy inside. As will my neighbours' cities.
Legioner
Legionary
posted 23 October 2008 09:16
EDT (US)
11 / 22
It's not in RTW, but in MTW1 I managed to kill Mongol king in first turn, making all mongols rebels before their first turn.
Legioner
Legionary
posted 24 October 2008 01:32
EDT (US)
14 / 22
"I did a test before to see was it possible to assassinate a faction into obliteration and new family members will spawn to replace the ones you've killed as they get low on knife fodder. I didn't get to check what happens when you kill them all in the same turn though."
In MTW1 it worked just by killing the Khan himself. It happened some years ago though so I can't remember details, if he hadn't heirs or so.
Andalus
Legionary
posted 24 October 2008 10:29
EDT (US)
15 / 22
He didn't have any heirs when he appeared, so yes, you could do that just by killing the Khan.
Meyerk
Legionary
posted 02 November 2008 07:35
EDT (US)
16 / 22
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I did a test before to see was it possible to assassinate a faction into obliteration and new family members will spawn to replace the ones you've killed as they get low on knife fodder. I didn't get to check what happens when you kill them all in the same turn though.
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I did this against Pontus and the Seluceids for like 50 years continuously. Eventually, they stop spawning, and they'll go rebel. Also, knocking off that 10-star, 10-anvil, 10-wreath general, and replacing him with a 3-star drunkard is nothing to sneeze at.
Shaunus
Legionary
posted 03 November 2008 10:24
EDT (US)
18 / 22
I had an assassin in Italy, I had my armies being retrained constantly in the nrothern cities of Italy, (I was a barbarian tribe, can't remember which one) and the battles with the Jullii were pathetic on both fronts. They owned Caralis and Palma, and occasionally either Segesta or Arretium. I had armies being built up and when Jullius landed a large army fresh from either Caralis or Palma the battles always ended with a scarppy victory for one of us. It couldn't continue, for either of us. Although I was unable to build a navy large enough to land an army of either Palma or Caralis, I managed to get a spy into both, which told me they had always two generals, and although I was frequently killing the men of the hour they invented whenever one was killed,, they kept alive this way. So I had to call upon a 76 year old assassin, who was the best ever, and did the job, and a lesser assassin bumped of the new general (the gerneral the julli had as their leader already had a big security presence dispite being the leader of the Jullii). So, Jullii gone, we went on to take Italy.
mintico
Legionary
posted 03 November 2008 15:13
EDT (US)
19 / 22
when i was playing as the julii, i had this one assassin filled with full points subterfuge. He's so reliable because i use him to kill gallic, britons and spanish generals. He even manage to kill a few scipii and brutii generals. After he died, due to old age, my empire had difficulty progressing.
Shaunus
Legionary
posted 06 November 2008 08:53
EDT (US)
22 / 22
It's the Romans that you have the hardest times with when trying to assassinate them. You always get to the point in the campaign where you've got armies massing in Northern Italy, probably own Mediolanum and Patavium, threatening the whole of Italy, but no matter how much assassinaating you do, they always respawn a new family member immediately after the last one was murdered. Even their diplomats are hard to get at.