Real Covert Ops

Subatoi, you can always send a few feints to each city and a real attack to just one.  Additionally, you can send out assassins to target the city just before your army gets there.  There is a lot you can do.  This is, after all, a game that places a huge focus on strategy.  (IMO)

Subatoi wrote: What a coincidence, we have the ability to send scouts and spies, so are you suggesting to actively send scouts and spies around areas near your towns looking for armies? Otherwise the scouts or spies are just kicking it in your town at the tavern, waiting for someone to offer a bounty or quest, not keeping an eye out.

There is a level of in automatic management programed into this game to prevent its players from pulling out all their hair and going crazy.  If I had to send out 1k scouts a day just so I would have a report of being attacked, I wouldn't bother.  However, the Game is designed to simulate a Kingdom where spies and scouts are already in the field aiding in reports of incoming diplomats.

And the comment above about pathfinding is correct.  If this is coming out, and they leave out the information who is attacking from where, then diplos could intercept...  however, if pathfinding comes out and they do make this change - where is the realism?  How would you know (before sending scouts) that there was even an army incoming to scout?  I say: "Don't fix it if it ain't broken."

With Pathfinding will come interception, which will allow diploing a moving army? Seeing an army headed in your direction you can do that. That's actually how it is done. Knowing your enemies is the other part of this.

Does anyone know if the covert operations show up here:
http://elgea.illyriad.co.uk/#/World/HeraldAllianceMilitary

So what you are saying is,

Edited by Subatoi - 21 Mar 2012 at 02:16

JimJams wrote: It is working as intended. If it would work as you ask for, it would be about impossible to set up any defense against siege. I can assure you, you wouldn't like it...