Assassins and the Trojan Horse

[BillSeurer]

I thought I had come up with a clever solution to the assassins taking out my archmages problem by using the Trojan Horse! Load them up, move to target and unload, reload when done. Cool! Only it doesn't work. They can kill them even inside the vehicle.

That's the way it does work but SHOULD it work that way?

I assume the same thing happens with ships, too. Can a normal unit attack another unit inside a ship?

 

[Demus]

assassins even target hawks loaded on hunters, so i suppose units in ships do get targetted yes.

 

[BillSeurer]

assassins even target hawks loaded on hunters, so i suppose units in ships do get targetted yes.

Hey, maybe THAT'S the solution to the "assassin problem". Station some guys with hawks with your mages. Assassins are always confusing birds with mages.

 

[JeffSteel]

Hmmm, seems like loading up four archmages with shadow 3 onto the Trojan horse would make for a useful fund-raising venture into rivals territory, heh.

 

[Ahriman]

Hey, maybe THAT'S the solution to the "assassin problem". Station some guys with hawks with your mages. Assassins are always confusing birds with mages.

Thats been the standard solution against assassins thus far....

 

[[to_xp]Gekko]

actually I think most people use workers to counter assassins. it's just as bad as hawks as far as common sense goes, the guardsman/assassination mechanic needs a tweak imho