Assassination attempts

[Gurthang]

Are all assassination attempts anonymous? That is, is it possible to identify the nation prompting the attempt?

[Admiral_Aorta]

Both players get a thing saying who attacked who, so no they are not anonymous. However, at least some(maybe all?) remote assassination spells(like earth attack, manifestation) will have the attacker as belonging to 'Special Monsters' rather than any nation so they are anonymous.

[Torin]

Send hunter spider is also "anonimous". Special monsters black spider. Or a tupilak who also is anominous.

[Admiral_Aorta]

Well those do belong to special monsters but they're both nation specifc spells so it's fairly obvious who's responsible.

[Anaconda]

Well those do belong to special monsters but they're both nation specifc spells so it's fairly obvious who's responsible.

Except if they can occur as a random events also?

[Admiral_Aorta]

Those spells can't, there's only I think one assassination event and it tells you that it's an event in game, so they're quite distinct.

[Anaconda]

Really? In that case the anonymity doesnt make much sense?

[Admiral_Aorta]

That's just how the game does it.

[Soyweiser]

So, Anaconda are you saying CBM should make those national assassination spells available to more nations? *nudge nudge wink wink*

[Anaconda]

I was wondering why they are anonymous if there aint any kind of deniability, no matter how plausible...

[SsSam]

I believe making them potential random events would give more deniability than letting one or two other nations in the same age cast the spell.
You give Tupilak's to LA Mictlan and it doesn't help Atlantis deny culpability if Mictlan isn't also in the game.

For what it's worth I've had non-merc assasin Ninjas come after me when I was playing as Joman and I know I didn't send them myself.

[Admiral_Aorta]

Why would LA mictlan have tupilaks? I don't think there are many dead polar bears in the jungle.

[SsSam]

MA Atlantis fractures. Part of the culture goes to LA Atlantis and a small segment of it goes to LA Mictlan.

[Bat/man]

Rather than creating fairly ineffective assassins that can be traced back to the sender it would be better to be able to trigger those random game events...

Still, couldn't you do that by taking an anonymous spell like rain of blood, and chaining a remote summons like the jomonese (or other assassin)?

[Admiral_Aorta]

MA Atlantis fractures. Part of the culture goes to LA Atlantis and a small segment of it goes to LA Mictlan.

Which is irrelevant because MA atlantis doesn't have tupilaks either.