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One of my favorite tactics to use when I'm a military kingdom is to use agents to trail my own groups with order #971. You get a recon every turn wherever they land which is useful in determining whether you should attack a pc or foreign group the following turn. Use level 4 agents to reveal masked groups and level 7 to get through ambushes.
Why order 971 instead of 691, because you can set 971 as a standing order if you keep your groups in the same region and not waste a recon order every turn.
Which also means that one of my favorite traits for the upcoming 3rd Cycle release is Trackers. Yes, it's not a flashy as some of the other aspects of the game but I just love that automatic recon every turn!
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I rarely use my agents that way, but I often wish I did! It's good advise.
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I just started a BL game. I will try this
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It'll be helpful info. I even use that recon info to determine how much extra food/gold that I'll get to spend in the turn.
Assume a 10% loss in food/gold production when attacking the pc (each is rolled separately but I assume a 10% loss anyway) then calculate having 90% of the newly acquired pc's food/gold added to your turn when filling out your orders. Or if you're really in a bind, parley (or cast the diplomacy spell) to avoid the food/gold losses to the pc but the more peaceful solution won't boot out any foreign emissaries at the pc which is good as well.
Having that recon info is more useful when you're on the attack against an opposing kingdom and need to know if there are any enemy wizards that need to be dealt with before you attack their group. You can estimate if your dispel magic will have a decent chance of success or forget it and cast kill leader/wizard or something else instead.
So I find that an automatic recon every turn wherever my groups are to be very useful when I play a military kingdom that's bent on conquest...
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