Best Strategy in an Assassin

[General Vard]

I was wondering who has the best strategy for an assassin game?

[General Vard]

Come on! Someone must have a Strategy when playing an assassin game here!

[maniacmath17]

I'd say assassin games require the least amount of strategy of all the game types. If it's flat rate or no cards you pretty much are forced to start attacking your target early and just hope you kill your target before someone else kills theirs. Or you could get a continent bonus which will also help in killing your target, but usually the person that has you will make sure you never get a continent.

In escalating you can be a bit more secretive and just wait for a big cash and then get your target, but that's about it for strategy.

There are times where it's necessary to block others from killing a target in order to extend the game, but if you end up being the one throwing the blocks, it will probably get in the way if you getting your target.

[pancakemix]

Kill your target.

J/k. I would recommend paying attention to your surroundings. If you try to grab a territory to get a continent or something like that, make sure you don't eliminate someone on accident. For help with this, I would recommend stocksr's script here (requires Firefox). It tells you, among other things, who has what territories and how many they have left. And make sure, if you go on a mad dash to eliminate your target, not to leave someone else exposed. That could be a disaster.

[dominationnation]

I have a few main strategys. A) build up intill you have enough troops to really hurt your opponet B)If its escalating make sure that you wait to turn in your cards for the most oppertune moment. C) If you see that someone is about to be eliminated you corner him into a blind corner where he only has a few territorys. Then you set up a huge blocade making sure that no one can get to him.

But dont listen to me cause I suck

[Sgt. Drake]

The games that I've won in assassin, although I haven't played that many, have been the games that I've held on to a continent for a few turns. If you don't have the person who is targeting you constantly attacking your continent, you can quickly gain a bit of an advantage over the guys who place and attack their target.

[fireedud]

The game I've won in assassin was a three-player game in crossword.

The person who had me controlled more than half the board. SO I put one of my last remmaing armies in a country that had 1 border, the other person, my target controlled the border(he had two territories left including this). The person who had me attacked both of those territories letting me win.

[cjoe]

The only assassin games I've won have been with Sgt. Drakes strategy, although it's difficult, judging by the fact that I lost the rest. People tend not to use their armies to break your continent, unless it's your assassin.

[ParadiceCity9]

to be honest... ive just attacked my guy repeatedly and ive won a few somehow...

[Ham]

The ones Iv won Iv just captured a cont and then weakened everyone else where they arent to weak then when everyone thinks my target is someone else I unleash everything I have on my target.

[Velvecarrots]

I think the key in a 6 player assassin game is to attack as little as possible in the beginning.

If you start suiciding on your target from the beginning, your target won't have the strength to attack his target. That makes his target too powerful. In a three player game, that guy who is getting too powerful is targeting YOU!

In a 3 player game, I think you weaken both of your opponents equally, until you have a shot at eliminating your target. In big assassin games, I think you need to make sure nobody gets too powerful. And if you find that somebody else is too strong, you better eliminate your opponent ASAP!!!

But what do I know? I don't really play assassin.

[KennyC]

I can tell you what doesn't work...

Being super agressive from the first move and going directly after your target will just make you an easy kill. That being said lets look at some of the things I've learned (although I am hardly an expert on these games).

By the 4th or 5th round you can start to see who is targeting who, use some logic to figure out who is targeting you. One of my big mistakes once was giving my enemy easy access to my troops in an attempt to get my troops closer to my target. So the lesson is try to keep yourself seperate from your enemy.

I think people tend to naturally become too agressive in the first couple rounds of this game. If you sit back an use a typical standard game strategy for the first couple rounds you should be in good shape to go for a kill when the cards come out.

[robbart]

After an assessment of the board, you can usually tell how hard or easy it will be to take our your target. I enjoy assassin games, and do win my fair share.

If your target happens to be close to you, then it's easy. Just take out his armies as fast as possible. One or two territories per turn.

If he's too spread out, then it's beneficial to try and grab land, going for bonuses, while keeping yourself from being targeted because you're too weak to defend yourself.

Secrecy is of the utmost importance, though.

Once your group gets wind of who YOUR target is though, if you are too quick, they may move to block.

I find that sometimes it's necessary to use a feint or two so it's not certain who I am targeting. If you can take at least 2 territories a turn, and sometimes your attacking someone else, it's not obvious who your target is.

[radiojake]

i won my only assassin game (as far as i can remember) when someone else took my target out --

easy

i don't play them normally

[chessplaya]

ummmmm , i am not good at all in assassin and neither of u guys helped me out i think all of u play the assassin game in a bad way....nobody understands its concept i am judging from every1's reply not that i have a strategy for it .. but ur strategies just didnt give me the feeling that i can win an assassin game relying on them

hopefully some1 out there will help me improve my assassin play and help every1 in here cuz we all r in need