Espionage

In this last category of your command center you can enter the realms of the Secret Service. You can be assured that neither friend nor foe will always keep you informed on what they have in their minds. This makes it necessary to tap some inofficial sources from time to time.

New spies are recruited for 20.000 pounds.  

Spies can be sent on four different missions:

Intelligence mission:
A spy on an intelligence mission has the assignment to find out things of value for its sovereign. It is advised to do so without doing damage in order to draw as little attention as possible to its acting.
Spies that are on this type of mission have been observed of delivering the following information:

• Basic information about the province it is stationed in, including amongst others, the strength of the garrisoned army, the current tax revenue and resource production, what kind of building or factory output that province is currently producing and how long it will take to complete it.


• Information of armies nearby. These are rumours and inquiries the spy has picked up and conducted that include the different armies in a certain ambit and maybe even their orders.


• Information on the resources in stock of the spied at country including the requests and offers to the international market.


• Intercept comunications the spied at country leader has send or received during the past day.


• And one of the most valuable information, the whereabouts and names of the enemy’s spies.


• Gather information about the partially secret foreign relations of the according country leader. These includes intelligence information of which armies he can command or not.

Economical Sabotage:
Spies that are told to commit acts of economical sabotage have been captured trying the following:

• Convincing mayors of proper and important resource producing provinces to privilege army production instead of the so much needed resources.


• Stealing the whole tax revenue of a province.


• Sabotaging the province’s resource production by simply blowing it up.


• Or even decreasing the morale of the brave inhabitants of the province by some sneaky campaigns.
  

Military Sabotage:
Military sabotage missions include the orders to:

• Convincing mayors to privilege production of unneeded resources instead of armies.


• Delaying the production of buildings like railways, harbours and of factory productions.


• Damaging the fortifications of a province.


• Developing the above all wanted complete listing of all armies of the enemy and their locations.

Homeland Defence:
Spies have a certain chance to get caught if they are stationed on foreign territory. As sabotage missions involve a severe intrusion into the enemy's economical or even military business compared to mere information gathering missions, the chance to get caught for a spy on a sabotage mission is much higher than for a spy with an intelligence mission.

The chance to get caught increases significantly if a spy is delegated to work as counter spy. Placing a spy on your home soil will automatically make him work as counter spy on a homeland defence mission.

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