Sir Pirate King:
There are counters to agents--and not all of them listed by Clint in the
recent 'News from Bree". Every agent in the game can not disrupt my
economy, except by pure dumb luck. Routinely, as a FP I kill more agents
than they kill of my characters. Meditate on it awhile.
There are indeed ways to defeat agents. The primary being a mage power with access to a Curse artifact. Throw that out in FA where there are NO curse artifacts.
The other is countering and assassinating the agents. However, it is tough to have sufficient emissaries at your capital, every turn, to cover it should the agents come a calling. And, some people actually like to play a military game. In that situation, it is impossible to defeat an enemy where EVERY nation of the opposition took either +20KA or 2X ScoChar plus Name Agent 40 or better chance of stealth.
Now, if you have some way of defeating an enemy that has twice the number of assassins as your side, with a plethora of the enemy nations having agent SNAs, in an environment without curse squads, I'm all ears... Or eyes as this case may be.
And, "Hoping they aren't in a company and refusing cahllenge every turn" isn't much of an option.
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