Where did the assassins go?

[A-Mac]

I remember being able to buy somebody to death. where did that go?

[Hotzn]

You don't just hire an assassin. You need to plan an assassination as a "plot" under intrigue and then invite illoyal court members of the court where your target is located to support you. The more support you get, the higher the chances of success each year. But pick your supporters carefully - some might give the plot away, especially alcoholics.

[No.]

They removed it.

Currently, there are a couple viable options:
A) Court-packing, which basically means sending your treacherous -high intrigue, deceitful, greedy...- lowborn courtiers t your target's court, then buying them off and inviting them to the plot.

B) Use the Black Cat mod. It doesn't bring back the assassination button, but instead allows you to hire assassins which will ask for different ammounts of gold depending on the target's rank. The assassins will always have high intrigue, adding to your plot's chance. They disappear after two years, whether your plot succeeds or not. Just note that the AI will also be able to hire them if you use this mod, so it's a double-edged sword, especially if you have rivals with tons of money.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=329933326

[Ragnarök]

They knee-jerk removed it because it was both fun and one of the easiest ways to reset truce timers if you have a lot of disposable income. It really cut down the amount of time spent sitting on your hands late game, which was great. It was also nice to have a way to deal with stupid adventurers if you couldn't get the plot power high enough.

Instead of just doing the sensible thing and transferring the truce timer to the target's heir if the assassin was caught after the murder, they just removed the option and rendered the hook of one of their most enticing trailers inaccurate.

[DSShadow]

Well i like assasinate as pagans. Just killing my unwanted Gavelkind kids, so that my land would not be split =)

Assasinate for truce wasnt never my goal... To wait for truce-ending is a feature of this game.

[A-Mac]

Is there a mod that brings assassinate back?

[Varainger]

Originally posted by A-Mac:

Is there a mod that brings assassinate back?

Yes.
Search for assassination in the Workshop and you will find.

[markdb92]

you can add it back in by moding the defines.lua file.

[Peter Pan]

Are we talking about a different way to assassinate someone?

I've always used the assassination that requires plot power.

[jords321]

Originally posted by Ragnarök:

They knee-jerk removed it because it was both fun and one of the easiest ways to reset truce timers if you have a lot of disposable income. It really cut down the amount of time spent sitting on your hands late game, which was great. It was also nice to have a way to deal with stupid adventurers if you couldn't get the plot power high enough.

Instead of just doing the sensible thing and transferring the truce timer to the target's heir if the assassin was caught after the murder, they just removed the option and rendered the hook of one of their most enticing trailers inaccurate.

It was also removed because it wasnt fun for multiplayer. You could just keep killing someone over and over if you had enough money and there wasnt anything they could do to stop it

Originally posted by Peter Pan:

Are we talking about a different way to assassinate someone?

I've always used the assassination that requires plot power.

Yeah there used to be an option to 'buy' an assassination. basically you spent money for a chance to kill someone

[domuka]

long gone were the days when you could toss thousands of gold to kill a 1 year old, just for it to back fire and get your character killed...

[EmotionallyBroken]

Originally posted by A-Mac:

Where did the assassins go?

To a cave of virgins a long time ago in a patch far far away.

[EmotionallyBroken]

Originally posted by jords321:

It was also removed because it wasnt fun for multiplayer. You could just keep killing someone over and over if you had enough money and there wasnt anything they could do to stop it

just like real life