🕵️ Espionage

Spy units reveal what a target owns before you attack. Whether an espionage succeeds depends only on one comparison: your espionage attack strength against the target's espionage defense.

Only the spy units in the target's storage defend. Units the target has moved into a spy squad do not count. Spy squads have no return trip: survivors are back in their squad right after the espionage.

What a report shows

  • Level 1: fixed defense and the units in storage. Units in troops always stay hidden.
  • Level 2: additionally the buildings (without the defense buildings).
  • Level 3: additionally the resources (money, stone, metal, fuel).
  • All numbers in a report are distorted by up to ±30%. Exact are only your own attack strength and the target's espionage defense.
  • A failed espionage always tells you the target's exact espionage defense, so you know how much you need next time.

What the target learns

  • Failure: a message that an attempt was repelled, with your attack strength.
  • Level 1 and 2: a message with a link to the same report.
  • Level 3: nothing.

Rules on most servers

Your strength in relation to the target's defense:

Your strengthResult
below 100%Failure, all units sent are lost
exactly 100%Failure, but your units survive
over 100% up to 200%Level 1
over 200% to below 300%Level 2
from 300%Level 3

Speedserver Season 1: staggered losses

On Speedserver Season 1 the levels are the same as on the other servers. But a failure no longer costs everything automatically: the closer you got, the more units escape. Chance decides the exact share within the range, at least one unit is always lost.

Your strengthResultUnits lost
from 300%Level 3–
over 200% to below 300%Level 2–
over 100% up to 200%Level 1–
exactly 100%Failurenone
70% to below 100%Uncovered5–30%
40–70%Uncovered30–70%
below 40%Crushedall
  • Example: 14 agents against a defense that is a bit stronger (80%). The espionage is uncovered, between 1 and 4 agents are captured, the rest return.
  • The report and the message show how many units were captured. The target sees it too.

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