Spy Assignments

To give your spies an assignment, follow these steps: Step 1: Open the Espionage Overview by pressing its button at the top-right of the screen. Step 2: Press the “Move” button next to the agent that you want reassigned. Step 3: Select a city where you want to send your agent.

Spy Missions

Your spy’s assigned location determines their mission:

Spy Promotions

Spies come in three skill levels: Note: There’s a high chance of your spy getting discovered, especially on the turn they successfully steal a tech.
Higher levels increase their success chance and speed in completing missions. They gain a level if they’re successful in these tasks: Tip: Catching enemy spies is a much faster way of leveling up your spies than stealing tech. It’s also much safer, since your spies can’t be killed while doing counter-intelligence.

Replacements

Spies have a chance of getting “Killed in Action”. This only happens in either of these cases: If one dies, they’ll automatically be replaced by a new recruit around 5 turns or less.

Tenets

Spy-related tenets are available at the first level of all three ideologies:

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