Covert Operations

Covert operations are secret missions run by your agents. Your chance of success depends on how many agents you have compared to the target. More agents give you a better chance. Keeping many agents also protects you, because it lowers the chance that enemy operations against you succeed.

Each operation also costs gold. The menu shows the price next to each one, and the footer shows how much gold and how many agents you have. You pay the gold when you send the operation. If you cannot pay, the operation does not run.

You may run only one covert operation that affects an enemy per turn. After you run one, the others are blocked until your next turn. Send Spy and Spy on Relations only gather information, so they do not count against this limit.

When an operation fails, your agent is caught and lost, and the target may be warned. The operations are secret, so the report the victim sees does not name you.

Each operation has its own topic. The bombing operations also need Bombers to deliver their payloads.

The Covert Operations menu appears during your turn, after the Attack menu. If you do not see it, turn on "Visit Covert Menu" in the Preferences menu.