

Stealing army/air force/navy blueprints just gets a 10% boost most of the time - not worth it for the cost. Sometimes you even steal a tech outright - it gets researched immediately. Stealing industrial blueprints can net you anywhere from a 100% bonus to a 300% bonus to even a two year ahead bonus with added buffs allowing a tech two years ahead to be researched in as little as 45 days. Ĭoordinated Strike is very useful for hurting an enemy navy, especially if they only have one state with any ports. The cost for such missions grossly exceeds the benefit - why dump a quarter of a million units of small arms and an equally huge investment in support equipment, as well as months of committing upwards of half your available civs just to prompt a revolt in one state that will quickly get crushed - never mind doing that in all the states of a large nation. If you're using them to suppress resistance pay attention to the coverage of each spy - there's no need to overlap and I don't believe there is any benefit from overlapping coverage.ĭon't bother with boosting resistance. However, once you capture any state a spy is based in the spy is sent home - they don't stick around. The coverage will help you when advancing through enemy territory, and will hinder their defense, planning and such. You don't need anyone in any dockyards to infiltrate the navy.

I think you need to have at least one person in an area with dockyards to infiltrate the navy - but I might be wrong about that. Making the network passive as soon as you have the percentage you need is important as it massively reduces the chance that your spy will be captured. Have at least one person tick up to 80+% and then put one spy on passive network and use the remainder for tech stealing, partisan suppression, network another country or whatever else I need them to do at that time. With a bit of effort and moving people around you should be able to blanket the whole country. So what I do is spread 3 or 4 spies around the country (normally Germany since I play UK) so they maximise the size of the network. As each spy works on a different area they build up their own network - if they are close enough they will all combine into one massive network.Ī single spy can keep a whole linked network running on passive but each area retains it's own percentage (not massively important since only the highest counts for missions IIRC).
