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: