Ambush

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Ambush
Command information
GP Cost 10 to prepare, 10 to launch, and 10 per hit attempt
Learnt At 60 covert.items.weapons & covert.stealth
Skills Used Covert.items.weapons & covert.stealth
Items Needed N/A
Guild Available to all

Ambush is a covert command that will prepare and execute a covert attack.

You must prepare the ambush while your target is not in the room. In contrast, backstab is a similar command that can attack someone you're not fighting without having to prepare.

It has been announced that GP usage to prepare ambush has been reduced and execution now depends on the number of hits attempted.

The ambush command has changed on June 2 2011 to make the number of attacks independent from the type of weapon or specials it has. It is said to instead use other properties of the weapon for the difficulty of the skillcheck that determine how many attack attempts are made.  research If this has been marked on a page, it's because there was something that probably isn't known, that the person who edited the page thinks could be found out. Perhaps you could figure this thing out, and be famous evermore. 


Acquisition

Ambush can be learned at 60 levels of covert.stealth and covert.items.weapons from the recruiter in any thief guild (for thieves) or from an assassin instructor (for assassins).

The Thieves' Guild does not teach covert.items.weapons above 50 levels, but this can be bypassed by advancing covert.items.weapons to 50, then advancing covert.items by 10.

Use

The attack must be prepared while a target is not yet in the room by entering ambush, which takes you into hiding. Then, when a target enters the room, you can ambush <victim> to execute your attack. You must already be lying in ambush when the target enters the room; attempting to ambush a target who was in the room the entire time will result in a failure to attack. Upon executing a successful ambush you get up to four attacks.

An ambush can be prepared in an adjacent room during a fight using abscond <direction> and ambush.

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