Wheels within wheels

Diplomacy is one of the most powerful features in the world of Illyriad. You have a wealth of options available to your city if you spend a suitable amount of time building up a strong diplomatic force.

Alliance level diplomacy has the usual complement of relationships - from forming alliances and confederations, to non-aggression pacts (NAPs), and states of war and peace.

Diplomatic units on manuvers [Click to enlarge]

At a player level, city-to-city diplomatic missions can be dispatched to carry out an array of nefarious missions.


The usual options such as scouting military forces exist of course, but there are additional options to gather intelligence on your opponent's future plans, steal resources, sabotage enemy production and research - and even assassinate enemy commanders.

Counter intelligence

You can also perform counter-intelligence missions, insert double agents into an enemy's diplomatic corps and even slip 'sleeper' units into enemy cities who blend in to the fabric of your opponent's empire, until activated to perform their mission objective.

Should your agents be caught on a hostile mission there is a chance they might be interrogated to reveal who sent them on their mission. Advanced skills can be researched to prevent your agents spilling the truth, and in extreme cases they can even be instructed to blame another innocent player entirely!