What happen If I conquer nation that has my spy in jail?

[him_15]

As titled, I am playing as Germany and about to invade Poland, but my one of my operative recently just got caught there as well. So instead of wait and arrange for a rescue mission, would I be able to release him simply invading and defeating Poland? Thank you!

 

[Feeblezak]

Capitulating the country doesn’t rescue the spy. If you don’t rescue the spy before they capitulate, you won’t be able to get them back if the country has no territory on the map because you can’t build a spy network.

If you start the operation and they capitulate during it, then it completes as normsl.

 

[Duke_Dave]

Not sure what happened historically but I presume they were executed before capitulation.

 

[him_15]

That's bad, IMO capitulating any nation should rescue all spies caught there.

 

[markslawson]

I was under the impression that I got my spy back under similar circumstances. There was no game message he simply reappeared in the home country. However, it's no great loss, either way, in most cases. Just recruit another one. I only ever bother with collaborationist government and one seems just as good as another for that. Recommend taking the local training center upgrade to get a local. The worst case is if he/she is stuck in jail for an extended period.

 

[blue_yonder]

If she's hot, I rescue her. If not, I expect her to take her damn cyanide pill - but this has never happened, not once. And nor have I ever had a linguist acquire a second nationality..

 

[him_15]

Hi folks, I just found out that my captured spy become free after capitulating Poland. So yes conquering does work for this.

 

[Yanotoshi]

Would be perfect for a Casus Belli

 

[desphorin]

Capitulating the country doesn’t rescue the spy. If you don’t rescue the spy before they capitulate, you won’t be able to get them back if the country has no territory on the map because you can’t build a spy network.

If you start the operation and they capitulate during it, then it completes as normsl.

Hi folks, I just found out that my captured spy become free after capitulating Poland. So yes conquering does work for this.

Yea i think something has changed between patches. I had the same issue of not being able to rescue spies after capitulation in 1.9.0 or sth, but now in 1.9.3 it just automatically frees the spy.