


Not only do theaters provide little else the role rakes play on the battlefield can usually be filled just as well by researchers which you will already be producing. Building theaters to increase your production of rakes is a very bad idea. This means that rakes in general tend to be relegated to the more reliable role of scout, where they move into enemy territories to reveal what the composition of standing forces are then move out. The chance of rakes successfully completing most missions is quite low, in the range of 30-35 percent. Rakes can undertake missions to sabotage opposing structures or assassinate opposing gentlemen. Rakes are the eighteenth century equivalent of assassins and spies. Rakes are spawned in villages by theater buildings.Duels are often, but not always, fatal and generally are far more likely to succeed than assassination attempts by rakes. Researchers can also move into enemy territory where they can duel other gentlemen or attempt to steal technology by moving to an opposing school.

If you move a researcher to a school they will contribute research points to the technology being researched. Researchers are spawned in region capitals by observatories and are the most valuable type of gentlemen.There are three major types of gentlemen:
