How does Counterspying work with multiple spies?

In Civilization 6, when you assign spies to counter-spying, you're prompted to choose which district (or city center) to assign them to. The spy then defends that district and any adjacent districts. You can have multiple spies in the same city, each assigned to a different district.

What happens if an enemy spy attempts a mission within range of multiple defending spies? Specifically:

Do multiple spies provide more defense than one spy?
Which spy gets credit/experience for catching enemy spies?

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Best Answer

Do multiple spies provide more defense than one spy?

In a way. It's not a matter of the defense (i.e. catch chance) going up, but rather that the enemy spy has to do two dice rolls, one for each spy.

Which spy gets credit/experience for catching enemy spies?

Whichever spy's roll caught the enemy spy. However, it is unclear to me which spy gets to roll first - it seems plausible that this is based on who was assigned to counterspy first but I have no confirmation on that.

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How many spies can I have Civ 6?

The maximum number of Spies a civilization can have is 5 in Vanilla and 6 from Rise and Fall onward. Catherine de Medici can have one more Spy than normal (6 in Vanilla and 7 from Rise and Fall onward).

How do you counter spies in Civ 6?

To earn experience, spies need to perform successful offensive operations in other cities or capture enemy spies while counter-spying in their home civilization. There are many different missions spies can take on and they are dependent on what districts are in the cities they will be entering.

How do you build spies in Civ 6?

Once you have earned an envoy the game will prompt you to send your envoy to a city state. You can pick what city to send your envoy to. You can send envoys to all the city states you have discovered.

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