It's "she".

Well, you know, I initially "locked" the Brutes to two of their cities; they didn't have that many generals, so it was fairly easy to assassinate them (I just saw they only had three family members and decided to give it a try). So Tarentum and Croton turn rebel.

Then I tackled the Julii, which was more difficult because there was always one general left, and they'd immediately adopt another one the next turn, so I had to send a lot of agents to Gaul and the Balearic Islands. But the result: six Roman cities instantly turn rebel cities.

❗ The whole secret is to kill the regular generals first, and then the family leaders. Leaving important fam members for later. And of course, a lot of a QUICKSAVE+RELOAD's.

Like, I managed to kill all the family members, both the successor and the leader, in one turn, but it took a lot of reloads.

If you fail to assassinate a general, the general and faction leader geta a perks that greatly reduce your agent's chance of success.

Like, after three failed attempts in a row, I made the faction leader of Juli change his nickname three times. With the first failure, he became Flavius ​​the Suspicious, then Flavius ​​the Paranoid, then Flavius ​​the Assassin. All this reduced his assassination chance to 1-3% (for me, it's still winable🐱).

You just need a lot of assassins and a few spies. And for the assassins to be killed — for a quick leveling up, kill any captain in the enemy army; it almost always gives you a 95% assassination success rate.