Bug in quest "follow spy and take him prissoner..."

[SnoeiSchaaR]

Ok I got this quest from King Harlaus, he told me that someone in his city was informing the enemy of Swadian strategys etc..
I must follow him and when he meets his contactperson I should capture them both and bring them as prissoner.

Sounds easy right 
Well the spy stopped by a friendly village and just stands there (for 4 days already) and I didnt saw anybody approaching him..
And when I try to enter Praven again the city is invested with bandits, there are no town guards, townsman, etc
Also all doors are locked 

Anyone else had the same prob?

 

[Marche]

You might be to slow. I had saved right before doing the Quest, as I didn't fully understood it. I noticed that when I went after the Spy the Party has 8 men in it. When I disbanded my Party I was a lot faster with traveling and when I followed the Spy I noticed he had 9 men upon arrival. There was another suspicious man in it (Well. They have some weird name at least). After a while he leaves and you're to late. It seems the Party will stay at its meeting place without the extra suspicious man.

 

[Shoelip]

The spy is named something like Ordinary Townsman and leaves alone to join a small party with another character named similarly, and a bunch of bandits, however, the spy usually leaves the party really quickly and vanishes.  I was only able to get there in time to capture both by using the ctrl-t cheat and then the ctrl-left click cheat.

 

[Lizard_man]

i completed this quest, i had also saved straight away after been given the quest, then i seen somone get away at high speed, i waited in the town waiting for someone to point out the spy, wasnt happening, i reloaded my save game and set off in the general direction of the spy, couldnt find him first time, but eventually did, i reloaded my save game again and went to the spot, i attacked them but only managed to get one and so i waited and no one else came, i reloaded my save game again went to the spot, i moved my army pretty close to the spy and the contact broke off from the spy, lookely i was close enough to them both to capture them as the contact was travelling faster than me, hope this helps

 

[digitalstk]

This quest is very difficult to do in one try, and impossible if you have a slower infantry party. Also, it requires at least 1 point in prisoner management, which I never get if I play infantry. I always turn this quest down since there's also no penalty in relations for declining it. Would be nice if they gave you more time to catch the spy.