Assassination n00b.

[Maraxus]

Assasins:

You can recruit a simple assasin for (I think) 60 gold.
-> The assasin will kill around untill the first target is lucky.

Then you can equip an assasin with the skull earring, or have empoisoners.
-> The assasin will kill around untill some smart commander has some bodyguards.

Then, you can equip your assasin with the really expencive stuff.
-> The assasin will kill his targets, untill he runs into a province with good (~30) provincial defence and some patrolers.


Most of the time assasins simply don't pay off.

But there are situations...
Imagine the opponent attacking your border with lot's of commanders/troops.
Your assasin is in the province and kills one commander, who controlls half of the army. He is now warned and your assasin will have a hart time to kill another one but at this point, the other half of the army allready ran into your forces. Same with troops that have Mage support and then either the troops or the support fails to show up in the fight.

PS: And don't forget that the countermeasures agains a good assasin cost quite some gold/gems. If you manage to sneak up to an opponent research fortress, attack once or twice and then leave. He will likely raise provincial defence into the sky and summon some mean bodyguards, what means less defence/troops at your frontline.


Oh, iirc ... I think blood slaves made some really cheep chaff in Assasinations.