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[Millie]

Originally Posted by Furism

Assassins are pretty cool in Rome once you get them to level 6+. On higher difficulty levels, diplomats will try to corrupt your generals on a regular basis. With an Assassin around, you coul keep your Empire together.

Also, you should always use an Assassin in association with a Spy, so he doesn't get caught by an ennemy spy. And, well, killing a General is always a good thing since it makes the morale of the opposing army waaaay lower (so even their high end units will flee at some point).

However keep in mind two things : from my (short) experience with Assassins, their success chances cannot get higher than 95%. And from the 5% chances of missing, you've got 20% of chances that your Assassin will get caught and executed. I can tell you it hurts a LOT when you loose a level 11 Assassin when trying to kill a crappy diplomat you had 95% of chances to kill (think critical miss...).

As well it should be. Shogun was totally broken by the all-but-guaranteed success of a high level Geisha when attempting to assassinate any unit in the game. I'm glad they at least left some margin of error in Rome, be it even as slim as 5%.

No assassin unit should ever have a 100% success rate. Otherwise, what's the point of the rest of the game?