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Originally posted by johan osterman:
Isn't really much of an issue with just having a sneak unit in capital, since indep scouts are plentiful, and if it were an expenisve sneaking mage wouldn't answer the problem anyway.

well the main problem is that in BoH Abysia can only produce assassins in the same province as his good mages and priests. I concur that for spying indep scouts would be fine.

Not that I am against the idea as such, but for the assasin/bloodmage to use his magic in battle he requires bloodslaves, and it would look a little funny when the assasin mage performs his assasination with his harem of nubile young bloodslaves tagging along.

I thought of that, and discarded the fact as of few importance. Because in dom1 we have already blood commanders which are used as assassins, and nobody find that they have slaves attached silly (heliophagus as deluxe assassins with black heart), and most importantly because I think that the 'realism' is already detrimental enough in some game features (too low growth rate partly because of realism, just an example)