Re: scripts during assassinations
I don't think that's why bodyguards can't fire. It's trivially easy to make assassins resistant to normal missiles, so only Illithids would be "too effective" bodyguards - but Illithids cost 50 gold apiece, and even then they can be resisted by high MR.
I think most assassins are too weak at the moment - they lose pretty quickly. They're somewhat effective against expensive mages that take no countermeasures against them (including bodyguards); relatively ineffective against normal commanders (too much of a crapshoot for the cost); and worthless against strong fighting commanders like Knights, Paladins, Minotaur Lords etc.
Unless you equip them with dozens of gems worth of magic items, in which case they still sometimes get killed and you lose that whole investment.
The ability to disrupt an army's movement if you succeed is good - if you succeed - but unreliable.
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People do not like to be permanently transformed and would probably revolt against masters that tried to curse them with iron bodies.
Pigs, on the other hand, are not bothered, or at least they don't complain.
-- Dominions II spell manual
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