[Soyweiser]

Amorphous, first line of my first post explains it it all.

You can try to bait me into saying that sometimes assassins are useful after all, but I clearly already said that. The rest of the time I just tried to explain my reasoning behind it.

I tried to explain that cap fort turns esp in the early game are very useful. So useful that most of the times it is suboptimal to recruit assassins over something that can research. Each assassin you buy is of research turns and site search turns you do not perform. Which is only useful if the assassin removes more of these research turns from the enemy.

I basically said all I can say about it without going into a huge post explaining turn advantages. Which is a bit hard to explain.

The only viable strat I really see for assassins is the one Fantomen mentioned.