Vengeance of the Dead makes me angry!

[Bananadine]

Huh, that does fit my experience better. Maybe that's what the people in the other thread meant about losing the defender at round 75. I'd thought they meant autokill, but routing kills the defender almost as reliably as autokill, when the attacker can "rout" without fleeing or dissolving.

I'd been thinking this could become significant in ordinary assassinations too--if the defender was killed at 75, then the attacker would only need to keep them still until then in order to succeed at assassinating. But the attacker routs at 50, so that wouldn't really work unless the attacker were berserk or unconscious. So, you could send in an Abysian Slayer with a barkskin amulet and... oh boy it'd be hard to keep the target still, when the assassin must also be unconscious in order to succeed! But maybe a berserk assassin could succeed by this rout. It'd be pretty sketchy though. I guess this is why I never heard anybody complain about defenders automatically dying at round 75 during assassinations... except in the context of Vengeance of the Dead, where the attackers never ever give up.