Assassin

[Gandalf Parker]

I think assassins are very useful. For some nations they arent much more expensive than scouts so why use scouts?

I like to keep assassins on my borders. Some nations have commanders that lead large armies. You can often chop an invading army in half. If you use a couple, and immediately have a scout or something attack, you can often rout his units before he can purchase a local commander to save any.

And even if all you do is force him to get nervous, buy more pd, set a patrolling army in his back provinces, any of those can be a game factor. Some people are so locked into their strategies that just pushing them to do new things can throw them totally off their game. The more that people say that assassins, PD, stealth, seduction are useless; the handier I find them to be just for the shake-em-up factor.

I agree on the "summoning equip" thing.
I also like additional attacks such as dancing trident or stone dove or spirit helm.

[thejeff]

Originally Posted by Gandalf Parker

I think assassins are very useful. For some nations they arent much more expensive than scouts so why use scouts?

Because you can buy indy scouts, but assassins take up castle slots where you can recruit mages instead?

Originally Posted by Gandalf Parker

I like to keep assassins on my borders. Some nations have commanders that lead large armies. You can often chop an invading army in half. If you use a couple, and immediately have a scout or something attack, you can often rout his units before he can purchase a local commander to save any.

If, of course, he hasn't bought at least 1PD.
Splitting armies is useful even if you can't take the province with scouts. If he's got magical or undead troops and his PD commanders don't have the appropriate leadership a scout or slightly stronger attack might get them to vanish if you've assassinated their leaders.