Improve assassins - Page 5

Hadrian_II · #41 November 28th, 2008, 04:01 PM

I think the problem with Assassins is the opportunity cost, as every assassin costs you a mage. If assasins would have minor magic, and sane pricing, they could be used for research so there would be more recruited assasins and more use of them. Or that in castles you can recruit a mage and a non magic commander per turn instead of only one commander.

Gandalf Parker · #42 November 28th, 2008, 04:17 PM

Hmmm Im not sure Id consider it always a better choice than mage for the money either. Altho I can see that point if its a castle-only assassin.

HoneyBadger · #43 November 29th, 2008, 03:19 PM

If it's capital-only, like EA Abyssia, the assassin becomes particularly superfluous.

Loren · #44 November 29th, 2008, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Illuminated One

One nice addition to assassin would be if they could give you some info on the commanders present in a province like spies do with armies.

Yes--I would like to know what targets if any are present!

lch · #45 November 30th, 2008, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Hadrian_II

Or that in castles you can recruit a mage and a non magic commander per turn instead of only one commander.

This has often been suggested before, but I don't think the idea is that good. It would make nations with assassins probably have a crazy advantage over those who don't. I usually have a fort during mid-game where I didn't build a lab due to the lab cost and because it's on the front where I don't want to have a research basis, that's what I use to recruit non-mages.

JimMorrison · #46 November 30th, 2008, 12:34 PM

I don't think it would be that big an advantage, most of the more dangerous assassins have magic, so would fall in the "magic commander" category.

Gandalf Parker · #47 November 30th, 2008, 01:13 PM

It would change the game immensely if you dont have to choose between an assassin, scout, commander, mage, priest for recruiting that turn. The built-in benefit of some races is the fact that they have units which combines some of those and frees them from that hard decision.

BesucherXia · #48 November 30th, 2008, 02:17 PM

Any chance of adding an independent assassin unit in formal patches? I believe this can dissolve the "mage or assassin" question. And of course they must be inferior to national ones. Maybe need extra lv0 sites.

Zeldor · #49 November 30th, 2008, 02:23 PM

There are independent assassins to recruit.

Sombre · #50 November 30th, 2008, 02:27 PM

Pretty rare though. And still a bit rubbish.