Terminator units...er, uh...Assassins

**Wolfgrin** · April 15, 2007, 05:49 PM

Wow, who buffed the assassins? Did you do that, King, or did CA do it in the patch? They are waaaay overpowered now.

**King Kong** · April 16, 2007, 02:32 AM

Hi Wolfgrin,

I didn't change any stats of the Battlefield Assassins...
Are they really that overpowered?

I've just looked at their stats and I found something weird indeed:
The "unit info" shows that they have an armour value of 32!
However, only the info shows this high armor, the actual armor value is only 16 (shield + armor + skill).
So, I think they shouldn't be overpowered...
I don't know if this was intended by CA or if the wrong unit info was just a mistake.

**Wolfgrin** · April 16, 2007, 09:01 AM

Actually I was referring to the campaign agent assassins. Even a one-rated assassin now has a 60% chance of killing a three-piety priest or another one-rated assassin. I killed off almost the entire Mongol family of leaders with three assassins. (Need to start a new thread about the Mongols, in fact.)

**King Kong** · April 16, 2007, 10:16 AM

ups... I totally missunderstood that

and well, many people wanted the assassins to be improved, and actually I improved them only slightly (since SS 2.2)but it seems that they are too strong now...

**Botinhas** · April 16, 2007, 10:22 AM

In the vanilla game pathced to 1.1 i destoyed the moors and portuguese only with three assassins.

Now, with patch 1.2, i could destroy all factions without moving one of my armies!!!!

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Portugal:"Best....faction....ever!!!"

**DUSharp** · April 20, 2007, 12:31 AM

I just use assassins instead of diplomats now, the enemy tends to get the point

**CtrlAltDe1337** · April 21, 2007, 12:11 AM

I just tested this and my 3 star assasins have a 95% chance to kill priests, diplomats, and princesses. :/

**King Kong** · April 21, 2007, 06:26 AM

Hi Crucifix,

Thanks for the note!
hmm, well, this is really a too high chance and judging after the other comments I think I will weaken the assassins a bit in the next patch...
Btw, cool avatar!

**The Librarian** · April 22, 2007, 03:59 AM

Ok, a 3 star assassin just killed my faction leader with +3 personal security. Help!

**King Kong** · April 22, 2007, 05:09 AM

Hi Second Spartan,

Download the new 3.1 patch! This will help.
Ok, it won't bring back your faction leader but this shouldn't happen again...

**Mike13531** · April 28, 2007, 10:09 PM

wow.. REALLY? must have been the leaked patch, well, its a LEAKED patch after all, i guess it has some bugs.

**Hambi** · April 29, 2007, 05:33 PM

Originally Posted by Wolfgrin

Wow, who buffed the assassins? Did you do that, King, or did CA do it in the patch? They are waaaay overpowered now.

I totally agree, is something I was going to tell you as well. If at least the AI would also use them more.
They have never even tried to assasinate any of my characters.
They are way too powerful (though Imams/priests and merchants should still be killed easier then vanilla)

**Mike13531** · April 30, 2007, 08:17 AM

i saw b4, AI murdered one of my general, just once tho. Pretty rare, ya, they should probably use them more

**King Kong** · April 30, 2007, 01:09 PM

Hi Hambi,

I totally agree, is something I was going to tell you as well. If at least the AI would also use them more.
They have never even tried to assasinate any of my characters.
They are way too powerful (though Imams/priests and merchants should still be killed easier then vanilla)

Do you mean in SS 3.0 or in 3.1?
I know that the assassins were too powerful in 3.0, but I find the assassins have pretty reasonable chances to kill a character in the newest version...

Hi Mike,

i saw b4, AI murdered one of my general, just once tho. Pretty rare, ya, they should probably use them more

Well I don't think I can change the way how many assassins the AI recruits...