Does assassinating captains do anything?

[Badg3r]

does it temporarily lower moral or what? or are they just there for assassins to get some practice in.

[Diomede]

I've kind of wondered about this... I generally just do it for the practice. If it does something else then bonus?

[Spartan198]

Build up your assassins' ability is the only thing I've noticed it doing.

[Badg3r]

i would have assumed it would have the moral reducing effect of killing the captain in the battle field, but you have the advantage of having done this before hand.
i sware on shogun, it said something about reducing moral of said army for one turn. so i would assume its the same for Rome. can any one else confirm this? preferably some one who knows the files and what not.

[Dan the Man]

I always thought that it killed off an army, one by one. But I could be wrong, and that's kind of a boring way to win a battle!

[Unknown Soldier]

doesn't it stop them reinforcing a battle as well?

[Amaranth]

I practice my assassins on them occasionally. I haven't noticed an effect so for, though I wish there were.

[Publius Quirinus]

Related question: does killing a captain in-battle affect the morale of the troops?

[Amaranth]

Related question: does killing a captain in-battle affect the morale of the troops?

As far as I know it does, when you kill a captain of the enemy army a notice window opens to inform you, and according to my observations, when you do so the enemy soldiers tend to route or get killed easier.

But I don't know if killing them boost the morale or any other stat of your troops or reduce the enemy's.

[Archus]

Assassination - free assassin skill
In battle - loss of morale