Imports:Assassination

Successfully knocking a person

Assassination is a stat that affects the player's ability to successfully knock out non-player characters. It is useful when players want to get rid of a person or a group of people without fighting or alarming the guards. Players can attempt to stealth knock-out any character in the world. Stealth knock-outs are not possible on animal characters.

Players earn experience in this stat for successful and unsuccessful attempts. Failed attempts grant 3x more experience than successes. The Toughness, Assassination, Thievery or Defense skill of the target decreases your chances of knocking them out, whichever impacts it the most. Toughness affects the chances 2x more than the other stats (so a target with 30 Toughness would be harder to knock out than a unit with 59 in defense as an example). A knocked out person can be looted the same way as if they were asleep.

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Equipment Skill Multipliers

Name	Assassination Effect Multiplier
File:Ancient Samurai Armour.png Ancient Samurai Armour	0.50
File:Assassin's Rags.png Assassin's Rags	1.30
File:Crab Armour.png Crab Armour	0.20
File:Empire Samurai Armour.png Empire Samurai Armour	0.50
File:Mercenary Plate.png Mercenary Plate	0.70
File:Ninja Rags.png Ninja Rags	1.10
File:Plate Jacket.png Plate Jacket	0.80
File:Samurai Armour.png Samurai Armour	0.50
File:Unholy Chest Plate.png Unholy Chest Plate	0.50

Buildings

You can train Assassination at The Hub or any other city with a Thieves tower after joining the Shinobi Thieves. They have Assassination Dummies on the first floor of their tower.

Player Characters can also build their own Assassination Dummies after researching Assassin Training.

Tips

It is recommended that players avoid knocking out shopkeepers because of a bug which causes the shop's residents to despawn. The shop's items will not restock if this occurs. This can be fixed through importing saved games.
Players can also attempt stealth knock-outs on any eating or worshiping Fogmen in the Fog Islands. The Fogmen will be too distracted in their task and will likely not initiate combat after a failed attempt.
An easy way to train this is to stealth knock-out characters within Prisoner Cages. This can be done easily against any enslaved characters in places such as Rebirth and Reaver Camps.
Right clicking on one of your characters that is sleeping in a bed you don't own will allow you to perform a stealth knock-out on your own character and get assassination experience.