I saw your post on your modifications (at length) on the other thread pointed out by Dutch_guy and printed it out for consideration, as I'm fascinated by the idea of modding it to exclude watchtowers and the like. This, of course, means I'll need to figure out how to mod, which is probably one of the threads I've ignored till now because it wasn't something I needed/was interested in.

It took some work, but I did some playing with assasins for a few hours last night.

The best I had was a 5 star. Nothing better. I had several fellows go from 0 to about 2-3 stars, but no one seemed to go higher. The 5 star I trained on the bait that landed on my shores, though it was touchy when sometimes they'd head off to foreign shores. Still, the high level guy seemed to be able to survive watchtowers, which is more than I can say for the 0 star fodder.