Quote Originally Posted by Dutch_guy
Good point, but do you think the levelling up has anything to do with difficulty settings - I don't recall this being the case in Rome.

I'm playing on vh/h. Very hard campaign, hard battles.

Ugh, I'm playing on easy/medium to get myself started, and my assassins are beyond useless. I wrote a long rant about them in the review that I posted a day or two ago, don't have the link handy. My only other real complaint is that catholic priests also seem to have bugged probabilities for burning heretics and witches, and they don't gain in piety as fast as I'd like to see. Same with merchants who are passively trading resources. Other than that.. /shrug

Cheers!