Memnoch if you look at the minimap in the top left corner of the strategy map, there is a small greyish rectangle with an arrow on it. Like this:
Click on that arrow and a little panel of options will open up. Uncheck the checkbox that says tidy up units after battle. It's an extremely annoying feature.
The medmod can be found
here. Check the readme out for the changes it makes which are quite considerable and imo balance the game out nicely including improving the naval system.
With your assassins you should concentrate on killing priests, emmisarries and young women. That will give them some experience and after you have a few good assassins their ability in killing enemy generals will be that much better.
[ 08-11-2004, 12:44 PM: Message edited by: Djinn Raffo ]