Can't decide what flavor of IS I want to play in the next campaign at my store in a month. Assassin's are my favorite but not being able to bring the BULL and how basically required the 50 ducat bow is make the list super top heavy and low body count. Strong Siege Jezzail sappers are sick however.
Alchemists seem really fun with some goofy stolen weapon options but I lose the giga chad captain and assassins. Azebs really aren't good here and only having 2 janissaries is rough. Lions just can't carry as hard as I'd like but they are fast.
Defenders of the Iron wall are too ranged/campy for my tastes.
So that leaves vanilla IS which seems like the way to go if i want to use assassins and bull in the same faction but I don't get any real spice. The yuzbashi being a fucking giga chad of a leader helps too and he's a lot cheaper than an assassin built out.