So I have been reading the posts about the generals and how the game is supposed to be very different than the assasin game but if that is the case and generals end up having a totally different feel in the game, wouldn't there be a need to have a general and assasin on each team in every game for balance?  Just a thought. 

Maybe you would select a general and an assasin at game start and cycle between both of them and if your playing team matches then only one person can be the general and the rest of the team must be assasins, kind of like Battlefield 2 where one dude can fight but also has to command the army and artillery and gets overthrown and replaced if he is not doing a good job as commander. 

Maybe being general is more a state of gameplay than a character, you choose a character but then you choose whether or not to be a general in the game and if there is another candidate that outranks you on your team and wants to be general, then he gets the general gig until he screws up and gets voted out.