Same goes for hired thugs. Were they intended to just hurt the pc. Guards won't help and sometime it seens like npc will comment "my money is on the big 1"
Anyone who tries to surrender always attacks me in a few seconds...I just treat it as a trick and waste them .
I got attacked by 4 bandits once but I could only find three of them. The forth one was hiding behind a rock screaming "spare me, I submit!" Whats odd is she never attacked me so... I left her alone. From what I could tell her three friends were the only ones who attacked me.