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Originally Posted by MiniMe
Greetings. I’d like to thank all of EB team for making this mod. Brilliant job. Graphic is great, and so is the content. The battles now look how they should be. That’s the best mod I’ve seen so far, and even if you list it now as “beta”, it’s TheBeta =)
Lost any desire to play MTWII completely, hope you’ll mod it one day too. Anyway, the ancient history attracts me much more, and I’m very grateful to you, people =)
Thanks. :smiley:
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Originally Posted by MiniMe
However, I have few suggestions, concerning gameplay only:
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Something has to be done about slingers. Either about their weapon range, either about their ammo amount, either about their rate of fire.
These little ugly cheap grunts make me feel good. They are my first group of city defenders and that’s why: I build hoards of them, six units of slingers per garrison. After some target practice they start to wipe out around 450 men, enemy’s general’s cavalry included. This means one thing only – once you have stone walls, your city’s safe forever. I play as Epeiros, and Romani are completely paralyzed in their efforts to capture my megapolis in southern Italy. They’re sending full stacks every turn, but that doesn’t help them much.
Problem is: they were the most powerfull missile units in ancient times. Stack them up and they are devastating. In ancient times it was exactly like that. As an example:
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The Battle of Eknomos 311 B.C.
In the year 311 B.C., The Greeks under the generalship of Agathocles of Syracuse, was at war with Hamilcar of Carthage. At Eknomos, Sicily, the battle at one point was going badly for the Carthaginans until Hamilcar brought forth 1000 Balearic slingers. Diodorus, the Sicilian-born historian writes:
Diodorus Siculus - Book XIX.109.
But when Hamilcar saw that his men were being overpowered and that the Greeks in constantly increasing number were making their way into the camp, he brought up his slingers, who came from the Baliaric Islands and numbered at least a thousand. By hurling a shower of great stones, they wounded many and even killed not a few of those who were attacking, and they shattered the defensive armour of most of them. For these men, who are accustomed to sling stones weighing a mina, contribute a great deal toward victory in battle, since from childhood they practise constantly with the sling. In this way they drove the Greeks from the camp and defeated them.
Their equipment for fighting consists of three slings, and of these they keep one around the head, another around the belly, and the third in the hands. In the business of war they hurl much larger stones than do any other slingers, and with such force that the missile seems to have been shot, as it were, from a catapult; consequently, in their assaults upon walled cities, they strike the defenders on the battlements and disable them, and in pitched battles they crush both shields and helmets and every kind of protective armour. And they are so accurate in their aim that in the majority of cases they never miss the target before them. The reason for this is the continual practice which they get from childhood, in that their mothers compel them, while still young boys, to use the sling continually; for there is set up before them as a target a piece of bread fastened to a stake, and the novice is not permitted to eat until he has hit the bread, whereupon he takes it from his mother with her permission and devours it.
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Originally Posted by MiniMe
Has anybody found something good in these strange Macedon men with axes? (“Agriani”/”Agrikonioni”, can’t recall their name, can be recruited by Epyrote and Macedonia) Since their axes are not armor piercing, are they good for anything? Epyrote & Macedonia do have some good flank infantry, that can be recruited in the same level MIC’s, what do they need these guys for?
The axes are armour piercing.