Foot Javelins Ineffective
Playing as Spain right now, and I always find myself tempted to spam Jinetes. It seems to me that javelins on foot are simply ineffective. I've had plenty of experience with them before through Kerns, Afghan, and Kurdish Javs, and it seems to me they often do not fire properly. For a start, they take a few seconds to get their javs into throwing positions. Then they stand there for another few seconds looking like they are ready to fire, and then I find that 90% of the time they do not fire an effective volley in unison, and often half the men don't throw their javelins at all. The most annoying thing is that hilly terrain mucks up their ability to fire completely, which is slightly ironic considering that is where these troops are supposed to dominate.
Which is a shame, since on the occasions when they do work they are deadly, even the ones with only 6 missile attack. I seem to remember them working better in RTW, especially when the javelins were secondary weapons, eg Hastati.
Their mounted counterparts are deadly and I'm using them disproportionately.
I've not heard much talk about this before compared to other bugged units such as pikes, 2-handers etc, so is this just me?
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