Quote Originally Posted by The Persian Cataphract
Actually, due to the fact that we have statted archery in this manner, Eastern foot-archery does feel somewhat under-powered (This is ultimately because in gameplay mechanics, all archers are more or less the same). Greeks mainly used archery as a part of their psiloi; In the East, archery along with the shock of the horse were the two most important instruments in deciding the battle. In other words, two different paradigms. We hope to solve this issue in EB2.
You're kidding! I've played a couple of games as Baktria and one of the most effective ways of winning battles is to get lots of Subeshi Archers and shoot the enemy to pieces before they can even touch me. It doesn't work as well on heavy units, but there are other ways to deal with those.