Is it me or the artillery is a little useless?

[QuintusSertorius]

To be fair the army has a large baggage train anyway.

Depends which army and which era, and indeed particular circumstances. Some were better at "travelling light" than others.

[alatar]

Still, I found it strange in a game, where a army is travelling wih supplies to make a fort and rams and seige towers, and food to let them travel to india from rome, that a cartwith a balista in it travels so slow.

[Disciple of Tacitus]

Still, I found it strange in a game, where a army is travelling wih supplies to make a fort and rams and seige towers, and food to let them travel to india from rome, that a cart with a balista in it travels so slow.

Valid point. Nonetheless, we have slow moving seige weapons. My own strategy is thus: I have them follow invading armies into enemy territory with an armed escort (playing Marian Romani right now - so it is usually several legionary units). If they get caught in the open - my mistake. Bye-bye seige weapons. Point is, I no longer keep them in my main armies. However, they do some wonderful HURT to walls/towers/gates - so I like them. In the end, tho, they have a limited use. My units would be wearing Lorica Segmentata by the time those seige machines made it from Rome to Antioch!

[Olaf The Great]

Valid point. Nonetheless, we have slow moving seige weapons. My own strategy is thus: I have them follow invading armies into enemy territory with an armed escort (playing Marian Romani right now - so it is usually several legionary units). If they get caught in the open - my mistake. Bye-bye seige weapons. Point is, I no longer keep them in my main armies. However, they do some wonderful HURT to walls/towers/gates - so I like them. In the end, tho, they have a limited use. My units would be wearing Lorica Segmentata by the time those seige machines made it from Rome to Antioch!

And they'd be in crappy Late Roman gear by the time you get them to Baktra!
But by then you'd have been destroyed because of the previously stated gear.


Oh by the way, those Arrow Projectors, I may have been a bit harsh, they can easily destroy any unit including multi-hp ones, I attacked elephants in India with one unit of them(two catapults) and I killed all 3 elephants in one shot, then afterwards I killed about 40 Indian levies.

Now I still got my ass kicked in the end, because afterwards the enemy -still- had 3 more units of elephants, one being the general with chervons and double size.