They didn't happen to be some of those gold-upgrade gold-chevron OMGWTFHAX monsters settlement revolts often spawn? The last time I had to deal with such, they were Missile Target #1 for the whole army...
Re: Surprisingly bad units
They didn't happen to be some of those gold-upgrade gold-chevron OMGWTFHAX monsters settlement revolts often spawn? The last time I had to deal with such, they were Missile Target #1 for the whole army...
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Re: Surprisingly bad units
Hm don't really think so, usually it's apeleutheroi and mercenaries that get spawned and not a single unit of pantadopoi, no?
Last edited by Kuningaz; 12-22-2008 at 22:38.
Re: Surprisingly bad units
The Apeleutheroi were created to do away with the problem of the game crashing if there were no barracks in the settlement to generate the rebel units from. If there are barracks present, however, pretty much any unit the "rebelling-to" faction could recruit out of them may appear.Originally Posted by Kuningaz
And Panties? They're recruited out of the first-level barracks over a *very* wide area...
"Let us remember that there are multiple theories of Intelligent Design. I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. --- Proof of the existence of the FSM, if needed, can be found in the recent uptick of global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters. Apparently His Pastaness is to be worshipped in full pirate regalia. The decline in worldwide pirate population over the past 200 years directly corresponds with the increase in global temperature. Here is a graph to illustrate the point."
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Re: Surprisingly bad units
In my semi-observing Indo-Baktria game, I thought these were good medium cavalry...but it turned out they drop like flies for the most.
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Re: Surprisingly bad units
Well I'm aware of how steep the battle maps can be but it wasn't that much at all, just an average dune in the Sahara near that town west of Alexandreia (forgot the name)Advantage of height, eh? How big was the advantage? RTW engine vastly overrates height advantage IMHO. Not only this, but terrain in RTW can be ridiculously steep. Anyway, I remember doing tests in vanilla, and an unupgraded unit of Ppeasants destroyed a unit of Mercenary Hoplites in phalanx mode on about a 20 degree slope, suffering only 40 casualties out of 120!
Hm I didn´t know that maybe I got my impression of apeleutheroi with mercenaries from my Sauromatae campaign where completely destroyed and abandoned cities rebelled to the AS.The Apeleutheroi were created to do away with the problem of the game crashing if there were no barracks in the settlement to generate the rebel units from. If there are barracks present, however, pretty much any unit the "rebelling-to" faction could recruit out of them may appear.
And Panties? They're recruited out of the first-level barracks over a *very* wide area...
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