I've never really had much luck with skirmishers in open battlefields. :-\ I mean, they usually get cut up pretty good and the Javelins aren't that great. I usually just used massed archers behind a heavy infantry line. When I deploy skirmishers infront, the AI usually charges everything in and cause a mess.
I usually either flank with them and javelin in the back or keep them behind my main line as a reserve. Also it isn't a bad thing to meet a charging enemy with a wall of javelins to the face.
Perhaps we can make use of the 'lowered morale' stat effect(from hornets and dead cattle projectiles) in EBII to make them more effective.
Bookmarks