Flaming or not?

[johnhughthom]

that would be an awesome ability: flaming horseback arrows. oh god im about to squeal like a little girl in orgasmic delight!


oh hey, you know what would be an awesome special ability for another rome or medieval? strafing. so rather than letting your missile cavalry go in a circle, they would get in a straight line, however many ranks deep or thic or whatever you want, and then just strafe up and down a unit until commanded otherwise. epic. win.

Even more powerful horse archers eh? So we could win battle losing one man for every thousand the enemy lose, rather than one for every hundred? I like it.

[Tolg]

Even more powerful horse archers eh? So we could win battle losing one man for every thousand the enemy lose, rather than one for every hundred? I like it.

Seconded.

Though you won't need fire arrows anymore once you start using catas. Why routing your enemies if you can crush them?

[Reverend Joe]

Seconded.

Though you won't need fire arrows anymore once you start using catas. Why routing your enemies if you can crush them?

Geez, why not just unleash T-34s and halftracks on your enemies?

[A Very Super Market]

I always thought that flaming arrows were more effective against cavalry than normal arrows. Maybe the "I'M ON FIRE HEAH" animation is getting to my head. I'm fairly sure that Catas are invulnerable to normal arrows, but can still burn every so often.

[bobbin]

I always thought that flaming arrows were more effective against cavalry than normal arrows. Maybe the "I'M ON FIRE HEAH" animation is getting to my head. I'm fairly sure that Catas are invulnerable to normal arrows, but can still burn every so often.

Slingers are the best for taking out cavalry although i tend to hold back on them as it seems a little bit like cheating when your glorified goat herders can wipe out a unit of hetaroi in a few volleys.
As for flaming arrows i don't really use them outside of making elephants go beserk, although from what i remember they do more damage but are less accurate so would be more effective against bigger and armoured targets which is pretty much what you see in the game.

[Prussian to the Iron]

hey for some reason i cant post in the m2 section. wtf?

[Macilrille]

As Roman I usually have two Accensi and one- two archers. One archer is likely the crappy Greek ones, I always have them use flaming ammo to scare the enemy while the accensi and Cretan archers do the killing. Often works quite nicely.

[Marduk]

Geez, why not just unleash T-34s and halftracks on your enemies?

why don't just use the death star

[Prussian to the Iron]

why don't just use the death star

it costs too much duh....haven't you noticed the fact almost everyone goes bankrupt in the first few turns?

[jnabb22]

it costs too much duh....haven't you noticed the fact almost everyone goes bankrupt in the first few turns?

Forget the deathstar just give the Spartans some lightsabers and Greece could rule the galaxy............our galaxy