Does any one starve the enemy???

[Ghaust the Moor]

And again, I typicly(spl?) like having my general in the thick of it, but I am not good at commanding chariotteers. I find them to be very weak. Now while symbolicly a good choice for a generals bodyguard, a cavalry unit is much more pratical. I original planned on playing the casse to take myself out of my comfort zone. So when being casse, I keep my general out of the fight until the end.

[fighter36]

And again, I typicly(spl?) like having my general in the thick of it, but I am not good at commanding chariotteers. I find them to be very weak. Now while symbolicly a good choice for a generals bodyguard, a cavalry unit is much more pratical. I original planned on playing the casse to take myself out of my comfort zone. So when being casse, I keep my general out of the fight until the end.

i find the chariots are great for flank and rear attacks. hitting the enemy from behind and with the fear factor of the chariots usually equals a serious drop in enemy morale.

combine that with some decent infantry and the INCREDIBLE slingers and you have a sweet army.

[Ghaust the Moor]

Everyone seems to love slingers. I find them to be the worst missle troops. I don't see how they are any good. please enligthen me. Maybe I'll use them form now on.

[fighter36]

I just started playing EB last week and have had a great campaign with the Casse. I read on another forum that slingers are very important, especially against other Gallic factions. In a battle 3-4 units of slingers can devastate an enemy unit very very quickly. Once you get some stripes on them they are even more deadly. They are especially good in sieges. They will decimate any unit that is guarding the gate.

Once you get some silver stripes on them they will take out Roman elite infantry no problem. Just protect them with your spears and use your chariots to do hit and run attacks on the enemy flanks. I was suprised myself. I didnt even bother with slingers until someone said i should try them. No I keep at least 4 in all my armys. :)

[HunGeneral]

Everyone seems to love slingers. I find them to be the worst missle troops. I don't see how they are any good. please enligthen me. Maybe I'll use them form now on.

I find them Ideal when I need to get some heavy Nomad cavalry out of there saddles. Seriously I was almost schocked by how fast these tank horsemen die under led bullet fire. Most off the time more them 3 to 4 arrow salvos are necessery to cause any losses against them.

I would advise using slingers against anything that has armor on - eastern, Rhodian and of course balearic ones are the best availeable

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

Yeah, as AS the only reason I was able to hold onto the majority of my eastern provinces was through a single double silver chevron eastern slinger unit in my eastern army which ran hither and thither dealing with the Parthians. The majority of my army was archer units and light spearmen, most of what you can raise in those regions but the only thing that could really kill those 40 man parthian generals (large unit size) was either a cavalry charge into their rear after being engaged, or slingers.

Of course, I was rewarded for finally taking back Sogdiana from Pahlava by now being constantly attacked by the Saka who have, surprise, more armored horse archers for bodyguards. At least by that point I'd taken Baktra and started to recruit better infantry.