Wall Combat

[Aemilius Paulus]

+8 to Defence, so they will theoretically take less casualties. BUT it depends upon the type of cavalry.

e.g. In the case of Hypis, once the cavalry have engaged, if you swop them to swords, they may actually kill the Cavalry faster because of the lethality, and hence take less casualties by using swords, that being if said Cavalry have low armor/defence...If the Cavalry are very heavily armoured, but have lowish melee attack, then using the spears (and having the Hypis on Defend mode) may result in lower casualties.

Yeah, it does depend on many factors, as Drewski observantly noted. For instance, fighting as the Romani in the Mesopotamia, Pahlava and Hai territories, I found that my numerous contingents of Pedites Extraordianrii were the most effective troops versus those dreaded cataphracts. Their AP swords, even with low lethality, chopped those Hai cataphracts as if they were Pantadapoi. I am not even exaggerating. Those catas lasted no longer than Pantadapoi. That is because their defence is almost solely based on armour, with only 8 defence skill I believe, and no shield. They are also mounted units, and mounted units always die faster for some reason than equivalent foot units.


But anyway, my Triarii would take either 40-70% casualties gainsay those cataphracts or even lose. Pedites Extraordianrii usually lost less than ten (large unit scale) and no more than fifteen. ALWAYS use AP infantry against heavily armoured units. AP is the single most powerful bonus in RTW. However, using PEs against low armour units is a waste, especially given the low lethality of their kopis (.11 - lower than the worst spears)

[A Terribly Harmful Name]

AP is surely the most overpowered feature in RTW. I doubt that any curved sword design like that, or indeed anything short of a rhomphaia or certain axes would go through lamellar that easily. I would be eager to know if some accurate tests were done with this.

[A Very Super Market]

Engine stuff. Obviously unrealistic.

[Watchman]

Tip-heavy "cleaver" swords *are* pretty good at chopping stuff up, actually. For the sake of comparision the functionally nigh identical Medieval falchions were (like battleaxes) considered choppy enough to be good against nigh any armour short of solid steel plate...

Though I'll give you the RTW engine's solution of straight out halving the armour value is bit on the dramatic side.

[satalexton]

choppy

did u say choppy? WAAAGH!!!! DA ORKZ!!! DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA

[Aemilius Paulus]

AP is surely the most overpowered feature in RTW.

Yep, I certainly am . Still deciding whether I should sig this...

[A Terribly Harmful Name]

[Aemilius Paulus]

Well, I have decided that the quote is indeed worthy of a place in my signature. However, there is not enough place to stick anything else in my sig...


And I would hate for Churchill to go...



P.S.

[DaciaJC]

Well, I have decided that the quote is indeed worthy of a place in my signature. However, there is not enough place to stick anything else in my sig...


And I would hate for Churchill to go...



P.S.

Could you not stick it to the right of your "Balloon Count: 20"?

[Aemilius Paulus]

Could you not stick it to the right of your "Balloon Count: 20"?

Not if I wrap quote tags over it. That would make it at least two lines.