Persian Archers Question

[Watchman]

i'm kind of curious abt how the Thanvare Parsig (Heavy Persian Archers) guys might behave...you know them???The red smurf archer guys??? they're fuck expensive sure but supposedly "they have greater range and penetrating power than their Achaemenid forebears and with their basic armour are not as vulnerable as their more lightly equipped brethren"

anyone tried them before??? they are very high on "my-once-i-get-filthy-rich-fantasy-elite-fullstack"...

From what I can recall without firing up teh Notepad++ to check, they should indeed have better bows ergo range - Scythian composites instead of the less pokey Persian type IIRC. So yeah, they should be extra bit shooty on top of being rather more arrow-resistant and actually almost capable of fighting hand-to-hand (0.1 lehtality shortsword instead of 0.04 knife does that).

I also took notice on how the Persian Archers are much faster moving then their counterparts.

Weird. Pretty sure most archers ought to be on the "fast" animations on account of, you know, not exactly being weighed down by heavy armour. The exception being the Indians in their melee mode, as there wasn't a "fast" two-hander anim available...