Quote Originally Posted by John the Mad View Post
What you need is mass and volume for them to be effective.

One unit throwing them frontally against another isn't going to be very effective.What you want is two or more units,throwing at different angles over several seconds of game time to see how effective they are.

The only unit i ran into immune to this was the Epiorite elite phalanx and it was lame because they also are immune to being charged in the rear,flanks,front by heavy infantry or cavalry or a combination of both.

They will kill you with their backsides.
don't those buggers have axes? I always hated them, the only way to take em out was to take em on from 2 sides with Spartans. Countless cavalrymen wasted just to find out that even infantry attacking their rear was futile...


I find that javlins are extremely effective at A) engaged infantry B) from flanks or rear C) high ground advantage D) sometimes half the unit is slaughtered and the rest rout if a combo of A and B are used. using C in tandem with A and B is total overkill resulting in 70-99% of the unit butchered in 2 volleys. Javelins are extremely useful, but negligible when used against heavy infantry from the front. Romans with their cowardly huge shields (dropped when they are running from me) will sometimes not even take a single casualty if you hike javelins at them from the front.