hypaspistai vs. peltastai makedonioki

[tarem]

i guess i'll have to test them myself to see how well they perform against diferent types of enemy infantry. my campaigns never brought me to India yet, even less so with the Romans. by the way how does the shield value influence the overal survavibility of the unit? does it add to the defence or to the armor value? or does ot work against missiles only?

[bobbin]

As far as I am aware its seperate from both, all of them get counted for meele defence but only armour and shield get counted for missle defence, I also know its not affected by AP. The sheild is pretty important for survivability of a unit, especially against missles as its value is doubled (supposedly) when being hit from the front or left hand side.

[athanaric]

As far as I am aware its seperate from both, all of them get counted for meele defence but only armour and shield get counted for missle defence, I also know its not affected by AP. The sheild is pretty important for survivability of a unit, especially against missles as its value is doubled (supposedly) when being hit from the front or left hand side.

You can see this quite easily when testing your units against missile troops. Units with a shield value of 4 (mostly Legionaries, Parthian Spearmen, Hoplites, Gallic elites and the occasional Barbarian tribesman) fare very well vs frontal missiles, and everyone with 2 and below suffers. That is the reason why you don't put shortswordsmen or two-handed swordsmen in the main battle line - they die like flies from arrows and javelins.