Quote Originally Posted by Intranetusa View Post
Archers are pretty useless for the most part - they do nothing to phalanxes or any unit with a decent shield.

The only way you will get any kills is if the AI is dumb enough to let their cavalry sit around doing nothing, or they turn their backs on you.

Slingers are far more useful due to the AP bonus against armor.

My levy slingers get more kills than my damn "elite" Cretan archers most of the time.
Then maybe you're fighting the wrong enemies. By the sound of it, you're only campaigning against Romans, Greeks, Carthaginians, and cataphracts. Because everyone else takes more casualties from arrows than from bullets or rocks. If you want to defeat Barbarians, Sabaeans or Nomads - or slingers, by the way - you'd better bring some archers.
Not to mention the much higher tactical versatility of archers compared to slingers.