nice advice....my archers i usually send to kill enemy archers(which i find surprisingly low in number in my campaigns against the greeks-well i'm not complaining!) and then hoplites(if any). But when i'm facing chariosts, i send my fire arrows at them first. I make sure i load up on velites and archers before i go to war against Britain and Asia Minor.

Oh, and i've noticed something else- in my last few games, Armenia is turning VERY aggresive. Those guys wiped out Parthia in the beginning of the game, brought down Pontus and the Seleuicids, and now they were fighting(and winning) against the greeks AND the egyptians-those greeks had armoured hoplites and the egyptians were getting to the Pharaoh's Gaurd level! I was the Scipii- I wasn't too worried as I could train triarii by then, and most of my troops to the eastern border of my empire had gold chevrons. But it was still wierd....