EB Online EDU v2.1 - RELEASE!

**vartan** · 07-16-2011, 07:36

240 slingers against 80 archers is overkill. Are you alright?

EDIT: Honestly, are you okay? Why are you attacking 4 to 1? No wonder you're losing your battles.

**Kival** · 07-16-2011, 08:14

Stormrage you fail to consider that most slinger units are only levy troops not professional soldiers. They lack the training of the better archers. They cost less not without reason. Also you should understand that armour does not weaken a unit. A normal archer unit will win against a normal slinger and obviously the chances will not be better against an armoured archer. Slingers just have better chances to kill (very) heavy armoured units than archers but that does not mean they will win against heavy archers because the archers are also very good in killing the slingers. Another point you need to consider are the different ballistic curves. It's much easier to prevent units being hit by slingers than being hit by archers.

Your 240 slingers will kill 80 archers but not with ONE volley but with a dozen perhaps.

**antisocialmunky** · 07-16-2011, 16:48

Slingers are really just there to kill cav in this game and suppress heavy infantry from moving. Their main purposes are to achieve asymmetric kill costs (a slinger costs 800/60 = 13.3 a man but a hoplite costs something like 16.25 and an elite infantry costs like 32.5 a man while chargers cost 100 man) and soak up arrows.

**-Stormrage-** · 07-16-2011, 19:30

This is getting no where lets discuss some other issues.

Just a freindly question, what exactly is the proper way to use over hand spear cav. What is it good at killing?

**Lazy O** · 07-16-2011, 19:46

Not much

**vartan** · 07-16-2011, 20:29

Since 2.0 you want to use overhand spear cavalry to fight unarmoured men, while using any AP secondaries to fight armoured infantry and cavalry.

**Kival** · 07-16-2011, 20:31

Originally Posted by vartan

Since 2.0 you want to use overhand spear cavalry to fight unarmoured men, while using any AP secondaries to fight armoured infantry and cavalry.

Sure but is their any reason to use them? For what are they better than infantry or underhand spear cavalry? I tend not to use them though I'd really like to see some use for them.