State of the Game

[Slaists]

The Seleucids DO have quality hoplites. They get Shield Bearers which are only a tad weaker than Royal Spartans but you can produce an infinite amount of them (and you can only get 6 Royal Spartans online)

Yes, but he's talking about horse archer faction chances of success against Seleucid AI. As far as the Seleucid AI is concerned, I have yet to see them field anything much higher than desert spearmen... Similar to AI Rome that still fields majority rorarii armies.

[Sp4]

Yeah I was talking about SP. The AI rarely gets to the point where they will spam their highest quality units, which the exception for certain Celtic factions with their Oathsworn warriors.

[ReluctantSamurai]

Siege assaults are impossible cause you can't attack with your horse archers and your infantry is the worst in the game

Are horse archers still restricted by a limited firing arc?

[Sp4]

I am not sure but I don't think so. It may show an arc but they'll happily shoot anything in any direction when on the move. So will skirmisher cav.

[Myth]

Are horse archers still restricted by a limited firing arc?

Horse archers will get creamed by slingers in a siege assault of a major settlement.

[ReluctantSamurai]

Horse archers will get creamed by slingers in a siege assault of a major settlement.

That's pretty much always been the case, even in R1. My question is referring to the firing arc I've seen in video clips. Is that still the case?

[Slaists]

That's pretty much always been the case, even in R1. My question is referring to the firing arc I've seen in video clips. Is that still the case?

I don't remember seeing firing archs for horse archers in R2. That was something implemented in Empire (I guess, they just "copied-pasted" the musket cavalry firing arch for horse archers there).

[Sp4]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fWVthMjnok

Amazonian warrior chicks DLC, woohoo!