Chasedowns

[Tamur]

After all the archer experimenting today, I was reminded of the MTW days when you could target a skirmishing unit and expect that they'd skirmish opposite to where your unit was charging them from. So, if you could get a skirmishing missile unit between two charging melee/cav units, you were guaranteed a skirmish sandwich, so to speak, and a quick rout.

Not so with RTW! You go for the sandwich maneuver and the skirmishing unit just slips out one open end or the other and pegs your now-tired units with javelins/arrows. Yowch.

Excellent AI work by the Assembly team on this -- it's VERY hard to out-maneuver these guys now. Cavalry work great against them, or out-missiling works well too, but that's about it.

[son of spam]

Damn, now how will I be able to kill those HAs? Roman archers are useless!!

[Colovion]

I like and dislike this. It's great that they now have some mobility but it's annoying that I"ll have to deal with it. Hehe.

[Sir Moody]

just smash em with a good cav charge

[Lonewarrior]

Agreed, through out my testing I have found that a good cav charge does indeed get the job done easily.

[The_Emperor]

Yes those skirmishers are pretty flexible. On playing the Trebbia battle one day I was amazed by the way the Velites moved.

I brought up the armoured elephants on the Carthaginian Right, ready to do a nice storming charge on the left of the Roman Heavy inf... The Velites reeled around their formation to avoid the elephant charge and then threw their javelins at the elphants almost as soon as they went by!

Then the Elephants smacked into a unit of Hastati that the AI put there to protect the Heavy inf I was aiming for... The Armoured Elephants quickly ran amok.

I was not best pleased about this and ended up sending Hannibal over to run the Velites into the dirt and keep that flank together!