fire arrows: what's the point?

**The_Emperor** · 10-05-2004, 11:08

Originally Posted by oaty

Never went against elephants yet bit would'nt they make elephants run mok easier

Yep they do. When Carthage attacked my Greek city in Sicily my Archers used fire on them, it was fun to watch them "Run Amok".

Elephants and Siege weapons, thats what they are best reserved for.

**Oleander Ardens** · 10-05-2004, 11:17

As oaty and the Emperor said: Fire arrows are great against elephants.

Factions like the Gaul, Parthians, Scythians, Dacians, Egyptians and Spanish have absolutly to rely on fire arrows to stop them. Longrange archers/Siegeengines are your best bet against them...

I have yet to test if they are also good against very heavily armored enemys, which might be possible due to the "burn" effect...

Cheers

OA

**Ulstan** · 10-05-2004, 16:18

Well if you are horribly outnumbered by lightly armored units the fire arrows might be better.

Otherwise, I think they are best saved for seiges and shooting at elephants. (Which at least seems somewhat historically correct as fire arrows were not a staple of open field fighting)

**Spino** · 10-05-2004, 16:25

Fire arrows are the only option lower tech, non-elite archer units have against elephants. You won't kill any but at least you'll have a chance to route them.

**The Tuffen** · 10-05-2004, 16:39

Fire arrows lower morale. If you go to the official site and click on the advisor, it says to have multiple archers with some firing flaming arrows and the rest firing normal arrows so that you get a high kill rate and also a morale hit for the enemy.

**Orvis Tertia** · 10-05-2004, 17:02

At times it has seemed to me that fire arrows will kill armored targets that regular arrows won't. I've been in a situation a couple of times where I was softening up enemy heavy cavalry that were defending a city center. My regular arrows weren't killing anything. When I switched to fire arrows, the accuracy dropped but the ones that hit produced crispy cavalry.

**Chimpyang** · 10-05-2004, 17:03

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**Lord Ovaat** · 10-05-2004, 19:33

Whats with the machine gun like arrows those Carthagian siege towers shoot out? They cause absolute destruction to your defenders on the walls. Are they some sort of repeating scorpion? How come other factions dont get one?

They actually are repeating scorpions, and you can build them once you build the second level seige engine building.....whatever it's called. You can also then build heavy onagers. Haven't used either yet.