Unit Balancing Suggestions to CA

[Morindin]

Problems? The Romans actually have good cavalry. I just ran the archers down. Even pre-Marius, you can get Legionary cavalry. After Marius, the Praetorian cavalry is one of the most powerful in the game. Equites and Roman cavalry are both serviceable, cheap cavalry.

Archery isn't overly effective, for me. If you shoot armored hoplites or even standard hoplites, they take few casualties with every volley. Against armored hoplites, even Cretan archers have trouble killing them. What they are very effective against are unarmored targets. Armored targets don't take much casualties.

Most late game archer units, such as chosen archer warbands, and so forth, eat all Roman Cavalry+ for breakfast in melee in a 1v1 situation.

I swarmed over most of the other races with ease in my campaign game, and I came to a scretching halt against Pontus/Scythia/etc.

I did have an amusing situation (for my enemy) in a multiplayer game last night when I had three units of upgraded cretin archers firing on one stationary unit of upgraded sacred band. 5-6 volleys later from all three units and maybe one sacred band had died :)

But besides that - im not really talking about normal archers, rather the Egyptian Chariot archers.