Does Carthage have.....?

[Jango Fett]

I have seen numidian archers, but i cant seem to train archers in carthage is it possible? or do i have to recruit them as mercenaries? slingers are kind of annoying after a while.

[Colovion]

Probably have to hire them as Mercs

[Basileus]

ive been playing with carthage alot and ive not seen any numidian archers even as mercs

[kungfood]

no, it's not possible to train archers playing as carthage. which kind of sucks, i admit. yet you are able to recruit cretan archers in palma.

[hoof]

Baeleric Slingers (I'm sure I misspelled their name) are awesome slingers. I haven't fully analyzed them yet, but from using them in the field, they are as good as any archer unit. They have an advantage over the archer unit too against tightly packed groups of units: their arc of fire is so low that if they miss their target unit, they usually hit the unit behind them. The downside is that you have to put them in front to have a clear shot, but I've never had much luck in RTW with putting archers behind my front line anyway.

You get a few of these units at the start as the Carthaginians.

With the exeption of Horse Archers and siege defence, those mercenary slingers are my #1 choice for missile troops.

[hotingzilla]

They are good as slingers, but simply they can't replace archers.

I modded the game to give Carthage the normal archer.