Rome Unit Guide v1.1 released!

**Dorkus** · 10-19-2004, 01:24

shoot at at a unit of peasants (0 armor) with archer auxilia. Mod in 2 hp if you want to make it more exact.

Try again with chariot archers.

Chariot archers have 2 hp, but that can't account for the vast difference in kill speed. chariot archers die at a rate far closer to units with 10 armor than 0.

I don't know the exact mechanics of chariot/rider hp/def, so I won't even guess. But I do know that chariot archers do not die at a rate even close to resembling 1 total defense, 0 armor.

**Soulflame** · 10-19-2004, 15:47

I just released version 1.2.

Get it here: http://www.twcenter.net/downloads/db/index.php?mod=108

---------------------------------Version History-------------------------------
Version 1.2 (released 19 October)
*Corrected stats for Chosen Swordmen (all factions) and Chosen Archer Warband (Dacia)
*Added pages for the mercenary units available in Singleplayer, and for Slave and Rebels
Version 1.1 (released 18 October)
*First complete release of the Unit Guide, including some changes to the Roman Section
Version 1.0 (released 14 October)
*Prelimenary release of the Unit Guide, included only the Roman Factions

Version 1.0 was downloaded 429 times!
Version 1.1 was downloaded 1266 times!
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@Dorkus:
Hmm well, until CA discloses how the chariot/rider (and elephant/rider etc) combination works with Defense and HP, we'll never find it out completely.
I'll let them stay as they are now (since that's what the ingame descriptin also says), until CA tells me I'm wrong.

I've encountered so many oddities that I can't even begin to speculate and do something with them.
For example with my latest guide, I added the Slave and Rebels. Almost all their units are shared with at least one faction, but somehow the barbarians share 1 general, and have another Rebel General, while the Eastern rebels don't even have a 'normal slave general'. I honestly don't know when you should expect to encounter which general ...
And for some reason the only roman slaves & rebels that are coded are gladiators, while there are pictures in the slave folder for LOTS of units, like Velites, Hastati and many more. But they just aren't defined in the unit file of Rome, so they can't show up.

Makes you wonder..

**Leet Eriksson** · 10-19-2004, 15:54

I'm not sure which units you mean. The units I listed are all the units available to build and mercenaries and generals those factions can have in multiplayer (with the added costs and such for singleplayer as well).

Maybe you mean a page solely for mercenaries at the end so you can see the stats of all the mercenaries you can hire in Singleplayer? I didn't put them in with all factions, because that would be a pointless repeat for each faction which would greatly increase the length of the guide. But a seperate page for all the mercenaries in the game would certainly be doable...

I was going to mention the rebel units and such, but you covered them in your latest guide.

And btw thanks for the guide its much more better now :)