I am starting to think that it isn't so much that archers are over powered, just that they have too many arrows. This is even more the case for a civ like the Parthians or Armenians that rely on cav archers. I am currently playing an Armenian campaign and if I go into battle with all cav archers in roughly equal number of companies as the enemy I can just decimate them with very few losses. I never run out of ammo so I never need to engage the enemy in melee. I think if all archers had about the same ammo as peltasts do then this would be different and more realistic. Then I could soften the enemy up and maybe with concentrated fire I could eliminate a few choice companies, but ultimately I would have to engage in melee to win. This is probably how it should be and it is how MTW was.
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