Quote Originally Posted by NightStar
Come on....if you got 80 archers shooting at mostly unarmored unit of course they are going to take plenty of casualties. I have often had my Cretian archers shoot at armored units and killing no one. I started to hate those heavy panzered hoplites (armored hoplites) cause they are almost invulnerable to arrows (but a flaming missile from an onager gets the everytime
No, not in a single volley at 150 meters. Slinger formations are loose. Archers were not this effective. Rifled civil war volleys were not this effective and those men were standing in single ranks in the open at the same range.

Cretan archers score about 2% casualties per volley versus armoured hoplites. This is actually fairly high. Interestingly, they cause the most damage at range before the unit switches to phalanx.