Quote Originally Posted by Red Harvest
Didz example of using them in a siege vs. the rams and such is a good one of legitimate use. I rarely use enough archers for this to work, because I limit myself to a historically representative number for the factions I am using, and I am very rarely defending stone walls.
I tend to garrison my cities with almost equal numbers of archers and town watch so that I have enough archers to defend my walls. I can't see the point in trying to defend a city unless you can prevent the enemy gaining access. Usually three archer cohorts firing flaming arrows is enough to bring down a seige tower before it can unload a second cohort of enemy infantry.

As for the battlefield use of flaming arrows. I have seen the AI use flaming arrows on the battlefield but very rarely against anything other than my onagers. Perhaps this problem depends on the race one is playing, I have only played Roman (Brutii) and have only fought Roman, Egyptian and Greek armies.

Have you noticed any particular patterns to when this abuse of flaming arrows occurs?