Scythed chariots

[jerby]

I don;t see any messages about this wonderfull unit from the seleucids, but why? It's a cheaper than an elephant, dont die that easily if you make em move. So why is it always about elephants when you can train these guys in any settlement with an armourer, an armourer! the bigest problem with them is if they get surrounded, the they die. and they may run amok.
and you dont want them to go threw your own formations, but if you can go around your untis and flank the enemy, then you got a strong, scary, and DISPOSABLE unit.

[WannabeGosu]

Yup. Theese guys really rocks. I don't get it wy people go for Armoured Elephants in 10k when you can have Chariots and save alot of money

[Barbarian King]

I prefer elephants because chariots always seem to run amock on me and because of their weakness against phalaxnes

[lancer63]

Elephants last longer in my battles and take more damage before going mental. SCs are great to pursue and flank but they are very vulnerable. They excel in taking out othe chariots, specialy those annoying egypthian ones. And since Egypthian generals ride in chariots, they can be disposde of rather easily.
What I dont like about chariots is that you can retrain them but they don't go back to the original number of vehicles. You only get the same number of chariots with more men in them. Same thing with elephants. Is this a bug?

[Slon]

I know what you mean. The scythed chariots are awsome. I once defeated a 2450 army with 5 units of Scythed chariots alone! The fact that they panic infantry is excellent. Did I mention this was against spearmen (hillmen and eastern infantry)? True, I only killed half of them and got the rest to rout. But still, this is a great weapon. Plus, you can retrain them in virtually any city (since blacksmiths are available early to towns). I've even noticed that when enemy heavy cavalry flank it, almost none of the units die. The downside of using elephants is the huge upkeep and the fact that you can only retrain them in super advanced provinces that have elephants (meaning that once you start invading the northern, western and roman provinces, you will be stuck with small units as you cannot retrain them, can you?). Also, these are EXCELLENT for cutting down the post-marian romans because they don't have any spearmen (I think auxilia count as light infantry). I'm currently playing the Seleucid campaign and this is the first campaign that I have greatly enjoyed. I've nearly defeated Egypt (took alexandria, memphis and that southern province), nearly taken Pontus (beseiging capital, already defeated their huge army), and about to start attacking parthia. The only weakness that the Scythed chariots have is ranged weaponry. However, this won't be so much of a problem since you can just charge archers and peltasts. The only remaining weakness of the Seleucid empire is when they fight against chariot archers. This is all thanks to the Scythed Chariots.