Who Are Those Guys?!

[jerby]

hey,

alexander had elite inf. troops 'shieldbarers' so that might be them, would be nice for macedon to have them, it would be a major faction for sp.

might be cool for greeks/seleucids/macedonians to have a phalanx-bodyguard.
and with the royal-palace improve them to cav.

by the way, in can't upgrade my bodyguards. why?

[lars573]

jerby they do have them, there called royal pikemen instead of their proper name Hypaspists. Also the generals bodyguard thing is broken and needs patching.

[Es Arkajae]

Well if you guys look at those black and red pictures that appear in the battle loading screens you may notice one of the elephant pictures (the one with the Velite guy being thrown) you can see one of the riders in the mahout (sp?) (the basket thingie on top of the elephant) is raising a javelin to throw.

I can see one reason why they may have gotten rid of it though, afterall you'd feel pretty stupid if one of your elephant units managed to start killing itself with misthrown javelins, well my theory anyway.

[jerby]

would have been nice to have a javelin throwing mahout. in the basket there is enough room for a lot of javs. so war eles woudl ahve jav and armoured bow's, gives teh armoured a reason to be there, since it is now a minor upgrade to war ele's