Wardogs- Too powerful or not?

[Sizzlorr]

true but if this is historicly sound then why did the greek plato say that and not a roman who had a wardog?

Did Plato say it before Shakespeare?

ANTONY

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
That ever lived in the tide of times.
Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!
Over thy wounds now do I prophesy,--
Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ruby lips,
To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue--
A curse shall light upon the limbs of men;
Domestic fury and fierce civil strife
Shall cumber all the parts of Italy;
Blood and destruction shall be so in use
And dreadful objects so familiar
That mothers shall but smile when they behold
Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war;
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds:
And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war;
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.

Julius Ceasar, Act 3 scene 1 (http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/...aesar.3.1.html)

EDIT: Oops, should have finished reading the thread before replying. Nice job, theDuck.

[The Stranger]

historically wardogs were used to disrupt enemy cavalry charges
i know it was used in the middle ages the put a torch on the dogs head to scare the horses these were no rottweillers but an other kind of dog mastitsu ar something maybe they copied it from the romans

[Emren]

I don't build wardogs, but I do occasionaly use the ones the Senate gives me as a gift.

One question: I have never fought a wardog-unit in the game (only in real life! ). What happens if you set archers to shoot at the wardogs? Do they target the handlers or the actual dogs?