Quote Originally Posted by Zorn
And then scythia.
Their armies consist of 8 horse archers, 8 normal archers, rounded off by some chosen archers.
I could allways cry when my usually very infantery heavy armies meet a scytic archery force.
I feel like facing a modern days army, being shot in little pieces without ever being able to get in contact with the enemy.
And once you somehow manage to defeat them, you get ridiculously large areas of completly wortless land that is only good for spawning rebels.
Disgusting.
Yes, I've rarely faced Scythia in battle when using a non-horse archer faction. But when I did, it was UGLY! The AI went nuts with the flaming arrows too. I lost the first major battle after a long painful slide show fight (thanks to the stupid AI fire arrows.) I was able to kill all but two units with some very fancy (read that 'desperate') foot work. Can't remember if it was Dacia or Germania that I was using at the time. If Scythia had the economy of Egypt I would have been in big trouble in the campaign.