Chariots

[Ar7]

Chariots are really scary. In one of my last battles I faced 6 British family members, that also brought a full stack along, this along with the Huge unit size ended with many many chariots.

I set my legions up in very deep formation so I could stop and grind them. What happened was an absolute opposite, after a couple of seconds my organised army fell into total chaos, there were chariots everywhere, this was closely followed by a British charge...I thought it's over, I managed to win though, loosing half of my army. These were the biggest losses I had suffered in a long time.

In time the chariots got stuck and were killed, but the chaos their charge brought down on my legions resulted in my men getting attacked from every side possible and made my men forget even the word formation.

Fear the chariots!

[master of the puppets]

fun fun but if you stress your imagination a reeeal lot just immagin what it was like as ramses II at kadesh you have 2000 chariots and 6000-7000 men the hittites have 3000 chariots and 10000 men...i will be damned if any movie or videogame can capture that in the next 10 years

[Arrowhead]

Witch chariots were you using?
British light chariots rock and the heavys are just...well...
I used them in a battle and... let the smilies speak

[Kaldhore]

I was using both light and heavy - didnt notice much difference.

Its a bit frustrating that these guys cant kill an enemy unit on the run.....

[Oaty]

Funny the A.I. can kill a routing unit of mine with about 100 men in no time. And if threy're fighting to the death that is all the quicker they kill them.

[RollingWave]

There was a bug that generals of the chariot unit wasn't getting the proper HP bonus it's suppose to have... they say they fixed it in 1.2 though i havn't tested it out yet.

Chariots are harder to use properly than calvary but can be more devastating if used right..... their charge followed up by a charge of other units will beat ANYTHING that's not a good phalanx or angry elephants :P

They will get stuck though, either by rocky terrain or by trees or by ur own troops, so don't try to run them through ur own units.

Anyone have tips on how to maximize their charge though? turn on skrimish mode ? or use move command instead of attack?

[The Stranger]

Witch chariots were you using?
British light chariots rock and the heavys are just...well...
I used them in a battle and... let the smilies speak

yes normally they would beat those damned warbands up now they get killed without inflicting enemy casualties and their arrows suck big time


and they still wont charge but stop charge stop charge why isnt this fixed