Will you fix the Horse Archers?

**hellenes** · 02-05-2005, 16:41

With 1.2 making the HA useless (the dont shoot on move while on scirmish mode) are you planning to make them as they were in 1.1 and reality being able to shoot on move on full speed?
Because after 1.2 they are back like in MTW which is a HUGE step back...

Hellenes

**The Wizard** · 02-05-2005, 18:31

They did that now? You see, I've lent out RTW to a friend and haven't had a chance to play in the new patch yet, so I wouldn't know.

But if this is so, I would expect it so that we would change it back, because it is only realistic, after all. Still, I think we (i.e. the historians dealing with the factions using horse archers) need to discuss this first...

~Wiz

**khelvan** · 02-05-2005, 18:50

It it is possible to do so, of course. However, most things that CA did were hard-coded, and we can't change them.

**professorspatula** · 02-05-2005, 22:55

HA now require skill to use. No more people boasting 'My 3 units of Parthian HA destroyed an entire army of Egyptians!' and how the game is easy. I didn't like to use HA for the simple fact you could just stick them on the battle field and not really do much at all really and they'd slaughter the enemy.

I think I heard chariots are affected too, but this will mean the death for the Britons. Their light chariots firing on the move were one of the few ways to keep them alive early on. Are these chariots to appear in the mod by the way ?

Maybe they took the HA thing a little too far like how friendly fire calculations mean archers and velites often refuse to fire if it means there's a slight chance of hitting your own men. Sometimes I wish they'd just fire anyway!

**Steppe Merc** · 02-05-2005, 23:33

Screw skill! It's wrong! We can't use this patch now, nope. Horse archers working is more important than that other crap. God I hate CA. Screw em all! .

**Khagan** · 02-09-2005, 19:19

Originally Posted by Steppe Merc

Screw skill! It's wrong! We can't use this patch now, nope. Horse archers working is more important than that other crap. God I hate CA. Screw em all!

I'm with you on this Steppe Merc! But, I suppose that we have to realize that this is a glorify "Rome" game, after all is said and done.

That's precisely, why I started visiting all the mod forums were the so called "Barbarians" were hopefully going to have a more realistic portrayal. Well so much for the realistic usage of horse-archer units...

I'm extremely mad at ActiVision/CA for doing such a shabby job, especially after people waited 5 months for this patch to come out. If they don't correct this I probably won't buy another game from them again!

**Crownsteler** · 02-06-2005, 00:00

right...

i'm with professorspatula on this one, but then, i never use horsearchers (well, i used them once, as the ptolomies, i recruited a whole bunch of them, and they did make hanniballing through europa a bit to easy... ;))