i hate chariots!!!

**brutii_warrior** · 03-08-2005, 20:44

what units will sluaghter chariots?

i hate the egyptians becouse of their chariots.

is their a unit that will easily kill them off?

**aw89** · 03-08-2005, 20:51

Hoplites!
What faction are you playing?

**Jonny Dangerously** · 03-08-2005, 20:55

I hear you. I hate fighting against them and I personally think they are useless to fight with. Hoplites and decent pikemen like phalanx or silver shields. I usually target them immediately with my archers, but in the late game I usually field with 6 onagers. The moment I see chariots I blast them with fireballs.

**Mikeus Caesar** · 03-08-2005, 22:15

A small nuclear weapon? That might work. I emphasise on the might.

**Wishazu** · 03-08-2005, 22:28

even the worst archers in the game will annihilate chariots when set to fire arrows.

**Mikeus Caesar** · 03-08-2005, 22:30

Only problem with trying to get them with archers is if they are egyptian chariots. The eggy chariots have archers with huge ranges, so they end up killing your archers before they come in range. Like i said, nothing short of a nuclear weapon can stop them. Heck, when i battled the amazons, it took me half an hour to mop them all up, because they kept running away.

**Malachus** · 03-08-2005, 22:31

Archers aren't as useful against chariots at first from what I've experienced. In opening battle, I've shot at a single unit of chariots with 5 heavily concentrated units of archers and next to none died after I shot at least 4 volleys. Of course, once their morale starts wavering or they start routing, then my archers seem to have a greater effect.

**Zharakov** · 03-08-2005, 22:46

Crapy infantry.

AKA cannon fodder. Just stop there momemtum and they die easaly...

Thats what peasants are for.

**Old Celt** · 03-08-2005, 22:54

Stop their momentum? Yes, that works for some chariots. Not for chariot archers. They always seem to cost a lot of my troops' blood to kill.

**Watchman** · 03-08-2005, 23:02

When playing the Romans, I used those El Cheapo throwaway skirmishers (Light Auxilia by that point). With that funky +4 bonus they get against chariots and elephants an outer layer of those guys generally mired the chariots quite well enough for the legionaires to charge in and reduce them into matchsticks.

Failing that (or having run out of disposable skirmishers), a deep formation of stationary legionaires generally seemed to absorb the charge well enough. Sure, the formation went to Hell, but actual casualties tended to be light and once the chariots stop moving they're pretty much goners.

I actually found the Pharaoh's Bowmen to be a bigger pain than the Chariot Archers. Auxilia Archers outrange the CAs, but cannot hit the PBs who're making pincushions out of the first-line units (aka "melee wall") without moving to a relatively unprotected forward position.

I usually resolved the matter by sending a few packs of Warhounds to occupy the guys with funny bows. The mutts normally got slaughtered, of course, but by the time they were all down I'd usually done something dreadful to the rest of the Egyptian horde. The doggies didn't seem to work very well on the chariots, by the way.

**hrvojej** · 03-08-2005, 23:33

Dogs work against chariots. I don't know what works against.... excrement (I never encountered any hurlers of the thing as of yet).

Btw, since when is language like that tolerated around here?

**Gregoshi** · 03-08-2005, 23:47

Originally Posted by hrvojej

Btw, since when is language like that tolerated around here?

It isn't hrvojej.

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