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?
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?
Last edited by hrvojej; 03-08-2005 at 23:36.
Some people get by with a little understanding
Some people get by with a whole lot more - A. Eldritch
It isn't hrvojej.Originally Posted by hrvojej
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Whenever I play with charriots the only thing that really scares me are ballistas. They have the range to hit every chariot and kill with a single shot.
However, if you are using unit sizes above average I reccomend to mod the numbers of ballistas per unit. 2 Ballistas take a long long time to bring some 50 charriots down.
Egyptian chariots are tough to face because they have high mass, multiple hit points, a dangerous scythe attack, and they are fast, using a horse model that has the fast horse skeleton rather than the standard horse. This allows them to zip in and out causing havoc to your forces with ranged weapons, or smashing into vulnerable points. Historically, chariots were not quite so mobile as cavalry and had real trouble with anything other than smooth ground. (About the only real praise you will hear of them in the time period is Caesar praising the way the British celts used their light chariots.) Mass determines the penetrating quality in the game.
If you can ever bog them down they die quickly, and the are quite good at killing their own when under archer fire inside a city during a siege...I've seen them mow down many hundreds of their own before with the scythes, leaving only a few chariots and men for my forces to mop up.
Rome Total War, it's not a game, it's a do-it-yourself project.
In my game they never tend to kill their own unless if they are running amok (modded that to all chariots). They knock people down but don't kill.
The best case of a unit of chariots running amok was when I pelted a unit of Pontic chariots with arrows until they ran amok. They took out almost an entire unit of Eastern Infantry (broke and ran), a unit of peltasts (broke and ran) and killed the general. About 200 dead enemies and a formation devastated.
Last edited by Kraxis; 03-09-2005 at 02:13.
You may not care about war, but war cares about you!
Actually, I think Cretan Archers have range equal to that of the Egyptian chariot archers. Try sending a family member to Crete or Asia Minor to pick up some mercenaries.
Ah...morality. The last bastion of a coward.
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