Quote Originally Posted by jerby
ok, but then the question, why do they have an -6 elie bonus when they are perfect for hamstringing ( cuttign legs up) and how will this be in eb?
is that a -6 elephant "bonus"? If so then it is because horses are scared of elephants and won't go near them if they can help it!!

Remember what a scythed chariot is - it seems that for the most part the drivers leapt out befor impact - thus giving the horses soem time to slow down and/or swerve. So they are completely useless after that - without drivers they shuold be amok immediately!!

And they should have a melee factor of 0 - they are utterly useless when stationary.

However they were useful on occasion - including in this era - there's a description in one of Plutarch's Lives IIRC (Maybe Sulla?), of a Pontic army using only scythed chariots and light troops to defeat the Bithynans - a Thracian tribe that lived in north-west Asia Minor.

Also there's an instancebefore this era of 2 scythed chariots and some Persian cavalry catching some Greek hoplites - the chariots charge and keep eth hoplites dispersed, so the cavalry can do the "real" damage and ride them down.