Peltasts and their magical javelins

**Ginger** · 04-21-2005, 10:58

It shouldnt do as I thought the game tracked each soldier individually. Looks like you may have stumbled across the "gather weapons and ammo" feature

**Oaty** · 04-21-2005, 13:00

Were you taking casualities from towers?

Also javelins are shared in a sense. If the unit had a captain with it that would possibly add 6 javelins. That leaves 9 each to be thrown since the captain can't thow.

Also there is the animation to throw but they don't.

Occasionally I get units that have done over a dozen animations but no javelins were released or only a few. What quite often happens is they go through the animation the unit then moves out of range or they are forced to skirmish.

**Rodion Romanovich** · 04-21-2005, 16:39

Originally Posted by oaty

Were you taking casualities from towers?

Also javelins are shared in a sense. If the unit had a captain with it that would possibly add 6 javelins. That leaves 9 each to be thrown since the captain can't thow.

Also there is the animation to throw but they don't.

Occasionally I get units that have done over a dozen animations but no javelins were released or only a few. What quite often happens is they go through the animation the unit then moves out of range or they are forced to skirmish.

Or only some in the unit throw, and the others don't, I believe. That's happened to my own units. I believe it's only possible for skrimishers but not for archers and slingers. Not sure though.

**Benny Moore** · 04-21-2005, 19:27

The ammunition is certainly pooled. The simplest of tests will show this beyond a shadow of a doubt.

**Kraxis** · 04-21-2005, 22:28

Originally Posted by Benny Moore

The ammunition is certainly pooled. The simplest of tests will show this beyond a shadow of a doubt.

Certain? Well if that is the case it is another situation of a stepback. In STW the units pooled their ranged weapons until the MI expansion, the fix was kept for MTW, and now it seems it is returned to an early STW state. Brilliant.

**Red Harvest** · 04-22-2005, 05:18

It is pooled. When you have ranged units who have expended some ammo and then they have taken casualties, you will find the survivors have more ammo than before they lost some compatriots.