During a siege against the Thracians today, I encountered a pair of peltasts (a single unit with two men remaining after my archers killed the rest of their unit) with a seemingly unlimited supply of javelins.
I do not play in Arcade mode and I checked the unit file for greek peltasts to confirm that they should only have thrown 6. However, they stood and hurled at least thirty of them before the novelty wore off and I sent my cavalry to slaughter them.
Note that they hadn't thrown a single javelin before being reduced to 2 men.
Does a unit pool its ammunition together such that when one man dies the others get to fire his remaining arrows, javelins, spoons, etc? I don't recall ever reading that this is the case, nor have I ever noticed it with my own units.
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