Lack of Archers with Carthage

[TBB]

Hello all first post here...

Any way I'm currently playing an Imperial Campaign as Carthage... its only my second campaign. I noticed and am quite disturbed by Carthage's conspicuis absence of archers... Now this presents a problem in that how exactly am I supposed to defend my cities against assault? Slingers? Sure they can take down a few troops but their lack of flaming ammo to take down siege equipment concerns me.

Thanks all,

TBB

[professorspatula]

Welcome.

It may suck, but with Carthage you have to manage the best you can without archers. It makes their campaign a little more tricky, and means you need to rely more on infantry and cavalry, but that's no bad thing. If you take over Greece and the few Hellenised settlements in western Asia minor, you can then start hiring Cretan Archer mercs. They're very good, but obviously in short supply.

If you really want Carthage to have archers, you can download various mods. I have a free Carthy archer to download found by clicking on the silly blue banner in my signature, and I'm sure other people can point you in the direction of others.

[Shottie]

If you want Carthage to have archers you can DL RTR. I have it, and it changes some other things, but if you really need and want archers then I would recommend RTR or another smaller mod that adds just archers, but I dont know of one. Hope this helps and welcome to The Guild!!!!!!

[TBB]

Aight thanks all...

But a quick question about the mods... say i just downloaded the mods would i have to restart the campaign for them to go in to effect?

Thanks much,

TBB

[lismore]

Hi there

You can mod in archers yourself- you just have to change the numidian archers to be available for carthage as well: if you can change export_descr_unit and export_descr_buildings and then add a unit card then you are there!

Lismore

[Zizka]

In RTR Carthage gets archers, and i thought that was great until I started using the slinger, the RTR crew made slingers better than western archers, which is how it should be. Those Rhodian and Beleric slingers are now on my prime recruiting lists.

[Mahrabals apprentice]

This may be an ubernoob question, but what is RTR?

[Zizka]

Rome Total Realism, it is a mod you can find here http://www.rometotalrealism.com/downloads.shtml

The crew attempted to create a more realistic version of Rome Total War.

It is a change and quite fun, and very challenging.