Quote Originally Posted by Red Harvest
Historically, this is right on the money. It took a lot of time to wear down hoplites/phalangites with archery. Carrhae, Thermopylae, and even Samarkand illustrate this.

Greek hoplites were pretty good units if memory serves, something like +5 shield and +6 armour? Firing into the rear would be the key to killing them. Of course, that wouldn't work so well 1 vs. 1.
I don't have any problem with it either, RH. I did fire from behind (giving myself two units) and wiped them out. My point was that less ammo wouldn't explain that sharp a drop in effectiveness.