Quote Originally Posted by KrooK
Peltasts are good when firing into "battle mess" butr against archers or against groupped infantry they are quite weak unit.

The big difference is peltasts/javelin units can unleash all there ammo in 30 seconds vs minutes for an archer unit.

huge unit setting as a reference
So a peltast may score 80 kills in that 30 seconds versus archers who can kill 160 men in 3 minutes. So peltasts will make a weak spot in the enemy formation quickly where as archers will take time. My favorite is running a peltast unit up to archers when the opportunity exists cut them in half in no time flat and then fight the rst of the battle knowing I'm a little safer.