New unit at the .COM - Trebizond Archer

**Zatoichi** · 03-24-2006, 13:33

http://www.totalwar.com/community/medieval2.htm

Very nice again - I'd say no strings attached, but I'd be lying - he has one.

It's good to see the purple of Byzantine rise up once more!

**Furious Mental** · 03-24-2006, 16:47

I wonder if you'll have to control the regions which made up Trebizond to recruit them

**econ21** · 03-24-2006, 17:57

Originally Posted by Furious Mental

I wonder if you'll have to control the regions which made up Trebizond to recruit them

My interpretation of what CA said about this is that they region specific units that are part of a faction's core troops will be trainable anywhere. Since this unit was a core unit in MTW, I suspect the answer to your question is "no" for the Byzantines.

However, if the unit can also be a mercenary for other factions, then it probably would only be available to hire in the relevant region. But Trebizonds weren't mercs in MTW, so I doubt they are in M2TW.

**Orda Khan** · 03-24-2006, 18:39

I am not knocking the units but I wish CA had worked on their rendition of the bows, they could be so much better

......Orda

**Leet Eriksson** · 03-24-2006, 21:36

ARGH.

The return of the byzantine wonder troops.

These guys were not only archers but light infantry, they could beat light cavalry easy cheese as well (and horse archers).

**Kraxis** · 03-25-2006, 05:09

Yeah, they were my fav archers in the game... Cheap, strong, easy to get and having a bonus in Treb was really nice. They were the bane of horse archers, beating the crap out of them in both ranged and melee for half the money.

This unit is almost the same in looks. He should just have a kneelength cloak and a more pointed helmet and that would be it. And didn't he have some sort of scimitar?

Anyway... 'compund bow'?

Didn't know they had modern bows back then... I thoguht they were using composite bows.

**Martok** · 03-25-2006, 05:42

Originally Posted by faisal

ARGH.

The return of the byzantine wonder troops.

These guys were not only archers but light infantry, they could beat light cavalry easy cheese as well (and horse archers).

They can beat light cavalry? Damn, I didn't know that; I've never sent Trebs into melee combat against anything stronger than spearmen. Guess I'll have to start another Byzantine game and find out for myself....