Cretan archers and rhodian slingers in EB?

[Harniac]

I have bad news for you: neither is available in the current build of EB. Nor are Balearic slingers. I hope they will be added in the next build.

Ok! No problem, I can live with that. Then Ethiopians it is (I hope they´re available).

Welcome to the Org, BTW .

Thanks! Seems like a cozy enough place.

[Ludens]

Ok! No problem, I can live with that. Then Ethiopians it is (I hope they´re available).

Yes, they are. You do need to have a type III government and a level 4 MIC. You can find more information in the temporary recruitment guide.

[O'ETAIPOS]

Cretan Archers are ready and will be in 0.8

[edyzmedieval]

And trust me, they are more shocking than the Ethiopian Axemen.

[Teleklos Archelaou]

I believe SW did the cretan archers for us (which may or may not be in their final state though), and Aymar has done the balaeric slingers for us now too. They will hopefully both be in the big unit update we are expecting very soon on our internal build.

[Markus_Aurelius]

i hope you throw in the spartans as well

[PseRamesses]

Cretan Archers are ready and will be in 0.8

Fantastic news! Finally I can counter all the tremendous archers in the east.

[Musopticon?]

I do hope they are about as good as eastern archers and not better. I mean, talking about overkill.

[PseRamesses]

I do hope they are about as good as eastern archers and not better. I mean, talking about overkill.

Agree, any portable missile weapon shouldn´t have more than a missile hit value of 10 during this timeperiod. What I do find unrealistic though is that you can have 60 archers firing arrows, short range, into a group of unshielded soldiers and only kill about 20 per volley. That´s a hit ratio of only33%. What I DO like is that some troops, like many phalanxes in phalanx-mode, are virtually impervious to missiles

[Teleklos Archelaou]

I totally write off archers when shooting at the front of troops except for a few. Here are the only ways I use archers in EB:

-if the men I'm firing at arer Drapanai, HA, other archers/slingers/akontistai (basically, folks with no shields/armor, or HA who I absolutely must try to kill at range).
-if there is a battle where I've saved my archers - and then wait for a good time to use fire arrows to turn the tide and cause panic (especially helpful in bridge battles).
-if there is a tower or ram heading to the walls then I try to set it on fire with them
-sometimes they can be effective when I've used them to flank and they hit the backs of a unit with arrows or even charging (but flanking with them is very dangerous, since cav and better light infantry will chew them up)

Of course the Eranshr Asabara I use a little differently since they have the nice spears too.

[Harniac]

Cretan Archers are ready and will be in 0.8

Will they be mercenaries or regular (type 3-4?) recruits? Or both?

[QwertyMIDX]

Well slingers were more commonly used in the west than archers, so things are going well.

[Harniac]

Yes, they are. You do need to have a type III government and a level 4 MIC. You can find more information in the temporary recruitment guide.

Thanks Ludens - that's where i found them, so I know all about the type 3. Nice to hear that they're ready and waiting for me! Just 10 more turns...