Ammo?

[Doug-Thompson]

Anybody checked the amount of ammunition for missile units? I sure don't seem to run out of javelins, for instance, as quickly as I used to. I'd like to know if it's ammo, rate of fire or my imagination.

[Quillan]

I think it's ammo. Horse archers in RTW carried 30 shots, IIRC. In fact, since I am now posting from home, I'll go check. Be right back...

...eastern horse archers carried 40, chariot archers carried 60, militia cavalry for the Greeks carried 6 javelins as did the Roman cavalry auxiliae. It looks to me (observation only) that horse archer ammo is about the same as it was, but for certain Jinetes carry more than 6 javelins each.

[BigTex]

Anybody checked the amount of ammunition for missile units? I sure don't seem to run out of javelins, for instance, as quickly as I used to. I'd like to know if it's ammo, rate of fire or my imagination.

You'll have to wait till the patch to answer that question. The relavent file is packed away.

But more then likely it's a combination of having low ammo and high rate of fire.

[pevergreen]

I am sure i found a chart that lists it....longbows have 24 or 36, crossbows have the same..something like that :P

[Doug-Thompson]

You'll have to wait till the patch to answer that question. The relavent file is packed away.

Drat. Oh well, at least now I know. Thanks.

[Doug-Thompson]

... and now the patch is out. Any answers, or instructions on how to look it up myself?

[Shahed]

I don't have any. But I was doing a test of Desert Cavalry vs Billmen and had enough javelins to bring the billmen down to 15 men with the last volley (so quite a lot). They seem to do very significant damage as well.

[Varam]

Ammo is found under stat_pri in export_descr_unit.txt.

Foot Archers/Crossbowmen: 30
Mounted Archers/Crossbowmen: 25
Gunpowder units: 20
Javelin units: 8

[IrishArmenian]

I always thought that Boyar Sons in particular seemed to have less ammo than other Javelin calvary.