Quote Originally Posted by JFC
My issues are also the rate of fire and the power of the arrows which should have the BODKIN Armour piercing heads. I had 4 units of retinue Longbowmen letting loose at about 40 Kyote Priests.
That's 480 top notch Arrows being fired at 40 padded americans armed only with 2x4s with a bit of sharpened gravel stuck in the sides.
That's basically 12 arrows per man.
You should expect first shot, even with arrows falling short/going too far/missing, to be goodbye fellas right? We ALL know it should have. Wrong. It took a good 7 shots to whittle them down.
That's 3360 Arrows.
84 Prime Enlgish Arrows for each of those yodelling Wolf-men.
Something that should have taken less than a minute. Which we ALL know didn't.
I noticed that especially in M2TW (more than in RTW even), the smaller a unit becomes (ie less troops), the harder they become to hit. Realistic? Kind of, not totally, because it also means that your archers should have only one target to worry about instead of a lot of targets. I'd expect maybe 30% reduced rate of hitting a target when a unit is down to say 1-10 men, but not 90% miss rate!
As an example, there were 2 crossbow militita (non pavise) left standing. I had 5 mercenary crossbows (all experience 3+) fire at them and it took 2 volleys to take one of those 2 down and another 4 for the last guy. Thats just sad.