Quote Originally Posted by blank
maybe the ap attribute should be added to the javelins?
That would change the situation. Slingers with AP projectiles sometimes do serious damage even to heavy phalangites.

At the moment I use archers to counter enemy missile units, slingers against enemy armoured units, and skirmishers... well they just kind of hang around. I play with general camera so it's not often that I have time to personally lead skirmishers to attack the enemy from behind, so...