Seiges: Proof that fire arrows do work.

[Didz]

@Lupiscanis
Well you can certainly see arrows strike enemy troops and cause them to flinch, producing a nice spray of blood in the process. You can also hear the 'plink, plink' of arrows hitting and glancing off armour if you move the camera over the unit under fire.

Under heavy fire units actually get driven backwards by the constant impact of striking crossbow bolts etc.

We also know that the game does include a Hit Point system, because we are told that certain traits and retinue figures increase the HP of our general's.

In STW the history of every man in a unit was seperately maintained so for example a unit of Yari might have some men still wearing out of date armor whilst the rest were wearing the latest kit, and you could look at the data file and see which of the soldiers in the unit had killed the most enemies etc. So, assuming that approach has been carried forward throughout the series it would be pretty simple to include individual HP per man in the unit data file. The only way to be sure would be to look but I'm not aware of any utility that lets you do that with MTW2.