"Worst" Unit

[Fleeb]

Chariots. I hate em. But I love the Casse :-(

[Ludens]

Chariots. I hate em. But I love the Casse :-(

You can't use Celtic chariots like normal bodyguards, but they do have their uses. They are an excellent harrasment unit due to a decent turn of speed and a large stash of javelins. They can also be used to break-up enemy units by charging through them. Lastly, they cause a morale penalty to nearby enemies. In my battles, the chariots usually lured away the enemy cavalry, allowing them to be isolated and destroyed in detail. Then they went behind the enemy lines and started pelting them with javelins, leading to chaos and gaps my infantry could exploit. They wouldn't actually engage in melee, however, not until the enemy was wavering. Then they would charge and (hopefully) tip a rout.

However, I would stay away from non-bodyguard chariots: in a melee, they last very briefly.

[I Am Herenow]

Weren't ancient chariots supposed to have no axel, and so a huge turning circle? Or at least they couldn't turn effectively, that's what I saw in this documentary.

[Watchman]

Of course they had an axle. What else would the wheels have been attached to ? Anyway, a chariot's turn radius was AFAIK largely dependent on the location of the axle relative to the rest of the machine and stability considerations.

And judging by the use the Celts put theirs to, those were designed very much for agility.

[I Am Herenow]

Sorry, I didn't mean no axle at all - I meant they didn't have one they could turn. Again, I'm just going on what I saw in a documentary on Boudicca.

[hoom]

Differential is the thing that lets car driving wheels turn at different speeds when cornering.

However, chariot wheels would likely be spinning on a fixed axle rather than both being fixed to a spinning axle so there should be no need for a differential.

[I Am Herenow]

Well, OK, but basically, were these things big steamrollers that could only go forwards and weren't manouvreable, or were they just as manouvreable as cavalry?