Originally Posted by NeoSpartan:
I see.... thats some kind of woop a#%. Only one problem...
I am the NAKED barbarian this time (Aedui)..... I think I better start massing Celtic slingers.
still... I expect 2, 3 Clear Defeats. So far, there is a Hayasdan loose stack roaming close to my borders on the eastern Balkans. Later... much later... there will be full out war against Hayasdan and Parthia. But 1st I must free Galatia and the KH, Pontus, and Ptolemy (sp) are in the way. (AS is almost dead)
however.... in my next game I'll play Parthia (sp)
Slingers are great for their purpose, and they make particularly excellent garrison infantry or bait, however they are not tactically flexible in the same as horse archers who are able to double as light cavalry able to make short work out of light infantry. Light infantry have other uses however, especially in sieges where they can be used as fodder or siege manpower. Still though, I think horse-archers have a better counter against light infantry in the form of slingers or foot-archers (Now unless they are one of those lovely Eranshahr Arshtibara who double as spearmen) and that's in melee. When you become able to afford mass-recruiting the Dehbed Asavara, you've reached the true jack-of-all-trades. Cataphract archers is on the other side of the spectrum of versatile cavalry.
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