flaming arrows are only good once you are deep in a battle and morale reaching crisis points for a lot of units, the flaming arrows may be enough to tip them the rest of the way into a rout.

as far as using them to inflict casualties your wasting your time and ammunition. killing soldiers permanently removes morale. shooting them with fire arrows only temporarily removes morale.

i havent played mp since kingdoms came out. ive spent a lot of time learning how to mod the last several months. so i dont know how overpowered the new shield bonus has made to units in mp.

what i do know is that the shield bonus on spearmen, especially ones like armored spearmen is near on making them invincible. with the balancing like it is with spearmen why would you want anything else. they can beat pikes, halberds, and slug dismounted knights to a standstill or at least long enough for the battle to have been decided elsewhere.

when we are talking about pavs being too powerful and spearmen being too powerful we are actually talking about the same issue.

the shield bonus.