Is there really a use for missle units?

[Korlon]

I especially enjoy using missile units during sieges where the walls are low (no ladders or siege towers to use). Kind of a exploit I would say, but I grab a unit or two with high defense rating. I grab some missile units to shoot at the unit guarding the breach that I made with a battering ram. They generally run away. I send the unit with the high defense rating in and put it on guard mode blocking a small alleyway. Then enemy then swarms in. I stick my missile units still at the outside of the walls relatively in position behind the enemies that are trying to kill my one unit. Easy pickings.

As for field battles, I usually don't have way too many slingers as they're usually spread out and unwieldy, especially with their low angle of trajectory. Archers are nice to have. I put them behind my line of infantry, usually flank them with more infantry. Javelineers I like a lot in field battles. They're large in number, small amount of ammo but they hit hard. I send them behind enemies and stick some javelins in their backs.