v 1.2 Macedonian Peltastai (Elite): assault role must be a joke, right?

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Peltastai does not nominally refer to the shield, but to their extreme mobility. They evolved from being an elite skirmisher, to an extremely mobile assault troop.

I'm not sure about this. They used a shield of similar dimension as the phalangites and also the latters was often called pelte although it had nothing to do with the light peltai of the psiloi peltasts. I think at least partly they were called peltastai because of the use of a pelte styled (but massive) shield. It would be consistent as the hypaspists were also called after their shield type.

Nope; think about the stones/lead balls as ancient "armour-piercing, high-speed projectiles" - these being shot fro modern tank guns also have high speed and flat trajectory, while being able to fly on quite long distances (2-3 km) - due to high speed and horizontal acceleration.

Slaists is absolutely correct in what he said, the trajectory of sling bullets is not realistically depicted. When you speak of high speed bullets, do you know about the velocity of a sling bullet? It is near 30 to 50 m/s (similar to arrows, compare this to a modern rifle bullet with 750 to 1000 m/s) and that is very low speed. And take into account: if you fire a rifle with a medium bullet (f.e. .308 Winchester, the former 7,62 Nato round, travelling at about 800 m/s v0) horizontally, the bullet will hit the ground in approx 500 m; you can only achieve the range of 3 km if you fire at an angle of about 35 degree in the air. Now try a flat trajectory with a sling ... For slings in general, look at www.slinging.org, there is a lot of nice information available about its performance or search for some of my boring lections about it on this forum.

Nevertheless meanwhile I play EB again with the original stats for slings, even if the ap stat is debatable (I had it removed prior and increased the attack). It's just more fun cause slingers so are different from archers and both have its purpose.