Greetings all, long time Europa Barbarorum player here, and by long time i really mean it.
This is my all time favorite game and leisure time spender, i love this mod so much that i'm really thinking to get a tattoo with it.
Elegies apart, the few times that i actually posted here was in posts regarding the remaking of the Persian Empire (another old obsession of mine).
Because of this and having read a bit about the military tactics that were employed by the Achaemenids, as much as we could gather them, i have a question about arrows first.
Loving the game too much and also largely agreeing with the policies taken and the artistic vision of the team, i don't want to suggest to having the damage of the arrows raised by a bit.
Instead i want to ask if there is a mod that raises arrow damage a bit.
Or even better, if there is such a thing as attaching a moral penalty to mass arrows?
That would be as good, if not even better.
From a historical point of view, treating the classical case of hoplites vs immortals, no greeks won by admiring the cloud of arrows or until the enemy ran out of arrows. They used their battle strategies very intelligently, firstly by trying to remove the advantage of the cavalry, or remove the advantage of arrow ballistics or both.
As i understood it, the persians lost battles against the greeks because they either they placed too much trust on their arrows while the enemy closed in faster to melee them or being denied cavalry because of rough terrain. Also Alexander with phalanxes natural bonus against arrows and cavalry
I just want to recreate an environment where 2 units of archers would be enough to rout a unit of hoplites if they could not reach the archers fast enough. In game i need more like 4 or more units.
But maybe i am doing it wrong, i am not a particularly good strategist, as emulating the persian armies i place a lot of archers behind a line of sparabara and expected a mass rout Please feel free to share your favorite persian tactics that are inspired from history at least.
The second question, will we ever see Atropatkan in?
Thanks and good health to all!