Do slingers have any advantages over archers?

**piranha45** · February 16, 2008, 08:38 PM

Archers can fire from behind the lines without necessarily slaughtering your own men, they can alternate to flaming arrows, they have longer range... are slingers inherently inferior in all ways to archers?

**Xavier Dragnesi** · February 17, 2008, 02:14 AM

Well, slingers have better accuracy I think, or just better ammo, because put it this way. Slingers can completely destroy and rout a Spartan unit if all the Spartan unit does is sit there (check out one of Prince_of_Macedon's commentary videos, I think he was Iberia, and his opponent Greece).

**Selifator** · February 17, 2008, 03:09 AM

Slingers also have more ammo and I think they can shoot faster.

**Eccentric** · February 17, 2008, 10:56 AM

And they seem to be good at killing armored units, which archers always have a problem with, also they are really good against chariots.

**Xavier Dragnesi** · February 17, 2008, 11:13 AM

Lets just say that slingers have better weaponry and are more effective, whereas archers are more mobile and flexible.

**HeroSK** · February 17, 2008, 01:22 PM

Archers; 1) Greather range
2) Better Attack
3) Can use flaming ammo to reduce morale
4) Can shoot overhead of infantry

Slingers 1) Armour piercing
2) More Ammo
3) Faster rate of fire

BTW, slingers excetionally good aganist chariots. Also . Many historians notes that slingers had greather range than archers. In RTR it is fixed...

**The10thLegion** · February 20, 2008, 07:33 PM

in rtr i think archers are a little overpowered. Maybe its roma surrectum.

**Lord Thesaurian** · January 12, 2009, 03:40 PM

sllingers arent "inherently inferior" but i like arts better cause they can fire from behind the lines and use fire. its a matter of opinion, though.

**morteduzionism** · January 16, 2009, 11:16 AM

Originally Posted by Legio_Italica

sllingers arent "inherently inferior" but i like arts better cause they can fire from behind the lines and use fire. its a matter of opinion, though.

Does this mean when slingers fire from behind their lines, they kill their own soldiers?

What about scorpions/ballista?

I assume archers don't?

**aznflea** · January 14, 2009, 12:24 AM

slingers are better imo but for lazy ppl who just wanna leava rchers there archers are better

**AqD** · January 14, 2009, 02:13 AM

Originally Posted by piranha45

Archers can fire from behind the lines without necessarily slaughtering your own men, they can alternate to flaming arrows, they have longer range... are slingers inherently inferior in all ways to archers?

slingers are supposed to have much better range and power.....

**aznflea** · January 14, 2009, 04:19 AM

they dont in rtw which is

ed up.

**MooseUpNorth** · January 14, 2009, 07:48 AM

In game, slingers are pretty effective on walls. I've had them hold their own... and win... against a greater number of spearmen mercs. Their slingers, my spears. That was embarassing. The slingers kept killing the several first ranks of spears, and the spears could never quite engage.

**SonOfAlexander** · January 14, 2009, 12:37 PM

In real life slingers are mcuh better, but archers are still etter without a doubt - some people quite like to use them though

**darthbane7** · January 14, 2009, 06:33 PM

I use slingers against armored units, I find them quite effective in that regard. Also, use them as a skirmishing unit. They work wonders on heavy infantry.

**Njord** · January 16, 2009, 07:18 PM

Archers can kill your own men with friendly fire if misplaced and overlapping units, slingers will hit your troops if they are in front of them as do ballista and scorpions. Unless they are on elevated ground behind the troops in front of them.

**zedestroyer** · January 22, 2009, 06:08 PM

Slingers are also more effective against horse archers, even if these are using the infamous cantabrian circle.

**Flavius Maccus Opium** · January 23, 2009, 10:25 AM

Slingers have smaller range and do smaller damage but if you make good use of them they can be a welcome asset in your army.
Also don't forget that just attacking from behind and flanks with you skirmish units you can do real damage to the enemy.Don't use or don't let them fire (use the "manual" command instead of "fire at will" one) directly when the enemy infantry is charging...Let them charging, keep them "locked" there with some infantry units and ...move your skirmisher quickly in their flanks or rear and ...commence the mayhem !!!