peltast role

[clone]

i have read somewhere that the role of peltast was not mainly to kill hoplites but to dissorganise them.to force them to harry and make fatal mistakes.will you be able create peltasts like this in eb 2

[Antiochos VII Sidetes]

You can do that with any spear-throwing unit of any type. Why is a special role needed for that? Use the javelins to destroy a hoplite charge and upset their battle order, then hit them with a counter-charge.

[Ludens]

i have read somewhere that the role of peltast was not mainly to kill hoplites but to dissorganise them.to force them to harry and make fatal mistakes.will you be able create peltasts like this in eb 2

That's the role of light infantry in general. Not to kill the enemy heavies, but to soften them up and tire them out so that their own heavies have an easier time taking them out. Generally it was the heavy infantry that decided the battle, though under certain conditions (hilly terrain, one side lacking light or cavalry support), light infantry could wreak havoc on heavy formations.

[Watchman]

And if the other side lacked fast troops of their own, the light-infantry force could often more or less destroy a heavy-infantry opponent given enough time - seeing as how the heavies were essentially entirely incapable of effective retaliation against fast skirmishers, an unsupported force of such was pretty much doomed unless the lights ran out of ammunition before decimating them to the degree where they could then be swarmed and destroyed up close. The Greeks learned this the hard way in Thrace...