Carthaginian Archers.?

[Lucarius]

Hey RTR Players,

i was wondering... is it possible to recruit archers as Carthage ? (on RTR PE Mod)
and i'm searching on the internet why carthage didn't had any archer units at the ancient time,
because the Numidians have.
is there a reason for it ? that the carthaginians didn't had archer units ?
so the question is:
is it possible to give carthage archer units ?
(and does i stays realistic if i add archer to that faction)

(Sorry for my bad english grammer )


~Lucarius

[MasterOfThessus]

Carthage relied almost completely on Mercenaries (hired troops) to do their figthing, and thus they don't have any archers to reqruit. If you head of to Crete and Asia Minor you'll find archers that you can hire as mercenaries

You could make troops reqruitable for Carthage, but that would take some modding to do

[Lucarius]

Thanks Master, (for being my history teacher xD)

allright, no i don't wanna give the Carthaginians the ability to recruit archers if they never used them in the ancient times,
i wanna keep it as realistic as possible

[MasterOfThessus]

They used them, but never reqruited them from their own citicens.

The Cretan archers are the best archers around, why don't you send a spare general to Crete and reqruit some of them as mercenaries?

[Lucarius]

Good Idea
(thanks)
so they used archers but they where only mercenaries. they never trained archers at there own cities.
hmm interesting

[MasterOfThessus]

The same goes for almost every troop they had, and especially the sacred band. To play realistic you should only have 1-2 units of theese and never move them out of Carthage (the city)

Have you tried FOE or TIC? They are the latest mods from RTR, and have a whole new set of units for Carthage

If you are more interested in the history of the units and Carhage I'd recommend the FOE preview:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=226450

[Lucarius]

wow dude thanks alot ! (how many times did i say thanks )
and yes i have 2 units of Sacred band and i didn't moved them out of the Capital (Carthago)
and no i didn't tried FOE and TIC.
i'm gonna look at these 2 mods too.

[Maffimuk]

Bringing this thread out of the grave.... but, you could simply create the archers by typing - create_unit "name_of_town" "carthaginian archer" 9 8 8 8 in the RomeShell. When you look at your unit list it will appear as though they are peasants with small swords, but on the battle map they are archers.