archers

[glory-to-rome]

ok so i was just reading the patch 1.6a notes, and i noticed that it says archers are recruitable for premarian armies which is great...except i cant recruit them, which is just a minor inconvenience for actually... getting archers

so, my question is, what do i have to do to get some archers, so i dont have to use usless skermishers who run away from spearmen when cavalry are chasing them

[jakeswe]

You can get archer mercenaries from Ilyria for example. Pre-marian I don't think you can recruit archers from cities.

[SimpleCourage47]

You should be able to hire those mercenary barbarian arches when you build some of your cities up to higher levels. I think in Illyria and northern Italy in Patavium but i don't know for sure.