Horse Archers?

[Cicero?]

errr.. i may just be ignorant to the workings of XC? but when i use horse archers, even as a single unit in loose formation, they seem to just die randomly, it is as if they're hitting themselves. so even if i have 1000 HA against 200 Doryphoroi or something all probably lose 10-15 of my own HA to themselves even if i never come to melee. is this meant to happen?
ps. love what you've done with pontus, they're my new faves.

pps. thats 10-15 HAs in each unit.

[Zarax]

Err, I never noticed such behavior.
Does it do that with all HA units or one in particular?

P.S. Which version are you using?

[Anakarsis]

Yes, this happens, its simply, unnacuracy causes units to hit accidentally one another. This does NOT happens within the same unit, but when you use, say, 8 HA units, they would probably hit themselves at some point or another.

[Cicero?]

it does it with all HAs i've tried the pontic ones from armenia, the mercenary ones but not with median ones.
it also occasionally does it with normal foot archers. it seems to happen more when you have multiple ones together?
i'm using the latest one i think, i downloaded it 3 days ago from the link on this forum thing, if that makes sense..?
it only happens when they're shooting stationary, not when moving but not sure about cantabrian circle.
hope that helps, it isn't a particulary big deal doesn't ruin it i just wasn't sure it was meant to happen.
Thanks!

[Cicero?]

ah okay, thanks. i guess spacing them out and moving them away from eachother helps?

[Apollyon]

ah okay, thanks. i guess spacing them out and moving them away from eachother helps?

If a unit is close to another units target, that may be where your problem lies.

Keep your units away from your archers targets.

[Cicero?]

it isn't that, it just seems that when all my HAs are together/near eachother they seem to get hit, seemingly by eachother.
i've started using them as individual units instead of a big group and that seems to help.

[Zarax]

Bunching missile units is a bad idea, arching trajectories are slightly straighter than in vanilla and that may cause friendly fire.

[Anakarsis]

"May"?? i hate you for that Zarax

Median are "elitearchers" meaning that they are more accurate. Same for Sarmatian Elite HA and Female HA. No unit in Armenia have this, as Cataphract armour makes super-precise shot difficult (and unarmoured HA are too low in tier to have this)