Use normal ammo for archers/ballistas?

[Landorin]

Hello,

it seems if my archers use normal ammo (i.e. against Gauls) they seem to kill more enemies.
Thus I wonder whether I should use fire arrows at all? Do these still cause the enemy to flee earlier than later due to the created panic (at least this seemed to be the case in vanilla RTW)?

Same goes for the ballistas, any point in using fire ammo?

[Zel408]

I always use normal arrows as well. Fire arrows were useful (in vanilla RTW) against elephants because it caused them to run amok. I did some testing in some custom games (in this mod) and noticed that the chance to cause elephants to run amok with fire arrows has been greatly reduced. Especially against armored elephants.

But theres hope. If you pay attention to enemy units' morale during battle and see which ones are close to wavering or routing, you can use fire arrows to speed up the process. Only problem I see with that is, you may hit your own men locked in melee combat with that unit in the process. Oh and fire arrows are also good to set enemy seige equipment on fire if you are defending a city. But you probably already knew that.

[czePowerslave]

Against chariots, the flame arrows are much useful. But in general yes, if you got loads of archers, give them few fire volleys. Otherwise I use normal ones as well.