RS1 no roman archers?

[z28man]

Why does Rome have no archers in RS1? Did they not have archers historically?

[CatoTheYounger]

I don't recall Livy mentioning archers in the second Punic war. Romans had a small Cavalry compliment and some skirmishers. But i don't recall them having archers until the Imperial era. Tedric should know the answer to this. But i believe the mod has it right.

I personaly stick to classic republic style armies. Heavy on Infantry with no more then 2-3 cav and a few Velites or mercenaries. Most of my Army is comprised't of cohorts. I don't like archers for the Romans. I prefer having distinct armies with completely different strengths. To spam archers or Cav for the Romans seems like cheating to me.

[ur-Lord Tedric]

I don't know about RS1 I'm afraid, having only ever played RSII.....

If you think about the 3, effectively, periods that RSII is broken down into....

- Early Republic (Polybians and Socii allies) - then the odd 'mercenary' unit of archers (represented by the Cretan and Celtic varieties) are what you are after
- Late Republic (post-Marian/Generics), which includes all of Caesar's period and the big Civil Wars, then archers are sometimes present (amongst other lighter infantry with cavalry also) and supplied from 'Allies' - I tend to use he Celtic for these types
- Imperial - only in these times do we see the regularised sagittarii units of the Auxilia - classically Western types and the famed Eastern ones, both of whom are represented

Overall non-legion troops were often present in small numbers - I find that two units of archers (either Celtic or later using Auxilia) with each legion/legion-pair stack is a good number.

[Sertorio]

And i believe RS1 is not supported since the team moved on to RS2.

[Sertorio]

And i believe RS1 is not supported since the team moved on to RS2.

[z28man]

so RS1 is the first mod I've loaded for rtw and just started. should I go ahead and get RS2 instead? is it a lot better? one thing I noticed about rs1 that I love over vanilla is guard mode, units actually hold formation when it's on. so stick to rs1 or get rs2?

[Post Hoc]

Go RS 2.5.

[xsithspawnx]

Definitely get RS2 (2.5 is the latest version). While RS1 is a pretty decent mod, RS2 blows it out of the water in just about every category.