Archers for Rome, where/how?

**vincere** · January 10, 2015, 07:09 AM

Not being lazy, I've searched and googled.

I presume it's back to province specific ability to build? Anybody have a link to a list of them?

**UsulDaNeriak** · January 10, 2015, 07:17 AM

You get some socii archers in Italy with Marian Reforms. If you like to recruit archers earlier, you need to recruit auxilia outside of Italy. The romans themselves had no archers IRL.

http://www.honga.net/totalwar/rome2/...me&t=auxiliary

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...1#post13877962

I like the German Hunters from Germania Minor. But it takes some time to get there.
Interestingly, early germans had no archers, too. But thats another issue.

**Le_Swede** · January 10, 2015, 07:31 AM

I'd recommend conquering some part of greece and then build an auxillary barrack there so that you will get your hands on those sweet sweet cretan archers.

**zombieflanders** · January 10, 2015, 07:35 AM

Honga.net is usually a good place for info on units, buildings, etc. Here's the page for Rome's units, but just know that he hasn't updated to 1.0 yet. The AOR/Auxiliaries should mostly be available from the same locations (the numbers correspond to the locations in the AOR/Aux area of the Scriptorium stickied thread), but I can't be 100% sure.

**Ivan_Moscavich** · January 10, 2015, 07:43 AM

Take Appolonia as quickly as possible, and get an aux barracks up. Cretan Archers (Romanized) are some of the most ridiculously effective ranged units I've ever had the pleasure of using.

Otherwise you can get some archers by taking Corsica or Sardinia and building an aux barracks. Sicilian archers are not really good, but I guess they get the job done as a cheap archer unit.

**vincere** · January 10, 2015, 08:13 AM

Awesome, Thanks Guys!!! Really appreciated.

I've just acquired Corsica from Carthage so will go with the cheap first. Have a long war going with Suibi and another Eastern tribe so now I'm stable on borders and internals will take and keep a German province. And look for my chance for a nice Greek spot to send my younger males to govern

**Ivan_Moscavich** · January 10, 2015, 08:40 AM

Originally Posted by vincere

Awesome, Thanks Guys!!! Really appreciated.

I've just acquired Corsica from Carthage so will go with the cheap first. Have a long war going with Suibi and another Eastern tribe so now I'm stable on borders and internals will take and keep a German province. And look for my chance for a nice Greek spot to send my younger males to govern

Cheap is actually relative. I meant it more in quality than in pricing.

The Romanized Cretan Archers cost about 74 per turn to maintain and only are 270ish to purchase iirc, where as the Sicilian archers have roughly the same purchase and maintaince, but have far worse stats.

**vincere** · January 10, 2015, 12:12 PM

Originally Posted by Ivan_Moscavich

Cheap is actually relative. I meant it more in quality than in pricing.

The Romanized Cretan Archers cost about 74 per turn to maintain and only are 270ish to purchase iirc, where as the Sicilian archers have roughly the same purchase and maintaince, but have far worse stats.

Ah, understood. Thanks. Well, I will take what I can get for now

Lately I've been moving missile troops to outflank, so much more effective out there.