Pros and cons of using archers with fire arrows?

[Calypze]

What are the benefits and the drawbacks of using archers with flamed arrows?

I guess this applies to M2TW in general, and not just this mod...

[DrDragun]

Pros: Damage morale
Cons: Lower accuracy and/or rate of fire

Now somewhere on this forum, I recall reading an extensive test of fire arrows vs armored units because people seemed to think they had some kind of armor piercing behavior or simply higher damage. I am recalling from memory, but I believe the result of the test was that in most cases, the damage difference was not significant. However, at close range, with direct fire, perhaps the damage was higher with fire arrows vs high armor (due to mitigating the accuracy penalty)? In any case, the overall speed of kills was still lower (due to low accuracy/ROF), but perhaps a few more kills per ammunition bar.

There are many "hidden stats" in Total War mechanics which go into the hit and lethality equations, such as weapon type and armor type. Armor itself behaves mysteriously also. Armor upgrades nominally grant +1 armor, however against certain weapon types they seem to grant as much as +4 armor, unless the armor upgrade is in fact changing the armor to a more advantageous type rather than just the armor value itself.

[Ngugi]

Withwnar did composed the result from tests on the subject; http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...nd-Stats-(3-1)
(that it was done in 3.1 is of no significane)

[DrDragun]

Yes, that's it! Thank you.

[Ngugi]

Glad to be of service