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Having tried the Sarmatians yet myself. Carthage is definitely pretty boring. About the only good thing is the elephants. I’m kind of bummed that so many nations don’t get any kind of archers at all. I’m really curious…is this accurate? I could have sworn that Rome, for instance, used several different auxilliary archers in the real world. Seems like slingers are the standard ranged troops.
-XT
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Guess I wasn’t clear - the last game I was the Numidians. Crappy troops (but they do get archers). I’m no expert on the history of archery, but I suspect that it is accurate that the Romans never fielded Roman archers, just locally-raised auxilliaries, so Rome only having access to “area of recruitment” archers in RTR sounds about right.