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Originally posted by Zen:
That is what I spend 90% of my gold on in my tests. They do fairly well against things without tower shields. What kills me is the Chariots (which have good enough morale that you can put 10 of them in a squad and not have them rout, which is very nice) running into the middle of the fight, then getting mowed down by a wave of javalins. Since they don't have any sort of shield (...) they have no defense against them and get torn up.

Well, I've been using Chariots with bows and gave them orders hold and attack (to test recent tweaks on it among other things). They would shoot 2 volleys at enemy and then in and trample away. Javelins and archers would, by that time be targeting other units (most likely HI) and my losses to Chariots were ALWAYS minimal.
Chariots without bows are also useful, and you can use them to charge at melee troops to break down their front lines.