What's the best unit for Flaming Arrows?

[MaxWilson]

I expect markatas are probably the best chassis for Flaming Arrows because you can pack so many cheap markatas onto the map. Or maybe Sauromatians because they have better precision.

That said, I haven't tested it. Fire damage aside, flaming arrows makes your arrows magic == better at avoiding shields, so if you're dealing with Abysians with shields, crossbows are still probably a better bet than arrows. For heavily-armored normal infantry...

A crossbow bolt that hits does 10 AP + 6 AP. A flaming (shortbow) arrow that hits does 10 + 6 AP, and you get twice as many. That means that 10 AP needs to do as much as (10 + 10 + 6 AP, since the other 6 AP cancels out). Gut feel tells me that's going to be around Prot 15 or so but you could crank the math or run a simulation to be sure.

-Max