Units seldom used.

[fahdiz]

Originally posted by Wauthan:
I'm sorry Fahdiz but I don't agree. Spider Riders are too lightly armored to Last very long. They are essentially basic Machaka archers with the bonus of turning into Giant Spiders when they die (though archer deployment means they will rarely reach their foes before the battle is decided). In theory good but since I can not replace the archer I get a Giant Spider, whose a melee fighter. It's not that the unit doesn't have its use. It's the fact that the Spider Knight unit renders it obsolete in my eyes.

No, you raise a good point. Especially since Machaka's archers are so darn cheap and can be easily massed under Sorcs, Black Sorcs, and Hoplite Commanders. Although I have found that if some light cavalry happens to make it past your main force and beeline for your archers, the Spider Riders do Last longer and prevent the insta-rout, thanks to their mounts.

I'm glad you found Revelers useful. Trouble is that when I group them with Satyrs myself what happens is that the nonrevelers rout leaving the berserkers alone to be slaughtered. But then again that means the enemy is distracted long enough for the other satyrs to make good their escape.

Heh. Pretty much the only thing I've ever been able to use any Satyrs for is "distraction"...that, and catching arrows with their eye sockets. Hey...at least they're cheap.

While we're on the subject of Pangaea, do you (or anyone else) feel like Minotaurs ought to get a slightly better attack skill? I know that they can trample, but if they come up against anything larger than an ant they start looking like the "strikeout kings".