Reply To: Saga: Are javelins too powerful in the game?

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I don’t think they are too powerful, shooting is at best half your units number in dice before burning abilities and with a 6″ range you leave yourself exposed for a counter attack, where lower armour and the inability to close ranks will often see the unit annihilated.

I love my Irish, but I’m painfully aware that once combat is reached you’ll run into a world of hurt and opponents soon learn how to counter or stay away from you.

like every game the meta changes over time and the use of javelins now will just push people to use warbands that play to the weaknesses of javelins, then people will counter those type of lists with something else., and so on. It’s almost cyclical.

The +1 on the charge I imagine is to account for throwing multiple darts in as they charge and I like that. But I’ll always love my Dane axes for the both the look but also the historical accuracy of them. While taking them as levies or even some warriors, I’m much more likely to have a field of axes.