Infantry Soldiers now need shields

[Endicott]

Infantry now apparently must be specially equipped with shields, made from hides. No tutorial on this or any idea to accomplish this. Archers I believe also have a special item they need as well. Any thoughts?

[Hildewulf]

Is the special item available from another city as a trade good?

Are there antelope on the map that you can kill with hunters?

[Endicott]

Originally posted by Hildewulf:

Is the special item available from another city as a trade good?

Are there antelope on the map that you can kill with hunters?

I loaded a later mission in the single mission gameplay option and apparently hunters make hides which can then be used by a shield maker to make shields. Hides can also be imported. Archers can get better bows and arrows by being supplied with wood.

[Uncle 1sstvan]

Okay but seriously, why was this glossed over? This is a pretty decent change to the game if you need an entirely new building and resource to utilize part of what makes infantry useful, especially since you cant use that building in Timna the first mission that introduces combat.

[phillip_lynx]

Afaik they do not NEED shields. But they are better with shield (or bows in case of archers).

But maybe I am not far enough in the campaign. I am at Abu. But every fort I build has the option to equip them with shields (which I couldt do, because of not aviable) but they fought well.

[Silvi the Bun]

Originally posted by phillip_lynx:

Afaik they do not NEED shields. But they are better with shield (or bows in case of archers).

But maybe I am not far enough in the campaign. I am at Abu. But every fort I build has the option to equip them with shields (which I couldt do, because of not aviable) but they fought well.

Correct - they work without them, the shield just upgrade them.

[Slezadav]

They dont need them, just as archers dont need bows 🙂