P r o j e c t i l e s
They're quite nice in combat, or at least that's what history tells us...
There was once this Roman fella' named Marcus Crassus, yep the one who took out Spartacus, he went on to invade Parthia. However his legions were defeated at Carrhae (modern Harran in Turkey) by a numerically inferior Parthian force. Crassus' legions were mainly infantry men and were not prepared for the type of swift, cavalry-and-arrow attack that the Parthian troops were particularly adept at. The Parthians would get within shooting range, rain a barrage of arrows down upon Crassus's troops, turn, fall back, and charge forth with another attack in the same vein. They were even able to shoot as well backwards as they could forwards, increasing the deadliness of their onslaught. Crassus refused his quaestor Gaius Cassius Longinus's plans to reconstitute the Roman battle line, and remained in the testudo formation thinking that the Parthians would eventually run out of arrows. BUT THEY DIDN'T. Good night everybody!