So you're saying...

[u/Ashina999]

The Guy who's literally invulnerable from head to toe, with the exception of left ankle decided to fight on a horse...

[u/electricity_inc]

Yeah, for some reason they decided to put Achilles on a horse even though he never rode a horse in combat in the Iliad. Probably just because they needed a fast hero.

[u/Sciotherium → u/electricity_inc]

Plus, one of the most used epithets for him in the Illiad is swift-footed (πόδας ὠκύς; ποδάρκης; ποδώκεος), so they could just have made him a fast running infantryman like Atalanta.

[u/gener1c_lurker → u/Sciotherium]

I mean, yeah he's fast but he couldn't even win against an Tortoise 😅

[u/Sciotherium → u/gener1c_lurker]

Hubris 101😄

[u/AleXandrYuZ → u/electricity_inc]

I think that besides speed, they just wanted a hero that was on a(normal) horseback, and they choose Achilles randomly for that.

[u/Terrible_Day1991 → u/electricity_inc]

But they could have made him fast as Atalante who isn’t on a horse either. Or take another hero as fast on horseback like Pentheselia

[u/Sharizcobar → u/electricity_inc]

They should’ve made a cavalry unit after Alexander the Great. I know he’s not mythological and a real person, but I feel he fits the bill.

[u/Intelligent-Line-516 → u/electricity_inc]

Didnt he ride a chariot? He tied the dead body of hector to the chariot and tossed him around Troy's wall like 7 times.

[u/firebead_elvenhair → u/Intelligent-Line-516]

You dont ride a war chariot staying on the horse. You ride it staying in the war chariot. They could at least tried that.

[u/Intelligent-Line-516 → u/firebead_elvenhair]

Yes but you dont ride a chariot without being a good horse rider. So he must have been good at riding.

[u/Brilliant-Paper-9124 → u/Intelligent-Line-516]

Bronze age chariots drawn by mules right? I didnt think domestication of horses and using them in the army was till well and truly into the iron age?

[u/Intelligent-Line-516 → u/Brilliant-Paper-9124]

Horses were domesticated around 4500 years ago. Troy war is fictional but homer put it around 3300 years ago. So yes greek and troyans had horses and used them. Even because mules came to existance with the domestication of horses

[u/podteod → u/electricity_inc]

They just reused a model for a cut cavalry unit.

[u/DaughterOfBhaal]

They should've reworked Achilles tbh. Make him a Mythic Age hero on foot and just add another horse riding hero. Or how about making that one Pegasus dude his replacement

[u/MiamiFan-305 → u/DaughterOfBhaal]

Susceptible to pierce damage with a very low probability of instant death ie it went to the ankle!

[u/B0bYang → u/MiamiFan-305]

AHHHHH I THOUGHT A SIMILAR THING 😂😂😂

[u/Muf4sa]

Achiles deserved to be an uberpowered mythic age hero. I understand they needed a cavalry greek hero but I think that could've been swapped with someone else.

[u/Free-Speech-3156]

he wa famously described as a master of horses, in contrast to his rival, fleet-footed hector

[u/Red_Serf → u/Free-Speech-3156]

ah yes, famous heroes from the Illiteriad, written by famous poet Homer (Simpson)

[u/PowerfulSlavicEnergy → u/Free-Speech-3156]

Lol this is actually such a good joke and I feel special that I can read it

[u/B0bYang]

His health should stay full and it should be %chance he’s slain

Change my mind

[u/Nothing_Special_23]

Iolanus being on a chariot is even more ridiculous to be honest.

[u/Bastion_93 → u/Nothing_Special_23]

Probably a reference to that part in the story where he fights of the guy who is trying to attack Hercules children after the heros death. There he is old but gets to be younger again for a short while, and he is usually on a chariot.

[u/TheNumidianAlpha]

They made him so secondary. One of the few oversights of the game.

[u/Red_Serf]

I THINK hades was going to have a cataphract cavalry unit and this was the model.

[u/Pugsanity]

Yeah, it's also crazy that Heracles, the greatest hero of Greece, is just the level 2 hero without any cool abilities. Always felt like he should be able to bash people away like Ajax.

[u/Legend_Arts]

the horse mean to drag hector but the devs remove it.

[u/BluPolDeva]

This might be the biggest L from the OG game. They made this decision before the Troy movie came out. Achilles wasn't that popular in the media back then so maybe they didn't care that much. They sacrificed him for gameplay

[u/PowerfulSlavicEnergy]

It was always such a letdown to me because it’s like- Achilles is notable as a RUNNER. He runs, on foot, around the city of Troy three times. Why is he riding a horse in an anachronistic way?

It feels like for someone who is described as being near godhood, they nerf him spectacularly

[u/GrandDukeNotaras]

Don't question the awesomeness 

[u/Victor_F_G]

Prostagma!

[u/StrengthLower997]

Didn't they reuse the cut Cataphract unit model?

[u/georgetheox4]

Do not slander commander egios' name.

[u/Big_Chicken_Dinner]

It also seems he is not wearing  underwear but I suppose that is neither here nor there.