Favorite/"Best" Archer?

**Rilder** · 08-02-2008, 08:58

Originally Posted by Fondor_Yards

Also HA shouldn't be counted, since they are too good in the hands of a player vs the AI, not matter what type of HA and no matter the AI's army make up.

Unless of course there commanded by me, At which point they turn into a disorganized mob and shoot themselves in the face.

**Hegix** · 08-02-2008, 09:50

Definetely Cretans. No matter which faction I play I put Crete as a top priority to start ferrying in archers to my homelands.

**Conqueror** · 08-02-2008, 11:25

As far as "common" archer units go, the Persian archer-spearmen take the cake. Massive recruitment area, cheap, reasonably effective and not afraid of light or even medium cavalry. For more specialist roles though, you'll want to look at some others:
- If you want your archers to NOT die like flies in prolonged arrow-duels, go for the Syrians
- If you want your archers to darken the skies and rain death like none other, go for the Subeshi
- If you want your archers to have lasting power in both missile and melee combat, go for the Bosphorans
- If you want your archers to really kick some ass in melee, go for the Indians

**Obelics** · 08-02-2008, 11:34

persians, subeshi, mardian, etc. over everythink! in poor words, everythink that come from the east...

edit: but wait, i didn't know the cretan had more 200 range? wow, so they are the best archers in the whole world... strange, i always learnd the eastern archers were the best...

**Che Roriniho** · 08-02-2008, 12:29

I thought Kretans had about 140 range, so where has 200 come from? Also, I for one am going to stand up for Scythians, in fact, anything from the East, but especially the North East. Best though in my opinion is the Sarmatian Noble Horse Archers. 32 Charge, 190 range, and 20 defence. What more could you possibly want when it comes to cavalry?
As I say though, for foot archers, go northeast. best place to go for the westerners is te Bklack sea, plus you get the bonus of bosphuran archers, who are also not to be sniffed at.

**Obelics** · 08-02-2008, 12:43

me too thought that (i readed the Unit Compare tool), but Fondoryards is right, i just checked the EDU, and it seems they have that 200+ range, better than everything i know... even better than the subeshi and other steppe units that use the composite bow in the description...???

strange...

also their ammo is different from the Unit Compare tool, it's 35, so the same of the various eastern archers... while in the tool there is written 25 if i well remember.

**Maion Maroneios** · 08-02-2008, 12:50

My favourite would be the Toxotai Syriakoi, second being the Kretikoi.

**Che Roriniho** · 08-02-2008, 14:16

Originally Posted by Obelics

me too thought that (i readed the Unit Compare tool), but Fondoryards is right, i just checked the EDU, and it seems they have that 200+ range, better than everything i know... even better than the subeshi and other steppe units that use the composite bow in the description...???

strange...

also their ammo is different from the Unit Compare tool, it's 35, so the same of the various eastern archers... while in the tool there is written 25 if i well remember.

So what IS the longest ranged unit? I always though that it was the early Yuezhi Nobles, with 202, but this doesn't appear to be the case.