seriously disagree with Quietus.

how can you say that the longbow is worthless? longbows are the kings of archery as far as I'm concerned.

they have longer range, AP ability with arrows or in melee, better lethality than normal archers.

they also shoot faster than arbs and can arc their fire, making massing them very doable.

park 6-10 longbows on a hill behind a shield wall and you can achieve a very nice machine gun effect in seeing tons of hardcore cav and inf just vaporize.

all you need in a high english army is longbows and some bills.

they can take most anything and are one of the best 2 unit combos around.