How do I train longbowmen?
I am playing my first game of Medieval Total War with the Viking Invasion expansion pack. I started as the English 1087, it is now 1202 and I want to train longbowmen. I have built castles and bowyers' guilds in Wales and the three English provinces but only have the option of training ordinary archers. Have I done something wrong?
Re: How do I train longbowmen?
Wait 3 years. The early age ends in 1204. You can't build Longbowmen until High. Good luck!
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Re: How do I train longbowmen?
Same goes for billmen, another fine addition to the english army. Those two will give a very nice boost to your power, since you won't have to worry about Chivalric Knights. Wait until 1205...
Edit: Correction about the year, originally i had put 1025 which, of course, is not in the time range.
Last edited by Betito; 03-13-2005 at 19:57.
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Re: How do I train longbowmen?
Oh how I hate billmen! They cut apart both my infantry and my cavalry! Arrgh!
Re: How do I train longbowmen?
Billmen rock. They get a valour bonus in Mercia, and they have great morale once you get in some Churches etc. Plus after some armour upgrades they resist missles very good despite having no shield.
They're so good they can even preform decently in the desert against Muslim troops. While they do cook in all that armour, they're so good at attack and defense you can actually use them very effectively for a short while.
They best in sieges in my experience. I've seen these guys cut up everything inside castles while taking minimal losses from missles.
Re: How do I train longbowmen?
Bribe the welsh rebels in the first turn and you have a HUGE advantage with these longbowmen in the early period.
The term "longbow" is a latter addition, could be Victorian but the bows themselves have been around for a long time. the earliest bow with the distinctive longbow shape has been found preserved in a peat bog in Scotland and is estimated to be over three thousand years old. So why are they only available to Welsh rebels? I wonder when England started it's compulsory archery lessons, probably just before the hundred years wars I suppose.
Anyway, bribe those Welsh bows and go and quarrel with a Frenchman. The best start an English campaign could have.
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