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How to Use Horse Archers

With regards to your specific question, foot archers are the bane of horse archers. Each foot unit is fifty percent larger, meaning they can put more arrows in the air faster, and they make for smaller targets without the big horse to aim at. Your best option is not to attack foot archers with horse archers, unless you can separate them from the group and charge them (and even then some foot archers have decent melee and vanilla HA are easy to beat).

Take on their foot archers with archers of your own, or with light cavalry. Or you can choose to ignore them and focus your attack on the enemy infantry and cavalry. Once they're gone their archers will be much more vulnerable.

And of course the flipside is, if your enemy comes at you with hordes of horse archers (eg-Turks, Mongols), be sure to have plenty of foot archers in your army so you can out-duel them.

Good luck!

Ajax

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