Longbows are no good

[resonantblue]

Rate-of-fire.

Longbows outperform when killing enemy troops (as opposed to dedicated anti-range enemy troops).

[Raxxius]

Gunpowder units are overpowerful in this game.

I doubt longbows are underpowerd, as have been stated several times, the crossbow is a much eaiser weapon to use, thus needing less training. English Longbows were very very highly trained.

I've used longbows to decimate enemy formations and given that they can fight somewhat in H2H they can make backup shock troops to plug any hole that the enemy might be forming.

Only thing for me is, I feel the Longbow unit should be a City based one, with the more elite (Yeoman and Retinue) as Castle based.

Retinue in 1 v 1 have for me, beaten every other missile (not gunpowder) based unit in the sandbox. Hardly uneffective.