What are the best archers?
The strongest I've seen are the persian archers and they've won atleast half my battles, nothing kills morale like shooting flaming arrows into the back of a phalanx. Are their any with better range or power then Persians? Or even better are their any archers that can also fight as infantry?
AW: What are the best archers?
Syrians are the best archers, and Cretans are the best in melee.
Re: What are the best archers?
Nah, Komatai Agrianai are better in meele, they use celtic longswords thus=super ownage.
I'd say Syrians are the best, with Komatai Agrianai in a close 2nd.
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Don't the Komatai use the sica blade?Originally Posted by Fondor_Yards
Re: What are the best archers?
Horse archers, of couse
I'm not entirely sure, but the various nomad horse archers (Scythians, Sarmations and others) may have an even higher missile value then the Syrians.
They Syrians are still better though because of their armour and shields. The Elamite archers are quite good also.
The Cretans have good stats but they have only 60 men (versus 80, large unit size) wich is a rather large disadvantage.
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The javelin-tossing kind do. The Agrianai diss them for being Old Skool and show off their bling-bling Celtic longswords.
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Re: What are the best archers?
The syrinas aren't the best archers, they have missile 4, so do archer spearmen, most other eastern and steppe foot achers have 5 (including indians), and Kretikoi have 6.
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I've just taken at look at Arkatreides' relevant unit card.
The Cretans indeed have a higher missile value compared to the Syrians: 6 versus 4, however they have only 20 arrows versus 25. They also have significantly less armour, from the looks of it they'd get butchered by the Syrians. And that's not even considering the fact that they have less men per unit.
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I've seen one unit of Syrians on a hill virtually wipe out two full units of Shuban Fradakshana (the eastern slinger guys) in a straight firefight - all the while all but ignoring the arrows no less than two units of mercenary steppe horse-archers poured into them. Eventually I simply ran out of ammunition and had to go dig out those guys (and their spearman mates) the hard way.
Infantry archers + decent armour = Teh Win.
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Re: What are the best archers?
Well the Cretans still have more men per mnai than the Syrians. But for an archery duel the Syrians would surely win due to the armor, as well as more arrows and longer range.
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Re: What are the best archers?
The best archers are T...
Sorry, guys, you gotta wait a while to see them.
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Re: What are the best archers?
The best archers are T.
Sorry, guys, you gotta wait a while to see them.
You guys realy love to let us in ignorance and desesperated....
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Re: What are the best archers?
What about Imperial auxillary archers? They look pretty cool with their heavy chainmail armor...
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Re: What are the best archers?
The best archers are T...
Sorry, guys, you gotta wait a while to see them.
damn the EB team for constantly making new units! There's always some insanely cool new feature or unit that we don't know about!
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Thanvare...?The best archers are T...
Sorry, guys, you gotta wait a while to see them.
Some kind of semi-elite Iranian archer?
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Really? Actually Keravnos, the best archers are actually the other T...The best archers are T...
Sorry, guys, you gotta wait a while to see them.
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Thanvare...?
Some kind of semi-elite Iranian archer?
My guess is toxotai something or other.
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Toxotai Spartiatai
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The best archers are so cool they don't even use their bow. I kid you not.
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Lot theres lots of Heavy armoured cavalry that have bows but dont use them... Theres one (Scytian nobles, I think) that even count as missile cavalry, have an bow and fight with the spear/sword comboTeleklos Archelaou The best archers are so cool they don't even use their bow. I kid you not.
But the best new cool archers that dont use their bows.... Mabe toxotai elephantoi catraphactoi (or something similar,
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How zen.
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yeah they use a sniper rifle
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Squamous blast.
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If only "gastraphetes" started with a letter "t"
Re: What are the best archers?
Toxotai gastraphetes
See, I told you it would be toxotai something...
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Re: What are the best archers?
Nah, it will be a saba archer/inf elite unit!
Re: What are the best archers?
for me the most usefull have been the indian and elamite archers they are really really good, but the elite getai archers are nice in both ranged and melee attack!
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Re: What are the best archers?
Indians are the best though, in one mp battle, a tired unit of them halfed a unti of parthian bodygurd catas in aobut 20 seconds.(in melee).
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I lost a Sauro general to them in melee before I could realize they were that good, I was pleased by the fact that I was taken by surprise, now 10 units of indian archers are on their way to raid the Sweboz.
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