Quote Originally Posted by s_tabikha
huser thats because you mod all your xbows duh
Well no, I didn't.
It's just that crossbows have ap so the gendarmes' armour is reduced from 11 to 5 or 6 or maybe 5.5 and then those crossbows make some 9 damage. I found out that damage higher than the enemy's defense is quite deadly. That gendarmes have no shields doesn't really seem to help(though historically I thought shields were abandoned because advanced plate was better than older armour +shield ). And arquebusiers work quite well, just set them to volley fire in ranged fights, otherwise set them to skirmish, they will fire more individually and not switch ranks, but they're still deadly, won't change their facing and if you stretch them to two ranks you get all men firing at the enemy. Can sometimes be useful in shootouts as well because losses can confuse their rank rotation routine and make it slower. I also think they become more accurate when they gain experience.