There have been tons of posts on how useless archers are compared to crossbows. The problems seems to be that archers (even high valor ones) don't lead their targets any, so if you fire at a moving unit, you miss all but the last few guys. I assume crossbows have the same problem, but since their arc of fire is so low, the bolts end up ripping through the formation anyway. The imbalance created by this twist of fate is really showing in multiplayer, where you hardly ever see anything but crossbows.
I have no idea how difficult it would be to allow archers to lead their targets correctly, and I know you devs are very busy, but is there any hope of seeing more accurate archers at some point in the future? I doubt you could get it into this patch, but maybe a future one or the add-on? It would really help bring missile units back into play.
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