Archers

[Aemilius Paulus]

Someone once posted a list of all missile units in EB with their stats (range, number of arrows, etc). That was really useful.

Here. Now the standard EB unit descriptions come with missile range and ammunition count.

[antisocialmunky]

Cretans, Bosphorans, and Cauccasians are the top ones. The Eastern ones are fairly high up there as well. Numidians aren't bad either. Worst goes to Celts, Romans, Germans, Greeks.

[Urg]

Here.

No, I think someone once posted an actual list of every missile unit in the game, with all their missile stats.

Thanks BTW Paulus for the link.

[bobbin]

No, I think someone once posted an actual list of every missile unit in the game, with all their missile stats.

That was me (I also made the mod) can't seem to find the original post right now but I'll put it up when i do.

Edit: found it

Archers:
Saka Foot Archers 209m, 25 arrows, 5 attack <---AFAIK they have the longest range in the game.
Toxotai Kretikoi 201.6m, 35 arrows, 6 attack
Subeshi Fistaegfataexsdzhytae 198m, 35 arrows, 5 attack
Mardian Foot Archers 198m, 35 arrows, 5 attack
Levantine Saggitarius Auxilia 198m 35 arrows, 5 attack
Sarmatian Foot Archers 198m, 35 arrows, 5 attack
Skuda Fistaeg Fat Aexsdzhytae 198m, 35 arrows, 5 attack
Hallatamti Thanvare (Elamite Archers) 198m, 35 arrows, 5 attack
Giusim Aravim Tsfonim 196m, 25 arrow, 5 attack
Syrian Archers 192.5m, 25 arrows, 4 attack
Thanvare Payahdag, 192.5m, 25 arrows, 4 attack
Medininkas 187m, 25 arrows, 4 attack
Thureopheromenoi Toxotai 180m, 35 arrows. 5 attack <---still the best in my opinion
Caucasian Archers, 180m, 28 arrows, 6 attack
Komatai Agrianai 179.5m, 25 arrows, 5 attack
Ethiopian Archers 179.2m, 25 arrows, 5 attack
Eransahr Arshtbara 175m, 25 arrows, 4 attack
Numidian Archers 170m, 20 arrows, 5 attack
Indian Longbowmen 170m, 16 arrows, 5 attack
Sabean Archers 170m, 25 arrows, 4 attack
Komatai Toxotai 160.2m, 15 arrows, 4 attack
Lankininkas 160m, 15 arrows, 4 attack
Nuraghi 157.3m, 15 arrows, 3 attack
Skutjanz 143m, 15 arrows, 4 attack
Sotaroas 143m, 15 arrows, 3 attack
Toxotai 143m, 15 arrows, 3 attack

Slingers:
Rhodian Slingers 195m, 30 bullets, 2 attack
Shuban Fradakshana, 185m, 30 bullets, 2 attack
Sphendonetai 185m, 30 bullets, 2 attack
Balearic Slinger 175m, 20 bullets, 3 attack
African Slingers 162.8m, 25 bullets, 1 attack
Arab Slingers 162.8m, 25 bullets, 1 attack
Iaosatae, 162m, 35 bullets, 1 attack
Komatai Sphendonitai 148m, 25 bullets, 1 attack
Iberian Slingers 148m, 25 bullets, 1 attack
Accensi 133.2m, 25 bullets, 1 attack

[Tarkus]

Nicely done, bobbin...can't really argue with the stats on this thread.

I really like my Subeshi units in a Baktrian campaign...and hate the Saka foot archers, for obvious reasons given the above table. But the 10-arrow advantage for the Subeshi units is nothing to ignore...

[Urg]

Cheers bobbin. So helpful.

I used the baltic archers (Lankininkas and Medininkas) when playing as the Sweboz. Very nice fellows.

Also found the Giusim Aravim Tsfonim good as Saba - they are spearman as well as archers, and can help rout the enemy after they have fired their arrows, whereas most archers are pretty useless in hand to hand fighting against a "real" infantry unit.

[antisocialmunky]

Most of them can be easily classified into:
-Heavily Armored Awesome Eastern Archers
-Lightly Armored Awesome Northern Archers
-Crappy shoot-unarmored-dudes of Central Europe
-Lightly Armored Awesome Desert Archers

Except for the Cretans who basically have good armor combined with the best shooting stats short of range.

[Yarema]

Thanx bobbin, good work and it will surely prove helpful. Even though the Sotaroas are the weakest i think their still good. I use them alot as mercenaries and they always prove to be very useful.

Btw, anybody knows why strictly "roman" (non auxilia) missile attacks are so weak? Even the pilum attack has only 4 statistics. We all know the clever design of a roman pilum, no need to wright about that, so why all the other units that "use javelins before charge" have a higher atack rate?

The difference is not that big so i'm only asking.