Archers

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"With Bow let us win kine, with Bow the battle, with Bow be victors in our hot encounters. The Bow brings grief and sorrow to the foeman: armed with the Bow may we subdue all regions."

Rig-Veda, m. 6 hymn LXXV v2-3, (trans Griffith, 1896)

In game[edit | edit source]

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Archers — Vital statistics

Medium ship. Ideal for escort duty and/or raiding.

Prereq: Build time HP LOS Attack Attack speed Movement
speed
Upgrades to
Military Level 1: Census Military
3.4s
(50t)
80 11 24 2s
(30t)
17

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Cost Created from Armour Weapon range Specialty
Base Ramp Pop
Wealth.jpg: 50
Timber: 40;
Wealth.jpg: 1;
Timber: 1
1 Barraccks wbi.jpg None 0–13

Strong versus heavy infantry.

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Overall strategy[edit | edit source]

Unit summary[edit | edit source]

  • Bach Viet Crossbowmen - Trainable for Bach Viet
  • Wanggeom Archers - Trained by Korea
  • Kushite archers — Kushite Archers are weaker, but can clearly run much faster, thus making them highly lethal.
  • Slingers — Saka and Gaul do not train Archers. Rather, they instead train Slingers from the Hovel, who have greater range but many disadvantages, especially poor accuracy.


See also[edit | edit source]

Notes[edit | edit source]

Originally, there were three versions

  • ARCHERS - occupied by a series of 13 different factions.
  • CHOSONHWARANG - two factions: Rome, Minyue
  • BARBARIANARCHERS -China, Germans, Persians, Pyu, Funan
  • Gaul originally had a "Gaul Longbowman [sic]" unit, and a Tai Bowman unit.

Scythian Bowmen, a mercenary from Age of Chariots/Rise of the Ancients, is an exact copy of this unit, except that it costs wealth, and has a train time that is 3 times faster.

Other units meant by Hong to come in here:

  • Paighan Bowmen
  • Assassin
  • Longbowmen, Longbow Levy
  • Psiloi
  • Yelang Bowmen
  • Choson Bowmen? Wanggeom Archers?
  • Qin Crossbowmen?

Clubmen are also classified as archers but mostly function as melee units.

Other versions:

Huns., Tibetans, Aksum, India, Carthage, Funan, Garama, Egypt, Greece all use ARCHERS.

  • Hunnic, Tibetan, (ASIAN) needs to use Hun archer skin.
  • Mediterranean - vanilla perponto, with Suer7700's Greek archer (macedon_toxotai.bh3)
  • India - find and bring in an appropriate set from Project 666.
  • Pyu / AMERICAN: Unknown.