Heavy Horse Archer

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In game[edit | edit source]

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Heavy Horse Archer — Vital statistics

Light cavalry unit, with a fast, javelin-based attack. Very useful against slow-moving targets, but must be protected from cavalry and archers.

Prereq: Build time HP LOS Attack Attack speed Movement
speed
Upgrade of
Level 2: Rank and File Military
11.1s
(166t)
95 8 15 1.6s
(24t)
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Cost Created from Armour Weapon range Specialty
Base Ramp Pop
Wealth.jpg: 30;
Food.jpg: 30
Timber: 5
1 Stable.png 4 0–15
  • Can attack enemies to the left while moving.
  • Damage bonus versus infantry.
  • Damage penalty versus heavy cavalry.

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Overall strategy[edit | edit source]

The Heavy Horse Archer is a late-game unit which replaces Javelin Cavalry for three civs - mainly, Assur, Babylon, and the Thracians. This unit is probably the best horse archer (not to say the only one around) which can be used for fast hit-and-run attacks, as well as providing a skirmish ability. Still, it lacks the powerful, anti-light infantry capability of the Heavy Chariot, which is exclusively meant for besting light infantry owing to its splash attacks.

Thus the best use for Heavy Horse Archers, such as they are, is to eliminate any heavy or melee infantry at a distance, since melee infantry usually tends to be some of the slowest walking and slowest-hitting units. Next, they can also be used to eliminate slow-moving melee cavalry, such as Medium Chariots, or Camel Lancers, allowing for your horse cavalry to then engage the enemy. For this reason, Heavy Horse Archers are ideal against enemy factions with slow-moving super units but are deficient in horse cavalry, such as the Achaeans or the Arabs, but are far from ideal if pitted against other factions such as the Iranians or the Iberians who can get fairly good horse cavalry. Otherwise, you may be more interested in using Scythian Horse Archers, who are fairly cheap to use but don't have the same attack of armour as conventional Heavy Horse Archers.

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