Archers

"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

Archers — Vital statistics
War Elephant	Medium ship. Ideal for escort duty and/or raiding. Strong versus light missile weapons, light ships Weak versus siege weapons, fireships, buildings
Prereq:	Build time	HP	LOS	Attack	Attack speed	Movement speed	Upgrades to
	3.4s (50t)	80	11	24	2s (30t)	17	l Longbowmen
Cost			Created from	Armour	Weapon range	Specialty
Base	Ramp	Pop
: 50 : 40;	: 1; : 1	1		None	0–13	Strong versus heavy infantry.

Unit summary

• 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

• Bowmen
• Libyan Skirmishers
• Warriors
• Militia

Notes

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.

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  "Illyrian"-style Archers, used mainly by Illyria and Rome.

• Archers skyth cameo.jpg

  Scythian-style Archers, used mainly by Persia, Tokharoi and Saka.

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.