Barrack Archer VS tower Archers

[Cotaks]

Why is it that Archers from the barrack cost 4 gold each in upkeep while 2 archer from a tower cost just 5 gold in upkeep?

a little more dps isn't worth the 3 gold increase per 2 archers,

They wear the same sword, same bow and same armour and use the same arrows. Do i miss something here?


Heck even hunters do 21 damage and an archer 29 per shot. So this makes it 5 hunters do the same as 4 archers, 4 archers is 16 gold in upkeep, 5 hunters cost 50 in wood to build the hunter buildings.

12 barrack archers = 348 damage = 48 gold in upkeep
17 hunters = 357 damage = 170 wood aka 17 buildings.

This test was with 1 archer and 1 hunter on a raider from a raider camp, i know not really a good test, this was just a random happening.

[Alexaraas]

The people in your towers are Guards. They will equip sword and bows, but not shields (and I think not armor either?) so they might be able to fight outside the tower in the early game, but in the late game, their job is to stay in the tower and just shoot arrows.

The people in your barracks are soldiers. Your archers can stay inside and shoot and they can even go outside and fight without running back to the barracks (guards will do that, you have to micro them to fight). Archers don't use swords but they have more arrows than guards, so they stay at a distance at all times and shoot arrows (well they should but that's not what happens...............). Basically, guards stay in the tower at that specific location at all times while soldiers (and archers) can fight anywhere and are easier to micro/handle.