archers dont o damage

[Smug]

is it just me or are archers useless?
they cant kill anyone, even after multiple volleys the enemy units just get a little bloody
is this just cos its early access or is this a glitch or what?

[Fanante]

i feel u. 3 archer squad means nothing in front 1 infantry, hope the dev patch it soon

[Kelp]

its due to the fact that in ea, the testers showed that archers were too strong... so when he tried to fix it he went too far.

[GAINSB]

Got 2 archers squads behind a retinue, the retinue finished my spear militia then both of the archer units with only one or two losses that I can attribute to arrows, both squads shot 10+ volleys, did the dev even test this stuff before release??? Bro put so many formations and combat mechanics, but can't get arrows to do dmg, I can't believe he released the game in this state

[FAIR]

Known issue, they don't.

[Fanante]

Originally posted by GAINSB:

Got 2 archers squads behind a retinue, the retinue finished my spear militia then both of the archer units with only one or two losses that I can attribute to arrows, both squads shot 10+ volleys, did the dev even test this stuff before release??? Bro put so many formations and combat mechanics, but can't get arrows to do dmg, I can't believe he released the game in this state

well to be fair. its still an early access. cant wait the future update from this dev.

[Paddy]

I've never had archers kill anyone in my battles. Thankfully the Dev has stated this will be fixed in the patch that is coming soon

[Charlie412]

Yeah they are pretty weak, I watched 2 sets of archers fire arrows at each other for 3 minutes and only one died. I think they're pretty useful for flanking and firing arrows from the sides though.

[VDmitry]

They do damage, but too small. In a month they can kill a unit or two.

[Raymond]

according to the stats, archer doesn't have enough damage to pierce spear militia with helmet on and only just enough stat to deal with brigand. Still, archers shooting from behind route the enemies very quickly so they are not entirely useless.
Still, I think an easy fix to this is just make archer carrying ammo and the ammo have to be made by a dedicated worshop. This way archer will have the same logistic profile as infantry and be allow to bear down their own firepower. Also, there should be some kind of archery yard or burgous expansion with a shooting range where your militia spent certain time of the year training archery.

[Primarch Timmy]

Heavy Archer are great in melee.... But i found out if you ptu the archer on the rear flank thats the only the damage appear to happen. So, do a META move, when you have your people make bows. Just sell them and buy spears.

[Ned Flunders]

i stalled the baron by allowing his last unit of archers to shoot some brigand mercenaries for about 2-3 months while using the loose formation. 0 losses. (was claiming 2 regions at once and while one of his army is on the map he wont spawn another one to contest the other region)

[JamieSI]

Seems like this will be fixed pretty soon[www.gamewatcher.com], anyway!

[Ixerman]

Here I am folks one year later. And guess what? Archers don't kill.

[9erRed]

Greetings,

You can probably expect this thread to be ended as it's 8 or so months old.
- And many changes have happened since then.

[Valgarak]

Originally posted by Ixerman:

Here I am folks one year later. And guess what? Archers don't kill.

Oh, I must be hallucinating when using them then.

Edit - All these threads about how bad they are, what are you folks doing with them? Charging them into melee range and wondering why they are bad or something?

Archers are a great, cheap, brilliant way to arm your militia and keep them out of (melee) danger.