Why are enemy Leader archers so overpowered?

[Cruddy]

They often have 18+ movement squares even at low levels so they can run around the map infinitely firing arrows from half the map away so you're forced to leave them for last and abuse the terrain to force them close.

Also Archers in general are able to fire their bow on Attacks of opportunity, which seems like it defeats the purpose of engaging them.

[Stardustfire]

for the lat sentence: ????????????????????????????
never seen a archer that i engaged to shoots his bow ever again, they just die.

for the fist part: why you let them run around? first turn, first move, engage them, case closed

[Valkynaz]

Originally posted by Stardustfire:

for the lat sentence: ????????????????????????????
never seen a archer that i engaged to shoots his bow ever again, they just die.

for the fist part: why you let them run around? first turn, first move, engage them, case closed

If you disengage, their attack of opportunity is with their bow, same would count for anything that causes an AoO

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Yep I either target opposing bowmen with mine deliberately place at set up to get max effect and use good movement point companions to close them to engaged immediately. Bears can be very good for this with their huge hit point totals. Position on line of fastest approach and dive in as 1st moves. Rely on the Bears hit points to survive the game response.

I work to "ambush" - come from out of the game displayed view arc. This gives an extra move or so of a companion before they do

Target Archers 1st Rangers 2nd.

[Azunai]

Archers are the easiest class to shut down. Just engage them in melee to replace their powerful bow skill with a pathetic fist punch.

[MrFrengLitch]

Yup their movement speed is a bit ridiculous I think too. They're able to move up to you, shoot and then run all the way back the d*mn map. Rushing them is fine but sometimes you cant do that. Its just annoying more than anything else imo.

[foureyes85]

If the leader is the only one left and you cannot engage gather you group and force the leader to waste movement running towards you, hence giving you the chance to engage.