cav archers without thumb ring

[Divine Porcupine!]

what are you guys feelings & experiences about not having thumb ring on your cav-archers. they have 50% accuracy without it. 100% accuracy & 10% faster with it.

i'm mostly asking because slav, khmer, goth, & burmese dont have it which is the only thing limiting castle age cav-arch rush for them.

[mmmcheesywaffles]

I never notice. If the archers fail to kill enough first time I use them Ijust make more and make up for the weakness ;)

[Mr_F0NG]

Most times there are better options than cav archers(usually knights). That said, when you do go CA it should be with civs that get all the upgardes for them.

This includes upgrades from the stable such as bloodlines and husbandry since they also apply to CA's.

Faster firing is pretty important. The accuracy just reduces the arrow variation. That only makes it 100% accurate if the unit isn't moving. When you want to actually hit things, baliistics is imparitive. I almost ignore the acuracy part when picking which tech to research first. I always think of thumb ring in terms of the faster firing part.

This is just coming from a perspective to use the best options available to you, and leverage the strengths of your civ.

No one can tell you not to do CA's with goths though :)

[SNafu]

Those civs aren't good at horse archer rushes anyway but make up with other advantages. Goths and Slavs have amazing infantry and the Khmer and Burmese have powerful elephants that can demolish enemy bases, also all these civs can do a good knight rush. :)

[FastHamster]

Cav Archers are almost never worth it unless you're the Huns.

[Divine Porcupine!]

i know how to play the game people. thank you to the first 2 people who actually answered my question.

by the way cav archers can pick off groups of viligers faster than cav & infantry can. they also do quite well at defending rams & knights/elephants from pikes.

besides how many people are expecting cav-archers from the goths.