what Civilizations has the best Archers?

[★Divergence★]

what Civilizations has the best Archers?

[Perfect Femcell]

brits

[Kian of Persia]

British have the best quality foot archers as the ages go on. Mayans have the cheapest and most rugged archers (plummies). Both civs have equal footarchers in my opinion, they just excell at different things.

[Player 2]

a bunch of briton unique unit with some monk and nobody can't near u

[aflashman]

Toss up between Mayan Plumed Archers and British Longbowmen. Plumed Archers have a longer range, fire more quickly and are tougher to kill, but Longbowen do more damage. I have read that when Plumed Archers fight Longbowmen in equal numbers the Plumed Archers win, but that Longbowmen tend to have the advantage against other units compared with Plumed Archers.

[FE_HockeySam18]

Longbows max out at 12 range, plumes at 8.

[Bruce Wayne]

I would be curious how the Chinese stack up

[aflashman]

Originally posted by AoF_HockeySam18:

Longbows max out at 12 range, plumes at 8.

I don't know where I got that idea from but I see you are right. Plumed Archers have a pretty ordinary range.

So yes, longbowmen have the best range indeed. They are awesome when massed.

[TheBattler]

It depends on what you mean by "best."

To me, "best" means most practical; which civ can dominate other civs with their primary strategy focusing on Archers. That's the Huns, with the Mayans in second place.

Huns can hit the Feudal Age and Castle Age very quickly and can field more Archers faster than anybody else, AND they save alot of Wood for Archers. They hit Castle and can immediately start fielding cheap, OP Cavalry Archers, unlike other civs who have to research Crossbow first.

If we're talking about which civ has the most population effective (quality) Archers, then it's Mangudai, maybe tied with War Wagons. To most people, War Wagons clearly outweigh in stats but attack speed and movement speed are stats, too, and Mangudai are crazy due to that combination.

If we're talking about which civ has the best combo of practicality and quality, that's where Longbows and Plumed Archers come in. I'd still give it to Plumed Archers, though.

Chu Ko Nu are good units but are not as good as the other foot archer UUs, but they can kill Rams and Trebs, so that's at least a small niche they fill that LBows and Plumes can't.

[hot_gril]

Are we assuming that this isn't in The Forgotten? Because otherwise, the Indian elephant archers are by far the strongest in terms of HP/armor and are good in other aspects, but they're probably not cost-effective in most cases.

[Slayce]

Brits are the Best archers :D

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OP, you can ask your questions in a single thread rather than spreading them all across the forum. And please be a bit more specific in your question. Do you mean damage output, damage per second or cost-effectiveness? What map do you usually play?
My favorite would definitely be the plumed archers. Very cheap to produce and upgrade. A massive 65 HP and 6 pierce armour and slightly higher attack rate than arbalests as well.

[The Crimson]

Chu Ko Nu are like the only archers in AoE that can melt even siege units thx to the 5 attacks, they're good all around

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Originally posted by CANNOLIS:

Archers are pretty useless against Siege Onagers. They simply get blown away.

Yes, and hussars are pretty useless at fighting halbediers. What's your point?

[Miiiiiiiiiiiiike]

Longbowmen can outrange defences quite easily as the game progresses.

Turks and janissaries are quite cool, but they are not really archers.

[Derpdahkiin]

British are excellent with their longbow men, but the Aztecs and Chinese are fairly good as well. It all depends on what other benefits you like to have with your playing style. Experiment. :-)