Throwing or Archery?

[The Greg Machine]

So Archery has a very nice skill tree and allows for some serious long-range damage, but throwing is like... insta-kill at medium ranges with even a little investment.

If you dabble with a ranged character, which do you prefer?

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throwing = pros

archery in butterlord = noobs.

[kesat]

Archery is more useful in my opinion - esp. regarding sieges.

Of course you could go for both - throwing for open battles and switching to archery for sieges.

[Swordmouse]

I kinda like both. Archery for sieges/hideouts, throwing for field battles - there's something really satisfying about thrown weapon kills, though.

[Flawed]

Originally posted by DIO:

throwing = pros

archery in butterlord = noobs.

Throwing is for people that cant understand the complexities of a bow.

[Gunslinger]

Thrown is nice as its one slot for about 3 kills, good if you have a shield, mounted weapon and a foot weapon

Bow is nice if you want to kill alot and are happy with only one other weapon

[n e m o]

exactly

[Don Montega]

Both:
If you are part of the shieldwall, why not have some thrown stuff for ranged options,
you can also swap it to melee to have some defense when being surprised.

If you lead your battanian heroes, grab a bow and let it rain.
Both profit from having troops with the same equipment, so you can refill your ammo.

[Miggy]

Ever since I made the mistake of accepting the quest to raid a Sea Raiders' camp, I've hated all throwing weapons with a burning passion. All throwing weapons that I get get smelted no exception!

[BLKCandy]

Woods! Smelting throwing weapons give you wood! I love wood!

[Fryskar]

Archery if you want to commit to beeing ranged.
Throwing if you have a free slot but kind of want something for if they are out of range.

[Bearswere]

Bow for sniping enemy commander, Javelin for taking his horse out from underneath him. I use both and just keep the weapon I'm trying to level.

[Doombringer]

Throwing is good at the start - harpoons are cheap, easy to find, and 1 shot stuff.

[Onimaho]

Originally posted by The Greg Machine:

So Archery has a very nice skill tree and allows for some serious long-range damage, but throwing is like... insta-kill at medium ranges with even a little investment.

If you dabble with a ranged character, which do you prefer?

Throwing if you want to laugh as your enemies get thrown 5m back on death animation and one shot horses/horsemen charging you. (no focus point investment needed)

Archery if you want to be tryhard min/maxer for the entire battle. (2-3 focus point investment needed)

Xbow if you enjoy watching idle animations and being an operator. (no focus point investment needed)

[Keepenater]

Anyone else have a problem with throwing weapons? After I throw a javelin I'm stuck walking slowly the rest of the battle. Only happens with thrown weapons. Bows work fine and don't affect my movement after i fire a shot.

[Jorn Stones]

It kinda depends. Sure, you can kill 1 guy with 1 thrown weapon. but you don't have that many of them, so you can get maybe 10-15 kills depending on if you use 2 or 3 slots. With archery, its slower to kill, but you can kill a bunch more if you are accurate and empty your quivers, but that takes a long time, especially when you have 60+ arrows on you.

So the factor really is time; time before the melee starts. If that's not very long, thrown weapons, maximise damage in as little time as possible. If its long, like if you are running with many horse archers, or are in a siege, you might as well do archery yourself.