Where are the archers for Britannia

[d.mihajlo]

Why is it so hard all of the sudden to find native Britannia archers. When starting a new game as a Briton, I cannot recruit any archers. Everywhere I go I only find volunteers or whatever infantry, the ones that do not advance into archers. Where the hell are the archers for Britannia?! WTH?!

[Booba]

They’re the noble line and have always been rare? You can get Battanian Armed Traders in taverns fairly regularly. They’re pretty mediocre, but they wear flannel. There’s no shame in hiring Imperial “mercenaries” to pad your ranks of archers either.

[Clovis Sangrail]

If you mean Battania, the archers are in the noble tree, which are hard to get if you do not have high relationship with Battanian villages. If you hold a Battanian town and take care of its villages, you'll get some.

Another source of good archers is forest bandits, which can eventually become Bttanian Fians if you have the right leadership perks.

[Urmel]

you must hire archers from other factions.

[Thunderchief]

While playing Aserai I was getting noble recruits all the time. 2-3 at the same place even. Is it not like this in Battania?

I think it has to do with the power of the notable, but I don't know if it is possible for the player to boost the power of the notable or if they are just spawned that way. Maybe if we do lots of quests for the same guy he grows stronger?

I just started a playthrough as Battanian but haven't spent much time in Battania. I'll go back and play around a bit.

[Onimaho]

Originally posted by d.mihajlo:

Why is it so hard all of the sudden to find native Britannia archers. When starting a new game as a Briton, I cannot recruit any archers. Everywhere I go I only find volunteers or whatever infantry, the ones that do not advance into archers. Where the hell are the archers for Britannia?! WTH?!

They are locked behind a DLC paywall...

joking

I do hope they redo the troop trees and not lock an entire faction out of a soldier type because it is only available to nobles.

Don't care how crappy the troop is, every faction should have access to spears, shields, archers, and cav from the base tree.

[Ð'jinn]

Just be a merc for a faction at war with them. Capture and convert the archers. It will take a while, but protect them well. Do missions for the villages. If the archers where easier to get the Battanians would steamroll everyone. Worse than they already do. They are just incomparable with any other archer.

People like to complain about the archers being hard to get, but they forget that the Battanians are already excellent with thrown weapons and the elite archers are their super weapon.

[VonBarb]

Originally posted by Savaj:

Just be a merc for a faction at war with them. Capture and convert the archers. It will take a while, but protect them well. Do missions for the villages. If the archers where easier to get the Battanians would steamroll everyone. Worse than they already do. They are just incomparable with any other archer.

People like to complain about the archers being hard to get, but they forget that the Battanians are already excellent with thrown weapons and the elite archers are their super weapon.

What he said. Fian Champions are incredibly powerful, beating all other archers in range, damage and rate of fire. They NEED to be hard to get. Get 20 of them in line and you've got yourself a machinegun.

Don't overlook the fact most Battanian infantry also carry throwing weapons which will do a lot of damage at short range, right before shield walls connect, and is enough to protect them efficiently from head-on cavalry charges.

I love the fact that as a Battanian my archer options are either Robin Hood-type bandits I've had to go through great lengths to capture and recruit, Azincourt Longbowmen straight out of a slightly biased history textbook that will effortlessly decimate a heavy cavalry charge from half a mile away while drinking tea with crumpets, or cheap stand-ins recruited from eastern-themed factions (a.k.a the Polish archers ;) ) You don't get more accurate archetypes than these !