First a question because i never tested that :
Do the slingers benefit from flaming arrows also ?
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Gandalf Parker said:
Being able to produce 3 slingers to one archer is something I do often. You dont find that 30 slings causes more route than 10 shortbows? Or that 30 slingers patrolling does more good than 10 archers?
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It is only 15 slingers vs. 10 archers resourcewise and goldwise it is 40 slingers vs. 35 archers if you take the 8 gold 3 resource archers which exist rather as indy archers or as machaka archers .
Problem is that the shortbow has 30 range while a sling has only 20 range . The shortbows get this way 1 freeshot and very often the slingers with only 7 morale rout then from this first salvo already .
Unless you do extremely resourceheavy troops like knights not resources but gold is normally the limiting factor .
So Huzurdaddi is just correct . A plain shortbowman is better then a slinger and longbowmen or x-bowmen are defenitely better then slingers .
Longbowmen are only 6 resources also , x-bows from marignon 8 resources , then there are indy x-bows for 7 resorces if you are lucky and finally if you are uberlucky the hoburg x-bowmen for only 7 gold and 7 resources .
They are imho the best recruitable missile unit in the game
