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Kristoffer O said:
Slingers are probably better than other ranged weapons cost wise. You only need one point of damage to get rid of the glamour, so the sling should be almost as effective as the bow (apart from having slighter chance of penetrating armors).
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.. but its quite hard to get that 1 point of damage, with the boosted shields which totally block missiles, and with the low damage and abysmal precisions from slings in general - they tend to miss a horde of LC right in front of them.
Poison is a very moderate use, as most nations do not have easy access to it, all those poison spitters and spells are as accurate as slings (don't hit the broad side of a dragon from point blank) - and most time the fast LC simple moves through the small poison clouds without getting harmed: They would have to stop for 1 turn within them to get poisoned.
Realistically, until the late mid-/ early endgame, against W9 or N9 or even F9W9 Helhirdlings or Vans there's only 1 thing most nations can do, unless they have access to high-level bladewind: Die gracefully ... :/
PS: And fire arrows do not help you to actually hit the buggers and get past their shields - but they are great to kill your own troops with "friendly fire" while those are swarming the Vans 