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Micah said:
Patrik, getting a storm going doesn't work well if you're relying on crossbows, it hoses their precision and causes half the shots to just get lost outright. Similarly, it sounds like the unit of choice is woodsmen, which are lightly armored and have no shields, and thus longbows (especially with flaming arrows) would be the ranged attack of choice.
I'd go tower guard to resource max and then fill out the rest of your gold with longbows, make sure to get flaming arrows...phoenix power burning a gem to cast and then another 2 gems to get off flaming arrows should work
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You're absolutely right about Storm - I was not clear in saying that what I was proposing was not one big strategy but several ideas. If you can summon storm and have lots of magisters you can just pound him from the back of the field with thunder strikes, with a meatshield protecting your mages when they get close. But you'd need a lot of Magisters to make this work.
Woodsmen IIRC have a prot of 11, which is not super high. With longbows you're definitely going to do some damage - just not as much as with crossbows. However, Flaming Arrows changes this (as you rightly point out) because then quantity of projectiles matters more.
However I still stand by my suggestion that if you can tweak your economy to be churning out significant numbers of crossbows (resource-intensive) and magisters (gold-intensive) this is better than longbows. Of course, the catch is you need a lot of castles to make this work. Best of all is Magisters with Bags of Wind (as someone suggested) combined with crossbows.