Re: Is there a niche for Longdead Archers?
Decay on hit effect functions like "poison on hit effect" of androphrag archers. That is, it effects units even if their shield or protection blocks the hit. The fact that "on hit" for arrows means "even if blocked or protected against" is a serious upgrade to the worth of androphrag archers and it is the same with reanimated archers. Decay is 5 years per round, with old age afflictions popping up quickly after young units hit old age. Many high prot units have maxage of 50, I think, and start around age 20-25. This means that low-MR, high-prot, slow units are having serious difficulty by the time they reach your front line troops (who don't have to attack at all and can just form a wall around some indie commander).
Decay is definitely not a useless effect! Run some tests with it in raiding scenarios against Abysia or some other high prot, slow army like Ulm.
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