Dominions Nations Evaluations ;)

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Tifone said:
And triqui about slingers I heard many say that they are useful against some kind of troops, I don't think I can give you a complete answer about what those troops are, but I can tell you as the sling takes only one hand, some slingers have slings in addition to a melee weapon and a shield! If set to fire archers or attack archers, they can shoot them with their slings, suffering much less from the return fire of archers' arrows as they can parry them with the shield, and when they end ammunitions or reach them just start bashing the archers

Slingers have their niche. However, they are SIGNIFICANTLY worse than short bows, specially for early game expansion.

Yomi Short bows also happen to have stealth, which means they can set up some kind of decent raiding ability