February 18th, 2004, 08:33 PM
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Re: Using mounted bowmen
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Originally posted by PDF:
Well, IMHO the main problem is that those horse archers/lancers are very inefficient as archers due to their cost (you can buy 3 foot archers for the price of 1 horseman), and not that good as lancers dur to relatively weak protection (and they are also costly as "lancers" due to their -useless- bow ...). They don't even have great morale ... 
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Horsemen archers are one of the WORST deals in the game. First their accuracy is very bad, second they are more expensive, third they seem to die just as easily as regular archers.
From my experiences it's always been better to either buy regular archers or regular heavy cavalry.
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