Archery poll

[NTJedi]

Boron... Gandalf...

Slingers would be worth considering if their purchase price dropped by 2 gold per unit... otherwise they're rarely worth it based on morale and precision.

by Sandman
I voted 'I find them useful' for blowpipes, even though I don't....

I rarely have seen the blowpipe dudes use their archery poison pipes even when able to... so I rarely get them except for those extreme/scary conditions. Also their precision would have to be more accurate for me to consider them seriously in a marching army.

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NTJedi said:
Boron... Gandalf...

Slingers would be worth considering if their purchase price dropped by 2 gold per unit... otherwise they're rarely worth it based on morale and precision.

I rarely have seen the blowpipe dudes use their archery poison pipes even when able to... so I rarely get them except for those extreme/scary conditions. Also their precision would have to be more accurate for me to consider them seriously in a marching army.

Mmmf, even at -2 gold I wouldn't buy slingers if their weapons still are so much crap.
Same for blowpipes, they have a very limited usefulness for sneaky tactics, but are horribly weak, only 1 time out of 10 (100?) do they manage to use their pipe before routing !

[sushiboat]

For reference, what is the distance from one end of the battlefield to the other, in terms of range? What is the distance between two opposing units who are at the very front and center of their formation spaces?

[Chazar]

sushiboat said:
For reference, what is the distance from one end of the battlefield to the other, in terms of range? What is the distance between two opposing units who are at the very front and center of their formation spaces?

According to Liga's Manual addenda, the entire battlefield is 58x28 squares wide, that is 24x28 per army plus 10 neutral columns in between the opposing forces. However I did not count that myself...