Need help with Man strategy

[deccan]

Gandalf Parker said:
The other notes here are good but let me add something on slingers. They are cheap, make decent patrollers, and in large numbers can often cause rout.

I'm curious about this. I've often wondered, why use slingers at all as man when you have longbows? Sure, slingers are 7 gold apiece and longbows are 12 gold, but IMHO the difference in combat power more than makes up for it. Their range also gives them far better survivability (a def of 11 versus 8 helps too). Also, IIRC, longbows have strategic move 2 while slingers have strategic move 1.

It seems to me that the only use for them is as patrollers since they are the cheapest unit, both in gold and resources, that man can recruit.