Longbowman are awesome!

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General Tso

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I just discovered that Longbowmen are awesome!

First off you get a unit with a range of 3 long before anybody else allowing you to attack enemy cities and units with impunity when under the right conditions.

The first bonus is obvious but what I didn't realize until using the Longbowman is that the extended range promotion stays with the unit when it is upgraded to a Gatling Gun and later a Machine Gun. If you engage in a decent amount of combat, it's easy to end up with a dozen or so Machine Guns with 3 or 4 promotions and a range of 2. Killer :D.
 
No doubt the Longbowman allows you to conquer your continent.
 
I never had my longbow men live long enough to get that far promoted.
 
A basic rule that I use is - never leave them in a situation where they can be attacked by more than one enemy unit. That's actually a good rule for all units (in my humble opinion). It's just applies more to units like Longbowman because they can be killed relatively easy.
 
I love them too! After playing England for 10 games in a row, I developed some pretty nice units. 6 of them defended a chokepoint on the England-Mongolian border, positioned on hills, with swamps in front of them. All 6 got Logistics, March and Accuracy 1-3. They turned into some pretty mean Machine Guns :D
 
I'm also a fan of longbowman. In my last game, I used them to conquer three empires. I placed them 3 hexes away from enemy cities and let them shoot at will, while my enemy had no way to attack my longbowman. They are efficient killers
 
Lordleoz said:
I'm also a fan of longbowman. In my last game, I used them to conquer three empires. I placed them 3 hexes away from enemy cities and let them shoot at will, while my enemy had no way to attack my longbowman. They are efficient killers
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Still this is not as efficient and adaptable to all situations as Keshik's with their 5 movements and running after attack.
 
They both have their advantages.
 
I've been saying this for ages - one of the best UUs in the game!

The one thing that slows them down though is the terrain - setting the world age to 5 billion years helps with this.
 
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