FlyingSwan
King
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- Aug 11, 2009
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the greeks start with hunting
EDIt.I guess with the landskect its the availability/longevity would be ranked low.As charlemagne you have access to a unit earlier thats just as effective-His PRO X-bows,which come with machinery.If your not facing castles/knights or war elephants you may not even go for engineering.So I would say on jastrows 3 criteria thats all low marks.Also they have an effective counter-X-bows kill pikes,at least maces have a fighting chance,and a higher strength for attacking citys.
Bowman is just an archer,compare it to other archers,its not as good as a skirmisher with its base 4 strength,and not much of an improvent to other civs PRO archers,especially sitting bulls with his totem poles.So realy when you get into the maths(which I dont,but many others do)they dont have much effect at all on the battlefield,except some niche circumstances-like your facing axes and swords and dont have metal or horses-which is pretty rare.
EDIt.I guess with the landskect its the availability/longevity would be ranked low.As charlemagne you have access to a unit earlier thats just as effective-His PRO X-bows,which come with machinery.If your not facing castles/knights or war elephants you may not even go for engineering.So I would say on jastrows 3 criteria thats all low marks.Also they have an effective counter-X-bows kill pikes,at least maces have a fighting chance,and a higher strength for attacking citys.
Bowman is just an archer,compare it to other archers,its not as good as a skirmisher with its base 4 strength,and not much of an improvent to other civs PRO archers,especially sitting bulls with his totem poles.So realy when you get into the maths(which I dont,but many others do)they dont have much effect at all on the battlefield,except some niche circumstances-like your facing axes and swords and dont have metal or horses-which is pretty rare.