British Longbow Men

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Are the useful? I only have been building pike and muskets with my huss. Someone said on the steam message board I need to be using these and that they are powerful. Is that true?
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Longbows are underpowered. #BTB (buff the british).
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Yes they are good, one of the best compositions in fortress age is lb + goon + huss.
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honestly I prefer Longbow Women
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pecelot wrote:honestly I prefer Longbow Women
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grizzgolf wrote:Are the useful? I only have been building pike and muskets with my huss. Someone said on the steam message board I need to be using these and that they are powerful. Is that true?

They are excellent when you defend becuase they can just stay still and start firing long before enemy units get close enough to attack themselves. In general they are good when they can just stand there and fire becuase their fire rate is twice as fast as other ranged units but they need quite some time to actually fire the first shot so they are bad when you need to move a lot while fighting.
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Longbows do great versus everything but musketeer units.

With yeomen they trade at insane levels (for LI) vs artillery. They are the best LI against cavalry. They win the skirm war so easily, even age 2 lbow can beat age 3 skirms cost effectively. They decimate dragoon units.

But versus musketeers man....

LI relies on kiting to kill musketeers and longbows cant kite.
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yumi are better vs cav
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Lbs are great vs cav when they sit in a turtled base. On an open field, they kinda suck vs cav cause they can't hit and run
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Depends on what patch you are talking about.
They are literally trash on RE, but decent on Vane Patch with x36 attack vs infantry and +500% HP
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you can't really camp that much with Brith, even on EP maps at some point you're forced to come out of your base ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Longbows are good as long as they are standing still and shooting. They have low hp however which is why you need to protect them. A big mass of longbows is almost unbeatable when there is enough anti cav.
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Longbows are bad indeed.
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deleted_user wrote:Longbows do great versus everything but musketeer units.

With yeomen they trade at insane levels (for LI) vs artillery. They are the best LI against cavalry. They win the skirm war so easily, even age 2 lbow can beat age 3 skirms cost effectively. They decimate dragoon units.

But versus musketeers man....

LI relies on kiting to kill musketeers and longbows cant kite.


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lb good unit, but vs musketeer they are shit. low hp and animation. but w.e., they are just the counter unit Kappa
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kickass_OP: lbs vs cavs no is good
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yurashic wrote:kickass_OP: lbs vs cavs no is good

This kickass quote is mine
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yes they are unrealistically good and its a cheesy gimmick. but i've made my peace with it as a true AOE fan

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