(November 6th, 2013, 02:49)Hashoosh Wrote: How are you finding those bowmen? Have they changed your approach to early game military at all?
They are useful! And I think they have impacted our approach. They are very solid city defenders and their useful lifetime is longer than what archers have. Stationed in a no-culture-hill-city with 1 promotion they still get defending odds e.g. against C1 maces, which is pretty impressive. We have currently couple of shock bowmen, which get attacking odds against axes. That is nice as well..
On the other hand we are AGG, which means that our melee units are strong tool. Double-promoted axes are very useful, which makes us build less bowmen.. In the end we are building more "archers" than we normally would as cheap city defenders and MP units, but do not rely completely on them, because as attacking units bowmen are still fairly weak.