archers?

[|Sith|Duke_Spartacus]

hi guys i got a question

im playing WRE atm and having a lot of fun. However there is one this that bugs me. Its nearly 500 AD, and NO faction have archers wich can shoot beyond 50 paces? i had a bridge battle and my archers couldnt even shoot across the bridge, when the enemy was on the far side they just stood there. I estimate the distance to me about 70 meters. In RL a bow of that era has about 200 meters range. they should EASILY be able to clear the bridge. This way archers are nothing short of useless. Even the sagitarii graves wich takes 2 TURNS to recruit wich is long for archers but nothing short of ridicoulus for archers with such short range.

I love the mod and love playing it but please tell me why the archers are so bad here

[Boz]

Er, um, I don't remember now from where I based the distances of the archers, it made sense then, but perhaps I made it too short. I have for the WRE normal archers 90, what do you suggest?

[|Sith|Duke_Spartacus]

well at least i suggest you make the proffesional archers long range, as they have been specificly trained. Maybe the more archer orientated factions could have some long range archers too . Im far from a specialist on roman army equipment but im pretty sure that the Syrian archers wich served rome until the end were pretty much top class archers.