Best Way to Max Retinue Longbowmen Experience

[kriscorrie]

Hello,

I want to try and get myself some "trained marksmen",

i.e. i want to get a few groups of retinue longbowmen with max experience (3 gold chevrons?)

So the question is, what the best way of getting them there?

[clandestino]

Push them in every single battle you fight and fight it personaly.

[Leutrim]

Kills? Try, fighting personal battles on a bridge so that your archers can pick many enemies behind some spearmen. Use archers on highground, let them fire arrows aswell as normal shots, also hide them. Fight lots of personal battles as clandestino said and make sure you win.

[Mithrane]

Also try to get the Woodsman Guild. If I remember right, that gives archers exp on production, more so with each level. Other than that, try to engage them in every battle and use them in every way possible. Lay stakes, hide in the woods, use both fire and regular arrows, make use of the "shoot and scoot" method of fighting, and finally, get them into melee a few times. The higher-end longbows actually do rather well in melee, once the opponents have been worn down by arrows.

[NobleNick]

Moved to Battle Planning.

I have a question which I think stays close to the focus of this thread: If an enemy dies on a longbowman's stake, does the Longbowman get credit for the kill?

[snuggans]

like Mithrane said, get Woodsmen Guild and possibly the headquarters (although if you're England you shouldn't be beaten by anyone else to the HQ : P ). then in another castle, acquire the Swordsmith Guild. train the archers in the Woodsmen Guild and retrain them at a Swordsmith Guild and they already start out in the Silver Chevron. *(actually this only applies to Stainless Steel mod)

btw, i've probably asked this question 3 times now, but does experience affect the accuracy of longbowmen?

[Fishrudder]

No, it does not...

[Garnier]

The best way would be to autoresolve battles using your longbowmen, and retrain them after each battle. Autoresolve gives a lot more experience I find, though I never autoresolve my battles as a houserule.

[Guanaco]

k-c-u-f

[Desperado †]

This is hard (with dismounted units), but I find it ups my cavalry exp very fast - use them to chase routed units before the battle is over. They get experience for every troop they kill even though they're routing.

Also - do your troops get exp after battle in siege? Cos the emeny keeps fighting after objective.