Archers

[Gladiator007er]

How many archery range upgrades before recruiting archers becomes available

[YouDied]

If your playing Rome, then it should be the archery building The 2nd or third tier. But you cant recruit them in Italy

[lt1956]

Yes you can you are thinking of auxilia archers, there are Garrison archers that are available in every province and they are recruited after the 3rd tier I believe.

[YouDied]

Yes you can you are thinking of auxilia archers, there are Garrison archers that are available in every province and they are recruited after the 3rd tier I believe.

Ahh, Woops. My apologies OP for the mistaken information. Thanks LT

[Gottberg]

Does anyone replace their velites and slingers with archers when they become available? How many archers units per legion does everyone use? As a RTW noob, off the top of my head I was thinking of just replacing the slingers only. So basically 2 units of archers per legion.

[Rockingduck]

jep thats how you do it ... at least i do it this way.
i like my velites

[saienga]

Aye, velites (later light auxilia...I think) and their javelins pack a different kind of punch from archers. I'd definitely keep the spear chuckers around.

Don't be too quick to ditch the slingers, though. Used properly (aka, get them a good clear field of fire and line of sight) and they can devastate an enemy unit.

Having restarted my campaign, I'm excited to go find the mercenary slingers again. Baeleric slingers (sp?). Man are they awesome.

[czePowerslave]

I use everything. Slingers least tho, since they tend to kill more my units then enemies.
Archers can be much effective in large groups (like one thousand Cretan archers, can kill almost any group with a few salvos), but velites have much better damage per shot and are only good weapon against elephants and chariots. Healthy combination is best for everything. Include both and youll see the result.