Cavaler archers - less acurrate?

[charge_cz]

The ingame video when you build the first unit of cavalery archerss says, that they are less accurate than foot archers, but basi statistic numbers are 60 accuracy for archery cavalery and 40 for bow samurai, so how should i understand this? I know, its logical and everythig, so i dont understand why its not clear from stas.

[dutch81]

I have no idea ... but perhaps if they are on horseback they get a penalty for firing from horseback and even more so when moving from horseback, then again if they were to dismount they are actually far superior to the average samurai foot archer. This might have no basis of truth in the game mechanics but it would make a great deal of common sense to me at least.

Now I don't recall what the little video says exactly but as they are far outnumbered by every other archer unit since a company of them is only 80 strong vs 160 or 120 for the various foot archers I would not not try to get involved in a long range dual with them that just is not their purpose and they will probably lose or at least take heavy casualties.