New 3d unit: Armoured longbowmen

[God-Emperor of Mankind]

New unit is up at the .com
http://www.totalwar.com/en/medieval2...its/index.html
Nice unit as always

[Titus]

Nice!! CA.

[Markas]

Good unit. No garish colours or 10ft Longbow so I'm happy. Wonder how it differs from normal longbowmen(in terms of recruitment when and how)

[MoROmeTe]

Did they really make the effort to armour longbowmen in those days? I seems a little far fetched, but then again I am no expert...

[vizi]

Why armor archers? Just send volley after volley into the enemy followed by the heavy cavalry to run through the formation and infatry to mop up the mess.....archers would just stand there with the reserve and not fight in melee, they were too important.

[hsimoorb]

Archers too important to send in to mele? Hardly. They're freking peasants for gods sake, it's a wonder that they have any battlefield use at all. And if they had actualy had some equipment for a mele, they would have been sent to die in droves like the rest of the infantry.

[vizi]

Archers too important to send in to mele? Hardly. They're freking peasants for gods sake, it's a wonder that they have any battlefield use at all. And if they had actualy had some equipment for a mele, they would have been sent to die in droves like the rest of the infantry.

Longbowmen were valued because of their high ability. They practiced using the longbow all there life. The level of skill with the bow made them valuable. Perhaps you should think before typing. In fact the english made sure people kept practicing with the longbow so they would have a steady supply. The longbow had a considerable draw strength. Then again this is a game and all sorts of morons can play how they like.

[Caesar Germanico]

Archers too important to send in to mele? Hardly. They're freking peasants for gods sake, it's a wonder that they have any battlefield use at all. And if they had actualy had some equipment for a mele, they would have been sent to die in droves like the rest of the infantry.

yea sure..what about agnicourt??the most important battle of the 100 years war,the english won thanks to the archers,i guess u dont know nothing of history,the longbowen didnt had armour i dont know why ca made this unit,and they werent just peasants,probably an average marine would probably just manage to shoot some arrows,those "peasants" fired more than 50 arrows in a battle and to do that they were incredibly strong,i bet u and me cant use a longbow,those guys were truly the key unit in the english army,i am not sure which king but someone in england outlawed some sport for some time to force people to start using the longbow since they were young.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_longbow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Agincourt


5000 english archers defeated a 32 000 french army..yep they were just peasants

[Last Roman]

Archers too important to send in to mele? Hardly. They're freking peasants for gods sake, it's a wonder that they have any battlefield use at all. And if they had actualy had some equipment for a mele, they would have been sent to die in droves like the rest of the infantry.

Not true at all. The English longbow men were an essential part of their army and were required to practice daily.

what are u talking about??the longbow had the arrows with the iron point they could penetrate plate armour,please show me some link that say otherwise

it's true. At long distances they couldn't penetrate the very strong plate armor. It could only be done at a close distance by which time the French knights would've been on top of them.

as for my source, I saw it on some history channel show.

[Logue]

Nice, hopefully archers will be a bit more useful in this game other than just ranged units.

[shenmueguru]

Nice unit, though I'd expect the unarmoured longbowmen to be much more practical. Probably cheaper, and who needs archers to fight melee anyway?

[MikeRusso]

Maybe the longbow its a substitute for the javelin pepering the enemy before engaging in combat, the lonbow has a higher range that a troing spear or javelin, they could have special use on the batlefield

[warblah]

in agnicourt, after exhausting their arrows, the longbow men joined their men-at-arms comrade with axes, clubs, swords.... and hacked the french knights to pieces.

So yes, they are more than just peasant.

[Maedhros]

That king was Edward 1 of England also known as Longshanks.

[Darsh]

nice unit and next will have the very heavy armored longbowmen with nuclear arrows

[shadyrome]

nice unit and next will have the very heavy armored longbowmen with nuclear arrows

ermm no?

[TenkiSoratoti]

The Longbowmen was a highly professional, strong and extremely skilled archer. Not only this but they were also skilled enough to wield axes, swords, knifes and all manner of weapons. One of the most effective ways of killing French and other foreign knights was for one Longbowmen to hold the knight still while the other rammed a sword/knife through the breathing pieces/eye holes of the knights helmet. This is of course once the knight had been felled from his horse. At Agincourt certainly they provided the English men-arms with the numbers to out-flank the remaining enemy soldiers and inflict so many casualties.

[Sitarus Originalus PM-30+]

really great unit =)

[Tabell]

If you remember in MTW longbowmen were the only archers capable of holding their own in a fight. I hope they show us billmen next, thatll really complete the english faction.

[Cyrus the Virus]

Was about time they showed this one. :tooth: