ARCHERS VS. CATS

Thanx nathan and nick for your kind suggestions. I am going to use them..thanx again

No problem btw i like your avatar lol

Im working on an archer guide and hope to have it posted sometime this week.

Archers attacking cat defense does give archers the first strike advantage assuming 1350 battlefield length max shooting and max speed. Assuming both sides play perfect the battle will draw. I only say archers have the advantage because assuming the attacker is commanding and knows what to do archers are controlling the fights tempo. Trickery aside

Archers with max speed and shooting should always hit cats first in a pure fight. They both have the exact same battlefield coverage as archers 400 movement + 720 range = 1220 vs. Cats 160 move + 960 range = 1220. Archers and cat commanders need to be able adjust for that 240 hex dead zone where cats can hit archers and archers can't retaliate. People say archers are tricky to play but honestly cats require the same skill and battlefield awareness to be effective.

Under the same conditions cats vs. Cats the defender will always have first strike. Archers are the counter to that advantage.

This is correct however discard the movement for a second and listen. If a catapult moves forward 2 spaces with level 10 shooting and then stays there 1 round then moves backward for the remaining rounds,,, U ARE FKED

The glitch that allowed cats to not be hit when moving backwards was supposedly fixed.

I personally like using archers since 5 archers use the same crop consumption as 1 cat, thus I use a 5:1 ratio when comparing. At that ratio, they have the same attack strength, Archers have higher speed, archers have more defense, cats have longer range. The range alone is not enough of an advantage for me. Granted I haven't tried a super huge archer army, largest I ever used was 61k.

even though the standard kill rates for archers to cats is around 7/8:1 due to the increase due to techs