If at all possible, try to occupy a position higher than your infantry, so you can shoot over their shoulders. Following an infantry line as close support works well, as does flanking an enemy line. Your job is to snipe enemy units as they charge the infantry, harass entrenched units, and pick off retreating units before they can re-form a line. If you leave the company of your friends, you're going to die cav will get you, enemy infantry will charge you, or enemy archers will focus on you. Take heavy armor, your horse won't notice.įoot archers need to stay near friends, preferably friends with shields, spears, and swords. Your horse should be a desert horse or Asrai war horse they are fast, and fast is what you're going for. For loadout, take the best bow you can find, two stacks of arrows, and a slashing pole arm or lance. Your job is to harass enemy units, draw off heavy cavalry, counter enemy horse archers, and snipe lords. And don't bother aiming at individual units, you're better off aiming at clumps (unless you're trying to snipe an enemy lord). You should at no point charge into the enemy you want them over there where you can shoot them, not in your face.

If you stop, you will start to take damage as enemy archers find the range or enemy cav charges you.

Speed is your friend and your main defense. Horse archers should stay moving at all times. Crossbowmen can't reload from horseback until you're high level, and you don't get as much reload time reduction as you level, but you're going to do a lot of damage with every shot and you can hold aim indefinitely. Foot archers are footmen and therefore slower and less mobile, but you can take the longbow for range and you'll fire quickly. Horse archers are highly mobile, but vulnerable because you're a big target, and you generally won't be as accurate because you're shooting from a moving platform. Here are some notes to help you pincushion enemies on the battle map:Īre you a horse archer, foot archer, or crossbowman? Each has strengths and weaknesses. After about 600 hours in Bannerlord, here are some tips and strategies I've picked up for archers - playing an archer, archer tactics, and strategy considerations.

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