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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/01/16 09:41:51
Subject: Best archer army?
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Stalwart Ultramarine Tactical Marine
Australia, Victoria, Ringwood
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Hey, I was looking at the fantasy armies and I wondered this. What would be the best archer army? Best = Most powerful, quantity of which you can have etc.
Looking forward to hearing your opinion!
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DukeRustfield wrote:You can't get a more different set of armies than Skaven and Ogres.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/01/16 10:12:26
Subject: Best archer army?
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Camouflaged Zero
Where the sun crosses the field of blood.
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From what I've heard, that'd be either Tomb Kings (Archer Horde + Khalida) or Wood Elves, as they've got lots of archers, fast Cavalry archers etc (though Wood Elves are slightly outdated). I'm slightly curious to Orks and Goblins, as the sheer quantity of Goblin Archers seems like a valid choice.
That said, archery isn't really anything powerful in Fantasy anyways, sadly.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/01/16 10:27:00
Subject: Re:Best archer army?
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Avatar of the Bloody-Handed God
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Tomg Kings are only good because of Khalida and Smite. If you factor that in the archer's worth.... its really expensive.
Point for point , and versatility, I vote for Dark Elves Reapeater Xbow + shield.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/01/16 10:28:38
Subject: Best archer army?
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Charging Wild Rider
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Depends if it's in a vacuum or not. If it is, I'd probably say Wood Elves- glade guard are very good, and don't need any sort of buffs from characters or magic.
However, once you throw in the Tomb King double-tap spell and/or Khalida, then always hitting on 5s with 2x multiple shots is just a bit good.
O&G can do it relatively well with the 100 odd night goblin archers with the poison BSB.
Anyone that can combine lots of shots with Shadow magic will also be able to do it very well.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/01/16 14:32:50
Subject: Re:Best archer army?
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Sadistic Inquisitorial Excruciator
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Wood elf glade guard have a lot going for them... Str4 at close range, can move and shoot, range is decent.
However, all of my armies fear Dark Elf crossbowmen. Those are just plain mean.
Skink blowpipers used to be the shiznit but last army book point price increase, they took a hit. However I've heard several times they are still surprisingly good.
OnG can field a lot of archers as well as a ton of warmachines. Bolt throwers are kinda like giant bows, right?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/01/16 15:00:41
Subject: Best archer army?
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Flashy Flashgitz
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Orcs and Goblins can field tons of archers.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/01/16 16:32:19
Subject: Best archer army?
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Fanatic with Madcap Mushrooms
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Tomb kings all the way
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/01/16 20:38:53
Subject: Best archer army?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Do you just mean shooting? Quality of shooting? Mass amount of shooting? Literally archers?
Because armies that have Core of archers/shooters will obviously have the most. Probably the best shooters in the game are Flamers, but they are Rares and basically the only shooting in the entire army. Leadbelchers are really good as well, and you can join them with Ironblasters, but you won't have all that many shooters and none for Core.
Dwarfs are pretty darn good shooters and can field a lot of war machines. So you have a wide variety of shooting as well as buffs for those machines.
Tomb Kings are good only if you use Khalida. But you really need a lot of them.
All the elves are pretty decent of course.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/01/16 20:48:34
Subject: Best archer army?
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Servoarm Flailing Magos
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Either Dwarves or DE.
De have repeater crossbows which are nasty and Dwarves have +1 to hit handguns and are pretty tough to boot.
In all my experiance playing against Dwarves it's always been a gunline. Not much reached their lines.
But I must say Empire can do a pretty good ranged army. It's more quantity over quality however.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/01/17 15:59:27
Subject: Re:Best archer army?
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Sickening Carrion
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While I'm almost positive an archer army would get eaten alive by any competitive army, at least a tomb kings archer army can aways hit on 5+ or 4+ with khalida (with poisioned attacks), that being said you would have to group them all with khalida for that bonus and.... ugh.. If you want an archer army I'd go with dwarves.
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