What Are All the Anti-Archer Unique Units?
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Do you know of any other distinctive units that can be useful in battling against an army that includes crossbows, arbalests, longbows or similar weapons?
Tarkan, fully upgraded Elite Keshik, Houfnice, both wagons
Khmer Ballista Elephants and Burmese Arambai, once massed, are good against archers.
Though to be fair there’s few thing they don’t counter once massed.
Conqs kinda, they hit hard and Xbow do less damage to them than Skirms do.
Malay Karambits counter archers through sheer numbers, as archers overkill Karambits while the many survivor’s close the gap.
Not mentioned: Genitours, Plumed Archers and Eagles (not Unique units, but only 3 civs get them so…).
And if you match numbers, Woad Raiders are also effective
Every Elephant unit except Malay ones
Hussite Wagons
Keshiks
Tarkans
War Wagons
Shrivamshas
Technically not a UU but the Malian champions with the extra pierce armour
Ballista elephant
Plumed archers with 2 Pierce armor and high HP trade very good against arbalests
Frisbee bois rock packed arbs
It depends on what you see as a unique unit.
Shrivamsha riders, and genitours are easy additions, but malians have extra pierce armor on their champions, so they are often called “champscarls”
Burmese get battle elephants with 9 pierce armor, taking a whooping 320 shots to kill.
Technically speaking armored elephants unlike siege rams not only tank the damage, but are more than able to just kill arbs outright, especially dravidians and bengalis as they get blast furnace.
Goths huskarl is anti archer infantry
War wagons and the Bohemian UU.
Sargent aren’t too bad, neither are Obuch.
Not counter, just 1 more pierce armor than you would expect.
Bulgarian UU also good against foot archers due to the ‘extra life’ in a good surround.
Mass of arambai.
Mass of Elite sergeants.
Frankish Paladins.
Tarkans, Ballista Elephants could be considered.
War wagons, Hussite wagons, etc etc etc
Haven’t seen anyone mention Organ Guns or Boyars yet.
Serjeants also have high pierce armour, but are slow.
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