Wed Dec 08, 2010 4:01 am by Backburner
Archers are only able to kill cats in a huge horde, basically you need 10 archers per 1 cat ratio to take them out cleaning. If your friend took out 10k cats with archers then he must have kept either a massive archer army or got a lucky double attack.
If you pit cats against archers using equal amount of crop consumption. eg. 10k cats vs. 50k archers, cats will still lose but archers will suffer very heavy losses.
So this tactic is only for people who intend to maintain a crazy high amount of army that's mainly archers. Which I don't believe is that wise as archers are too easily countered with cavs.
Also for archer to wipe out enemy cats cleanly you're basically relying on your enemy cats to have very high speed, not command their army or if they don't know what they're doing. More factors which makes me hesitant to convert majority of my army into archers.
Yes under the right circumstances archers are the best unit to use to take out max speed cats, but that is alot of ifs and there are other ways to take down max speed cats with minimal losses, though none as effective as a huge horde of archers but they will be much more versatile under all circumstances compare to an archer army.