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Blackwood Archer massed-volley plan
Blackwood Archer: Blackwood Archers are fragile individually but can produce strong sustained fire when massed. Their fast attacks help them threaten targets that resist ordinary low-damage arrows, provided the group reaches useful numbers.
Overview
Blackwood Archer: Blackwood Archers are fragile individually but can produce strong sustained fire when massed. Their fast attacks help them threaten targets that resist ordinary low-damage arrows, provided the group reaches useful numbers.
Plan and execution
Build a protected mass before attacking, then focus volleys on one target at a time. Use a frontline to block melee units and keep the archers firing together rather than sending small groups into the enemy separately. Reposition after each exchange so the opponent cannot reach them with siege or a flank.
Risks and adaptation
Their extremely low durability makes individual losses costly and small groups ineffective. Avoid trickling units into combat or leaving them exposed to cavalry and siege; their numbers need time and protection to matter.
- Focus
- Viking Sagas ranged swarm
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- Plan and execution
- Release / context
- Age of Empires II system
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- Unit strategy
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- Unit strategies