GUIDE · UNIT STRATEGY
Bolas Rider snare-and-volley plan
Bolas Rider: Bolas Riders can slow targets so that slower melee units or foot archers have time to catch and damage them. Their control effect works best when attacks are spread across several targets rather than stacked onto one already-slowed unit.
Overview
Bolas Rider: Bolas Riders can slow targets so that slower melee units or foot archers have time to catch and damage them. Their control effect works best when attacks are spread across several targets rather than stacked onto one already-slowed unit.
Plan and execution
Use attack-move or patrol with a medium group so each Bolas Rider pressures a different enemy. Pair them with infantry or foot archers that can exploit the slowed formation, then switch to hit-and-run raids when the opposing army is out of position. Keep moving to preserve the unit’s ranged-cavalry advantage.
Risks and adaptation
Bolas Riders are less durable than many cavalry archers and do not benefit from every cavalry-archer upgrade. Avoid direct fights against a prepared ranged line or anti-cavalry screen, and do not waste the snare by focusing every rider on the same target.
- Focus
- Ranged cavalry control
- Signature / category
- Plan and execution
- Release / context
- Age of Empires II system
- Region
- Unit strategy
- Classification
- Unit strategies