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BetterNights
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I've really got no idea what you asked just now...but I think it has something to do with whining about archers. I disagree--I can rock (like a hurricane!) the other team pretty well with only a bow. And a second (or third!) party member just takes some of the heat off of me, regardless of what weapon they have, so I can take my time with it.
Perturbatio
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Tell them to dismount and then nick the horse for yourself if you are on the ground, they are much better at attacking on the ground.
BetterNights
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That's assuming you can get up to them without them hitting you in the face with an arrow.
Perturbatio
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It does work, but sometimes they don't do it straight away, just keep telling them when they're near you and eventually they climb off.
[SA]smartbomb
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Also, you need to finesse the people if you yourself are an archer. In the tourney, you can pretty easily take on all three of the opposing people if you have a strategy. For example, I start off by killing all the horses of the opposing team and telling everyone on my team to dismount. I have the footmen then aggro the enemies with shields and kill them post haste. The remaining shield and horseless people are easily dispatched by point-blank headshots.
Shyhalu
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1. You can't get three mounted archers on one team. Its either not possible, or its just so damn rare that it wouldn't matter.
2. If you managed to fight three of them solo, then they killed two of your teammates....thats pretty good accuracy.
3. The most I've ever seen was an archer on foot and one on horseback, never two on horseback (Unless you tell him to mount) or three on horseback. Never three or two on foot either.
I've been in atleast 200+ arena battles playing, simulated 100 to check this out, and watched about 50. Not once was there 3 archers on a single side.
So your bull****ting and don't know what your talking about. Post a screenshot of these "archers".
With full damage and only level 6 you have around 65 hp if you put it all into strength and ironskin. One archer shot takes about 18-33 damage from you. You wouldn't last very long against three, even one shot would hurt during the battle.
An archer on horseback does not have poor accuracy, he just has poor AI pathing which doesn't allow him to get in many shots.
But that is the tradeoff, manueverability over accuracy.
If he had good pathing you'd never win on foot.
If you have a shield you always win against one, but thats normal, if you have a horse you normally win, which is also normal. If you are running towards one without a shield you either die or take some damage most of the time.
2. If you managed to fight three of them solo, then they killed two of your teammates....thats pretty good accuracy.
3. The most I've ever seen was an archer on foot and one on horseback, never two on horseback (Unless you tell him to mount) or three on horseback. Never three or two on foot either.
I've been in atleast 200+ arena battles playing, simulated 100 to check this out, and watched about 50. Not once was there 3 archers on a single side.
So your bull****ting and don't know what your talking about. Post a screenshot of these "archers".
With full damage and only level 6 you have around 65 hp if you put it all into strength and ironskin. One archer shot takes about 18-33 damage from you. You wouldn't last very long against three, even one shot would hurt during the battle.
An archer on horseback does not have poor accuracy, he just has poor AI pathing which doesn't allow him to get in many shots.
But that is the tradeoff, manueverability over accuracy.
If he had good pathing you'd never win on foot.
If you have a shield you always win against one, but thats normal, if you have a horse you normally win, which is also normal. If you are running towards one without a shield you either die or take some damage most of the time.
Tiedye
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Shyhalu said:
Actually, you do have lowered accuracy when mounted.
As for having 3 mounted archers on a team...
Assuming that each type of unit (one handed sword, two handed sword, bow, two handed mounted, lance mounted, bow mounted) has the same chance of appearing, you have a one in 216 chance of the enemy team being composed entirely of mounted archers.
At least, that's if I did my math right. 6*6*6, right, because there are 6 types? It's like dice. 1 in 6 chance to roll a six, 1 in 36 chance to roll two sixes, 1 in 216 chance to roll three sixes.
So if it happened to you at least four times now, and let's say each arena fight lasts 5 minutes (probably a conservative estimate)... to see it happen four times, on average you've fought in the arena 864 times. At 5 minutes per fight, that's 4320 minutes. That's 72 hours. Three days straight, with no sleeping or eating, of gameplay.
Maybe you just hallucinated it in your sleep-deprived stupor?
Sir Gillits
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Tiedye, love your maths. 
