I agree, killing randoms proves nothing. I haven't played in 3+ months but from what I have gathered (from people opinions and watching game play) archers are as effective as they were before 1.5. Like @Ling* said, the four clans who have been apart of the tests haven't been committing to the archer strategy. I know banning cavalry was a **** idea at making archers better. Maybe Ling should make it so he calls the strategy for both teams and then it will be up to the team to decide how to make it work.
I asked my team to go kite every round, to their annoyance lol.
Yeah, learning if archers are good with no cav isn't really helpful, because there will always be cav. However, they seem average even if they do get time to shoot.