Crossbows

You are right, archers are important people. If you ever played WarCraft
you want to put a line of knights in front of a line of archers. Then, by
the time the orcs get up to the knights they're basically pincushions :-)
Archers lay cover fire for infantry/cavalry, and are really good in large
numbers. For example warcraft again. elven Archers in a group of like 20
can defend a good sized abse almost by themselves. AD&D is incredibly
unrealistic, because if someone sticks a longsword in you you take 1d8
damage , but in the real world you just kinda fall over and die. Warcraft
is like that too, but it has 256-color graphics. :-)
HawkAngel
<<I believe that archers were useds as a ! THe archers would distract the

knights and footsoldgers, I mean when you have 100 knights charging at
you swords drawn what do you do call the archers. I mean lets face it
not all people are like our PCs taking multiple arrow shots to various
parts of thier bodies, they would fall to the _GROUND_. Like in the
movies>>

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