Amphitritian Archers

Battlefield Role: Medium-range Infantry

Weapons: Strengthened recurve bow, a large arrow quiver with 36 arrows and a short sword as a sidearm.

Outfit: Adorned brigandine vest, leather pauldrons, boots, vambraces and archery gloves.

Skill level: Proficient archery skills. Mediocre skills in melee.

Doctrine: Amphitrite's Way of the Seafarer

Strengths: Their very high rate of fire and a good accuracy are excellent for providing covering fire for their allied troops. Specially in naval battles and amphibious assaults.

Weaknesses: Their bows lack the power to pierce heavy armour.

As the amphitritian infantry regiments usually adopt a rather offencive fighting style by prioritizing attack over defence, it is only natural that their archers do the very same. The main role of the Amphitritian Archers is, therefore, to follow the infantry charge and cover their allies' asses by shooting down the enemy ranged units, slowing the enemy down and forcing them to hide behind cover, thus disturbing their aim. This way, the allied infantry units can reach the front lines as unscathed as possible, crushing their opposition without too much resistence.

As such, these bold archers wield a fast and accurate, simple recurve flatbow instead of a longbow, prioritizing rate of fire and precision over greater reach and force.

Their rate of fire is actually the fastest amongst all ranged units of Arandolia, and as they fire alternately as a unit, they can provide an almost constant rain of arrows upon the enemy ranks. If the enemy don't brace themselves, they will get indiscriminately shot down non-stop. But by otherwise actually bracing themselves, they must neglect shooting back at the advancing Amphitritian Infantry.

Either on foot, aboard a ship or upon the turret of an Armoured War Elephant, the Amphitritian Archers are some of most employed recurve bow archers within Arandolia. They do not have the same kill count as the Longbowmaidens of the far North, but by peppering down the enemy and harassing their defence to aid the advance of allied troops, an archer can sometimes be way more useful than a deadly sharpshooter who solely rain sheer death from above. After all, war is won through the cooperation in between different regiments and types of troops, and these women surelly know how to work as a team with the rest of their armies.